Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
Like previously announced, Bend Blogs is on Facebook. Now all you Twitts Twitter users out there can follow Bend Blogs on Twitter as well. I just setup the twitterfeed this morning, so it doesn’t have a lot of content on it yet, but it’ll get there soon.
And one of these days, Bend Blogs will be designed so I can easily announce this stuff over on that site as well (it really just needs a redesign, which I don’t have time for).
ConFuseBox reminds me of the old pipes-style games, but is a good little time killer for the morning. My best was 72 moves. How’d you do?
While things were pretty much wrapped up on Saturday in the pick ’em, final places could move up and down depending on whether Duke won tonight or not. They did in one helluva game, The top three stayed the same, and if BradG would’ve picked a couple games better earlier, he might have gotten a prize. Instead, a single point separated second, third, and fourth place (our winner picked Duke, so he won by 14 points).
Thanks again for playing everybody! I’ve already been in contact with the top two places, and will be e-mailing “Heather H” within the next couple days to get her contact information.
Also another big thanks to our prize providers:
What would the best movie of all time (I say with a tinge of sarcasm) look like if made into an 8-bit video game? It would be tremerz. Click to jump and escape.
Personally, I think the iPad is “meh” at best and if I was going to get a tablet, I’d get something else. That being said, there were folks lined up at Best Buy this weekend to get one (thanks Michael at StandAloneCode for the vid):
Best Buy apparently started with 10 units of each of the models: 16, 32, and 64 GB. Then UPS dropped off another 20 of each. So by the time they opened, they had 90 to work worth. Any idea if they sold out?
They still don’t support multi-tasking, but there’s a reason for it.
Robert played with the iPad for a bit and posted a quick review on it, based on one he saw over at Connecting Point.
And 24 hours after it was released, the iPad has already been Jailbroken.
In other local Apple news, this was also the same weekend that the iPhone was officially available. I was over at the Mountain View Mall Cascade Village Shopping Center the day it opened on a completely unrelated matter, and the new AT&T store was absolutely packed. Did anybody here pick up one? Personally I’m waiting for my contract with my phone to run out before I decide what I’m doing, but it probably won’t be an iPhone, because AT&T’s plans are ludicrously expensive compared to Sprint’s.
While a few places can still move around, the top three places in the pick ’em have been finalized (today’s spreadsheet is here):
Congrats to all our winners! I’ll be contacting everybody after Monday’s final game.
There are still a few places that could change around in the rest of the bracket, as a few people picked Duke to win the whole thing, while nobody picked Butler. Final scores will be posted after Monday’s final game.
Alt-Shift is … well … let’s quote the site: It’s the “latest entry into the Negative Space Exploring Puzzler Shift! Which is the floor and which is the roof? Gravity flips, space changes and Spikes hurt! Its got so much in it it might just explode! So get ready to have your mind warped by this brand new take on the Flash Classic!” Whatever all that means, I don’t know, but it’s still a fun game, that I’m assuming is a sequel to this and this.
…if Calvin would have just taken his Ritalin.
I have a feeling this is some sort of April Fools Joke, just like Topeka.
Central Oregon Cable Advertising announced it has purchased Bend CBS affiliate KBNZ from New Vision Television in a deal effective today.
COCA is owned by Bend Cable and is a sister company to BendBroadband, Central Oregon’s primary cable and high-speed internet provider. New Vision owns Portland CBS affiliate KOIN, which provides KBNZ with its program feed, as well as 11 other stations nationwide.
There is nothing to be found on New Vision’s site, or BBB’s site, nor on KBNZ‘s. I heard this on the radio this morning, and it looks like B&C picked it up. I heard it not on KBND, but on KICE, who doesn’t have nearly the news team KBND has. Nothing on KTVZ or The Bulletin, either (not that I would expect a TV station to cover other local TV station news).
In other words, take everything you read in the news today with a grain of salt. ’tis Internet Jackass Day after all. I seriously doubt this turns out to be true (and one of these days I’ll pull a great April Fools joke on this site, I just never have time to get it all implemented).
Update: It’s no joke. Full release after the jump (Thanks, Barney!).