The Mechanics of Morality: Why Moral Choices in Video Games Are No Longer Fun | Blasphemous Geometries | Futurismic

"I would argue that any political or moral decision that can be reversed by a mass killing is in fact not a political or moral decision at all." (via emshort)

Procrastination hack: '(10+2)*5' | 43 Folders

Work for 10 minutes, break for 2 minutes, repeat with the next thing on your to-do list. Via donkey hottie (more, it turns out, than just a cool name)

jCquard: The Do Less, Punch More JavaScript Library

The Burghers of Calais - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I saw the Victoria Tower Gardens cast of this yesterday. Interesting story behind the burghers, but also just a damn good sculpture.

Scratch | Project | Doodle

Draw a path to the exit

Scratch | Project | Cube World

Stupid boss

Scratch | Project | Mr HappyMan ep 5

Mr. Happy Man is happy.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/scratch/scratch-cacm.pdf

Scratch is a programming language with a core audience primarily between the ages of 8 and 16. It is colourful, easy to understand, and tightly integrated with a Web site and forums. Looks really cool :) This is the most "nonbeard" of many recent bookmarks. (lambda the ultimate)

Buy Bad Code Offsets | CodeOffsets.com

(reddit)

DISQUS Comments | Powering Discussion on the Web

Prepackaged comment system (via deadprogrammerscafe)

Donkey Hottie

I am pretty much only bookmarking this for the Cervantes-referencing name.

Sweater curse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"in which a knitter gives a hand-knit sweater to a significant other, who quickly breaks up with the knitter. [..] Despite its name, the Sweater Curse is treated in knitting literature not as a superstition governed by paranormal forces, but rather as a real-world pitfall of knitting that has real-world explanations and solutions." (Via Catie)

Lazy bottom: Tackling Android's Donut Branch Part II

Symlink parts of the SDK build into the non-sdk directory in order to create AVDs. Somewhat mysterious and probably not The Right Thing, but works

Connectionism

"like a modernist fool I told Adam one of my rules of narrative. I discovered that the easiest way to write a novel is to throw a bunch of characters into a situation. If you get stuck, throw in more characters. If you can come up with enough characters, you'll eventually come up with some that have interesting interactions with each other and with the situation" -- works for adventure games

Sad moments in mathematics

Well there you have it, folks: there is nothing about the relationship between 2, 5, and 32 that can be used in any way whatsoever. That's it. It's over. Move on to the other numbers, 'cos there ain't nothing for you here.

Building Android kernel images

... if you don't want to get the whole Android tree (and kernel isn't part of the default manifest now anyway). Donut is 2.6.29.

ASM’s List of rumored and existing Android phones.

It's Android Social Media's list of rumoured and existing Android phones.

Splash 2 for Linux/x86 | Ken Barr

The Go Programming Language

Seems nobody takes you seriously unless you write your own programming language. I was all "yay yay yay, another type-inferencing, garbage-collected C" until I learned that its pretty-printer indents using tabs, not spaces. Now it sounds cool! :)

Damn Cool Algorithms: Spatial indexing with Quadtrees and Hilbert Curves - Nick's Blog

How to find the location of a particular point in a Hilbert curve. (via delicious popular)

Booko: Compare book & DVD prices in Australia with Booko

Finds the best price (including shipping) for books online, and presents it to you in Australian dollars. (thanks Bryn)

OpenOfficeMouse: The Multi-Button Application Mouse for OpenOffice.org

18-button mouse with 512K of flash, XML configuration, and attached joystick. I am kinder than John Gruber and am assuming this is a joke. (daringfireball)

Can anyone solve this clever joke? - Yahoo! Answers

Vertex buffer objects (VBO) in OpenGL ES on iPhone - iDevGames - Mac & iPhone Game Development Forum

Mer mer mer I have unpredictable and highly idiosyncratic performance look at me

OpenGL Vertex Buffer Objects (VBOs): A Simple Tutorial | PlayControl Software

Mer mer look at me I'm an underpowered handheld device with mid-90s-era graphics hardware *handstand*

SpriteMethodTest

Particle systems in OpenGL - GL_POINTS

GL_POINTS with a size pastes a texture at that size centered on the point. Faster than texturing two triangles. OpenGL ES doesn't support glBegin / glEnd, so use glDrawElements instead

Grug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Resembling a small, striped haystack with a face, he is fascinated by the world around him and solves everyday problems creatively and without fuss."

