Safety Instructions will put your typing skills to the test. You screw up, you kill the airplane passengers. So don’t screw up.
Only In Portland…
…would you find a bagpipe-playing unicycler — aka, the Unipiper:
His neighbors must love him.
Time Killer For The Day
Wonderputt is a mini-golf game not quite like any I’ve played before. I’ve seen putt games like this before, but none were this creative, nor did they cram 18 holes into the screen.
I scored 69,477 on my first try after 18 holes (finished five-under). Probably would do better a second time around now that I know how to complete some holes (and you get “Wonder” points a second time through). How’d you do?
Update: I need to quit playing this now. Second time through I was 31 under par, got 60000 wonder points, did it in 5:45, for a grand total of 144,655 points that time around. Was kind of miffed I didn’t fill the rainbow, though.
OK, I need to walk away.
More Reading Material
Following up on last night’s dump, here is a bit more…
- World War II, the homefront, in color.
- Have a rooted Android phone and want to watch videos via the Google Videos app? You can’t, unless you have this hack.
- Fark Gets Patent Troll To Settle For Nothing. Read Drew’s post here.
- Heello is Twitter for Pretenders.
- openbook is a search engine for public Facebook updates (whether they were meant to be or not).
- Life on the Command Line.
- The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice.
- Creepy iPhone case of the day: A child’s hand.
- Old folks with great AMAs on Reddit: 94 years old, shooting for 100 and an 82 year-old-man on the Internet for the first time.
- The Art of the Menu showcases some really unique restaurant menus.
- Red Robin’s have a People’s Burger competition, and I created one that you can vote for. Anybody’s who’s eaten a burger at the Westside Cafe will recognize it.
- passphra.se allows you to generate long passwords that are easy to remember, inspired by this xkcd comic.
- 360° Panoramic Views of Hiroshima after the Atomic Bomb.
- My response to the Chain World mutation (read the links in the post for links to what the whole Chain World thing is).
- Good jQuery and Javascript tutorials and training.
- May have linked to this before, maybe not: Nesfun allows you to play old NES games in your browser.
- I’ve been using MailChimp at work for a few months and am loving it. They recently created a WordPress plugin called Social that allows your blog posts to seamless integrate with Facebook and twitter. I’m seriously considering moving this blog to WordPress, but need to learn more about its templating language first.
- If you need a joke that has a really long setup for a pretty cheesy punchline, this is the one.
- Proxino is a cool tool to optimize and monitor your javascript.
- May have linked to this before, too, or at least something that has similar functions, but html5media enables <video> and <audio> tags in all major browsers.
- A good references for Facebook’s various social plugins.
- AeroFS is Filesync without servers. It’s basically a peer-to-peer filesystem.
- Techcrunch Defending Android looks into why it thinks Google bought up Motorola Mobility.
- Shortmail is like twitter for e-mail, limited messages for less than 500 characters.
Reading Material
- Great move for Google and for Android: Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility.
- I agree with Warren Buffett: Stop Coddling the Super-Rich.
- How to put your logo in a QR code.
- Ken Jennings has a great blog (that I’ve linked to before), but now he’s also writing for Woot’s blog (which is having a Woot Off today).
- According to the US Treasury, S&P downgraded the US credit rating by ignoring a couple trillion bucks.
- Despite the downgrade, our credit is still better than most of the planet.
- Apple Does Not Have More Cash Than The US Gov’t; Stop Saying That It Does.
- We knew the deficit would rise, because Obama didn’t actually lie about the numbers like Bush did. Quoting the story from 2009: “For his first annual budget next week, President Obama has banned four accounting gimmicks that President George W. Bush used to make deficit projections look smaller.”
- Use Jonathan’s Card (which may or may not be fake) to buy yourself an iPad..
- One man’s quest to build a perfect SNES emulator (and the processor power involved to do it).
- What would happen if major brands swapped logos?
- Wow, there are some bad ones here: What’s the most enraging thing a computer illiterate person has said to you when you were just trying to help? I’m going to use this analogy on a fairly regular basis, I have a feeling.
- It may look like a “hosts” file, but it’s not.
- If you run a DHCP server, this might be worth reading: Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? Now I just need to figure out how to make these tweaks on a pfsense and/or dd-wrt routers.
- You’re mad about something on the Internet. What do you do?
- It’s over a year old, but it’s new to me. Something to be proud of, just the same: Oregon is number two in nation in penis size
- I’ve gotten addicted to the Now I Know daily newsletter, which has had some great tidbits. The Spirit of Butts Farm and The Old Man Of The (Crater) Lake where both interesting. Yes, I know I probably should have known about the The Old Man Of The Lake, being from Oregon and all, but sadly, I did not.
- How do you seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid s**t.
More tomorrow, I need some sleep.
Anybody have an old GSM (T-Mobile) phone they want to get rid of?
My mom-in-law needs a new cell phone for her T-Mobile plan. Anybody have an old phone that will take a SIM card that’s stupidly basic and simple that is collecting dust? No fancy features, just a flip phone that will make calls and has easy-to-read buttons (mom-in-law friendly). I have a pile of carrier-locked CDMA phones, but no GSM phones (AT&T, T-Mobile, etc…).
E-mail me if you have one that I can take off your hands.
Time Killer For The Evening
Notebook Drift is a fun little game where you guide a car around by dropping magnets to control its drift. Gets tough fast, but still quite fun once you get the hang of it.
Any Remember “Saved By The Bell”?
Well, this is nothing like it. Really.
OK, it’s sort of like. Maybe. From Waxy‘s descriptions, it’s an stupidly-violent Saved By The Bell parody with the cast of Final Destination 5. And ultra voilent it is.
Got A Smartphone? Want Free Coffee?
Jonathan Stark is trying out a little social experiment. He’s posted his Starbucks card image online and you can use it, free of charge. But he’s also made it so people can pay it forward, and add value to the card so somebody else can get a coffee. The live balance twitter feed shows fluctuations of the balance, when the card goes empty (which is often), etc… . It’s actually amazing to see people adding value back to it and how fast it goes away. This guy added $100 to the card, and it was gone in about 60 seconds.