Never let science get in your way, Mr. O’Reilly.
What if “Up” was made in the 60s?
It might look something like this:
Super Mario Mediocrity
Ignore the title of this video — it takes skill to be able to finish this game with this low of a score.
The game doesn’t look like the original as the guy is playing with a graphical hack. But it still takes some serious skill to play through the game and score less than 1000 points.
Looking For Prize Donations For Our Annual NCAA Pick ’em
I’m trying to get things organized a bit for this year’s annual UtterlyBoring.com March Madness NCAA Pick ’em (our sixth year doing this — see some previous years here, here, here, and here) and am working on collecting prizes for the winners. Does anybody have anything would like to contribute or know anybody (or a business) who would like to donate a prize?
As usual, all prize submitters will get text link on the tourny page (which will be linked from the front page of this site for several weeks as well as bendblogs.com for a couple weeks), and I’ll rotate 125*125 pixel ad banners for your company or blog or whatever during the duration of the tournament.
Anything can be submitted for a prize, as I’m pretty casual, as are the folks who participate in the tournament. If you have anything fun, weird, stupid, interesting or cool you want to throw into the prize pot, by all means let me know (comment here with your email address so I can contact you or e-mail me at utterlyboring {at} gmail {dot} com).
Reading Material
- I’m looking more into virtualizing a bit more to consolidate some old but still (unfortunately) necessary servers here at the office (still need the hardware to do it, but that’s another issue). They’re older Windows 2000 servers that won’t run well on Windows 2003 (I’ve tried). I’m leaning towards a Xen platform, possibly running on top of CentOS with Virtual Machine Manager installed. I’m more familiar with RedHat/RPM-based distros, but I’m just at the preliminary research stages so all that may change. Many of the solutions out there require XP/2003 or higher (like the stupid-simple Disk2vhd), but I’m going to have to look into some manual methods to get things moved as I really don’t want to rebuild the OS inside Xen. Thoughts/input is always welcome, since I know there are guys here that know far more about this type of thing than I.
- You thought BendBroadband’s 100GB data cap was bad? Try living in Canada and getting only 25GB. Because of the much lower cap, folks are much more inclined to block ads. Here are some ideas on how to block the ads on DD-WRT routers (another option — I’m sure something similar is possible on Tomato or TomatoUSB firmware as well). You can do it on a per-computer basis by using the MVP Hosts file.
- Is it me, or have people spent far too much time adding content to this Wikipedia entry? I wish that much effort was put into other articles on that site.
- Egypt is having a real democratic revolution, while the one in Iraq was fake.
- Is Netflix trying to embarrass certain ISPs? My streaming works great on my WDTV Live Plus so BBB must not be on that list. Wish Hulu would get onto my WDTV box and I’d rarely have to ever turn on my HTPC.
- Best okcupid profile ever.
- Some jobs I could do no problem. This isn’t one of them.
- Google is accusing Bing of copying their search results.
- The hilarious Axe Cop comic (written by a five-year-old, illustrated by his 29-year-old brother) really needs to be turned into a movie.
- Some stuff people are printing in my room over the internet. While live printing has been shutdown, there is some interesting stuff in the gallery.
- Another good list of Android apps and games.
Video Game Physics Are Far Better Than Real-Life Physics
It’s not too often you watch a soccer match where this happens:
Losing Track of Google’s APIs and Developer Products?
This might help. And holy cow, I didn’t know they had that many APIs and dev resources. I’d completely forgotten they had bought some of those companies.
Looking For Egyptian Riot Coverage?
While the coverage from American media online isn’t too bad (they were a little late on the ball, really), you’re better off going to Aljazeera’s English site or BBC’s site as they seem to have things better covered.
While the country’s internet has been shutdown, people are finding ways around and still getting out twitter posts. Anonymous (and many ISPs, too) is at it, too, using the good ol’ fax machine to get relevant information into the country.
There’s a good write-up on the first three days of the mess over on reddit.
This video is great and gave a very appropriate quote: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.” (John F. Kennedy)
Fastest Video Game Speed Run Ever
It has to be seen to be believed.
Cellos Are Awesome
If I could play any stringed instrument, it would be the cello. It’s just a very fun, versatile instrument. As somebody who enjoys modern pop music played on traditionally classical instruments, I really enjoyed this: