Everybody clear you calendars next week: On Wednesday, October 20th, it’s time to celebrate World Statistics Day.
Hat tip to Barney for the news.
Incredible Mine Rescue Pictures
As always, The Big Picture tells a great story of the dramatic Chilean mine rescue.
Everybody Has A Fetish
What’s yours (safe for work, don’t worry)? It tells me I’m into foot slurping.
Reading Material
- Ben Heck creates another masterpiece: A Xbox 360 Slim Portable.
- CC&Rs are really obnoxious. This is a great way to fight back.
- In case you hadn’t seen it (watch here or here), the Banksy-created Simpsons opening http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/the-simpsons-explains-its-button-pushing-banksy-opening/.
- TechSpaceBend is running an UnConference this week and it looks like a load of fun.
- Why I love Reddit: A little girl who has a terminal disease is picked on by jackass neighbors. 4Chan makes the neighbor’s life a living hell (which I support, as the folks were jerks), but Reddit responds by spoiling the little girl rotten for which the girl was grateful.
- Apple trademarks “There’s an App For That.” I guess to avoid getting sued, I should put ™ when printing that here. Or not.
- Entitifier will quickly convert and escape any nasty characters that should be entities.
- If you need to create a quick-and-dirty 16×16 icon, here’s a simple site to help you do it.
- Subway.com had some hideous code that amazingly rendered (see the ugly HTML source here). Subway fixed the problem, thanked Reddit. It’s still ugly code, but not nearly as much as before.
- Finally, a use for all those unneeded phone books: walls for a shed.
- Thanks to the Army and a bunch of scientists, we may have found out why honeybees are dying.
- gmapcatcher is a great little tool for offline map reading.
- Do-it-Yourself Doodler produces some interesting results.
- Using Photoshop channels to remove backgrounds from images.
- Put this on the list of things I didn’t know Photoshop could do: Multi-object editing with Smart Objects.
- A breakdown of all the various fees that airlines charge.
- A site dedicated to Web Apps and how to use them: NothingToInstall.
- How many computing cores is too many?
- VideoEgg acquires Six Apart and creates SAY Media. Six Apart created MovableType, the software running this site. Despite this news, the product is not dead and here’s a great several part write-up as to why you should use Movable Type.
- Modern gamers are pansies compared to classic hardcore gamers.
- If a file exists, there’s a torrent of it. If not, Burnbit will create it.
- Everything you wanted to know about computer keyboards but were afraid to ask.
- I was playing with Fedora on a laptop the other day, and this installation guide came in handy.
- I wasn’t aware such an event existed, but a local windshield repair guy won the Windshield Repair Olympics.
- Use dropbox to trigger torrent downloads.
- AES Encryption explained with simple animations.
- Before Michael J. Fox was in Back to the Future, Eric Stoltz was Marty McFly.
- Line Rider done entirely in HTML5.
Time Killer For The Day
Undead Highway is your typical Zombie apocalypse type of game, but since I’ve never really had one of those here, I figured it was time. Who doesn’t like blowing up zombies?
Fail
Some of these really had to hurt:
Time Killer For The Evening
Word Bubbles is a fast-paced word game where you get the first three letters and you have to think of as mnay words as possible that begin with that group of three letters.
As it stands right now, I’m really bad at it. I managed 1200 after a few attempts, but that’s been my best after a few times.
New Wall Art
If anybody is looking for Christmas ideas for me, buy this xkcd Online Communities 2 comic in poster form and send it to me.
Best Dad Ever?
I wish I was as cool as this guy:
This dad and his son sent a camera into the upper atmosphere attached to a weather balloon, then collected it and made this video from the footage.
Dinner On A Budget?
Screw that: I’m all about blowing as much frickin’ money as possible.