The premise behind Lint is simple: Run and jump as fast as you can through all the levels. But its simple graphics and tricky levels make it a bunch of fun.
Weekend Reading
- Need a WPA key cracked fast?
- Image enhancement in movies doesn’t work quite like real life.
- Speaking of Holywood magic, see how they’ve destroyed New York over the years.
- Very profound: “The web is large. It is so much bigger than a balloon.”
- Leave it to scientists to figure out the perfect way to slice a pizza.
- Dissecting menu layout tricks.
- Yet another reason why we’re not winning the war on terror.
- For those in the UK: A UK Snow Map, based on twitter posts.
- The Big Picture has been doing their year end special and a decade-end feature. Incredible photos all around.
- Christmas Light Hero.
- A single sperm has 375mb of DNA information in it. Let the jokes commence.
- Google’s Browser Size Tool is a very handy tool to see how different screen resolutions see your site.
Anybody Have An iPhone in Bend? You Getting 3G?
I’ve heard it through the grapevine that while AT&T isn’t supposed to be launching the iPhone in Central Oregon until early next year, they’ve already turned on some 3G coverage in Bend. Anybody in the area have an iPhone that can confirm (and where in town they’re getting it)?
Classic Central Oregon Cyclocross Footage
It was only briefly mentioned in the articles about Bend hosting the Cyclocross nationals last week, but Central Oregon has hosted the event before. Back in 1976, Sunriver (just south of Bend) hosted the Cyclocross nationals, and some classic video of the event has been posted online recently:
Back then, they basically took road bikes, changed the brakes to cantilever style, put on a beefier fork and some better tires and called it good. Now they make bikes dedicated to the sport.
I really wish I could have seen some of the event this last weekend, as I think it’s a great sport to watch (probably even more fun to ride in), but I had family events and work to do all weekend.
(Update: Couldn’t spell this morning — misspelled Cyclocross in the headline, and obviously spell check doesn’t pick it up.)
Time Killers For The Day
A few time killers, courtesy of Waxy:
- CutCopyPasteGnome, where your controls are the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands.
- Saut (download required) is a one-button platformer where your only control is your space bar.
- The Next Floor — just defend your floor from the creeps.
I Need Sleep…
…but you don’t:
- Why we should be eating horses instead of riding them.
- Great use of Google Maps: Zombie Outbreak Simulator.
- Help Save MySQL from Oracle.
- International Backup Awareness Day — which is why I’m working on adding even more redundancy to my office and server backups.
- How would you give directions with street names like this?
- The best twitter prank ever: the Twittering Honeymoon Bed.
- Ridiculous user interfaces and the men who create them.
- What if other celebreties were in Star Wars?
- Unnecessary Censorship: Sesame Street.
- Coolest Kid Ever playing the Ukulele.
- BendBroadband Launches “Nation’s Fastest Wireless Internet Service”. I’m considering using it for a failover connection at my office in Sunriver, where the local cable company has more outages than I’d care to deal with.
G’night!
Time Killer For The Evening
I’m linked to Splitter before (too lazy/tired to look it up), but Splitter 2 is probably more fun than the original.
Reading Material
- It’s the end of the world.
- Find the fastest DNS servers for your connection to see if OpenDNS, Google DNS, or UltraDNS or your ISPs DNS are the best for your location.
- Why I’d rather be punched in the testicles than call customer service.
- US Border Patrol gone wild (original story).
- If you could play one game for the rest of your life, what would it be?
- There’s going to be a waffle shortage.
- Learn To F–king Spell.
Time Killer For The Day
Continuity is a great little puzzle game that will suck away your evening if you’re not careful.