- That iPhone that Giz had? And that Dilbert is parodying? Looks like it caused police to seize Jason Chen’s computers.
- Like I mentioned, the Hiter Downfall videos were all taken down. Hitler is upset.
- Patrick Stewart needs to make his dream movie (and I need to get Extras on Netflix).
- How to turn your Android phone into a killer MP3 player.
- Speaking of Android and iPhones, install Android on your 2G iPhone.
- What if I bought Apple stock instead of that Apple product?
- How to successfully educate your clients on Web development.
- The pros/cons of recent Facebook announcements.
- 8 Things I wish Everyone Knew About Email.
- Want to build a online poker-playing software robot? Here’s some source code.
Category: Randomness
Reading Material
Link Dump
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.
Reading Material
- Google didn’t have an Easter doodle logo, everybody panics.
- You should never pay more than $10 for HDMI cables. I just got a three-pack of them from Meritline a month or so ago for $8, and the Wal-Mart here in town is selling them for $40 each. Those cables are a rip-off and there’s NO reason to buy the expensive cable.
- The real question everybody’s asking about the iPad: Will it blend?
- Bendite Ashton Eaton nearly sets collegiate decathlon record, but thanks to confusing wind-rating rules, it didn’t happen. Meanwhile, UO student population doesn’t give a rip.
- Five ways to identify that song stuck in your head.
- Deleting files older than N days via the Windows command line.
- Internet Explorer UA Style Sheets.
- jQuery plugin for crashing IE6 (though some of us are stuck with it).
- Top 10 Password Crackers.
- Ultimate Guide to Cloning in Photoshop.
- The Best Free Software of 2010, according to PC Magazine. Which I find odd, as 2010 isn’t even halfway over yet, but whatever.
- Ultimate Windows Tweaker is basically like a TweakUI for Windows Vista/7.
- Want free publicity? Help a reporter find you.
- Gmail Becomes an App Platform, adding OAuth support.
- Remember when you’re in a flamewar or decide to send a scathing e-mail to somebody that there’s a real human being on the other end.
- J.D Shapiro apologizes for making the suckiest movie ever.
- Upload your videos to one site, and have it automatically upload to several video and social networking sites automatically.
Reading Material
- Before you start mouthing off about Hitler, you’d better know your Nazis.
- If it’s Condition 1 weather in Antartica, you want to stay indoors.
- Open *.eml files in Outlook.
- The Virtual Choir is an amazing compositional and technological work.
- The question everybody is asking, with the iPad’s release coming up, is whether they should buy one.
- And everybody wonders why folks have less respect for the GOP vs. The Democrat party — just look at their Web sites.
- ChatrouletteMap is disturbing and fascinating in so many ways.
- Schlinder’s List is for sale.
- An alarm clock that had better wake you up.
- NASA’s photos have nothing on this guy (and he did it a lot cheaper).
- Speaking of outer space, vintage postcards, invaded.
- 2,015 in a single Scrabble move.
- New Research Suggest That Government May Fake SSL Certificates.
- Geek Dream Girl: Woman who balances book on her head while solving a Rubik’s cube and counting Pi to 100 places. That’s hot.
- pwnat is serverless NAT-to-NAT — UDP hole punching for
- Google Contact Sync with Facebook.
- Funambol, Soocial, and Thunderbird Sync.
- Good collection of independent, unbiased, news sources.
- Dear Texas: Please shut up. Sincerly, History.
- f.lux is better lighting for your computer.
Reading Material
- If I was the EU…
- Pick and browse for flickr photos based on color.
- Profs should rethink banning laptops from the lecture halls.
- How Blogs are Becoming More Like Newspapers.
- Pirate a video game, and your desktop and personal information get sent out on the Web.
- I’m sure there’s somebody out there that could use this: Top 20 Blogs about Knitting.
- 11 Things You Should Never Do Online.
- Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers (oldy, may have seen/linked before, but still good).
- A look back at 12 years of hell we call the DMCA.
- URL Shorteners Slow Down The Web.
- Really fun series from Slate: The Secret Language Of Signs.
- Google Apps now has a marketplace — unfortunately none of it (that I can find) works on Google Apps free edition.
- If you have a Philips DVD player, there’s a good chance there’s a firmware hack here for it.
- Making amazing posters and desktops from Google Maps.
- 10 Annoying Habits of a Geeky Spouse (I’ll be the first to admit that a few of these describe me).
- Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein.
- A creative way to setup a laptop in a car so the back-seaters can watch DVDs. A similar product at an ugly site.
- The “No Dashes or Spaces” Hall of Shame — or why your credit card forms on your site suck. My day-job’s site has this issue, too, but considering that our reservation software is barely online capable and DOS-based, I’m not about to monkey with it as I’m afraid I’ll break something.
- It should be easier to contribute to open source projcts, so somebody’s trying to make it easier.
- Paris in 26 gigapixels.
- 10 Geeky Items You’re Embarrased to Admit You Want.
- Search and Share, and interesting add-on for a site, but it effectively disables right-click, which I hate.
- Why new, big hard drives might really suck for Windows XP users.
- 8-bit Austin, a map of the city in 8-bit graphical form.
Reading Material
- How to increase conversions on any Website in 45 minutes.
- Why is Oprah replacing David Attenborough as narrator of Life? Personally, I think it’s stupid, too, as I’d much rather listen to David Attenborough than Orpah (yes, I spelled that right — look it up). But one redditer has a theory: “I’m sure Oprah loves nature. She’s certainly eaten her fair share of it.”
- If you have an extra $20,000, you can buy yourself the ultimate chick magnet/repellent (be sure to read the reviews). Thanks Greg for that one.
- Twilight is crap because it isn’t bacon.
- Why ad blocking is devistating to the sites you love. Hopefully none of you are blocking ads on this site and are helping me feed my family by supporting our advertisers clicking on an ad or two or 12.
- Resume in Google Maps. Probably would be worthless for me, since most of my jobs have been in Oregon.
- NewEgg selling fake Intel CPUs, though obviously not intentionally. Just the same, everybody’s in a dither, even though I’ve never had bad luck with the Egg, and just recently discovered their business section.
- The 12 biggest rip-offs in America.
- What does Google suggest?
- Yikes…RSA 1024-bit private key encryption has been cracked by fluctuating with the power.
Reading Material
- I’d buy this as a poster.
- Remember the Sega 32X that never really took off? It could still do some cool stuff for its time.
- Calling all Romantics: Chatroulette has its own missed connections area like craigslist. Except with craigslist, you don’t have to actually see the crazy people. If you actually want to have decent luck chatting with people, it really helps to be an attractive woman.
- The competition is fierce at the Naked Co-ed Shopping Spree.
- Domain By IP, kind of like myIPneighbors, will help you find our who you’re sharing a server with (if you didn’t already know).
- Resource Expert Droid for checking headers when you don’t have Firefox and LiveHTTPHeaders.
- Looking to conceal a few weapons? This guy has some great ideas.
- Unix command line tools for Windows.
- Build yourself a network rack with Ikea side tables.
- The future of CSS Typography.
- Run your own free proxy through the Google App engine.
- 15 Best Web sites that can make you a Web Designer.
- Run a total background check on yourself.
- This site is creepy, but I can’t stop listening or wathing.
- Your logo is not your brand.
- Like, Python.
More Reading Material
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.
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.
Olympic Reading Material
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.