Don’t get me started on that subject « DadHacker

I've seen software you wouldn't believe. Installer Vise sessions nested five deep...

LRB · Jenny Diski: Diary

Jenny Diski writes a very thought-provoking essay on rape and Roman Polanski. "I was more disgusted by him than I was shamed or diminished. A different zeitgeist, luckily for me." (Warning: quite graphic)

Greens choose moralising crypto-communist for Higgins – Pollytics

Clive Hamilton is terrible. The Greens seem increasingly to be about polarisation and making headlines over good politics. (via liedra)

Energy, Entropy, Enthalpy

Entropy is a measure of the uniformity of energy distribution. Enthalpy equals internal energy plus pressure times volume and not, as I first suspected, entropy with a lisp.

Visible Earth: Solar System Portrait - Earth as 'Pale Blue Dot

Earth is the bright pixel just over half-way down and three-quarters of the way across.

HELLO SEXY WORLD

The best Pokey cartoon ever (liedra is malfunctioning)

GitHub Flavored Markdown - Introduction

Yep, these things bugged me about standard Markdown too. (via daringfireball)

Teensy USB Development Board

Awww, it's really cute!

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you [dive into mark]

Publisher releases book under license that lets other people republish it. Someone does. Publisher freaks. Author gets all sanctimonious about it. My favourite parts: a) "My Zen teacher", b) people here and on Reddit claiming that the second publisher is dishonest and unethical. c) Mark hypocritically writing "Part of choosing a Free license for your own work is accepting that people may use it in ways you disapprove of" but using the GFDL rather than a license that does not impose legally-enforced constraints.

YouTube - Let's Play Super Mario Galaxy - Part 38 - Dusty Dune Galaxy

1) Brit accent, 2) slight lisp, 3) he's a pretty bad player, 4) Cursing and trash talk throughout the playthrough. Hilarious. :) "That was unnecessawily long!"

Kevin Rudd eats biscuit, Twitters about it | The Courier-Mail

"He is wearing an expression of concentration on his face as he breaks the bakery item in two."

It's a gateway drug to a lifetime of depravity! : Pharyngula

Young people are often exposed to temptations and pressures to experiment with things that seem popular. Like PhDs. (Via fark)

Apache CouchDB: The CouchDB Project

Another non-SQL storage option. This one looks really fun! It's document-based, where updating documents is an atomic operation. The guy who started it used to work on Lotus Notes, and was laconic and entertaining on the Stack Overflow podcast.

Using the I2C Bus

They Fight Crime - Television Tropes & Idioms

Found this after trying to explain to a non-native-English speaker why my T-shirt says "Babbage & Lovelace: They fight crime!"

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There is a city in New Mexico named Truth or Consequences.

25 Cent I2C Adapter

Use the Display Data Channel lines of a monitor output for I2C. Clever! I love the brick wall / rainbows and candy graphics.

motz diary: Debug a Native Application for Android

Using gdbserver and gdb for native apps on Android. Found the bug! :)

Is it nerve-wrecking or nerve-racking? - Yahoo! Answers

Schneier on Security: Robert Sawyer's Alibis

"Whenever I visit a tourist attraction that has a guest register, I always sign it. After all, you never know when you'll need an alibi." - Robert J. Sawyer; "whenever I see a tourist attraction with a guest register, I do the same thing. I sign "Robert J. Sawyer, Toronto, ON" -- because you never know when he'll need an alibi." - Bruce Schneier

todbot blog » Blog Archive » Spooky Arduino Projects #4 – Musical Arduino

I'm about to do this, in exactly the same way. :) I'm not really disappointed that I've been beaten though, because I can borrow his MIDI interface code.

Free Online Course Materials | Gödel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey | Highlights for High School

Could be good? (via Catie)