I don’t follow pro football much, but I am certainly impressed that the Seattle Seahawks won tonight. Certainly, runs like this where Marshawn Lynch takes out most of the Saint’s defense didn’t hurt:
Category: Cool
Ducks Get Some Late-Night Love
Sebastian Bach sings a power ballad for the Oregon Ducks last night on Jimmy Fallon (and actually pronounces everything right):
Seriously, this needs to become the Oregon fight song.
Finally
Report Linking Vaccine to Autism ‘Fraudulent,’ Says British Medical Journal. Update: Full article in the BMJ is here.
Please, people, get your kids vaccinated.
Real Life FPS
What if first-person-shooter games ventured into real life. They might look something like this:
Reading Material
- The Vendor/Client Relationtionship in Real World Situations.
- I didn’t know video game graphics could look this realistic.
- The Background Dope on DHS Recent Seizure of Domains.
- Five Lessons Netflix Learned withUsing AWS (I think the Chaos Monkey idea is a great one).
- The Big Picture has their photos of the year series going: Part 1, 2 and 3.
- Wiki’s should have an ignorance test.
- Why one man rated the book as “very good”.
- Booboo Kills Yogi.
- 22 Essential Resources for Android Owners.
- Steam’s Holiday Sale has begun, and this Reddit thread will make it easier to follow.
- For the serious geeks: vmail is a Vim interface to Gmail.
- I don’t know where this hilarious image came from, but more parents should be given this in poster form.
- The NYT geeks are smart folks: Using flat files so elections don’t break your server.
- Those molesting pat-downs aren’t working: Man boards plane with loaded gun in carry-on.
- Favimon is a RGB-style battle of Favicons.
- I’m mostly book marking this for my future reference, but unRAID looks fairly interesting.
- Nudity detection with JavaScript with nude.js.
- Speaking of nudity, Accidental Penis (Safe for work, don’t worry).
- Google Labs has debuted Books Ngram Viewer which allows you to type in a word or phrase in one of seven languages and see how its usage frequency has been changing throughout the past few centuries. Naturally, somebody tried it with “penis” and there was apparently a spike in the early 19th century that has a bit of a phallic shape to it.
It’s Not A Photoshop
It looks like it is, but it’s not.
The Ultimate Tool To Boost Your Productivity
Seriously, this blog has some of the best tips to get you on your way to being more productive at work.
They Crapped Their Pants So We Don’t Have To
I cannot imagine looking up and seeing this and not being scared to death. Yet they still moved on, which I can’t say that I would’ve done. Those were brave folks. That being said, I think I’d be even more frightened if I saw this.
Happy Veterans Day and thank you to all that have served.
(Photo/headline/links via Reddit.)
Teleport Anywhere
I’ve spent far too much time playing with Globe Genie this morning. Push a button, and it transports you to a random Google Street View scene from around the world. Like this random farm road in North Dakota.
I Suck
I’ve been so busy at both work and the minute I leave the office lately that I rarely want to turn on my computer when I get home. I’d rather just plop myself on the couch after going all frickin’ day and watch some TV. Even though we canceled our cable last month (we’re poor), there’s still plenty to watch with Netflix, Hulu, and the network channels (and a Windows 7 HTPC to allow us to do it all easily).
Just the same, this blog hasn’t gotten nearly the personal attention it deserves. I suck. I certainly wouldn’t deserve a Best Of Central Oregon nomination (but wouldn’t argue with you if you were to submit this site for a nomination). While uber-blogger Jon will probably get the nod (deservedly), it’d just be nice to knock that egotistical jerk off his high horse.
(Note: Before the hate mail comes in, Jon and I go way back, and anybody who knows Jon or I know that neither of us have egos, especially Jon. I just like to poke fun at him, as he would do to me.)
Anyway, back to the link dump for the evening:
- How to Break Into A Windows PC (and prevent it from happening to you).
- Secret button sequence bypasses iPhone security (Apple’s confirmed this, will release a patch).
- Why you should make sure you never sign into your Facebook account in a public place.
- Billy Joel’s coming to Rock Band 3 out of spite.
- There are some dang good ideas here for the enterprise developer.
- How to create a shortcut that kills every running Windows process.
- Incredible 360° view of the entire sky.
- Fun little toy: Complete vector graphics editor that will run in a browser.
- Follow up pictures from an aforementioned little girl’s day out.
- 50 Powerful Time-Savers for Web Designers.
- Free Content Delivery Network using DNS cache.
- “Green” toilet paper? Yup: one brand is going tube-free.
- A husband of wife whose unborn child had a congenital deformity with no chance for survival decided to confront abortion protesters.
- Want to hide from Facebook’s various services? This will help.
- If you set up things right, Google will change their logo for you on your birthday.
- If you’re a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) Junkie, this site’s for you.
- Just because Google exists doesn’t mean you should stop asking people things.
- Need to keep track of what time zones major cities are in and what time it is there? Every Time Zone might help.
- The GOP’s doing their best to kill NPR, and NPR’s doing their best to expose the lies of the GOP.
- Amazon’s AWS now has a free usage tier.
- This is hardcore: Hosting backdoors in hardware that can bypass any anti-virus.
- Google has open-sourced their auto-update software.
- Anybody a Quickbooks and Windows 2003 Server whiz? I could use your help.
More tomorrow, as I have a bunch of videos to share…