- 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.
Category: Interesting
Reading Material
Post-Thanksgiving Reading Material
Hope everybody had a good holiday. Back to work. There will be a quiz tomorrow…
- Kid’s drawings reenacted using professional photography.
- Just some more Twilight bashing: Bella and Edward are in an abusive relationship.
- If you want them to RTFM, make a better FM (from this old but good talk).
- Google China vs the Rest Of The World.
- Tomboy is a simple little note-taking application for Linux, Unix, and Windows. Now I just need to convince my other (better) half to use this and to quit sticking Post-It notes all over the desk.
- Rotate a site. Like this one.
- Perl and C programmers like to swear a lot.
- Video Professor is a scammer.
- TypePad Micro is a great new option for new bloggers.
- What kind of cereal are you going to have in the morning? Here’s a handy flowchart to help you decide.
- Converting an old Xbox into a cool new hackintosh.
- GeoIP Weather: Just load the page, it’ll give you the weather based on your current location.
Fascinating Look Into 9/11 History
Wikileaks has published over half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. You can see the massive archive here, but the folks at Reddit and Digg are already digging through them for interesting tidbits.
I’m sure the conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with some of this stuff.
Stay Indoors Today
In case you haven’t heard, the area got hit with a bunch of snow overnight and throughout the day. I had nearly a foot at my office at one point, but it’s down a few inches now (still a nasty mess outside). Took me nearly an hour to get to the office this morning. I blame the weather system pictured to the right, from the KTVZ radar, that appears to have an evil face in it over the ocean. Evil-Face Storm (which is what I’m sure Bob Shaw would probably call it) is probably responsible for the snow.
If you can avoid going anywhere today, please do. Meanwhile, here are some links to keep you busy:
- Oil tankers are lined up just off the British shore, waiting for oil prices to go up.
- Lose the calculator: How to do speedy math in your head.
- Subtle messages to your annoying neighbors.
- We’ve all had users/clients like this: Clients From Hell.
- Answering life’s ultimate question.
- Jon Stewart Enlists Pro-Wrestler to Protect a 10-year-old Gay Marriage Activist.
- Chrome OS is what I want, but not what I need.
- Speaking of Chrome OS, if you’re looking to play with it, you can download a Virtual Machine-friendly version here.
- This might come in handy someday: 8 Ways to Tell if your Loved Ones Plan To Eat You.
I’d better go shovel out my car here and start heading home. Be safe out there!
Links For The Day
Some reading material for everybody:
- Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer.
- 8-Bit Awesomeness: Left 4 Dead For the NES.
- 20 Essential Firefox Tweaks.
- My Font Book is a great way to preview fonts installed on your computer.
- The History Of The Internet In A Nutshell.
- An online clock made entirely in scroll bars.
- Why women are sluts and men are legends (naughty language warning).
- I want to be like mommy when I grow up.
- Make Your Own Steampunk Goggles.
- Infinitey Defined.
- Google Adds Turn-by-Turn Navigation to Android 2.0.
- Killing the beast — an indepth look into why malware writers are evil people who know a lot about software that can’t be killed.
It’s Fun For The Whole Family!
It’s Monopoly HP Supply Chain Edition:
I was taking pictures of a new home for our rental pool here at the office, and found the above in a closet (if I had time I would’ve taken better pictures of the thing, including a gameboard shot — will try later this week). It appeared to be a custom game created by the folks at USAopoly, which lists HP as one of their clients.
Anybody know the history of this and how folks ended up with it? Was it an employee or client/sales piece? All I know is that it sounds like a buzzword-filled good time for the whole family.
I’ll Never Look At A “Choose Your Own Adventure” Book The Same
I used to think the CYOA books were pretty cool when I was a kid, but this graphical and mathematical analysis made me appreciate them even more.
Links For The Day
Another busy evening (have rehearsal tonight right after work until late and am already tired after today), but have a bunch of stuff to share…
- Developing Games for Android.
- A really cool multi-app installer which will be great when setting up new computers.
- Why do we have an IMG element?
- The “Less Than Free” business model.
- Unfortunately, victim in fatal car accident was not Glenn Beck.
- Twitter Lists How-to.
- Old buddy of mine started up Central Oregon Athlete, covering local sports.
- ABC Numbers are out, and The Bulletin bucked circulation decline trends by actually posting a very small gain in circulation. They did last year as well. I’m sure you can all come up with reasons as to why they managed this, so knock yourself out below.
Don’t Understand NBA Rules?
I didn’t understand some of the rules, either, but the NBA’s new Video Rule Book clears up quite a bit of stuff.