Category: Moronic

July 12, 2012

So obviously my life is far too chaotic at the moment to post here much, but that doesn’t mean I’m not collecting links to share. To keep everybody occupied for a bit, enjoy;

February 1, 2011

I’m looking more into virtualizing a bit more to consolidate some old but still (unfortunately) necessary servers here at the office (still need the hardware to do it, but that’s another issue). They’re older Windows 2000 servers that won’t run well on Windows 2003 (I’ve tried). I’m leaning towards a Xen platform, possibly running on top of CentOS with Virtual Machine Manager installed. I’m more familiar with RedHat/RPM-based distros, but I’m just at the preliminary research stages so all that may change. Many of the solutions out there require XP/2003 or higher (like the stupid-simple Disk2vhd), but I’m going to have to look into some manual methods to get things moved as I really don’t want to rebuild the OS inside Xen. Thoughts/input is always welcome, since I know there are guys here that know far more about this type of thing than I.
You thought BendBroadband’s 100GB data cap was bad? Try living in Canada and getting only 25GB. Because of the much lower cap, folks are much more inclined to block ads. Here are some ideas on how to block the ads on DD-WRT routers (another option — I’m sure something similar is possible on Tomato or TomatoUSB firmware as well). You can do it on a per-computer basis by using the MVP Hosts file.
Is it me, or have people spent far too much time adding content to this Wikipedia entry? I wish that much effort was put into other articles on that site.
Egypt is having a real democratic revolution, while the one in Iraq was fake.
Is Netflix trying to embarrass certain ISPs? My streaming works great on my WDTV Live Plus so BBB must not be on that list. Wish Hulu would get onto my WDTV box and I’d rarely have to ever turn on my HTPC.
Best okcupid profile ever.
Some jobs I could do no problem. This isn’t one of them.
Google is accusing Bing of copying their search results.
The hilarious Axe Cop comic (written by a five-year-old, illustrated by his 29-year-old brother) really needs to be turned into a movie.
Some stuff people are printing in my room over the internet. While live printing has been shutdown, there is some interesting stuff in the gallery.
Another good list of Android apps and games.

November 1, 2010

Mom of the decade nominee here, folks.

Facebook and those stupid little addicted games are dangerous — especially if you’re the baby of a Facecrack-addicted worthless mom:

A Jacksonville mother charged with shaking her baby to death has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, was arrested after the January death of 3-month-old Dylan Lee Edmondson. She told investigators she became angry because the baby was crying while she was playing a computer game called FarmVille on the Facebook social-networking website.

You hear that, folks? Farmville kills.

(Actually, poor parenting kills, but that’s beside the point and doesn’t make for as good of a headline.)

Arrest records are here and follow-up story here.

September 13, 2010

Top Gear’s “Stig” Revealed and subsequently canned, called a “Greedy Twat” by one of the hosts. Apparently the upcoming U.S. version of Top Gear will have a stig as well.
25 Mario Facts for the 25th Anniversary.
Speaking of Mario, here’s an adaptive Mario game that gets easier or harder depending on how and where you die (or how quickly you finish the level).
You may have read Stuff White People Like, but here is the real stuff that white people like.
From Canada to Mexico on a single tank of gas.
Three Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website.
More Facebook news: Facebook lets publishers contact “Likers.”.
AMD to take stand against laptop stickers. Too bad the problem stickers on most laptops are put on by the manufacturers and are usually a pain to get off cleanly.
Turn your blog into an iPad Web app with Padpressed.
10 Free WordPress Themes for Small Businesses.
According to one politician, Girl Scouts breed “pro-abortion” lesbians.
A good post 9/11 column by the late Hunter S. Thompson that everybody should read.
Young gamer goes back and tries playing games older than him, and gets his rump kicked by a couple classics (I finished Contra with a friend of mine, but only because of the Konami code).
I’m amazed that space shuttles can ever take off, consider the amount of satellites orbiting our planet. You can see the entire mess in Google Earth.
Why our government never gets anything, reason #4817: obscene flowcharts.
Install the new versions of iTunes without the bloatware.
A local blogger (and friend of mine) is working on an Oregon XC Documentary and I’m sure I’ll know quite a few people in the final product.
Every app has a scary basement.
A good list of netbook operating systems to Windows.
A stamp I need for the oddball crap that ends up on my desk.
Ozone allows you to get instant suggestions from 15 sources to find what you’re looking for fast.

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August 24, 2010

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.

August 8, 2010

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 ~~hack~~ change a Windows XP password.

