Speedlinking, July 7th, 2008
Speedlinking is yet another tool of the lazy blogger. Basically I smash together a bunch of interesting links that I collect every so often, and write a sentence or two about them.
This week’s Speedlinking is being brought to you courtesy of the useful Instapaper website, which I’ve been using to temporarily bookmark the below links.
- Hitchens, whom I sometimes find abhorrent, but always find intelligent and interesting writes what I think is the definitive article on waterboarding.
- Offshoring: relax! It’s good!
- I gave up on Seth’s Godin blog (I just didn’t find it generally interesting), but he relates a great story about a t-shirt order.
- *cough* Aggreget *cough*
- Raising taxes in a down economy? Not so smart.
- Great article about global warming, which really looks at the big picture.
Speedlinking, June 22nd, 2008
Speedlinking is yet another tool of the lazy blogger. Basically I smash together a bunch of interesting links that I collect every so often, and write a sentence or two about them.
This week’s Speedlinking is being brought to you courtesy of the useful Instapaper website, which I’ve been using to temporarily bookmark the below links.
- TV and movie bloopers compilations.
- Do you use a data dictionary in your database? No, I don’t mean information_schema.
- How bin Laden got away – not a politicized story, but a day-by-day account of what happened.
- An animated comparision of various sorting algorithms on four different types of data sets. Fun!
- I’ve heard that conservatives come from whiny, insecure kids, and that republicans are happier than democrats. We also know the difference between consevatives and liberals when it comes to entertainment. And now I see that conservatives are more honest than liberals, at least that’s what the writer of the longest book title ever says.
Speedlinking, May 23rd, 2008
Speedlinking is yet another tool of the lazy blogger. Basically I smash together a bunch of interesting links that I collect every so often, and write a sentence or two about them.
This week’s Speedlinking is being brought to you courtesy of the useful Instapaper website, which I’ve been using to temporarily bookmark the below links.
- Remember that Javascript FPS? Try JavaScript Super Mario Kart.
- Everything you love, you owe to capitalism.
- Flatwire allows you to hide your wiring without drilling or wall-fishes or anything like that.
- I want one of these.
- Finally, kill yourself.
Speedlinking, April 24th, 2008
Speedlinking is yet another tool of the lazy blogger. Basically I smash together a bunch of interesting links that I collect every so often, and write a sentence or two about them.
This week’s Speedlinking is being brought to you courtesy of the useful Instapaper website, which I’ve been using to temporarily bookmark the below links.
- Jonathan Hoenig writes Entitlement Mentality Is Wrecking Economy.
- OMG Nintendo lists 7 (original) Game Boy games that are obscure/underrated.
- In that same vein, Topless Robot listed the 10 best NES games that no one played.
- Oh, Hugo Chavez! What will you do next? Smells like sulfur.
- Good news about fuel: “green gasoline”. Gas made from trees in 5 or 10 years from now. Also, the largest oil discovery in 30 years.
Speedlinking, March 27, 2008
Speedlinking is yet another tool of the lazy blogger. Basically I smash together a bunch of interesting links that I collect every so often, and write a sentence or two about them.
This week’s Speedlinking is being brought to you courtesy of the useful Instapaper website, which I’ve been using to temporarily bookmark the below links.
- Hail, Xenu! Use it to find broken links on your site.
- Drink tea? Here are some useful things to do with those used teabags.
- The Wall Street Journal reports on the many links between Saddam Hussein’s government and terrorism that are discussed in a recently released Pentagon paper. The most interesting thing to me is that terrorism was really Saddam’s only “tool”, because of the sanctions and no fly zones and what not. Unintended consequences and all that.
- The number 6174 is actually pretty awesome.
- If you tinker around with the URL, you can actually increase the quality of playback on YouTube videos. I guess YouTube went ahead and made this an account option too, so you can always default to “HD” if you want.
- ha.ckers.org looks at an interesting method of spamming: exploiting the ability to change email addresses without confirmation.
Speedlinking, March 18, 2008
Speedlinking is yet another tool of the lazy blogger. Basically I smash together a bunch of interesting links that I collect every so often, and write a sentence or two about them.
