Link dump. Twitter says I have over 1100 favorites, but I can’t find them all, so I’m moving stuff here instead.
- Kentucky Fried Chicken infiltrates the UN. Good to see our security is in excellent shape.
- 80 photo manipulations to ignite your creativity
- Why you can’t stop playing Bejeweled, an interesting article in the ways that games like Bejeweled keep you engaged.
- Microsoft ditches Family Guy special…. for being Family Guy. So, um, M$ wasn’t paying attention before?
- Off the face of the earth, the story of a group of Holocaust survivors in the Ukraine who hid in caves for three years to escape the Nazis. This one is a good read.
- An interview with Mark Holmes, Pixar Graphics guru.
- When you think tech support, you should think…. Florence Hendersen?!?
- Just in time for NaNoWriMo, Every ruler who ever lived, back to 1700
- What direction should your ceiling fan be running for winter? (In the “signs I am getting old” category…)
- If air travel worked like health care, then I REALLY wouldn’t fly.
- Lose/lose is a true no-win situation in gaming. Makes you think about the consequences of being the aggressor.
- Five second test helps you test other peoples’ web designs… and each test takes maybe 30 seconds because you’re only allowed to see the web design for 5 seconds. Great to help out developers, also handy to test your own pages.
OK, that’s enough for tonight.
October 30th, 2009 at 9:58 am
That’s actually a non-trivial question – there has been folklore favoring both up-winter/down-summer and down-winter/up-summer. What can be said with certainty is that it should be running in both summer and winter.
(Personally, I would, in fact, endorse Farrey’s convention, but only because you want the fan blowing on you in the summer and not in the winter.)
October 30th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
http://bit.ly/i5zJx and http://bit.ly/2ejfA7 – more regarding Facebook games from Ian Schreiber.
December 29th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
The stairs were seriously cool. Almost more important, to me, than the fact that people took the stairs, was the smiles of glee. and the fact that kids and parents were suddenly having one of those unexpected “moments” when the world gets a little magic in it. Awesome.