December 2007
38 posts
wisdom teeth day one: complete
I am huge and lacking four teeth
Wisdom teeth are comin out
Merry Christmas!
Fake Steve Jobs is FINE, False Rumor. →
First, and most obviously, the site is complete satire, and unlike this week’s Think Secret shutdown, there are no possible or probable trade secrets published that would get Apple lawyers up in arms. Sure, Real Steve Jobs may have grown tired of the FSJ act, but as far as we know, constitutionally there’s not a lot he or anyone else can do..
I just saw Mike Harris
Yay shopping
Off to go see Juno
Man Loses 400 Pounds Without Surgery But Help from... →
Four and half years ago, David Smith weighed more than 630 pounds. He had spent nearly a decade on the couch in his parents’ house eating pizza, raiding the fridge, and drinking soda. For much of his life he said he “felt like the elephant man.” Eventually he lose 400 pounds through 2 years of hard work with a friend. This is an inspirational read.
I just made my own twitter app with webclip. Bye bye twitterific ads.
Illustrator compositions =D
Just setup a render farm for Compressor, Shake and Maya on my home network. Thank you QMaster.
Some people say that they should’ve been born in the 60s. Not me, Shake wasn’t around in the 60s.
Internet Hoax - Student WAS NOT Suspended for... →
Recently, a file was uploaded to the Internet purporting to be a copy of a letter from Big Spring High School to a student regarding a two hour detention. The uploaded letter was an altered version of a detention letter sent to a student.
Using HTML Forms to pass data to PHP →
At some point, all web developers will need to collect data from their users. In a dynamic web page, everything revolves around the users input, so knowing how to ask for and collect this data is essential to any developer.This article is a basic tutorial on how to user HTML Forms, the most common method of data collection.
Yay webdesign…..again
3000 Barrels Fall Down In Crysis →
…What it would be like to stack 3000 red barrels on top of each other then knock em all down. Just for, you know. Shits and giggles.
What Happened to Demonoid, Will it Ever Return? →
Ever since Demonoid decided to pull the plug following pressure from the CRIA, thousands of members are wondering what happened. Perhaps even more importantly, they are asking themselves this: Is Demonoid ever going to come back?
UPS saved 3 Million Gallons of Gas-- By Not... →
Mapping out routes for its drivers, drastically reducing the number of left-hand turns they make helped the company shave 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas and has reduced CO2 emissions by 31,000 metric tons.
"Canadian DMCA" delayed, protestors cautiously... →
The introduction of controversial Canadian copyright reform legislation has been delayed, and protesters hope that a grassroots opposition campaign was responsible.
Canadian ISP tests injecting content into web... →
Canadian ISP Rogers has begun trialing a new “service” via which it adds content to web pages requested by subscribers via JavaScript. Net neutrality advocates believe that this could be a sign that more abusive content modification is coming.
The least used page on microsoft.com →
a guide no one has ever used.
Spotted in the subway: black market wii purchase
Charity Forced to Pay Copyright Fee So Kids Can... →
Christmas is known world-wide as a time for sharing, a time for giving. But for one charity, instead of Santa arriving with gifts, the copyright police turned up demanding money. Why? Because the charity allows children to sing carols on the premises and their kitchen radio is a little loud. You couldn’t make it up.
Huge 'Ocean' Discovered Inside Earth →
Scientists scanning the deep interior of Earth have found evidence of a vast water reservoir beneath eastern Asia that is at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean.
The Pirate Bay Now Running on Opentracker →
The world’s largest BitTorrent tracker is no longer running on Hypercube, the tracker originally developed by Anakata, one of the Pirate Bay founders. The Pirate Bay switched to Opentracker which uses less resources and supports UDP tracking.
ATTENTION: Quicksilver Needs Your Help →
Please digg this up to help Quicksilver gain the developer support it needs to stay alive! Alcor has doomed it to a “long slow death,” help see that this doesn’t happen!
playing my stingray
Riding Rails: Rails 2.0: It's done! →
Rails 2.0 is finally finished after about a year in the making. This is a fantastic release that’s absolutely stuffed with great new features, loads of fixes, and an incredible amount of polish. We’ve even taken a fair bit of cruft out to make the whole package more coherent and lean.
All 235 low-cost webcams supported ... thanks to... →
A LONE HOBBYIST programmer sitting at his home in France is responsible for adding 235 USB webcams to the list of those supported by Linux.
Got a new phone
If anyone know’s Eric Schmidt’s email, could you send that along, I’m trying to get him to save the Canadian wireless industry
DIGG: Images and New Categories Launch Tonight →
“Believe it or not, the dedicated images section you’ve been waiting for finally goes live later tonight. Lots of changes in this release…”
Activision and Blizzard? Oh dear God.
shoveling snow…boo
Activision and Vivendi merge in $18 billion deal →
Activision, the publishing powerhouse behind the Call of Duty and Tony Hawk series; and Vivendi Games, owner of Blizzard Entertainment, are coming together to form “the world’s most profitable games business,” cleverly named Activision Blizzard.
25 Mouse You've Never Seen Before [PICS} →
See title.