It's A Veritable Periodic Table Of Geekery
Presenting: Every Mythbusters Myth on one page, helpfully color- and letter-coded for your perusal.
Note the vast number of "busteds" and the relatively small number of "confirmeds". That ratio seems about right from my viewing of the show.
Crypto Journalism
The recent spate of fake/unverifiable journalism (see: "Captain Jamil Hussein", the Reuters fauxtography scandal, and the "fake-but-accurate" Bush TANG memos, among others) have gotten me thinking of how we, the average news consumers, can possibly trust the purveyors of information.
As Richard Landes put it in an address to the Herzliya security conference in [...]
I Bow Before The Prowess Of My Fellow Geeks
What to do when you know that the Google Maps/Earth satellite is going to make an overflight of your area at a specific time? Why, create renditions of Space Invaders and what looks like a Cylon Raider big enough for the sat. to pick up.
That there takes talent, skill, ingenuity and a wanton disregard [...]
A Quick Tip For WordPress Theme Authors
nobrainer nailed me a couple of days ago for not having auto-discoverable feeds on my site. The process for adding them to your WordPress is a rather simple one.
Add the following code to your document's <head> section (usually header.php in WP themes):
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" [...]
It's Like "The Eliminator" In Americ… Uhh, Japanese Gladiators
Take a little Takeshi's Castle/MXC, mix in some American Gladiators and spice it with some moves The Ninja himself would be envious and you have Makoto Nagano, Ninja Warrior extraordinaire:
Found via Blackfive.
