- Zero Punctuation reviews Torchlight (a game I just got for $5 on Steams holiday sale).
- Why is the news media comfortable lying about science?
- iPhone and iPod CSS detection using PHP.
- How to kill your business: 30 Day Payment Terms.
- What’s the official name of Pac Man’s shape?
- Introduction to Website split testing.
- Letters of Note: Correspondence deserving of a wider audience.
- First China tried to kill us with lead in our toys, now it’s cadmium.
- Your passwords aren’t as secure as you think.
- Indoor HDTV Antenna review round up.
- If you’re a Dr. Horrible fan, you’ll love this.
- Obfuscate Javascript with PHP.
- Make desktop widgets out of any site with Snippage.
- Play a truck load of old-school NES, Sega, and Gameboy games online.
- Amy Spano’s around the world project.
- Freeware WYSIWYG web page editor.
- Somebody has far too much time on their hands.
Category: Scary
Reading Material
Freak Of The Day
I’ll just quote the story on this, but be sure to check out the picture:
Great grandmother Annette Edwards, 57, has spent £10,000 to make her look like cartoon character Jessica Rabbit. Has it been money well spent? No.
Reading Material
- I always saw Nicholas Cage is a one-note actor, but one man believes that everything is better with a little more Nic Cage.
- Danny DeVito agrees to do a third season of “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia”… on one condition.
- A pictorial guide to avoiding camera loss.
- Speaking of cameras, this man likes to run from his.
- Vintage Ad Browser is full of all sorts of old racist, sexist, but entertaining ads.
- Fun tech support stories.
- Create an easy to use God Mode master control panel in Windows 7 using canonical names of control panels (Windows 7 has lots of GodModes).
- Showcase of modern navigation design trends.
- Avatar is just like a 3D Pocahontas.
- What kind of soda drink should I have?
- Best Buy’s “pre-optimizeing” service is a big stupid waste of money.
- Hacker Music, so all the geeks get a vote on what song is played next.
- Performance/Price comparison for CPUs.
- Need to speed up your computer? Just download some more RAM!
- Handy Nexus One vs Droid vs iPhone comparison chart.
- The presentation secrets of Steve Jobs.
They May Look Cute And Cuddly…
…but don’t mess with the hippo — those guys will mess you up.
Best Culinary Invention Ever!
It’s a french-fry coated hot dog on a stick. And I’m sure it’s horrible for you, but tastes oh-so-yummy.
Six-year-old Flying Over Colorado in Homemade Balloon — UPDATE: Or not…
At first I thought this was an Onion story, but it’s not. A six-year-old boy is floating over Northern Colorado in a large helium-powered aircraft. It looks like a large tin-foil UFO, but it has a kid inside and is floating around 8000 feet. The kid’s parents were building the experimental aircraft, and the curious kid climbed inside and somehow got the tether loose, sending him skyward. The military, FAA, and all sorts of folks are trying to figure out how to safely get him down. The kid’s probably scared to death, the poor thing.
Live video is here or here if 9News.com feed doesn’t work (the MSNBC feed is more stable, and both show the same video). I’ve also embedded the live feed after the jump.
Update: The balloon landed safely just a few miles from Denver International airport (the airport owns a ton of land around there that’s completely barren, but has a lot of power lines, so they got lucky). It got low enough where somebody grabbed the tether lines. They did not find the child. There was nobody in the thing. The child was not at the home, either, so there’s a kid missing somewhere.
Update again later: The kid never left the house, was hiding up in the attic the entire time, probably freaking out that he’d get it trouble. Can’t say I blame him, but good to know he’s fine.
Lindsay Lohan Has Really Let Herself Go
I mean, she’s 23 years old and the woman looks like she’s been ran over by a truck.
Screenshot below in case it gets fixed.
Time Lapse of the LA Fires
Wildfires are scary, and this video really shows how these things can spread so quickly.
There are a couple more videos and more links over on BoingBoing.
The Scariest Thing You’ll See All Week
The People (and other oddities) of Walmart.
Update: While you’re at Walmart, be sure to play Walmart bingo.