You may or may not have seen this fairly impressive video:
But what’s far more interesting is how they did it.
Congrats To Central Oregon’s Best Blogs
The Source’s “Best Of Central Oregon” is out, and congratulations go out to Jon at Hack Bend for winning (again) and my ol’ buddy Josh at Central Oregon Athlete for taking the honorable mention prize.
Congrats to both of you, and as soon as I can find the mention online, I’ll link to it (I just checked this in this morning’s print edition). Their “Best Of” URL still goes to the 2009 edition.
Update: Looking through the “Best Of”, there was mention of the “Best Bend Stereotyping” and I honestly had not seen this:
The Building Is Possessed!
Can you imagine walking down the street and seeing something like this?
Too Bad They Missed
Justin Bieber has some pretty good reflexes and manages to avoid getting clobbered head-on by a water-bottle:
Time Killer For The Evening
Can you complete all the mindless achievements in Achievement Unlocked 2? If not, there’s help (which I needed before I could get to 100%)
Reading Material
- A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives.
- An interesting way to look at the world: Google Maps without the Maps.
- Need special paper (like line/graph paper) but don’t want to buy it? Print it up here or here.
- He was touting family values during the Clinton impeachment, but Newt Gingrinch likes to play around, too.
- More songs are covers than you might think.
- 40+ billionaires pledge to donate half of wealth via the Giving Pledge.
- Now this is stupid: Man who gives free rides home to drunks was arrested for operating a taxi service without a license (related: watching your neighbors’ kids before they go to school could get you fined for running an unauthorized day care).
- Want to generate a URL that will failover automatically to a mirror should the original site go down? I Can Has Mirror might be able to help.
- 10 free web UI kits and resources for designers.
- Everybody acts like photo tampering is a new thing, but it’s been around for over 100 years.
- A hilarious visual diary documenting a flight from New York to Berlin.
- Want to be notified when a web site is sending data to Google? Here’s a nice obnoxious alarm for you (please note: many sites out there, including this one, will trip the alarm, because they use either Google Adsense for ads or Google Analytics for web stats).
- CCleaner Enhancer makes the best system cleaner even better.
- If you’re the exercising/fitness type, here are a bunch of great mobile fitness apps for your phone.
- That’s gratitude for you: The man who made iPhone 4 has been ousted at Apple.
- It’s amazing what you can do with 1KB of Javascript or 10KB and some libraries.
- A stupid-simple way to
hackchange a Windows XP password.
Wave Goodbye To Google Wave
It was an interesting experiment, but Google’s killing Google Wave. Too bad folks went through the effort to write books on it, and obviously the author of said book is dissapointed.
Portland Man Does Quarter-Mile in 10.4 Seconds — In An Electric Car
What’s even better is it’s a hideously ugly (but pimped out) Datsun:
Story over on Wired, with more details straight from the guy who did it. To put it in perspective, that’s super-car territory.
Oregon Trail, The Movie
This really needs to be made into a full-length feature:
If you’re looking to play the classic game again. you can re-live your childhood here.