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Time Killer For The Evening
Man In Gap is a really simple game: Just get the man into the gap. But it’s addicting and really quite annoying as the game progresses. Which means it’s a load of fun.
Video Dump
A few videos to kill off some time (and to get them off my desktop)…
Reading Material (Lots of Android and Geek Stuff)
- I’m starting to get more into my Android phone, learning all the fun stuff the operating system can do. I’m getting all sorts of useful information from Reddit’s Android subreddit as well as the usual places like XDA and PPC. I’m finding far too many apps and time killers here (and here and here). I’ve rooted the phone so I could remove the Sprint stock apps (good list of what you can get rid of here and here), back things up, ad block and install custom roms down the road (among other mods). I’m also looking into Tasker and all the cool stuff it can do. I’m considering bucking up and paying Roam Control as that will help in Sunriver where the coverage from from Verizon is better in some spots. When I get an extra few bucks, I’m really considering getting something like this for my car and then installing the Torque app to monitor, clear, and read codes in my car. I really should get a dashboard mount for this phone and find a good music player and synching process and just leave my iPod at home. Then I could have a constant video recorder for my phone while I’m on the road using DailyRoads.
Seriously, though, I’m loving having an Android phone. Anybody else have any great tips or apps that I should look into?
And in case you’re wondering how or why I got such an expensive phone: No, I couldn’t even remotely afford this phone. I received it when Best Buy completely munged up the repair on my previous phone and I was using a loaner phone for nearly three months. They (thankfully) did the right thing and gave me a new phone, since it was pretty obvious that the repair company had no intention on sending my old phone back to me any time soon. Since my previous phone was top-of-the-line when I got it and had much better features than most of the phones there, the Epic was really the only one that matched up.
- Speaking of Android, Android vs. WP7 for developers, a case study.
- And now for something completely different, everybody’s flipping out a bit about this whole Arizona shooting and whether there were political influences (the dude was cracked, plain and simple). Just the same, Sarah Palin denies everything thrown at her, though I did think both of these twitter posts hit the nail on the head.
- If you shop on NewEgg.com (I do for a ton of computer parts), you might be interested in CamelEgg, which is a NewEgg price tracker to watch for price drops and alerts.
- Making computer science fun for all ages, it’s Computer Science, Unplugged!
- Read The F**king HIG is a great blog ranting about bad interfaces on Mac apps “from the Mac App Store, ‘designed’ by people who think they get interface design.”
- Speaking of interface design, everybody who has a site with a shopping-cart process needs to read this.
- While I still don’t see a ton of value in twitter (as the signal-to-noise ratio is about one-to-a-million), I love their response to the WikiLeaks subpeona and I only wish more companies watched out for their users like this.
- A few locals are starting up conference here in Bend called Ruby on Ales, a two-day, single track conference inspired by Ruby, microbrews, and shredding. They have a Facebook page as well. Since I know squat about Ruby, it won’t do me much good, but I’m sure there are folks out there with an interest in this.
Pre-BCS Time Killer
Shopping Cart Hero 2 will make you relive your childhood dreams of shooting down a hill in a shopping cart and getting airborne. This should occupy you until Game Time. I’ll have to go elsewhere to watch it, since I don’t have cable any more and this is the first time ever that the game is not on free TV (dang you ABC/ESPN).
Go Ducks!
Holy Cow, The Seahawks Won
I don’t follow pro football much, but I am certainly impressed that the Seattle Seahawks won tonight. Certainly, runs like this where Marshawn Lynch takes out most of the Saint’s defense didn’t hurt:
Reading Material
- NASA names 2012 most absurd sci-fi film ever.
- Homeless man with Golden radio voice now has all sorts of job offers.
- Best film scenes of 2010 (some of these movies I haven’t seen — will need to get them on my Netflix list).
- Want to have some fun? Search Google images for the first picture people take with their cameras. The search templates are here.
- The review is nearly as long as the movie, but this three-part review of Star Wars Episode III is entertaining.
- Cute photo of the day: This guy was
hungover“sick” after New Years. Kids are awesome. - How to Boot 10 different Live CDs from 1 USB Flash Drive.
- Windows OS Re-created in Little Big Planet 2 Beta (Blue Screen of Death included).
- The PS3 master key has been cracked so home brew will be much easier.
- Two girls undermind the entire US border strategy in 18 seconds.
- Further research into using chickens as steadycams.
- The end of an era: Images from the last roll of Kodachrome.
- What could have been entering the public domain this year? Lots of good works.
- Thousands of animals are dying all over, all in less than a week and nobody seems to know 100% for sure what’s going on. Tin-foil hat-types believe that HAARP is causing things to be screwed up. Or something.
- Real-life cheat Codes to make little things in live much easier (now has been turned into an iPhone app).
- If this guy ever decides to make a PC video game based on the art here (I really like this image), I’d totally buy it. The game itself might suck, but the imagery is great!
- The new edition of Huck Finn it lose “the N-word” and replace it with “slave” to which Roger Ebert replies “I’d rather be called a Nigger than a Slave.”
- Update, forgot one…: Hilarious Video: Portlandia: Dream of the 90s.
Ducks Get Some Late-Night Love
Sebastian Bach sings a power ballad for the Oregon Ducks last night on Jimmy Fallon (and actually pronounces everything right):
Seriously, this needs to become the Oregon fight song.
Time Killer For The Day
It’s cold-weather flightless birds on a rampage with Penguinz.
Finally
Report Linking Vaccine to Autism ‘Fraudulent,’ Says British Medical Journal. Update: Full article in the BMJ is here.
Please, people, get your kids vaccinated.