Then Conveyor is the game for you.
Category: Games
Reading Material
- Anatomy of the recent 64-bit Linux exploit.
- Good selection of minimalist wallpapers, though this one might become mine soon.
- In case you didn’t notice, full half-hour newscasts are back on KOHD after they killed them off earlier this year.
- Speaking of local media, KTVZ’s experimenting with their own social network (I keep telling them that I’ll sell them — or anybody else — bendforum(s).com for stuff like this).
- Speaking of social networks, Facebook is secretly building a phone.
- What did liberals do that was so offensive to the Republicans? I’ll tell you what they did ….
- Intel’s plan to put anti-virus vendors out of business.
- Maps of Europe according to stereotype.
- Satellites orbiting earth by country and it also shows how many are dead and how many are still functional.
- The stories of the Unicorn Pegasus Kitten emerge.
- Want to kill some time? Play astroids and blast any Web page.
- Apparently Jesus plays for the Lakers.
- Good collection of typographic sins (the PDF is really handy).
- ISPConfig looks like a pretty good open source control panel software.
- Google Voice comes to iPhone.
- Those anti-vaccine folks need to get beaten senseless: 9th baby in California dies from whooping cough.
- Great interview from 1986 with early programming pioneer Grace Hopper on David Letterman.
- I’m done building Facebook apps for clients.
- jQuery plugin for radical Web typography.
- How to crack a forgotten Windows password (though most of the it’s easier to just reset it using something like Ultimate Boot CD).
- It’s amazing (and disgusting) what can be done in Photoshop.
- Free real-time continuous backup software using Genie-soft Free Timeline.
- Looking for a Groupon for Bend? ZingDealz is about as close as you’re going to get.
- Why I’m starting to not trust banks: Lauderdale man’s home sold out from under him in foreclosure mistake.
- If you’re a fan of Dexter (I don’t have cable, let alone Showtime), you’ll probably like this reddit thread started by Masuka (aka C. S. Lee). I thought the guy was awesome in Chuck.
- Why? No idea…A web server written in PostScript.
- Simple way to have an automatic e-mail reminder.
- AMD’s retiring the ATI brand, so here are 20 important moments in ATI’s history.
- Need a simple business card idea? How about a simple “Google Me” card (with template)?
- A bunch of designers redesign American currency
- 100 Best First Lines from Novels.
- In case you needed to kill off many hours of time, here’s an Open Source clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
- Good to know they’re being productive with their time: UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens.
- The words Google Instant doesn’t like.
OK, that’s enough for now.
Time Killer For The Day
The reader who sent this to me called it a 15-minute time killer, but if you’re not careful, Solipskier is an addicting little game that will kill far more of your day. I managed to get 378,759 642,908 points (really need to quit playing this) somehow.
Time Killer For The Evening
Wake The Box 2 (original is here) is just as fun as the original but certainly trickier.
Time Killer For The Evening
Electric Box 2 is a fun little puzzler where you try to get power running from the source to the target. As with all these games, what sounds simple gets complicated pretty quick.
Reading (and Watching) Material
- Top Gear’s “Stig” Revealed and subsequently canned, called a “Greedy Twat” by one of the hosts. Apparently the upcoming U.S. version of Top Gear will have a stig as well.
- 25 Mario Facts for the 25th Anniversary.
- Speaking of Mario, here’s an adaptive Mario game that gets easier or harder depending on how and where you die (or how quickly you finish the level).
- You may have read Stuff White People Like, but here is the real stuff that white people like.
- From Canada to Mexico on a single tank of gas.
- Three Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website.
- More Facebook news: Facebook lets publishers contact “Likers.”.
- AMD to take stand against laptop stickers. Too bad the problem stickers on most laptops are put on by the manufacturers and are usually a pain to get off cleanly.
- Turn your blog into an iPad Web app with Padpressed.
- 10 Free WordPress Themes for Small Businesses.
- According to one politician, Girl Scouts breed “pro-abortion” lesbians.
- A good post 9/11 column by the late Hunter S. Thompson that everybody should read.
- Young gamer goes back and tries playing games older than him, and gets his rump kicked by a couple classics (I finished Contra with a friend of mine, but only because of the Konami code).
- I’m amazed that space shuttles can ever take off, consider the amount of satellites orbiting our planet. You can see the entire mess in Google Earth.
- Why our government never gets anything, reason #4817: obscene flowcharts.
- Install the new versions of iTunes without the bloatware.
- A local blogger (and friend of mine) is working on an Oregon XC Documentary and I’m sure I’ll know quite a few people in the final product.
- Every app has a scary basement.
- A good list of netbook operating systems to Windows.
- A stamp I need for the oddball crap that ends up on my desk.
- Ozone allows you to get instant suggestions from 15 sources to find what you’re looking for fast.
Check out some videos after the jump.
Time Killer For The Evening
Sieger is similar to a lot of other “Destroy The Castle” type of games, but instead of chucking stuff at a castle, you’re just blowing it to bits. Play it after the jump, and see if you can get a gold medal on all the levels (took me a while to get the last couple, but I did — purely by luck, me thinks).
Reading Material
- 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.
I Suck At Geography
As Globetrotter XL has proven to me, I need to start playing with my daughter’s Smart Globe more often. I couldn’t even make it past level three. I suck.
Time Killer For The Day
Yes, it may be on a kid’s site, but Whizzball is a fun puzzler that unfortunately has the stupidest username signup (you’re best off just mashing the keyboard to find an available username).