Category: Interesting

Mother’s Day Reading Material

OK, there is nothing here related to Mother’s Day (except for maybe this Calvin and Hobbes classic or these psycho movie moms), but here’s wishing all you moms out there a great day of well-deserved spoiling.

For Airport Security, Size Matters.
Yet another reason to get an Android phone: Google Goggles gets an upgrade to translate real-world text.
ClearOS (formally ClarkConnect) looks like a great replacement for Windows Small Business Server.
What Conan was really thinking during his 60 Minutes interview.
Speaking of Conan, he paid a visit to Google.
Speaking of Google, they’ve added an app gallery for Analytics.
Speaking of Analytics…well, I’ve got nothing. But speaking of Google, did you notice they flattened their logo?
When 4Chan Gamed the Time 100.
How to hide your collection of risqué material.
Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen: These guys can run for short distances on water.
The Queen may get last word in UK election.
21 Essential Social Media Resources.
If the original Super Mario Bros was designed in 2010.
How To: Jailbreak any iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad..
5 Best Personal Landing Pages.

May 9, 2010

Google Redesigns Search Results

If you haven’t been to Google today (you haven’t?), you’ve missed a major redesign in their search results that appears to be showing up more commonly today (I’m starting to see it on most of my searches, but not on 100% of them). I don’t know if I’m a fan of the left-hand navigation, but it’s probably one of those things that will grow on me. What are your thoughts?

May 5, 2010

Reading Material

If the Empire’s IT tech’s wrote a blog, it would look something like this.
Really nice HDR wallpapers.
If I’m ever old and have a disabled parking permit, I’m going to be just like this guy.
10 Things you Didn’t Know Google Maps could do.
The hacks will always continue: CSS3 solutions for Internet Explorer.
XKCD’s results from its color survey are in.
Top 10 Reasons you should quit Facebook.
After Steve Jobs ripped up flash, Adobe responds and confirms plans to move away from Apple.
The Taco Bell Chihuahua is going on a beeg, beeg treep (thanks, Dren!).
Somebody with far too much time on their hands: A DIY Lamborghini (thanks, Ben!)
How Wired.com Tracked Down The iPhone 4G finder.
17 Tips Every Windows 7 User Needs To Know (related: 60 Tweaks and Hacks for Windows 7, Vista, or XP).
The most clever ways to use Dropbox that you’re not using.
What is everybody on Facebook “Like”-ing? Find out (though I still prefer popurls to see what everybody’s liking or linking to).
TechCrunch hacker identified: Should they press charges?
All newscasts could be better if their cutaways were accompanied by the Law and Order “chung chung” sound. Anybody want to over-dub a KTVZ broadcast and send it my direction?
Bend is #4 in America’s top-10 cities for start-ups.
Think an image might be photoshopped? Throw the URL into here, and it might help you find out.
If you’re going to plagorize somebody’s art and win a huge chunk of money, the original artist is bound to find out.

May 4, 2010

WTF, CNN?

I’m not a huge fan of CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC or many news sites any more. While I used to be a CNN guy, I am finding better reporting and better news on other sites. WTFCNN really breaks down the reasons why it’s sometimes better to shop around for news.

May 2, 2010

Steve Job Rips Up Flash

Rarely does the Apple founder come out and write something like this, but his open letter against Flash is well worth a read, and he makes a lot of valid points. I’d like to see Adobe’s response to this.

Personally, I see both sides of the argument, and while I typically don’t agree much with Jobs, I kind of have to on this. Flash is a resource hog in many cases, and holes in it (along with Acrobat Reader) have been the cause of many malware infections I’ve had to deal with. I can see why Apple doesn’t want it running on their phone.

April 29, 2010

Time Killer For The Evening

While this game is just a simple (but nice looking) mini-golf game, it’s intriguing because of the way they monetize it — by branding the holes.

(And apparently, looking a bit more, the initial sponsors are decided on by who sends them the most new visitors, so click away, folks.)

April 25, 2010

Reading Material

You know that volcano that blew ash all over Europe and wrecked havoc all over the place? You can blame the guys at Top Gear for that. (By the way: If you’ve never seen Top Gear, it’s hilarious. Watch some.)
The iPhone can now run Android.
Protection from double jeopardy doesn’t exist if the federal government tries you.
Chatroulette: Batman vs. Random Couple (watch it at full screen so you can read the text).
High-tech underwear for adventurous geeks.
Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Liberal, Maren Tarro’s account of the D.C. Tax Day tea party protest with her rightwing dad.
Mensa Selects Its Favorite Brainy Games of 2010.
WhiteHouse.gov releases Open Source Code, as does the Bank of Canada.
Yet another reason to avoid McAfee software: a patch they put out borked thousands of Windows PCs.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad caused quite a stir when he (basically) said that women showing any skin increases the earthquakes in the world. So to see if he’s right, some folks are organizing a Boobquake to see if they can cause the Earth to move by showing more skin. This may be one of those cases where a POIDH is called for.
Need some background textures for your web site? Here are some great sources.

April 22, 2010

Reading Material

11 Brilliant Arrested Development Shout Outs To Its Actors’ Past Roles. For example, I had no idea that was Buster in that VW Mr. Roboto commercial, and they made reference to it. I have the whole series on DVD, need to finish watching them all.
Tweets may be 140 characters (at the most) but there is a lot of data behind them.
Photoshop CS5 looks pretty sweet — too bad I just got CS4.
Australia is pissed, and I can’t say I blame them.
There have been some really amazing pictures that have some from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption, but I honestly believe this is probably the best (more from the photog).
Infographics seem to be all the rage lately — and most of them are just useless.
The best performing media player for 2010.
Expect this to be implemented sometime on here, since I always seem to miss something: Crowd-sourced copy-editing.
Interesting selections/reviews on remote access software. I’m in the process of (finally) upgrading from a Citrix terminal network to full-blown computers at the office, but will still occassionally need to get access to desktops at the office.
Top 10 Free Antivirus software of the year.
jQuery is going to get implemented on some site I manage someday. There are just all sorts of sexy plugins and useful bits of code that I just don’t know how I could go without when I finally redesign this site or Bend Blogs.
Since nobody here seems to ever go to my band concerts, you can get on YouTube and watch some of them.
Collection of local Web cams.
Olivia Munn Pranks Lovelorn Asylum Intern.
Have a PalmPre? Tether it.

April 20, 2010

Apple Wants Its Secret iPhone Back

I mentioned yesterday about Gizmodo having Apple’s new iPhone. Looks like Apple’s a bit miffed and wants it back.

April 20, 2010

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