- 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.
Category: Geekdom
Link Cleanup
Post-Holiday Link Dump
- China wrecked the Copenhagen summit.
- Autobrake automates Handbrake ripping.
- 15 Biggest Internet Controversies of the Past Decade.
- You can now see Portland in 3D on Google Earth.
- Firefox 4 Windows Theme/UI update.
- Holy, Holy, Holy Batman.
- More end-of-the-year/decade lists: The 87 lamest moments in tech this decade and picturing the last 10 years.
- Google code projects you probably don’t know about, with my favorites being SpriteMe, a CSS sprite creator and Reducisaurus, a CSS and JS shrinker.
- Searching for dictionary words with Regex (examples).
- What martial arts can teach you about programming.
- I’m not big on screensavers, but this thing is pretty cool.
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.
Anybody Have An iPhone in Bend? You Getting 3G?
I’ve heard it through the grapevine that while AT&T isn’t supposed to be launching the iPhone in Central Oregon until early next year, they’ve already turned on some 3G coverage in Bend. Anybody in the area have an iPhone that can confirm (and where in town they’re getting it)?
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.
22 Below
It was only -13°F this morning at my house, but it was a balmy -22° at my co-worker’s house in Sunriver this morning. The SROA weather station had the low at its office at -19°F overnight (it’s gotten up to -5°F at my office — here comes the heat wave!). La Pine and Sunriver-area schools were cancelled and there were power outages in some areas. Thank goodness I don’t rely on electric heat in my home.
In other words, it’s frackin’ cold out. You whiners in Portland who are complaining about the cold up there (it’s currently 24°F up there), you got nothing on us.
There’s no sense in leaving the house if you don’t have to. This will help to keep you indoors today.
- There’s a Woot Off on the main woot, kids woot and wine woot for all your holiday shopping needs.
- Somebody with far too much time on their hands has achieved (nearly) everything in World of Warcraft.
- This would explain a lot about Tetris.
- Parenting is making me dumb.
- Only linking to this SFGate story because it mentions a friend of mine and his wife who I went to high school with.
- Banning cookies is a really bad idea.
- Political correctness has gone too far.
- Why Your IT Sucks.
- Comcast Acquires Majority of NBC Universal, launches Data Usage Meter in Portland (their cap of 250GB is still quite a bit higher than the 100GB BendBroadband offers).
- Millions of tax dollars are going to dead farmers.
- Twilight Fans get Punked.
Stay warm!
Pre-game Reading Material
OK, this has nothing to do with the upcoming game, but it will get some of these links off my desktop.
- Google introduces Public DNS, which is perfect if you don’t want/need the filterting/redirecting of OpenDNS.
- Speaking of Google, they’ve introduced asynchronous tracking with Google Analytics — which basically means faster load time for the Analytics code.
- The Geek Squad’s Real Agenda Exposed.
- Brilliant traffic light design idea.
- 10 Alternatives to Mininova.
- In the spirit of FMyLife comes i’msobadatsex (needless to say, NSFW language).
- Another Google Wave Use: Manhunt (I have Google wave, really haven’t had time to play with it much, but this did intrigue me a bit).
- Who is the most dominate athlete ever?
- Can we say crazy? Mothers Against Nickelodeon. I’m going to start a group someday: “Parents against jackass parents who plant their kids in front of the TV instead of properly interacting and raising their children and then complain when the TV has potentially offensive content.” I think the name needs work, though.
- Robin Williams talks about videos games.
OK, that should be enough for a while. Go Ducks!