This week’s Speedlinking is being brought to you courtesy of the useful Instapaper website, which I’ve been using to temporarily bookmark the below links.
- You should read David Mamet’s excellent piece, Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’. The article can basically be summed up by saying “the perfect is the enemy of the good”.
- Someone with way too much time on their hands (actually I’m really quite jealous of his commitment) put together a very comprehensive Futurama timeline.
- Played the newest Vector Tower Defense yet?
- It looks like NetJets is staying in Columbus (yay), and are going to add 800+ new jobs and expand their facilities by about 6-fold.
- Finally, enjoy this parody of the “3 am” commercial:
Speedlinking, February 22, 2008
Speedlinking is yet another tool of the lazy blogger. Basically I smash together a bunch of interesting links that I collect every so often, and write a sentence or two about them.
This week’s Speedlinking is being brought to you courtesy of the useful Instapaper website, which I’ve been using to temporarily bookmark the below links.
- The secret to life, the universe, and everything is…not 42. It’s 10122, or 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000.
- “During the space race, NASA spent millions to develop a pen that would write in space, whereas the Soviet cosmonauts used a pencil.” Well, it turns out that’s not really the case. So stop telling that story and acting clever.
- Which makes more sense incrementally, investing or paying down principle on your mortgage?
- There are over a half-a-dozen different models of time travel in fiction. My favorite is the time loop, as seen in Groundhog Day and…maybe…Lost.
Speedlinking, February 8, 2008
Speedlinking is yet another tool of the lazy blogger. Basically I smash together a bunch of interesting links that I collect every so often, and write a sentence or two about them.
This week’s Speedlinking is being brought to you courtesy of the useful Instapaper website, which I’ve been using to temporarily bookmark the below links.
- Confused about the whole England/UK/Great Britain thing? Check out the The Great British Venn Diagram.
- The forced recycling program in Sweden is bunk. So says Swedish native and radical libertarian/anarchist Per Bylund. I don’t think of myself as an anarchist, but Per Bylund and I agree 100% on the powerful force of incentives and the law of unintended consequences.
- Fine tune that new HDTV. Important point: Monster Cables’ only benefit is psychological. Save your money.
- 7 CSS Hacks and how to use them. Can good cross-browser CSS be written without them?
- Tired of paying money to The Man for your software? Stick it to those capitalist pigs and check out 50 open source alternatives to software that takes away your rights, maaaaaaan.
Speedlinking, February 1st, 2008
Speedlinking is yet another tool of the lazy blogger. Basically I smash together a bunch of interesting links that I collect every so often, and write a sentence or two about them.
- Brian Wesbury, an optimist, noted economist, and writer for the Journal says that The Economy Is Fine (Really)
- The Reds are trying to build up some goodwill and sell more tickets in Central Ohio by refurbishing 13 baseball diamonds in Columbus.
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- In Excel, sometimes you want to add those “hidden” apostrophes to numerical data so that it becomes a string. Use this VB function as a macro to do that en masse.
- Have you played Passage yet?
- Type in the url of your website, and find out what other sites are hosted on the same server. Obviously, this isn’t going to be very interesting if you have a dedicated server. Sites hosted on the same server as mgroves.com include: The Getaway Gift Shop, Atheist-blog, Big Tree Marketing, Beauty Madness (tickles-and-things.com).
- A save game exploit was found in Zelda: Twilight Princess that allows unsigned code to be run. This is similar to the PSP exploit that eventually allowed the system to be “soft-modded” (i.e. run homebrew/pirated programs). That can’t be done on the Wii yet, but maybe soon.
Speedlinking, January 25th, 2008
Speedlinking is yet another tool of the lazy blogger. Basically I smash together a bunch of interesting links that I collect every so often, and write a sentence or two about them.
- Having a baby soon? I know I am. Here are some helpful tips about raising a child.
- Dragon Quest Swords looks like my next must-have Wii game. In other news, the video is totally corny, but does a good job of showing off the game and gameplay.
- World of Goo is an interesting looking title for the Wii. It reminds me of goofy but addicting flash games.