- Ben Heck creates another masterpiece: A Xbox 360 Slim Portable.
- CC&Rs are really obnoxious. This is a great way to fight back.
- In case you hadn’t seen it (watch here or here), the Banksy-created Simpsons opening http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/the-simpsons-explains-its-button-pushing-banksy-opening/.
- TechSpaceBend is running an UnConference this week and it looks like a load of fun.
- Why I love Reddit: A little girl who has a terminal disease is picked on by jackass neighbors. 4Chan makes the neighbor’s life a living hell (which I support, as the folks were jerks), but Reddit responds by spoiling the little girl rotten for which the girl was grateful.
- Apple trademarks “There’s an App For That.” I guess to avoid getting sued, I should put ™ when printing that here. Or not.
- Entitifier will quickly convert and escape any nasty characters that should be entities.
- If you need to create a quick-and-dirty 16×16 icon, here’s a simple site to help you do it.
- Subway.com had some hideous code that amazingly rendered (see the ugly HTML source here). Subway fixed the problem, thanked Reddit. It’s still ugly code, but not nearly as much as before.
- Finally, a use for all those unneeded phone books: walls for a shed.
- Thanks to the Army and a bunch of scientists, we may have found out why honeybees are dying.
- gmapcatcher is a great little tool for offline map reading.
- Do-it-Yourself Doodler produces some interesting results.
- Using Photoshop channels to remove backgrounds from images.
- Put this on the list of things I didn’t know Photoshop could do: Multi-object editing with Smart Objects.
- A breakdown of all the various fees that airlines charge.
- A site dedicated to Web Apps and how to use them: NothingToInstall.
- How many computing cores is too many?
- VideoEgg acquires Six Apart and creates SAY Media. Six Apart created MovableType, the software running this site. Despite this news, the product is not dead and here’s a great several part write-up as to why you should use Movable Type.
- Modern gamers are pansies compared to classic hardcore gamers.
- If a file exists, there’s a torrent of it. If not, Burnbit will create it.
- Everything you wanted to know about computer keyboards but were afraid to ask.
- I was playing with Fedora on a laptop the other day, and this installation guide came in handy.
- I wasn’t aware such an event existed, but a local windshield repair guy won the Windshield Repair Olympics.
- Use dropbox to trigger torrent downloads.
- AES Encryption explained with simple animations.
- Before Michael J. Fox was in Back to the Future, Eric Stoltz was Marty McFly.
- Line Rider done entirely in HTML5.
Category: Geekdom
Reading Material
Is that Bill Gates staring back at you?
If you use Outlook 2010, it looks like it might be.
There Is No Plan B
The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is going to be ugly.
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.
In Case You Missed It…
Unless you’ve been in a hole the last 48 hours (I haven’t been feeling well, so I didn’t post this yesterday), you already know that Google debuted Instant Search (here’s Google’s announcement). However, what you may not have known is that there are some keyboard shortcuts that will make it even more useful.
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.
Reading Material
- If you gave a pan handler a free credit card, how would they use it?
- Logic and thinking is hard for some people.
- Eight Clever Ways To Take Advantage of Free Calling in Gmail.
- SpongeBob dubs the classics.
- Why are people in the IT field so insecure and territorial? Read up.
- MonaVie Blackmails Me?
- How do you search for back doors from previous IT staff?
- An SNL Set is Built in Seconds.
- Free WordPress 3.0 theme for educational websites.
- Should you use that jQuery plugin or roll your own solution?
- Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium (I’ve always been for this kind of research).
- I’m looking into getting a new wallet, and these look interesting.
Reading Material
- 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.
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.