- What’s it like being on twitter’s suggested user list?
- Comparison of TeX editors (as I’d really like to geek out someday and do my resume in LaTeX).
- You have to love how photo editors will Photoshop the female figure: Body by Victoria and its follow-up provide an indepth look on how you can detect altered images. Demi Moore, on the other hand, is completely denying that she Photoshopped, even though it’s quite obvious. You have to love Photoshop Disasters.
- If the Axis would’ve invaded American during WWII, how would they have done it? LIFE had a few ideas that probably scared a lot of people back in the day (it’s frightening me just looking at them).
- Everybody Panic: The encryption algorithm that encrypes most of the world’s GSM phone calls has been cracked.
- Crowdsourcing for the Conservatives, in response to the party’s request (in the UK).
- 20 years later, these guys still look the same.
- Hidden phpMyAdmin features.
- Using Nginx as a load balancer.
- How to research real estate in Bend, Oregon (great tutorial on using local online government resources).
- Top 5 Bend Blog Predeictions for 2010 — expect more “Thyme Killers” from me so I don’t put a hole in the space time continuum.
- There’s a reason trains have plows on the front.
- 10 Words You Need To Stop Misspelling (that comic should be put on a poster in every high school english class).
- Learn all about the real story behind fraud prevention at the credit card companies.
Link Cleanup
Dick Clark Sounded Awful
Poor Dick Clark. While I know he’s a New Year’s icon, he really needs to retire. He’s 80 years old, not in the greatest of health, and you couldn’t understand a word he said. I have all the respect for Dick Clark and all he’s accomplished in his life, but he needs to take a break. While Ryan Seacrest — his future replacement — is a no-talent hack, it just made me sad to see (and hear) Dick countdown. He even miscounted the countdown.
According to his Wikipedia article, apparently he sounded better this year than he did last couple years (I don’t think I made it to midnight in years past). If he sounds this bad this year, I can only imagine what he sounded like in years past.
Just the same, Happy New Year everybody. I’ll be going to bed once the morons in my neighborhood quit shooting off fireworks.
Time Killers For The Evening
In an attempt to waste some worker productivity tomorrow…
- Tuper Tario Tros is Mario Bros. meets Tetris (the controls are a bit wonky — hit X or S to jump — but the concept is interesting).
- physBallz is a simple concept — contect the like colored balls — but gets really stupidhard on some levels.
- Yet another physics game: Magnetic Moment.
- Kill the Wabbits a fun little game of rabbit violence.
Post-Holiday Link Dump
- China wrecked the Copenhagen summit.
- Autobrake automates Handbrake ripping.
- 15 Biggest Internet Controversies of the Past Decade.
- You can now see Portland in 3D on Google Earth.
- Firefox 4 Windows Theme/UI update.
- Holy, Holy, Holy Batman.
- More end-of-the-year/decade lists: The 87 lamest moments in tech this decade and picturing the last 10 years.
- Google code projects you probably don’t know about, with my favorites being SpriteMe, a CSS sprite creator and Reducisaurus, a CSS and JS shrinker.
- Searching for dictionary words with Regex (examples).
- What martial arts can teach you about programming.
- I’m not big on screensavers, but this thing is pretty cool.
Obligatory Post-Holiday Wrap-up
I really hope everybody had a safe and happy holiday all around. We had a great time with friends and family for the last few days. We are fortunate to have a lot of relatives close by so we didn’t have to leave the area and try to drive too far, and it was great seeing all of them.
I’m obviously not a rich man (far from it, according to my bank account balance), and while we couldn’t afford to gifts for everybody (we have large families between my wife and I — mostly my wife), we did our best to spoil our girls and make sure close family got something from us. We did manage to spend time and enjoy the holiday with a lot of friends and family and I know everybody was happy and couldn’t really care any less what we got them (nor did we care if we received anything from anybody). I’m just grateful and very thankful to have such great friends and family, and it was wonderful seeing all of them.
That being said, we still got spoiled rotten by people who we would’ve just been happy spending time with — the gifts were just a bonus. Since Nathan asked about the loot, so here is the rundown of it from and for all the folks in the family.
Why Are You Here?
Seriously, why are you reading this? Shouldn’t you be with your family or something?
Wait a minute — why am I not spending time with my family?
Have a Merry Christmas everybody. Hopefully it’ll be good to yours and your family. I’ll be back online in a couple days.
Happy Festivus!
Happy Festivus everybody! It’s time for the Airing of Grievances. Got a gripe about anything? Comment below.
HP Computers Are Racist
This reminds me of a Better Off Ted episode…