If you’re a Wired magazine subscriber, you probably got the puzzle issue last month. There was apparently a hidden puzzle that went through the entire issue, on top of the other well more visible puzzles that appeared on the pages throughout the magazine. I haven’t had a chance to look into trying to solve the puzzle, as I just haven’t had the time, but if you’re wanting to spoil it, Wired has posted a walkthrough.
Category: Cool
Add The Konami Code To Your Web Site
Any old-school NES gamer will know all about the Konami code. Contra and Gradius were both a pain in the butt without the code. Apparently there are a bunch of sites that have easter eggs if you use the Konami Code on the site, and now there’s an easy way to add the cheat code to your site.
I Just Can’t Stop Watching This
Give is a bit to load (what is people’s obession with large GIF files?), but I just don’t know how this guy doesn’t crack his head open (mirrored the image below, should the link go down).
If You Look Really Close, There’s A Hot Chick — and Waldo
OK, I don’t know about Waldo, but I’m sure he’s in one of these buildings in Vancouver (and apparently there is some hot looking woman and other fun stuff, too).
Gigapixel images are fun to explore. One of my favorite (which you’ve probably seen) was from the Obama inaugural address, as it’s heavily notated.
(Updated: Deleted the duplicate post — that was dumb.)
Lost And Found
I thought I lost a big collection of links, but they were found when doing some cleaning on the hard drive. So here are a few of them.
- 21 Condom Ads You Never Saw Coming.
- This guy loves bad punctuation as much as he loves Jesus.
- Malo: A small CSS Library base for building web sites (related: Girdr buildrrr).
- Street With A View introduces fiction, both subtle and spectacular, into the doppelganger world of Google Street View.
- Worth1000 Movie Poster Anagram contest.
- The Missle Defense Shield.
- Obama logo designs that weren’t chosen.
- Power outlets and power strips can look cool and be more functional.
- Linus Torvalds (Linux creator) tears C++ apart.
- 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read.
Oh, and here’s a time-killing game for the evening to get you really frustrated going into Monday. I got up to 5630 on my first try before my eyes were starting to bleed.
Bandwidth Suck Time
Time to dump some videos (all after the jump — and there are quite a few of them):
I Didn’t See This Coming
I don’t think anybody did. But I was very pleasantly surprised by this woman’s singing ability on Britain’s Got Talent (especially considering the beautiful song she sang).
(I’d embed the video here, but it’s been disabled, and the other videos don’t show the whole thing nearly as well. Just watch it, it’s worth it.)
Random Link Dump
Something to keep you entertained this evening…
- Converting physical Windows systems into Virtual Machines (I think I posted this before, but I’m too lazy to look).
- Best use of old concrete wall space ever: Mega Man vs. Dr. Wily.
- MySQL doesn’t suck — it’s AMD’s fault.
- Vyatta: An intriguing firewall, router, load balancer system that I might have to try out — they basically call themselves an open-source Cisco.
- The forbidden railway: a train trip to Pyongyang (which is in North Korea).
- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
- Multi-purpose furniture: A shelving system that turns into a coffin.
- Remind me to avoid Oakdale next year.
- The Periodic table of Game Controllers.
- Yes, you can render a duck in Javascript — in case you care.
- Rocky Mountain News Farewell video, and who really killed the Rocky?
More sometime. I way behind.
Coolest Google Maps Mashup Yet
Watch what people are ordering on Zappos.com, mapped in real-time to the shipping address.