This site might help (naughty language warning). Along a similar theme, if you’re looking to figure out a social media strategy for your business, this site is bound to inspire (see previous warning).
Windows Phone Users Are Apparently Trying To Quit Smoking
Apparently I need to quit smoking. I happened to be browsing through Facebook, and because I’m a fan of Windows Phone (though my next phone will probably be an Android device), it suggested I become a fan of Nicorette:
Does that say something about Windows Phone users?
Reading Material
- Jailbreaking your phone is now legal, thanks to the EFF.
- This pretty much describes every university website I’ve ever seen.
- The three laws of robotics have made it into Last.fm’s robots.txt file.
- I’ve never understood most rap or hip hop music, but this Wikipedia article translates one song quite nicely.
- mediaelement.js is a great HTML5 video and audio player with fail-over support for Flash and Silverlight.
- Google recently became a much better dictionary search.
- While I wouldn’t consider them life-saving, here are 10 handy PHP snippets.
- Drawing vs. Photography marvelously combines sketches and photographs. You can find more on the illustrator’s site.
- Your Code Sucks — just like everybody’s.
- Intuit is pushing hard to keep the IRS from making taxes easy to file.
- Credit Karma promises a free credit score. I’ve seen a few good reviews on it, but haven’t used it personally.
- Wikileaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum was detained when coming into the country.
- A bunch of useful JavaScript and jQuery plugins and techniques.
- Do-it-yourself home security system could save you a few bucks if you’re wanting to lock down your house. NextAlarm appears to have some other similar (and fairly inexpensive) options as well.
- F.B.I. challenges Wikipedia on use of F.B.I. seal. Wikipedia responds with a primer on law.
- Google now allows multiple account sign-in for some of their services.
- Contrary to popular belief, the customer is not always right.
Who’s Joss Whedon’s Favorite Actor?
That was the question posed by a big fan of his:
Weird Al Is Awesome
I’ve always thought Weird Al’s songs were hilarious, and that he was quite the talent, but seeing him perform live at the Deschutes County Fair tonight just made me appreciate him that much more. I had a smile on my face the entire time, and haven’t laughed that hard in a very long time. Thanks for coming to Central Oregon again, Mr. Yankovic.
Anybody else make the show?
There Are 35 Movies Here…
…do you recognize them all?
Read the comments here to see if you did. I’m not a film buff, so I missed quite a few, but I did get a bunch.
This Is Going To Be Entertaining
To quote dmoney83: “What happens when the biggest troll on television meets the biggest trolls on the internet?” That’s exactly what happened as 4Chan found a pretty huge hole in Glenn Beck’s site. While the hole’s been fixed, there was a lot of stuff that got exposed (.passwd files, .htaccess files, httpd.conf files, wp-config files, and all sorts of fun stuff), it was a very entertaining read.
Time Killer(s) For The Evening
Isoball 2 starts with a simple premise: Build a way to get the ball to the hole. But it gets complicated pretty quick.
If that game’s too easy, this will do nothing but piss you off.
If you want to play with some random people, Transformice is pretty fun.
Speaking of games, Flash gaming site Kongregate got bought by Gamestop.
Reading Material
Finally got a new LCD hinge for my laptop and got it installed (way more complicated than it should have been). I’ve been using the thing very gingerly lately so I didn’t put too much pressure on the other one and break it, too, which means not using it much after-hours (which means not using it much at home and blogging). Here’s making up for it…
- Central Oregon Cable Advertising changes name to Zolo Media. Personally, “Zolo” sounds like some sort of prescription medication with a whole host of side affects (either that, or Zorro’s drunken side-kick), but considering that COCA owns KBNZ, it makes sense to change the name.
- A glass of water a day can help keep your fuel consumption at bay.
- When grotesque war stories like this come out, it always makes me wonder how many more stories there are like this that we don’t know about.
- A humorous solution to your iPhone4 antenna issues.
- Quicksand is a pretty slick jQuery plugin to reorder and shuffle data around. Useful for staff pages, too (via).
- UO is waving the white-flag in Central Oregon, conceding to OSU, but there was a time when one of the schools could have been phased out of existence entirely.
- Meet the man that invented the vuvuzela.
- Sprint’s $10 “Premium Data Plan” that’s a requirement of the Evo is for “Shrimp and Crab.”
- Most of the health advice given on Oprah’s show is crap, which probably explains why Oprah is getting Jenny McCarthy a talk show — the woman who gained fame for being repeatedly, publicly wrong about an imaginary link between vaccines and autism, pretending that she’s cured her son’s autism with “mommy instincts”, and perhaps most laughably, that her son has superpowers. More links and more commentary here. Seriously, Jenny, go back to posing for Playboy, as you are utterly worthless otherwise.
- For the unemployed (or looking): 11 Websites to Make Your Job Interview Successful.
- I really need to get an Android phone: Android Development 101.
- Five Apps for Google Voice Greatness (I really need to take better advantage of my account — will do so when number portability becomes an option).
- I think I’ve linked to this before, but it’s been a while: Rainmeter is a beautiful, customizable resource meter.
- How a 15-year-old tricked Apple with a disguised iPhone tethering app.
- Speaking of teenagers doing cool stuff, this 17-year-old traded-up an old cell phone 14 times to end up with a Porsche (story from local paper).
- You have to love crime dramas when they cross over into technology. This CSI blip is hilarious enough that somebody made it happen.
- The Pirate Party is launching their own ISP.
- Somebody’s flippin’ out about the system requirements for a really old game.
- No, you can’t lock the gadget to the top of the sidebar.
- OpenStack launches open source cloud computing software.
- We have really high forests in the Pacific Northwest.
- Set up a fully automated, torrent-seeding media center.
- BP’s photos of their crisis command center were faked.
- Making a Facebook game about Facebook games.
- Kirby must be angry to come to America.
- Want to kills some time on YouTube, other than watching videos? Play some Snake.
Three Years Later, and it’s News? Nope.
The Onion made a video a few years back that’s resurfaced again, and people are getting hilariously worked up.