Category: Geekdom

Finally got a new LCD hinge for my laptop and got it installed (way more complicated than it should have been). I’ve been using the thing very gingerly lately so I didn’t put too much pressure on the other one and break it, too, which means not using it much after-hours (which means not using it much at home and blogging). Here’s making up for it…

Central Oregon Cable Advertising changes name to Zolo Media. Personally, “Zolo” sounds like some sort of prescription medication with a whole host of side affects (either that, or Zorro’s drunken side-kick), but considering that COCA owns KBNZ, it makes sense to change the name.
• A glass of water a day can help keep your fuel consumption at bay.
• When grotesque war stories like this come out, it always makes me wonder how many more stories there are like this that we don’t know about.
• A humorous solution to your iPhone4 antenna issues.
• Quicksand is a pretty slick jQuery plugin to reorder and shuffle data around. Useful for staff pages, too (via).
• UO is waving the white-flag in Central Oregon, conceding to OSU, but there was a time when one of the schools could have been phased out of existence entirely.
• Meet the man that invented the vuvuzela.
• Sprint’s $10 “Premium Data Plan” that’s a requirement of the Evo is for “Shrimp and Crab.”
• Most of the health advice given on Oprah’s show is crap, which probably explains why Oprah is getting Jenny McCarthy a talk show — the woman who gained fame for being repeatedly, publicly wrong about an imaginary link between vaccines and autism, pretending that she’s cured her son’s autism with “mommy instincts”, and perhaps most laughably, that her son has superpowers. More links and more commentary here. Seriously, Jenny, go back to posing for Playboy, as you are utterly worthless otherwise.
• For the unemployed (or looking): 11 Websites to Make Your Job Interview Successful.
• I really need to get an Android phone: Android Development 101.
• Five Apps for Google Voice Greatness (I really need to take better advantage of my account — will do so when number portability becomes an option).
• I think I’ve linked to this before, but it’s been a while: Rainmeter is a beautiful, customizable resource meter.
• How a 15-year-old tricked Apple with a disguised iPhone tethering app.
• Speaking of teenagers doing cool stuff, this 17-year-old traded-up an old cell phone 14 times to end up with a Porsche (story from local paper).
• You have to love crime dramas when they cross over into technology. This CSI blip is hilarious enough that somebody made it happen.
• The Pirate Party is launching their own ISP.
• Somebody’s flippin’ out about the system requirements for a really old game.
• No, you can’t lock the gadget to the top of the sidebar.
• OpenStack launches open source cloud computing software.
• We have really high forests in the Pacific Northwest.
• Set up a fully automated, torrent-seeding media center.
• BP’s photos of their crisis command center were faked.
• Making a Facebook game about Facebook games.
• Kirby must be angry to come to America.
• Want to kills some time on YouTube, other than watching videos? Play some Snake.