- 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.
Category: Moronic
Link Cleanup
22 Below
It was only -13°F this morning at my house, but it was a balmy -22° at my co-worker’s house in Sunriver this morning. The SROA weather station had the low at its office at -19°F overnight (it’s gotten up to -5°F at my office — here comes the heat wave!). La Pine and Sunriver-area schools were cancelled and there were power outages in some areas. Thank goodness I don’t rely on electric heat in my home.
In other words, it’s frackin’ cold out. You whiners in Portland who are complaining about the cold up there (it’s currently 24°F up there), you got nothing on us.
There’s no sense in leaving the house if you don’t have to. This will help to keep you indoors today.
- There’s a Woot Off on the main woot, kids woot and wine woot for all your holiday shopping needs.
- Somebody with far too much time on their hands has achieved (nearly) everything in World of Warcraft.
- This would explain a lot about Tetris.
- Parenting is making me dumb.
- Only linking to this SFGate story because it mentions a friend of mine and his wife who I went to high school with.
- Banning cookies is a really bad idea.
- Political correctness has gone too far.
- Why Your IT Sucks.
- Comcast Acquires Majority of NBC Universal, launches Data Usage Meter in Portland (their cap of 250GB is still quite a bit higher than the 100GB BendBroadband offers).
- Millions of tax dollars are going to dead farmers.
- Twilight Fans get Punked.
Stay warm!
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.
When You Mess With A Bull…
…the bull will always win. Always. Otherwise you’ll end up showing your personal parts for the whole world to see.
Anybody Know How To Find A Property Manager For A Specific Home in Bend?
Or, does anybody in the City of Bend PD who’s reading this have nothing to do tonight?
I know the Sunriver police department maintains a list of which homes are managed by which company in Sunriver (a list that property management companies in Sunriver also have copies of). Anybody have any idea if the City of Bend and/or property managers in Bend have such a list? I won’t get into why, but let’s just say that I think a property management company would want to know what kind of folks they’re renting to in a neighboring house that does nothing by keep us up nearly every night (and while I’ve called the non-emergency police line a couple times, it hasn’t done any good). As we speak, they’re in their backyard (about five or six of them with several more inside) about 20 feet from where I’m sitting in my living room having a drunken discussion about something that involves throwing around the F-Bomb as much as humanly possible. And I’d like to go to bed at some point here in the near future.
These guys have parties like this at least 3 or 4 times a week and have all summer. Then during the day, they’ve got a crappy garage band that pounds away on the drums and guitars in their garage. Their drummer can’t play, either, and I know a thing or two about music and I know bad music when I hear it. The guy can’t even keep any sort of resemblance of tempo, and that’s the drummer’s most important job.
I never thought I’d say this, but I pray for the cold weather to come so the idiots will go inside.
All In Favor Of Winter Being Over, Say “Aye”
I don’t know about the rest of you, but waking up to snow on the driveway (and an inch on the ground at the office) when it’s nearly May isn’t my idea of a good time. Anybody else ready for this to be over? I’d love to not have to start a fire every stinking morning.
How UPS Really Treats Your Packages
Sadly, it’s still probably better than the Post Office:
(This video screams viral fake, but oh well…)
You Think He Would’ve Learned His Lesson
Bend Police K-9 Bosco followed a Christmas Eve burglar’s trail, aided by footprints in the snow, for nearly two hours before officers found the suspect hiding in bushes at a home several miles away, police said.
And when they caught their man, he may have been familiar to them — last January, after a northeast Bend restaurant was broken into, footprints in the snow led to his arrest, also on burglary charges.