This has to be one of the coolest hacks this guy has done (and he’s done a great number of clever modifications).
Category: Cool
Minis Are Versatile Little Cars
You think the Mini ski jump event will be in the next winter Olympics? I hope so after watching this…
Simpsons Theme On Classical Guitar
I mentioned before my love for remixed classical, but I also love classical remixes of modern classics — like the Simpsons Theme:
The Real Best Of Bend
Like Monkey Boy, I’ve always thought that while The Source‘s “Best Of Central Oregon” awards cover some good categories of Central Oregon living, there are always something missing. So leave it to Monkey Boy to come up with something I’m sure we were all thinking: Vote for the real best of Bend, including categories such as Best Donuts, Best Roundabout to Drive In Circles, Best Time For People-Watching at Wal-Mart, Bend Central Oregon Blog, Best KTVZ Personality Not Named Bob Shaw, and more.
Vote early, and vote often.
Remixed Classical Music
As a musician whose heard Canon in D played on dang near every instrument known to man, I appreciate it when somebody decides to mix it up and play it on electric guitar with a heavy-metal back beat. Watch below…
Network News Themes
Being a musician and a media geek makes me appreciate this page full of network news themes. Thanks Barney for the link.
The Greatest Software Ever Written?
This guy’s take is that BSD 4.3 was the greatest software ever written, and based on his arguments, I would tend to agree with him.
Google Maps Flight Sim
This is a fun little Flash game, and with a bit of work you can make it fly around any city. So for example, here’s a flight around Bend (just hit start). The imagery for Bend isn’t great as you can’t zoom in as tight as many areas, but it’s certainly better than it used to be.
Browsing Sites At Work You Shouldn’t Be?
Then just use this little tool to make your favorite site look just like Microsoft Word.
OpenDNS — Anybody Using It?
The DNS system is the fundamental building block of the Internet, and a bunch of your time online is spent doing DNS lookups. Why not make that process faster? I was getting really slow lookups from my office’s DNS servers (we’re using the ones provided by the ISP). I recently switched to using the OpenDNS servers. My DNS lookup times are stupidly fast now (at least in my initial testing), and Open DNS protects me from phishing scams, as they block access to those sites.
Granted, I’ve only been using the thing for about two hours, so this is a limited bit of experience, but it seems much faster than Unicom’s DNS lookups (we have a T1 through them at the office I’m at).
The one problem with the system is obviously the question of how OpenDNS makes money. If you incorrectly type in a domain (that it can’t automatically correct, as it does fix many typos in your requests) it will send you to a search page that has ads on it. So obviously that’s how they’re making money, and I’ve yet to see if this causes problem with domain lookups.
As somebody who recently had a co-worker nearly get scammed by one of those sites, I’ll be making these the name servers on at least one of the office networks I work at. But has anybody had experience with this setup, good or bad, that would cause problems?