Friday Link Dump, July 7th, 2006
I’m thinking I may make this a regular feature, as it helps me get the links on the virtual page and off my tab bar. Links The 10 Commandments of Cell Phone Etiquette. Sounds like a good start to me.…
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Friday Link Dump
Okay, time to toss out all the nifty links that I stumbled over in the past week but never really made it to “full post” status. Enjoy. Vids Kinetic destruction visited upon an old Toyota, rubber band-style. Robin Williams guest-starred…
Look Ye Upon Humanity And Despair, For Lo! Their Future Is Dim
Either these folks are auditioning for a Blue Man Group spinoff, or there is something seriously wrong with the entire human race. The Scarf for Techno-Addict Dorks, for when you absolutely, positively have to keep your Pokemon-playing ways out of…
Happy Fathers’ Day!
Today was my first official Fathers’ Day and, aside from the heat, it’s been good thus far. I received Blazing Saddles (30th anniversary “Fathers’ Day Special” pack with an included “101 Top Barbecuing Tips” book) and a wireless grill thermometer…
Why I Love The Internet, Part 308,456
…It makes me laugh. An interesting discussion popped up over at Slashdot regarding the lack of female applicants to, and therefore, lack of females being sponsored by the GNOME project’s “Summer of Code” (sponsored by Google). The conversation revolved around…
A Startling Technological Observation Of Indeterminate Value
My spindle of 8x RiDATA DVD-Rs smells suspiciously like a freshly-opened bottle of Aunt Jemima’s Butter Rich Maple-Flavored Syrup. …The heck?
A Virtual Cornucopia Of Cool Software
Google has been on a “pro-Doug” tear recently as far as I can see, releasing first Picasa, then Google Earth for Linux, along with the cool-in-concept Google Browser Sync plugin for Firefox. The Google Sync extension only ranks cool in…
Valve’s Steam: The Future Of Indie/Role-Playing Games?
New Sisyphus made a nifty observation regarding Valve Software’s Steam, a software distribution client and network, namely: skipping the brick n’ mortar retail markets is the only way to go for low-volume game genres (such as independent and role playing…
Network Gremlins
I don’t know if it’s a universal I.T. thing or not, but at my place of employment we sysadmins have taken to blaming any freak accident/unexplainable computer phenomenon/Series of Unfortunate Events on “gremlins”. A person couldn’t log on five minutes…
Somebody REALLY Wants Me To Visit Some Dirty Sites…
I cleaned out my Akismet queue last night at around 10pm or so, meaning that I had zero (0) spam comments in my spam/moderation screen. I loaded up the WP admin interface this morning and was greeted with the following:…
