Tinted Sheen is a Firefox/Chrome extension to block Charlie Sheen references if you happen to accidentally come across them. Install it after watching this video as it’s quite hilarious.
Related: Shaved Bieber.
Category: Cool
Amazing Kinetic Art
I’d love to have one of this guy’s works in my house:
FREE: Cascade Winds In Concert This Weekend
It’s cheap plug time again! The Cascade Winds Symphonic Band, Central Oregon’s premier concert band, will present the second concert of their 2010-2011 season under the baton of music director Dan Judd, March 6, 2:00 p.m. at Summit High School auditorium. That’s this Sunday for those of you that aren’t keeping track! This concert is free of charge, although donations are gratefully accepted.
The pieces we’ll be playing this time around (it’s going to be a good one):
- Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion by P.D.Q. Bach. If you’ve never seen a P.D.Q. Bach piece performed, you’re really missing out as they’re hilarious.
- New England Triptych [Be Glad Then, America; When Jesus Wept; Chester] by William Schuman
- Continental Overture by Johan de Meij
- Folk Song Suite by R. Vaughn Williams
- “The Gum-suckers” March by Percy Aldridge Grainger
- With Pleasure [Dance Hilarious] by John Philip Sousa
These concerts are free, open to the public and suitable for all ages — and there are snacks at intermission, which is never a bad thing, right?
For more information visit www.cascadewinds.org or call 541-593-1635.
The Legend Of Zelda Turns 25
Man, I feel old, as I remember squealing like a schoolgirl when I opened up a box on Christmas morning to find that gold cartridge. 1up.com has a great collection of articles celebrating the anniversary, with my favorite probably being the 25 things you didn’t know about Zelda.
Time Killer For The Day
I think I’ve linked to something similar to this before, but I honestly can’t remember. typrX is a multi-player typing game that allows players to compete against each other over the Internet. I managed to get 71-ish wpm the couple times I did it late last week.
Not Your Normal Graffiti Artist
This guy can pull off some amazing stuff with a few bottles of spray paint:
Super Mario Mediocrity
Ignore the title of this video — it takes skill to be able to finish this game with this low of a score.
The game doesn’t look like the original as the guy is playing with a graphical hack. But it still takes some serious skill to play through the game and score less than 1000 points.
Reading Material
- Why 3D movies don’t work and never will. Period.
- Poor Bullet Bill (if you’re a classic Nintendo geek, you’ll love Brawl in the Family).
- Speaking of Nintendo, here’s something I might have to try with our Wii: Install a Wii Game Loader for Easy Backups and Fast Load Times.
- If you need to do a basic layout for any type of room, this online tool is pretty nifty.
- Man, I feel old: Oregon Trail is turning 40 this year.
- Oldie, but interesting: Nine ways to obfuscate e-mail addresses compared.
- Behind the scenes on the Back To The Future set.
- Truly Decentralized BitTorrent Downloading has Finally Arrived.
- The man who started Big Picture is moving on to a new gig that will allow him to focus on it full time (he was also a web developer at Boston.com).
- Need some symbols or icons? The Noun Project has a great collection of free, public domain, icons, available in vector format.
- BoingBoing has updated their stats dump. Hopefully Andy Baio will update his fun stats page.
- How to Print Gmail on your Android or iPhone using Cloud Print.
- Handy little guide to make your own 5-in-1 Network Admin cable.
- Cryptic JavaScript at its finest.
- Some more Android links, for my reference:
- wp clock is a pretty slick looking live wallpaper.
- Speaking of Live Wallpaper, this Super Mario wallpaper is pretty sweet.
- How to factory reset your Epic (I used this when I was trying — unsucessfully — to get Nebula ROM installed).
- Here’s an interesting read on how changing the Epic file system from RFS to EXT4 will speed things up (I tried this and it didn’t work right for me, but I didn’t really have time to dig into it).
- Now that I have Froyo installed on my phone, I was able to free up a bunch of phone memory by moving apps onto the SD card.
- Now that I have Froyo, I can now have a TI-83 in my pocket.
- If you’re looking for directions on installing your own custom ROM for your Epic, this might help.
- If you need to do a clean install and restore, Titanium Backup will help a bunch.
- If you need a way to track down a lost or stolen phone before it happens and the Prey Project isn’t enough for you, Theft Aware looks pretty dang powerful.
- Things you can’t do with your iPhone: Customize it a zillion different ways.
Brilliant Idea That Needs To Become A Reality
It’s a USB plug that will plug in and work whether it’s upside down or not. I can’t even count how many times I’ve had to blindly plug a USB device in and get the orientation of the plug wrong. I’d say at least 75% of the time I have it upside down because I can’t usually see the plug I’m plugging into very well. This needs to become a reality sooner rather than later.
Google Voice Now Lets You Port Your Number
While Engadget says it’s limited beta, it’s showing up on my account and I’m tempted to jump on it. Anybody using their GV number as their full-time number have comments on pros/cons of doing this? Obviously Google’s presentations are pretty slick, but I’d like to see how normal people are using it. I’m out of contract with Sprint now, and have an Android phone, so I’m thinking this might be the perfect time to try this. About the only thing I thinking of that aren’t working 100% right now would be MMS (not critical as I don’t use it a ton) and changing outgoing caller ID on my phone calls from my cell, but I’m sure there’s a way to change that.