- I always saw Nicholas Cage is a one-note actor, but one man believes that everything is better with a little more Nic Cage.
- Danny DeVito agrees to do a third season of “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia”… on one condition.
- A pictorial guide to avoiding camera loss.
- Speaking of cameras, this man likes to run from his.
- Vintage Ad Browser is full of all sorts of old racist, sexist, but entertaining ads.
- Fun tech support stories.
- Create an easy to use God Mode master control panel in Windows 7 using canonical names of control panels (Windows 7 has lots of GodModes).
- Showcase of modern navigation design trends.
- Avatar is just like a 3D Pocahontas.
- What kind of soda drink should I have?
- Best Buy’s “pre-optimizeing” service is a big stupid waste of money.
- Hacker Music, so all the geeks get a vote on what song is played next.
- Performance/Price comparison for CPUs.
- Need to speed up your computer? Just download some more RAM!
- Handy Nexus One vs Droid vs iPhone comparison chart.
- The presentation secrets of Steve Jobs.
Category: Funny
Reading Material
What Do You Do With An Art Degree?
You become a janitor and leave cool art on the classroom blackboards.
Link Cleanup
- What’s it like being on twitter’s suggested user list?
- Comparison of TeX editors (as I’d really like to geek out someday and do my resume in LaTeX).
- You have to love how photo editors will Photoshop the female figure: Body by Victoria and its follow-up provide an indepth look on how you can detect altered images. Demi Moore, on the other hand, is completely denying that she Photoshopped, even though it’s quite obvious. You have to love Photoshop Disasters.
- If the Axis would’ve invaded American during WWII, how would they have done it? LIFE had a few ideas that probably scared a lot of people back in the day (it’s frightening me just looking at them).
- Everybody Panic: The encryption algorithm that encrypes most of the world’s GSM phone calls has been cracked.
- Crowdsourcing for the Conservatives, in response to the party’s request (in the UK).
- 20 years later, these guys still look the same.
- Hidden phpMyAdmin features.
- Using Nginx as a load balancer.
- How to research real estate in Bend, Oregon (great tutorial on using local online government resources).
- Top 5 Bend Blog Predeictions for 2010 — expect more “Thyme Killers” from me so I don’t put a hole in the space time continuum.
- There’s a reason trains have plows on the front.
- 10 Words You Need To Stop Misspelling (that comic should be put on a poster in every high school english class).
- Learn all about the real story behind fraud prevention at the credit card companies.
Happy Festivus!
Happy Festivus everybody! It’s time for the Airing of Grievances. Got a gripe about anything? Comment below.
HP Computers Are Racist
This reminds me of a Better Off Ted episode…
Weekend Reading
- Need a WPA key cracked fast?
- Image enhancement in movies doesn’t work quite like real life.
- Speaking of Holywood magic, see how they’ve destroyed New York over the years.
- Very profound: “The web is large. It is so much bigger than a balloon.”
- Leave it to scientists to figure out the perfect way to slice a pizza.
- Dissecting menu layout tricks.
- Yet another reason why we’re not winning the war on terror.
- For those in the UK: A UK Snow Map, based on twitter posts.
- The Big Picture has been doing their year end special and a decade-end feature. Incredible photos all around.
- Christmas Light Hero.
- A single sperm has 375mb of DNA information in it. Let the jokes commence.
- Google’s Browser Size Tool is a very handy tool to see how different screen resolutions see your site.
I Need Sleep…
…but you don’t:
- Why we should be eating horses instead of riding them.
- Great use of Google Maps: Zombie Outbreak Simulator.
- Help Save MySQL from Oracle.
- International Backup Awareness Day — which is why I’m working on adding even more redundancy to my office and server backups.
- How would you give directions with street names like this?
- The best twitter prank ever: the Twittering Honeymoon Bed.
- Ridiculous user interfaces and the men who create them.
- What if other celebreties were in Star Wars?
- Unnecessary Censorship: Sesame Street.
- Coolest Kid Ever playing the Ukulele.
- BendBroadband Launches “Nation’s Fastest Wireless Internet Service”. I’m considering using it for a failover connection at my office in Sunriver, where the local cable company has more outages than I’d care to deal with.
G’night!
Reading Material
- It’s the end of the world.
- Find the fastest DNS servers for your connection to see if OpenDNS, Google DNS, or UltraDNS or your ISPs DNS are the best for your location.
- Why I’d rather be punched in the testicles than call customer service.
- US Border Patrol gone wild (original story).
- If you could play one game for the rest of your life, what would it be?
- There’s going to be a waffle shortage.
- Learn To F–king Spell.