We’ll let George Takei explain…
Side note: Carrie Fischer hasn’t aged nearly as well as The Shat has.
Time Killer For The Evening
In Coleo, you’re a gravity-defying bug that’s pretty adept at climbing walls and make big jumps. Use that power to get through each level.
Reading Material
- Please donate to the Internet Archive.
- What really happened aboard Air France 447.
- Who says computers can’t be beautiful? This one blew me away.
- Xeni Jardin has breast cancer.
- Here is a great review of Twilight: Breaking Dawn.
- Animated GIFs of cats, set to music. What could be better?
- Are you a torrent user? What have you downloaded?
- I was helping a friend redirect her old blog to her old blog to her new one, and these articles were immensely helpful in making sure I got the redirects setup properly.
- Creepy genetic portraits.
- Mythbusters stunt gone wrong damages home. What I want to know: Was the myth confirmed or busted?
- A very expensive car crash involving eight Ferraris and a Lamborghini.
- Nintendo’s Miyamoto Stepping Down, Working on Smaller Games. This man’s impact on gaming is legendary.
- It’s the little things that instructions easier to follow. Like on the Dropbox download page.
- ‘Investigative blogger’ doesn’t get journalist’s protection, Portland judge rules.
- BootMed’s main goal is to help the average Windows user to recover a computer that will not boot. It’s a live CD that most provides easy-to-use fixes.
- Gow is a lightweight alternative to Cygwin.
- I had been using PHDL for better looking (and more useful) directory listings, but h5ai is a really nicely done Apache index that beats the pants off PHPDL. See the demo here. Now I just need to go through and make this the default on my server…
- What’s on your learning list?
- This is a good look as to how SOPA would be abused: ICE releases popular hip-hop blog’s domain after year of deception.
- F**k Passwords (great rant, but obviously a naughty language warning here).
- Videos to come over the next day or two. I have a bunch of those to share.
You’d Never See This In America
Only in India…
Reading Material
- Kon-Boot is another handy way to bypass a Windows password prompt.
- Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda (Slashdot founder) interviewed by Matt Haughey.
- The US Government’s $200,000 Useless Android Application.
- The Federal Social Media Index is a great way to see how federal agencies are engaging with their audiences through twitter (Andy’s introduction).
- Need an image? Just type any_keyword.jpg.to in your browser. Like apple.jpg.to (Hacker News comments).
- The footage the NFL won’t show you — the All-22 shot.
- This Indiana Jones looks so much better than that Crystall Skull crap that was actually released.
- Something for my reference: Deplying Windows XP Pro with all Post-SP3 updates and drivers (I didn’t know DriverPacks existed).
- fPrivacy Chrome Extension allows you to opt-out of those annoying Facebook application privileges (RequestPolicy will give you similar protection on Firefox).
- Dwolla looks like an interesting service for microtransactions, now that everything under $10 is free.
- Image ad blending works really, really well.
- It’s amazing what folks will do with Photoshop. Check out these before and after pictures.
- Great list of Linux commands that I wish I knew about (there are some real gems in there).
- It’s lonely in the modern world…
- Look, you moron, my name is… (naughty language warning).
- Fine examples of idiots who can’t park a car.
- Twilight, reimagined as a tragedy.
- Religious user freaking out about the FreeBSD logo.
- PATRIOT Act Gives Foreigners Good Reason to Avoid US Clouds.
Congrats MVHS Football!
Congrats to the Mountain View High School Cougars on bringing home the first football state title to Bend in 71 years (more in-depth story on OregonLive). We were getting scoring updates during our dress rehearsal for our concert tomorrow. As someone who was captain of a state championship team at Mountain View (1995 Cross Country), let me be the first to say you will never forget this day. I will never forget holding that Oregon championship blue trophy in my hands, presenting it to the school and the student body at an assembly, and I know you will not, either. No matter where all your lives go after this, there will always be this day, and you will always share this moment. Congratulations to all of you!
Arnold Schwarzenegger at his Finest
If you remove all the DVD commentary from Total Recall but Arnold Schwarzenegger’s, what’s left is absolutely brilliant story telling.
Why The Sudden Fascination and Uproar With Smart Phone Rootkits?
In case you hadn’t heard the news (if you follow tech news at all, it’d be hard to miss), pretty much all the major providers use Carrier IQ software on their smart phones (it’s even a part of iOS on the iPhones, just slightly less sinister and easier to turn off). What is Carrier IQ? It has the potential to track and monitor everything to do on your phone and send it to a third party. Class-action lawsuits are being threatened, and it’s starting to really creep everybody out. There’s an Android Market App to see if you have it on your phone and ways to disable it.
What I find hilarious about all this? Carrier IQ was discovered and disabled by Android hackers at least nine months ago. I know the ACS Syndicate folks released a Samsung Epic 4G ROM back in March with it removed and opened up their tools so others could use them. So obviously this is old news — why the sudden uproar about it now? I’ve been rocking Carrier IQ-free (with SyndicateROM Frozen 1.2) for nearly a year now, and if you’ve been running CyanogenMod, so have you.
Moral of the story here? Root your phone. It’s easy, and your phone will run happier because of it.
I Was Just Cutting Onions, I Swear…
This is the saddest/happiest video I’ve seen in a long time. As a dad to two daughters, I’m wouldn’t be able to hold it together:
Upcoming Free Entertainment: Cascade Winds In Concert
I plug this event all the time (since I’m in it), and I haven’t the foggiest idea if it helps or not, but here you go anyway.
The Cascade Winds Symphonic Band presents their first concert of the 2011-2012 season Sunday, December 4, 2:00 p.m., at the Summit High School auditorium, 2855 NW Clearwater Drive, Northwest Crossing, Bend. This concert is free and appropriate for all ages.
The concert will feature sacred selections. Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desire, Brahms’ Blessed Are They and Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia will be included as well as works by American composers Alfred Reed, Elliot del Borgo, Frank Ticheli and David R. Holsinger. Full program notes can be found here.
Come support our local arts community while treating yourself to an afternoon of superior music. For more information on the Cascade Winds Symphonic Band visit www.cascadewinds.org or call 541-593-1635.
You can also see the event on Facebook and harass invite your friends.
Hope to see you there!