It’s easy at first, but gets pretty tough as the levels get higher.
Category: Cool
More Uselessful Links Than You Know What To Do With
It’s geekdom link dump time.
- Video games invading the real world.
- Google Map Maker (wiki for more help).
- Boom De Yada, Boom De Yada, Boom De Yada, Boom De Yada!
- Collection of blogs that never made it past their first post.
- High quality pattern files.
- Time-tracking with Lego bricks.
- Removing that unsightly focus rectangle in Vista or XP.
- Look@Lan, handy little network monitor application for Windows.
- Why should voting machines have anti-virus software? Good question.
- Instant file backup in Nano/Pico.
- Creating drop-down navigation with MovableType.
- Executor, a neat application launcher.
- Send a message to an IP Address with IPMessage.net.
- Take that, you stupid printer — use up all that ink I gave you.
- End users are evil.
- Vacation tips for Geeks.
- Creating an Ubuntu USB flash drive the easy way.
- 5 Apps to Turn your iPhone into a Powertool.
- Don’t fall for bogus antivirus downloads (having had to remove a few of these, they’re a pain to remove — so just don’t get them to begin with).
- Cool iPhone wallpaper (site created by a local MVHS graduate).
- Extreme macro photography on a budget with a Pringles can.
- Pimp your Ubuntu desktop in 7 easy steps.
- Use multiple Google accounts in Google Chrome.
- I’m very tempted to replace my electrical outlets with these.
- Control your camera remotely with a Nintendo DS.
- How to select the Best Linux Desktop Application for your needs.
- .htaccess URL rewriting examples (primarily with mod_rewrite).
- Something to replace those boring <> lines with.
- Photoshop text effect tutorials.
- 20 Web page analysis tools.
- Modern video game boxes designed Atari style.
- An air-craft carrier — made out of Lego.
- Great collection of software from Lifehacker’s Hive Five.
- Image duplicate finder.
- 10 awesome but challenging CSS techniques.
OK, that’s enough for now.
Anybody Want an iPod Nano?
Find my buddy Burton a job, and he’ll give you one.
I Can’t Believe It: I Agree With George W.
I never though I’d say this, but I agree with the Bush administration’s opinion on something.
The Bush administration has announced its strong opposition to a bill backed by the recording industry that would let federal prosecutors file civil lawsuits against peer-to-peer pirates.
In a letter sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that amounts to a veto threat, the administration said it was “deeply concerned” that the proposal would divert resources from criminal prosecution to civil enforcement, and create “unnecessary bureaucracy.” Currently prosecutors have authority to file criminal charges.
The Flickr Wannabes Have Nothing on This Guy
There are lots of folks on Flickr who post a picture of themselves online for a year or two, but they have nothing on this guy who took a picture of himself every day for 17 years:
Trying to Quit Smoking?
Play these retro games that were built to help you quit. They’re actually pretty well done. Thanks lars for the link.
Somebody Has Far Too Much Time On Their Hands
The Simpsons opening sequence — in Lego:
Time Killer For The Day
This frustrating little game will kill off your entire day if you’re stuck at the office today (I’m not the only one, right?).
For the Geeks…
Geekdom link dump time…
- 8 Things We Hate About IT.
- Broadcasting tower news and info.
- Linux commands for system specs like CPU, disk info, memory info, etc… . Here’s one for hard disk RPM.
- Favicons and iPhone bookmarks.
- Great pull quote and block quote examples.
- Free screen color calibrator.
- Secret Lego vault contains all sets in history.
- CentOS is an operating system, not a hacking tool (more background here). City employees are so dumb sometime.
- The best review of the $500 ethernet cable.
- Fully integrate Gmail into your Windows desktop.
- Better your Amazon.com experience.
- Linus Torvalds on Linux vs. OpenBSD.
- 10 Computer Annoyances and how to fix them.
- Is your Web site hot or not?
- What tools does Lifehacker use?
- DVD/CD Cases in Photoshop PSD format.
- Insert Flash the Right Way.
- Linux myths busted.
- Set up your firewall with Firewall Builder.
- Vista tuning and performance guide.
- Adeona, an open source laptop tracking system.
- USB Pinout diagrams.
- Outlook versus Gmail/Google Apps for Domains.
- Hands-free laptop holder.
- VNC client for the iPhone.
- How can I detect if my ISP is throttling my BitTorrent?
- iTunes is the anti-web.
- Hackit Network Attached Storage (NAS).
- Tips from switching to Mac from Windows.
- How to stop AVG from beating up your Apache Web server.
- Installing and running KDE programs in Windows.
- How Do I Update The Root Hints Data File for BIND Named Server?
- Making art with Javascript.
- The stalled server room.
- Open source data recovery tools.
- Return of the ’70s Microsoft Wierdos.
- Just in case you ever needed it, 14 pages of handwritten instructions on solving a Rubik’s cube.
- How Firefox 3 renders mozilla.org.
- How to make Vista less annoying.
OK, that’s enough for now…
More Time Killers
Prepare to lose your evening playing Fantastic Contraption.
Thanks, Ruben!