Category: Weird

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.

February 21, 2010

Reading Material

Setup a whole-house speaker system using existing phone lines.
Cheap but powerful video card for HTPC use.
The thickness of napkins in the programming world.
SimpleFolio, a nice wordpress theme.
If you missed the Super Bowl commercials last night, they’ve all been posted here (and the story behind the Leno, Oprah, Letterman ad is over here). Vote for your favorite here.
According to teenagers, sites like mine aren’t cool anymore. Not that I’m losing sleep over losing the under-18 demo.
Another high school, another overzelous administration conficating newspapers that do some real reporting.
Always wear your seat belt.
The anti-vaccine autism paper had catastrophic effects.
Symbian Operating System is Now Open Source and Free — but will it matter?
Relatively Portal.
Netflix 28-Day Window Would Decimate Their Top Rental List.
Kwedit, a new completely unreliable payment network.
Calagator, open-source project for calendar aggregation (like Portland’s tech events).
Run your own URL Shortener, and hopefully have better luck with spammers than my failed attempt (Ken is using it here).
If you run a MovableType blog, this site might interest you.
Licensing Delay Complicates Decision Between Open Source and Proprietary Video Players.

February 8, 2010

Reading Material

30 Commercial Games That Have Been Released for Free.
The Apple iMaxiPad.
Speaking of iPad, here’s a GUI PSD for it so you can start making your app interfaces.
Life below 600 pixels (or “below the fold”).
Software on the Cheap (or: Why good software is not something your cousin’s nephew can do.).
Uncovering the secrets of Mega Shark.
OptiPNG, great command line tool to knock some weight off PNG files.
HTML5 isn’t going to save the Internet.
Southpark Mac vs. PC.
Man films his wife crying after movies, posts it online, everybody laughs (including the wife).
Random picture blog for the day: Hot Chicks Plunging Their Toilets.
Javascript experiments in Chrome.
Speaking of impressive Javascript, Windows 3.1 Program Manager in Javascript.
Sexting is now just for teens — old folks are doing it, too (yikes).
Speaking of disgusting, Miley’s 9-year old sister is launching a lingerie line for kids.

February 3, 2010

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.

January 7, 2010

Yet Another Thing For Bend To Be Famous For

We’re home of the first-ever National Beard and Moustache Championships (mostly because we have a lot of breweries in the area). Be sure to read the Bulletin story for the photo, as it’s priceless.

January 6, 2010

Local Clinic Puts on A Testicle Festival

If your intention is to get press attention — good, bad, or otherwise — calling your event a testicle festival is a good way to do it. Full press release after the jump.

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January 6, 2010

Post-Holiday Link Dump

China wrecked the Copenhagen summit.
Autobrake automates Handbrake ripping.
15 Biggest Internet Controversies of the Past Decade.
You can now see Portland in 3D on Google Earth.
Firefox 4 Windows Theme/UI update.
Holy, Holy, Holy Batman.
More end-of-the-year/decade lists: The 87 lamest moments in tech this decade and picturing the last 10 years.
Google code projects you probably don’t know about, with my favorites being SpriteMe, a CSS sprite creator and Reducisaurus, a CSS and JS shrinker.
Searching for dictionary words with Regex (examples).
What martial arts can teach you about programming.
I’m not big on screensavers, but this thing is pretty cool.

December 28, 2009

HP Computers Are Racist

This reminds me of a Better Off Ted episode…

December 22, 2009

I Need Sleep…

…but you don’t:

Why we should be eating horses instead of riding them.
Great use of Google Maps: Zombie Outbreak Simulator.
Help Save MySQL from Oracle.
International Backup Awareness Day — which is why I’m working on adding even more redundancy to my office and server backups.
How would you give directions with street names like this?
The best twitter prank ever: the Twittering Honeymoon Bed.
Ridiculous user interfaces and the men who create them.
What if other celebreties were in Star Wars?
Unnecessary Censorship: Sesame Street.
Coolest Kid Ever playing the Ukulele.
BendBroadband Launches “Nation’s Fastest Wireless Internet Service”. I’m considering using it for a failover connection at my office in Sunriver, where the local cable company has more outages than I’d care to deal with.

G’night!

December 15, 2009

Pre-game Reading Material

OK, this has nothing to do with the upcoming game, but it will get some of these links off my desktop.

Google introduces Public DNS, which is perfect if you don’t want/need the filterting/redirecting of OpenDNS.
Speaking of Google, they’ve introduced asynchronous tracking with Google Analytics — which basically means faster load time for the Analytics code.
The Geek Squad’s Real Agenda Exposed.
Brilliant traffic light design idea.
10 Alternatives to Mininova.
In the spirit of FMyLife comes i’msobadatsex (needless to say, NSFW language).
Another Google Wave Use: Manhunt (I have Google wave, really haven’t had time to play with it much, but this did intrigue me a bit).
Who is the most dominate athlete ever?
Can we say crazy? Mothers Against Nickelodeon. I’m going to start a group someday: “Parents against jackass parents who plant their kids in front of the TV instead of properly interacting and raising their children and then complain when the TV has potentially offensive content.” I think the name needs work, though.
Robin Williams talks about videos games.

OK, that should be enough for a while. Go Ducks!

December 3, 2009

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