Category: Cool

If you’ve read this site long, you’ll notice that I post links from b3ta’s newsletter quite a bit. I’ve finally got around to post this one that’s been sitting in my inbox for a while: b3ta’s Best of 2003. It includes such hits as the pigeon cam, simon swears, the newspaper dogshit stunt, the man milk or moo milk quiz, the squirrel band, among others. Spend a day (away from work, as much of it is a bit vulgar) checking them all out.

Ladies and gentlemen, Vertigolf, one of the niftiest mini golf games I’ve played in quite a while.

These pieces of work are absolutely amazing. I’m just now picking my chin up off the floor. Anybody know the artist? Anybody know if this isn’t just a well-done Photoshop job?

If you miss the original version of SimCity, you can play it online for free.

I loved played the card game “Speed” with all my buddies on sports trips in high school. I was pretty dang good at it, mostly because I played brutal — smacking hands and things whenever I could. Now there’s a web version of this classic, and it’s a lot easier on you, but hard to play when you’re using a trackpad, that’s for sure.

It’s too bad these guys are overloaded right now, because I think this would be a damn cool thing to have: A Pixel Portrait. Then maybe you’ll be as famous as Chris’s head is.

Now I know why I loved running — it’s the best weed out there!

And I agree with him. Nick Bradbury, FeedDemon’s author, makes a great point about Atom feeds vs. RSS feeds in a couple of good posts:

When I started coding FeedDemon, I immediately ran into an ugly problem: a huge number of RSS feeds are invalid. This made it impossible to use an off-the-shelf validating XML parser, since it would choke on so many existing feeds. A number of very popular RSS feeds are shockingly invalid, and I couldn’t expect FeedDemon to compete in the RSS aggregator market if it couldn’t handle them. So, I coded my own XML parser, and made it extremely forgiving of problematic feeds.

Atom, however, is a new format, and there’s a chance we can get it right. Rather than wasting our time working around validation issues, aggregator authors such as myself can spend our time coding the features our users really want.

I agree. There are a pile of RSS debates between W(h)iner and everybody else, and, really, this is our one chance as a community to get the format right from the beginning, and not force readers to have to work around bad feeds.

Just as an aside, here’s my Atom feed. It’s the default MovableType Atom feed (I think), so it may not be valid, but the folks at SixApart are usually pretty good about keeping their stuff valid.

If you want to see some pretty cool ASCII/Text animations, bookmark this site, as it’s got a ton of them.

It’s Drew Cope’s Drum Machine, it’s really loud, but really cool. It was the runner-up in Rockstar’s contest, and was created by Drew at Toktoplastic. Link via Waxy’s Links.