July 26, 2010

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…

changes name

Zolo Media

COCA owns KBNZ

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.

April 13, 2010

Been dealing with some malware-infected computers of family members and friends, and have also been a tad under the weather, so blogging hasn’t been a priority the last few days. But I have too many links sitting here that need to be disposed of, so here ya go:

Conan O’Brien is moving to TBS. Speaking of Conan, Team Coco billboards are popping up all over the place. All this is probably timed with the start of his tour, which started in Eugene last night (anybody go? It looked like fun.).
Columbia University will soon offer a soon offer a combined engineering and journalism degree, something I would have totally applied to get into when I was in high school, had it existed.
Maps in modern web design.
prettyPhoto is a jQuery-based lightbox clone.
MFCMAPI “uses Microsoft’s published APIs to provide access to MAPI stores through a graphical user interface. Its purpose is to facilitate investigation of Exchange and Outlook issues.”
A new Harry Potter trailer, and Hermione has a stalker (NSFW, depending on liberal your boss’ view is on a brief naked bum and some naugtly language).
Great guide to building an HTPC.
The periodic table of imaginary elements.
Steve Jobs’ response to the Section 3.3.1 of the new SDK terms of service, and existing apps that are breaking the new TOS.
jQuery HTML table toolbox.
Exploiting a linux kernel NULL dereference.
iPhone users now have an alternative browser now that Opera Mini for the iPhone has been approved. Here are a couple quick reviews. I use Opera Mini on my Touch Pro with Sprint, and it works great compared to Pocket IE.
Speaking of Apple products, Gizmodo has some essential iPad apps, as well as a full review.
Why you should never trust photos you see: Britney Spears, before and after photoshop.
The season finale of House (one of my favorite shows) was filmed entirely with a Canon 5D Mark II.
How I ran an ad on Fox News.
5 different movies, all completely different, but with the same lines of dialog.
ZeuApp is a nifty little app to easily install a bunch of different software.
Things overheard in a newsroom.
A new database devoted to people who lived in Oregon prior to its statehood.
Somebody needs to make this for Oregon: A pronunciation guide for everything Wisconsin.
The Star Wars Sound Effects Quiz.

February 22, 2010

Cleaning out the links that have collected over the last few days before I head to the concert tonight (there are still plenty of tickets available at the door, all free, so I’d encourage you to come!):

Axecop, a comic written by a five-year-old, but illustrated by a 29-year-old pro.
Newbie fashion tips for grown-up men.
35 Useful jQuery Plugins for Slideshows, Graphs and Text Effects.
Windows Phone 7 series: Everything you need to know. While I love my HTC Touch Pro with it’s hacked Windows 6.5 ROM, I have a feeling that come renewal time, I’m going to be looking into an Android phone.
The 7 Deadly Sins of JavaScript Implementation.
Greenpeace Tells Facebook: Kick coal in Prineville (Greenpeace release is here). In related news: Central Oregon Tells Greenpeace: STFU. They’ll already be using a loads less power than most datacenters, and the only way GreenPeace would be happy would be if Facebook ran the entire datacenter on Solar or Wind power — which is obviously totally impractical. Meanwhile, GreenPeace’s site is powered by Akamai, who has several datacenters, probably killing all sorts of trees and whales and small children and what not.</rant> (I could go on for a while here, but I won’t.)
Speaking of lowering power consumption, the Leech plug is a pretty slick little device that needs to become more common.
Don’t know if I buy this: Almost a third of the U.S. does not use Internet. 75% of those third probably have AOL and don’t realize they’re on the Internet — “they’re on AOL” or “The Google” or something.
18 Incredible CSS3 effects you’ve never seen before.
For content/blog sites: Tips to lower your bounce rate.
Measuring JavaScript parse and load.
The best “Hitler Finds Out…” videos.
As a percussionist, I always appreciate fine street drumming.
A brief history of pretty much everything.
I’m still trying to wrap my head around this a bit, but for the math/programming geeks: Labor of Division (Episode 1).
Thanks to ShadyURL, you can now get to this site via this scary URL.
If you’re wondering why people are pirating movies instead of buying them, this might explain it.
Smash Face on Keyboard, Post Result.
25 Best Websites for Downloading Free HTML/CSS Templates.
Which A/B split testing site should you use?
If you use Blogger’s FTP service (and there are a few of you on Bend Blogs), it’s going to stop working soon.

February 17, 2010

They’re just begging people to rob them.

Category: Moronic

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