I was about eight years old, but I’ve had video game dreams before. But they were nothing like this one.
What Has Netflix Found For You?
One of the great things about Netflix (we’re subscribers, love it) is its ability to have it recommend shows and movies based on what you rated. We primarily watch a ton of TV shows from Netflix as we just find them more entertaining many times (and it’s easier to watch in shorter chunks of time). I was talking to Owen at Mug Revolution the other day about Netflix stuff, and made me wonder what Netflix is introducing to everybody else. So here are a few that Netflix said we’d like and we certainly have.
- Spooks: Holy crap this is a brilliantly written show that needs to hurry up and get its tenth season up and going. If you want great spy action, suspense, etc.., this is a great show for you. Just don’t get too attached to any character in the show, as nobody’s safe from getting killed/removed is some awful way. Netflix doesn’t have all the seasons — you’ll have to find other ways to get those.
- Hustle: We just started watching this one and have enjoyed it so far.
- Foyle’s War is one of the greatest detective dramas I’ve ever seen. Great show, and glad they put out a seventh series (just finished watching it last night).
- Chuck: Never watched this show on TV as it came on during a time where we were watching something else (usually House), but I’m really enjoying this show.
- Hamish Macbeth was an entertaining show, though the last season got a bit weird.
- Pushing Daises: That was obviously suggested to us because we five-starred Wonderfalls and we pretty much like most of what Bryan Fuller has done.
- The Lost Room could have easily been a much longer mini-series, but it was still quite interesting.
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head. So what gems did you not know about had it not been for Netflix?
Time Killer For The Day
Put in a couple twitter usernames, and have your avatars battle it out. Wasn’t even remotely what I expected and different skills are given depending on the colors of your avatar. The twitter avator for this blog’s feed does pretty well at random encounters, but I’d bet that not too many folks are going to be able to beat HackBend’s avatar as it creamed me and most of what I threw at it. The BendBlogs avatar just kind of sat there and did nothing, but held on pretty well in a defensive role.
Reading Material
- While I’m still probably going to get an Android phone when my contract is up, Windows Mobile still can be hacked to bits quite easily thanks to XDA_UC, which you can dump your settings and custom files and such that will install automagically after the ROM flash. the ROM I enjoy supports it quite easily and in a user-friendly way. Now that Task29 is supported on my phone, I’m less likely to have flashing trouble (though I rarely did — as I always just did the Flash Dance, just in case).
- Five Ridiculous Gun Myths Everybody Believes, Thanks To Hollywood.
- How can I get into this line of work? Chinese companies are looking to rent white guys as fake businessmen.
- Speaking of white things, one designer’s problem with white space.
- Here’s an interesting commentary about the outsourcing low-cost lie.
- How much surface area would it take to power the world with solar power? Not much, though it doesn’t obviously take into account the transport of said electricity, which doesn’t work well over the stupidly long distances they’re talking about.
- Want to permanently delete your account on popular websites? Some make it easier than others (and it’s just impossible on a few).
- Want to write a citizen’s traffic ticket? It’s legal in many states. Here’s a step-by-step (with pretty pictures) on how to do it in Oregon.
- Great little basic programming lessons that cam from a great SubReddit.
- A 14-year-old tries to help a three-year-old find her mom, and now faces felony abduction charges.
- You know your hex color codes? Do you?
- Need to bulk download Flickr photos? Here ya go: Use Bulkr.
- Hassle-free guide to ripping your Blu-Ray collection.
- Oldie, and I may have linked to it before, but here are some great free typographic XHMTL/CSS layouts.
- Huge list of jQuery calandar plugins (mostly booking marking that for my reference).
- Comic Sans, the font that everybody loves to hates, is the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes f—–g Gutenberg.
Sometimes It’s Cheaper to Sneaker-net It
Is it cheaper to upload all your data to Amazon’s cloud storage service over the Internet or FedEx them the hard drives and let them do it? Amazon will figure out the cheapest way to do it.
Biker Dudes Vs. The Metric System
Reality TV at its finest…
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Hilary Rosen worked for the RIAA from 1987 to 2003 and was instrumentally responsible for a bunch of lawsuits against music fans as well as pushing through the DMCA, one of the ugliest pieces of legislation to ever make it through Congress. Now she’s doing public relations work for BP. Needless to say, The Huff Post is officially cutting ties with her.
I don’t mean a thing…
The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half.
Listening to Metallica and Guns and Roses tunes with a swing feel is frickin’ awesome.
Time Killer For The Day
Think like a programmer, an you can make it through Lightbot 2.0.
Time Killer For the Day
Distraction is a delightful little game — a delightfully evil little game (I want to kill that rocket-toting sheep).