…you stop leveling — like Sean Connery, who maxed out his stats 20 years ago, and still looks ready to kick your butt:
Two-Time UtterlyBoring.com Pick ’em Loser At The Pool
So in the 2008 NCAA pick ’em, The Dren lost and proudly displayed his loser shirt at Wrigley Field. He again lost this year’s pick ’em, but forgot to bring the shirt to a baseball game with him, so he’s wearing the two-time loser shirt at a pool in Palm Desert, CA:
Again, I’m sure his wife loves it.
If you’re wondering what the shirt says (the original is here):
If he loses for a third time, I might have to open up the design to the masses here.
Geekdom Link Dump
Been saving these around for bookmarking reasons, just haven’t gotten around to posting them. Don’t have time to post all of them, but here are a few…
- 156 Useful Run Commands for Windows — Handy if your mouse is dead or explorer.exe won’t run but you can get into task manager.
- Coding an HTML 5 Layout From Scratch. If you need to hack IE to use HTML 5 elements, use this Javascript).
- Speaking of Web design, the 10 most common mistakes Web designers make.
- Back in the Windows arena, BlueScreenView is a very useful dump file decoder (all of Nirsoft’s utilities are great, especially if you’ve lost passwords).
- Compressing your Web pages with mod_deflate (a technique I’ve used in many places).
- Accelerate your hard drive by short stroking.
- Using .htaccess for pretty URLs.
- RethinkDB, the MySQL storage engine for solid state drives (SSDs).
- Clever PNG optimization techniques.
- Advanced jQuery techniques.
- Licensed memory in Windows Vista (aka: the Windows 32 bit memory limit and why Microsoft hates you).
More tomorrow.
Storm Troopers 365
You’ve probably all seen the folks that post a single self-portrait a day on Flickr, but I bet you haven’t seen a Stormtrooper so candidly.
X Could Learn A Lot From Vista, Windows 7
If you don’t know what “X” is, read up here. Simply, X is basically the pile of code that provides a graphical user interface for many Linux and some BSD-based desktop systems. And this guy is absolutely right: The X Windows system could learn some stuff from the big, bad, empire. I’m not a hardcore Linux desktop guy (I use it for servers quite a bit), but my experience with it matches his quite well — it doesn’t take much to break it and bring your system down with it.
40% Of Tweets Are Pointless Babble
I would’ve thought the number would’ve been higher, but at least there’s research to back it.
When Pear Analytics started its short-term study, it assumed that most of the tweets would be either spam or self-promotion. This belief, it said, was driven by the growing number of firms starting to use Twitter as a tool to drum up sales.
Instead, it found that 40.5% could be classified as pointless babble, 37.5% as conversational and 8.7% as having pass-along value. Self promotion and spam stood at 5.85% and 3.75% respectively.
I’d Still Take The Latter Over The Former
According to a Westin Hotel and Resort study, most people would take a great night’s sleep over a great night of gettin’ busy.
Time Killer For The Evening
It’s a simple game, but William and Sly is a fun platformer.
They Really Wanted The Text At Certain Size
While this page looks all fine and dandy in your browser, if you look the page’s source code, there are hundreds of <FONT style=”FONT-SIZE: 8pt”> tags, mostly wrapped around single lines of text. They really wanted that size of type.
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