Cactus McCoy is a fun platformer with a bunch of fun upgrades and badges.
Reading Material
- Nuclear power isn’t safe? As this Japan earthquake and its aftermath have proven, that’s hogwash, as things are getting blown completely out of control by the media. You could eat a bunch of bananas and be exposed to more radiation.
- Hollywood’s films aren’t going to get better anytime soon: The Day the Movies Died.
- Apple’s longest serving employee isn’t Steve Jobs, it’s this guy.
- Pretty sure I’ve linked to this before, but it bears repeating: All of you who are considering buying that next fancy Apple product should invest in Apple instead.
- Want to have a clickable interface to play a ton of video game themes? Here you go.
- You knew it had to exist: A list of video links to various types of animal fights.
- Speaking of animals, the Smithsonian has an amazing collection of 201,000 camera trap images collected from research sites around the world.
- Analyzing the implications of DNS prefetching.
- The Legacy of the CD: Innovation That Ate Itself.
Amazing (and Scary) Japan Tsunami Video and Photos
These three videos have compiled a large amount of the amazing video footage into a few YouTube videos, In Focus has a pile of amazing photos spread among two articles, and The Big Picture does as well.
Update: Related, if you’re concerned about the damage to the nuclear plans and if they could cause more trouble, this Reddit AMA with a former nuclear emergency planner (and current nuclear engineer) will clear things up and put to rest some of the “Holy cow, the world’s going to be covered with radiation!!!!1111leleven!!11!” concerns.
And I just came across this video that was pretty intense and this video (direct download — right-click, save as if it doesn’t work in your browser) that was downright frightening (I think both of these clips are part of the above links, but not 100% sure).
Update on 3/14: These before/after satellite photos are absolutely amazing and terrifyingly frightening.
Selection Sunday Is Here!
The teams are getting selected today for the pick ’em and you’ll be able to fill out your brackets later today and potentially win some fun prizes. So get signed up, and when the brackets are ready to be filled out later today, you’ll be notified by e-mail.
You must sign up and have your brackets filled out before the first games later this week so even if you don’t know a dang thing about college basketball, it’s free, and it’s fun, so sign up today!
Update: The tournament field has been set, and it’s time to fill out your brackets. Get crackin’!
Time Killer For The Evening
iStunt 2 (never played iStunt 1, personally), is a fun little snowboarding game.
Sadly, There’s An App For That
Need to know when you’re going to have your next bowel movement? PooTime is here to help.
A Musical Interpretation of Pi
Guitarist interprets Pi to 31 decimal places. Because he can.
Developers: Need Your Users To Use Stronger Passwords?
Try using Naked Password, a jQuery plugin to encourage use of stronger passwords with 8-bit nudity.
Sick of Charlie Sheen?
Tinted Sheen is a Firefox/Chrome extension to block Charlie Sheen references if you happen to accidentally come across them. Install it after watching this video as it’s quite hilarious.
Related: Shaved Bieber.
Have You Signed Up For The Pick ’em Yet?
Why the heck not? Selection Sunday is coming up this weekend, so you’d best get signed up! It’s free, and you can win some schwag!
If you have a prize — small, large, cool, silly, whatever — that you’d like to donate to the prize pool, e-mail or comment below.