Personally, I’m watching the USA Track and Field Championships stream, but if you’re not a track guy like me, here are some other videos to kill off the rest of the week (click below to view).
Reading Material
My desktop is getting over run with shortcuts. Time to dump some of these…
- Man trolls dating sites by drawing pictures of the girls.
- Part of my reasoning for avoiding WordPress development was (for me at least) the templating was a bit more confusing than MovableType’s. Bones should help.
- Honestly, I wished forced steralizations were legal in more states as there are some folks that really should never have kids. Ever.
- WorklogCreator makes it quick and easy to post project work logs on forums.
- Keanu Reeves confirms that ‘Bill And Ted 3’ is on the way. Excellent!
- Similar to Garfield Minus Garfield comes Realfield where the cat’s a bit more realistic.
- First Month on the Android Market looks at one dev’s experiences with ads versus paying for the app.
- Famous opening lines updated for the modern age (my favorite: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an internet startup to call his own.”).
- This commit could have done some serious damage. It inspired some folks to share their big screw ups.
- Have a URL for a file and need to save it quickly to your Dropbox? URL Droplet might help.
- Have you ever been reading your favourite online news site, stumbled across a headline with seven syllables, and followed it in your head with doo-dah, doo-dah, in the style of Camptown Races? No? Really? Well, this guy has and created a Greasemonkey script to add “doo-dah, doo-dah” to seven-syllable breaking news headlines.
- Dear Photograph is a great tumblr blog that show folks taking a picture from the past into the present.
- In many cultures, there are more than two genders.
- Playable Archeology: An Interview with Telehack’s Anonymous Creator.
- Need to make a diagram with ASCII? ASCII Flow might help.
- Be productive during Photoshop progress bars by reading your RSS feeds automatically.
- Myth busted! A break down of what happens on screen during a typical hour of an episode of Mythbusters.
- Make your secondary Google Voice number permanent.
- Coming to a receipt printer near you: Receipt Racer.
- New and improved rage/troll faces.
- You have to be a Zelda geek to appreciate the humor in this.
- 12 Common Mistakes Designers Make and How to Avoid Them.
- If you’re looking for computer hardware in the Portland area, there are some good places to find it here (mostly bookmarking it for my reference as I have non-tech-savvy friends up there that are always calling me asking me that sort of thing).
- Hire to Hire Developers (if you’re interested in a profanity-laden version, you can find that here.
- The $113 Billion Hole: Ten Things America Gave Up This Year To Pay For The War In Afghanistan.
- I knew about some of these, but not others: 5 Fake Sounds designed to help humans.
- Android SMS Pop-up will soon get installed on my phone as it’s just so stupid simple and better than the default.
- One more…Goodbye TinEye: Google Images now lets you search by image.
OK, that’s enough for now. Enjoy!
What The Heck Is That Thing?
I was editing a craigslist posting and got this in my confirmation captcha:
How am I supposed to type that? My keyboard doesn’t have the “Creepy Face” button. Must be a Mac thing…
(Yes, I know that craigslist uses the great reCAPTCHA service and really only needs me to recognize the second word, before anybody starts railing on me for that.)
Update: I’m an idiot. I didn’t even look at it at an angle as Burton pointed out — it’s just an inverse letter “a” plopped on its side.
Does Anybody Else Feel Like They’re Being Hypnotized?
I know I sure did…
Time Killer For The Evening
Regrebluli is a “survive as long as you can” type of game where you need to block the lines from getting across the board. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? It is — at first.
This, A Kid’s Bedroom? Screw That
I want this as my bedroom office.
You Must Stay In The Bike Lane
It’s the law!
All Roads Lead To Philosophy
The ALT text for xkcd comics are always entertaining, but the ALT text for this comic caught my attention:
Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy".
And they’re absolutely right. I clicked around on several random articles, and everything eventually leads back to “philosophy.”