Category: Interesting

Post Concert Reading Material

Recovering from not sleeping last night and then a this weekend’s concerts and rehearsals, so enjoy some evening reading:

Why we don’t trust Devil Mountain Software (related story on Windows 7 memory usage and why you shouldn’t believe the Devil Mountain).
“Family Guy” actress shoots back at Sarah Palin.
Castlevania clone, done with a Sharpie.
Why I love Canada: They stole a gold medal from a spyware mogul.
The Myth of DPI.
Is John the client dense, or are you failing him?
If Men Wrote Women’s Magazines…

That’s enough for now. Will post more later if I get motivated.

February 21, 2010

I know most of you are probably watching the Olympic opening ceremonies. I just watched the Georgian congregation walk out, and they were probably the only folks there that weren’t smiling, for obvious reasons (video here). I’m always amazed at the random African and other tropical countries that send athletes to the Winter games. Ethiopia just came through with a single skiier. Where does that guy practice?

BendBroadband subscribers will have access to the NBCOlympics.com videos, so I’ll probably be checking that out now and again.

Now, some reading…

When Al Gore asks you to change part of a typeface, you listen.
Exploration of the Beatles music through infographics.
The east coast and southern parts of the US are getting killed with snow. So if global warming is real, why is it cold?
One blogger had something to say to Google: F**k You.
Speaking of Google, you won’t likely see this as a Google ad.
Photoshop user? Here’s a keyboard shortcut cheat sheet.
Good quick iPhone app reviews.
Vimeo Videos as ASCII text art.
Fantastic free tools to showcase your portfolio.
American Express’ password policies are really insecure.
Chat with random people with Chatroulette.
Tights are not pants, says American Apparel.

February 12, 2010

Reading Material

Setup a whole-house speaker system using existing phone lines.
Cheap but powerful video card for HTPC use.
The thickness of napkins in the programming world.
SimpleFolio, a nice wordpress theme.
If you missed the Super Bowl commercials last night, they’ve all been posted here (and the story behind the Leno, Oprah, Letterman ad is over here). Vote for your favorite here.
According to teenagers, sites like mine aren’t cool anymore. Not that I’m losing sleep over losing the under-18 demo.
Another high school, another overzelous administration conficating newspapers that do some real reporting.
Always wear your seat belt.
The anti-vaccine autism paper had catastrophic effects.
Symbian Operating System is Now Open Source and Free — but will it matter?
Relatively Portal.
Netflix 28-Day Window Would Decimate Their Top Rental List.
Kwedit, a new completely unreliable payment network.
Calagator, open-source project for calendar aggregation (like Portland’s tech events).
Run your own URL Shortener, and hopefully have better luck with spammers than my failed attempt (Ken is using it here).
If you run a MovableType blog, this site might interest you.
Licensing Delay Complicates Decision Between Open Source and Proprietary Video Players.

February 8, 2010

Reading Material

30 Commercial Games That Have Been Released for Free.
The Apple iMaxiPad.
Speaking of iPad, here’s a GUI PSD for it so you can start making your app interfaces.
Life below 600 pixels (or “below the fold”).
Software on the Cheap (or: Why good software is not something your cousin’s nephew can do.).
Uncovering the secrets of Mega Shark.
OptiPNG, great command line tool to knock some weight off PNG files.
HTML5 isn’t going to save the Internet.
Southpark Mac vs. PC.
Man films his wife crying after movies, posts it online, everybody laughs (including the wife).
Random picture blog for the day: Hot Chicks Plunging Their Toilets.
Javascript experiments in Chrome.
Speaking of impressive Javascript, Windows 3.1 Program Manager in Javascript.
Sexting is now just for teens — old folks are doing it, too (yikes).
Speaking of disgusting, Miley’s 9-year old sister is launching a lingerie line for kids.

February 3, 2010

Prineville Datacenter Is Not Yahoo or Google — So Who Is It?

A couple months ago stories broke about a datacenter that was going to be opening up in Prineville. A new article in today’s Bulletin confirms it’s not Google or Yahoo! and that work on the site is already under way. There is a thought that the name of the company behind Vitesse (the company that’s doing all the dealings with Prineville) might be released on Thursday.

Anybody have any new theories or information?

Update: From the Oregonian, all will be revealed tomorrow, but if anybody wants to blow their NDA (which, from what I hear expires tomorrow at noon), feel free to comment below.

January 20, 2010

Reading Material

Zero Punctuation reviews Torchlight (a game I just got for $5 on Steams holiday sale).
Why is the news media comfortable lying about science?
iPhone and iPod CSS detection using PHP.
How to kill your business: 30 Day Payment Terms.
What’s the official name of Pac Man’s shape?
Introduction to Website split testing.
Letters of Note: Correspondence deserving of a wider audience.
First China tried to kill us with lead in our toys, now it’s cadmium.
Your passwords aren’t as secure as you think.
Indoor HDTV Antenna review round up.
If you’re a Dr. Horrible fan, you’ll love this.
Obfuscate Javascript with PHP.
Make desktop widgets out of any site with Snippage.
Play a truck load of old-school NES, Sega, and Gameboy games online.
Amy Spano’s around the world project.
Freeware WYSIWYG web page editor.
Somebody has far too much time on their hands.

January 18, 2010

Want To Secure Your Checked Airline Baggage?

Just fly with a gun.

January 14, 2010

Late Night TV Chaos

The blog world is all in a dither about NBC’s late-night shake-up. First, NBC outlined a plan to move “The Jay Leno Show” from it’s 10PM time slot to an 11:35 time slot, moving Conan O’Brien’s “Tonights Show” to 12:05. The reasoning, apparently, was because NBC affiliates were complaining that their 11PM newscasts were seeing lower ratings. The topic was brought up on pretty much every late night show. Conan came out and said he won’t do the show if it’s moved to a different time slot. The Web has come to the support of Conan, or “Coco” as he’s known, calling Leno all sorts of names. The Consumerist is encouraging people to email NBC before he decides to bail and go to Fox.

Personally, I’ve always like Conan and his show far better than Leno, but this whole fiasco is just hilarious and shows how much pull Leno still has at NBC (and how little respect they have for Conan).

January 13, 2010

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.

January 3, 2010

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.

December 28, 2009

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