- Missle Command in 1KB of JavaScript.
- How to automatically upload pictures to the ‘net as you take them (great for journalists).
- I’m building a HTPC and am probably going to cancel my cable, and this wood computer case is going on my (never going to happen with my budget) wish list.
- Set Bing backgrounds as automatically updating wallpaper.
- Is Android surging only because Apple is letting it?
- When you’ve done everything you can with Ruby On Rails, it’s time to meet the MVC web framework to end all MVC web frameworks: DOS on Dope, a modern MVC framework built on the awesome power of Batch scripts.
- Charles Darwin’s ecological experiment on Ascension isle was probably his best-kept secret.
- For you old-timers out there (like me): A big list of still functioning BBSs, mostly accessible via Telnet (though there are a few dial-in nodes there).
- For fun weather graphs, pictures and tracking this hurricane/tornado/winter season, StormPulse is a fun little toy.
- Didn’t know this: Google has a bunch of online classes, lectures and tutorials for a bunch of programming languages.
- Wesley Snipes could have been Geordi, a part that ultimately went to LeVar Burton.
- AMD has gotten rid of the ATI brand, making Radeon its own.
- Gmail makes it easier to get through your inbox with priority inbox (somebody needs to make this a Thunderbird extension — or I just need to funnel all my accounts into Gmail).
- Handy ways to make your USB sticks and Flash Cards easier to recognize in Windows.
- Simplicity is highly overrated.
Category: Cool
Reading Material
Why Didn’t I Think Of This?
I love Oreos, and I love soaking Oreos in milk to the point where they’re just about to fall apart, I hate, however, getting milk all over my fingers. Why didn’t I think about trying this before? Somebody (OK, a lot of people) is much smarter than me.
Reading Material
- Where’s my red turtle shell for that guy that just cut me off? Mario Kart Symbols appearing on bike lanes in Portland.
- If you have an iPhone 4, here’s a pretty good collection of wallpapers.
- I’m doing a bit of research on creating a iPhone-friendly version of a site for my day job and the UiUIKit CSS and HTML framework is going to help out quite a bit, I think. PhoneGap, Appcelerator and Sencha Touch also look interesting as well. Booking marking that all for my reference.
- I’m terried of older web developers because I’m becoming one.
- Introducing JITB. a Java-based Flash player that runs pretty dang fast.
- Because you never know when it will come in handy: File I/O in Every Programming Language.
- Looking for a way to compress JS and CSS? Convert it to a PNG.
- Great list of Lifehacker’s best Android apps.
- What’s my computer doing? is a simple way to figure out what programs are thrashing your CPU and hard drive.
- A graphic illustration of music industry licensing madness. That flowchart makes my head hurt.
- How to disable Facebook’s new “Places” feature.
- 12 Great Ways to Customize Your Facebook pages.
- Need to see if a site is safe for work before visiting? Variably Safe For Work might help.
- 100 Quality WordPress Themes.
- That’s going to sting a bit.
A New Generation Of Yo Yo Man
Tommy Smothers had nothing on this guy:
Making Of Music With Cars
You may or may not have seen this fairly impressive video:
But what’s far more interesting is how they did it.
Congrats To Central Oregon’s Best Blogs
The Source’s “Best Of Central Oregon” is out, and congratulations go out to Jon at Hack Bend for winning (again) and my ol’ buddy Josh at Central Oregon Athlete for taking the honorable mention prize.
Congrats to both of you, and as soon as I can find the mention online, I’ll link to it (I just checked this in this morning’s print edition). Their “Best Of” URL still goes to the 2009 edition.
Update: Looking through the “Best Of”, there was mention of the “Best Bend Stereotyping” and I honestly had not seen this:
The Building Is Possessed!
Can you imagine walking down the street and seeing something like this?
Reading Material
- A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives.
- An interesting way to look at the world: Google Maps without the Maps.
- Need special paper (like line/graph paper) but don’t want to buy it? Print it up here or here.
- He was touting family values during the Clinton impeachment, but Newt Gingrinch likes to play around, too.
- More songs are covers than you might think.
- 40+ billionaires pledge to donate half of wealth via the Giving Pledge.
- Now this is stupid: Man who gives free rides home to drunks was arrested for operating a taxi service without a license (related: watching your neighbors’ kids before they go to school could get you fined for running an unauthorized day care).
- Want to generate a URL that will failover automatically to a mirror should the original site go down? I Can Has Mirror might be able to help.
- 10 free web UI kits and resources for designers.
- Everybody acts like photo tampering is a new thing, but it’s been around for over 100 years.
- A hilarious visual diary documenting a flight from New York to Berlin.
- Want to be notified when a web site is sending data to Google? Here’s a nice obnoxious alarm for you (please note: many sites out there, including this one, will trip the alarm, because they use either Google Adsense for ads or Google Analytics for web stats).
- CCleaner Enhancer makes the best system cleaner even better.
- If you’re the exercising/fitness type, here are a bunch of great mobile fitness apps for your phone.
- That’s gratitude for you: The man who made iPhone 4 has been ousted at Apple.
- It’s amazing what you can do with 1KB of Javascript or 10KB and some libraries.
- A stupid-simple way to
hackchange a Windows XP password.
Portland Man Does Quarter-Mile in 10.4 Seconds — In An Electric Car
What’s even better is it’s a hideously ugly (but pimped out) Datsun:
Story over on Wired, with more details straight from the guy who did it. To put it in perspective, that’s super-car territory.
Oregon Trail, The Movie
This really needs to be made into a full-length feature:
If you’re looking to play the classic game again. you can re-live your childhood here.