- 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.
Category: Funny
Reading Material
Really Bad Movies
You they’re some of the worst of the bunch when Roger Ebert and the late Gene Siskel tore into them like they did.
A Proper Car Review
I love Top Gear. Offended by a fan having written in to complain that Top Gear doesn’t do proper car reviews anymore, Jeremy Clarkson takes the new Ford Fiesta on a ‘serious’ road test.
4Chan Founder Gives Palin Courtroom Lesson In Internet Slang
You have to love the lack of tech and Web knowledge shown in the modern day judicial system (I honestly don’t have a clue as to why some of these questions needed to be asked).
Q: And the term “rickroll” you said it tries to make people go to a site where they think it is going to be one thing, but it is a video of Rick Astley, is that right?
A: Yes.
Q: He was some kind of singer?
A: Yes.
Q: It’s a joke?
A: Yes.
Full court document over at Smoking Gun.
Why The Subtitles?
Because the guy can’t speak English…
This was apparently from an Aussie sketch show called Comedy Inc..
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.
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.
Looking For Dinner Ideas?
This site might help (naughty language warning). Along a similar theme, if you’re looking to figure out a social media strategy for your business, this site is bound to inspire (see previous warning).
Windows Phone Users Are Apparently Trying To Quit Smoking
Apparently I need to quit smoking. I happened to be browsing through Facebook, and because I’m a fan of Windows Phone (though my next phone will probably be an Android device), it suggested I become a fan of Nicorette:
Does that say something about Windows Phone users?