I linked to the first version before, but this one is quite good as well (some NSFW language):
Category: Video
8-Bit Dr. Horrible
If you haven’t seen Dr. Horrible, you probably won’t appreciate how awesome this is:
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.
Bandwidth Killers
Just a few videos I’ve had sitting here for a while… check them after the jump.
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.
Weirdest Video You’ll See All Day Week Month
I don’t know what this is, but I can’t stop watching:
Tour De France For The Everyday Biker
I really think somebody should stage this somewhere in Central Oregon:
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.
I’ve Dealt With Some Hilarious Tech Support Issues…
…but nothing quite like this:
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.