- The Vendor/Client Relationtionship in Real World Situations.
- I didn’t know video game graphics could look this realistic.
- The Background Dope on DHS Recent Seizure of Domains.
- Five Lessons Netflix Learned withUsing AWS (I think the Chaos Monkey idea is a great one).
- The Big Picture has their photos of the year series going: Part 1, 2 and 3.
- Wiki’s should have an ignorance test.
- Why one man rated the book as “very good”.
- Booboo Kills Yogi.
- 22 Essential Resources for Android Owners.
- Steam’s Holiday Sale has begun, and this Reddit thread will make it easier to follow.
- For the serious geeks: vmail is a Vim interface to Gmail.
- I don’t know where this hilarious image came from, but more parents should be given this in poster form.
- The NYT geeks are smart folks: Using flat files so elections don’t break your server.
- Those molesting pat-downs aren’t working: Man boards plane with loaded gun in carry-on.
- Favimon is a RGB-style battle of Favicons.
- I’m mostly book marking this for my future reference, but unRAID looks fairly interesting.
- Nudity detection with JavaScript with nude.js.
- Speaking of nudity, Accidental Penis (Safe for work, don’t worry).
- Google Labs has debuted Books Ngram Viewer which allows you to type in a word or phrase in one of seven languages and see how its usage frequency has been changing throughout the past few centuries. Naturally, somebody tried it with “penis” and there was apparently a spike in the early 19th century that has a bit of a phallic shape to it.
Category: Video
Reading Material
Mario’s A Jerk
He’s been picking on Yoshi since he was a baby:
Videos For The Day
Have a few videos sitting in my inbox that need to be shared. Check them all after the jump…
Ladies and Gentlemen, Billy Joel!
His greatest hits — played at once:
You can use YouTube Downloader (alternate link) to convert this work of art into an MP3, should you desire.
Can’t Say I See This Working Out Well
Cookie Monster wants to host SNL:
Grandmas Gone Wild
This is what happens when Grandma discovers Photo Booth:
Bandwidth Suck Time
Some visual entertainment after the jump…
Good Thing This Had Subtitles
As I couldn’t understand a word they said:
Solving The Problem Of Violence In Video Games
John Hodgman has the solution:
Reading/Watching Material
First off: Cheap plug. I’m playing with the Central Oregon Symphony this weekend, and I’d encourage you to come out and see the show. The piano soloist we have coming to play with us is phenomenal, and it’ll be a great show. Concerts are free, click here for ticket info.
OK, enough of the plugging, let’s get down to business (videos are after the jump).
- “A law suit will be filed for the obvious decrease in revenue from my ads last month, totaling $7.34.”
- You can’t get good Internet access in many parts of the US, but it’s good to know that Mt. Everest is networked.
- Tourism posters from Star Wars.
- 10 Ways to get more from Google Voice.
- Type-a-file gives your web typography a head start.
- I might have to dig out my old Diablo II disks and play this amazing mod.
- These subtle antimated GIFs are some of the most well done I’ve seen.
- Did somebody just try to buy the British Goverment?
- How I Became A PC: Five Steps from Mac to Microsoft.
- The days of a browser being 2-6x faster than another are gone.
- Why is there a USB drive sticking out of the wall? Good question.
- Make your Websites run faster, automatically, with mod_pagespeed.
- Nice infographic comparing educational spending to spending in other segments.
- Useful tips on building a mobile website.
- Using Google Contacts as a Unified Address Book.
- Google sues the United State of America.
- Flash vs HTML5 in a game of pong.