Ostrich Egg | Dead Programmer's Cafe

http://www.deadprogrammer.com/ostrich-egg

The baked ostrich egg roll at the end is surely a dailyhfs candidate

nonbeard 2008-08-19 04:04:49

Language Log » The Big Penis Book

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=505

Starts with "big penis book", ends up talking about why e.g. "penis lengthy article" is unacceptable but "penis indigenous nudity" is acceptable. I can't *not* bookmark this.

nonbeard 2008-08-19 03:59:57

The Tombs of Asciiroth

http://www.icculus.org/asciiroth/

This is a really impressive Web-based rougelike. Actually it seems like a pretty great roguelike and the Web part is incidental, which is itself quite an accomplishment imo

nonbeard 2008-08-13 01:09:20

GoNintendo » Blog Archive » Will Wright defends Miyamoto ‘games are better than toys’ statement, shares more of his Nintendo love- What are you waiting for?

http://gonintendo.com/?p=52237

"The Wii, the way it’s reading the controller, you actually have a lot more bandwidth. It’s still a straw, but it’s a big straw - and for me that’s the really interesting part about the Wii." -- interesting perspective from Will Wright.

nonbeard 2008-08-12 07:48:05

Michael J. Totten: The Decline and Fall of Adbusters Magazine

http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/000294.html

I just bought this magazine, and have learned two things: 1) I am desperately unhip, since according to this guy it jumped the shark in 2004; 2) it hasn't improved since that time.

nonbeard 2008-08-12 07:29:28

See-Through Animal Photos, Translucent Creatures Wallpapers, Download, Photos -- National Geographic

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/translucent-creatures/translucent-pelagic-octopus-newbert.html

Sweet gallery of translucent animals that Bruce Schneier linked to accidentally

nonbeard 2008-08-12 04:21:49

EXTERMINUS

http://bustedwonder.com/exterminus/

A cqqqquuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu a (via Jason)

nonbeard 2008-08-07 07:26:16

C++ FQA Lite: Defective C++

http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/defective.html

Whine whine (but I have whined about these things too, so it must be legitimate whining).

nonbeard 2008-08-03 12:08:41

Why licenses don’t matter (and why they do) « Sententia cdsmithus

http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/why-licenses-dont-matter-and-why-they-do/

I'd come to the same conclusions as this guy, but he gets there via a rather different route (though we both used the "computer programmers like to pretend that people behave logically" theory)

nonbeard 2008-07-30 08:02:50

Mad Engineering: Five Reasons You Don't Have a Personal Jet Pack Yet

http://io9.com/5029930/five-reasons-you-dont-have-a-personal-jet-pack-yet

"So why the hell aren't we all flying to work via rocket power? Because you're about as aerodynamic as a potato, my friend." Someone had to say it.

nonbeard 2008-07-29 05:19:44

SimplyNoise.com - The best free white noise generator on the Internet.

http://www.simplynoise.com/

This is such a great opportunity for b-grade horror-film-style mind control.

nonbeard 2008-07-28 04:12:14

The beat issue « Emily Short’s Interactive Fiction

http://emshort.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/the-beat-issue/

On having characters in interactive fiction react to their environment in a satisfying, illusion-preserving way.

nonbeard 2008-07-27 16:15:47

Sexual Math on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowfreak91287/2158987801/

This is way better than that Pink Floyd cover (SFW)

nonbeard 2008-07-26 14:54:43

Mercurial and Darcs : The Fugue

http://hans.fugal.net/blog/articles/2007/11/16/mercurial-and-darcs

Hey, I've used about a million RCSes now, I did what this guy did (darcs to mercurial), and most importantly I'm a guy on the Internet with an opinion -- I should blog about this too sometime.

nonbeard 2008-07-21 06:14:52

MY COLLECTION OF RECORDED 78 RPM RECORDS - FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS

http://78records.cdbpdx.com/

Pretty great.

nonbeard 2008-07-20 03:01:40

Rands In Repose: The Quirkbook

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2008/07/18/the_quirkbook.html

Two M&Ms at a time? Volume evenly divisible by 5? Freaks.

nonbeard 2008-07-18 05:31:22

Language Log » Braised enterovirus, anyone?

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=367

Mmm, braised enterovirus. Also: fuck the pot, bao zai, water to boil the type. Fuck a bullfrog

nonbeard 2008-07-16 15:11:11

google-code-prettify - Google Code

http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/

This actually guesses which language to use. That's way cooler than Google's recent reimplementation of ASN.1

nonbeard 2008-07-16 13:50:01

Elephas maximus - Racetrack Playa

http://yathin.livejournal.com/201542.html#cutid1

Dolomite races!

nonbeard 2008-07-16 06:56:58

Age 1 to 100 banging on a drum

http://www.noob.us/miscellaneous/age-1-to-100-banging-on-a-drum/

Awesome!

nonbeard 2008-07-13 05:04:18

FORA.tv - Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Genre | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com

http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2008/07/foratv---neal-s.html

Culturally, it's difficult to distinguish SF from "the mainstream" because "the mainstream" *is* SF. But it does not follow intellectual trends, and is morally heterogeneous, so to critics it remains "a genre".

nonbeard 2008-07-11 11:24:31

Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-02/ff_aimystery?currentPage=all

Note to self: don't turn out like these guys

nonbeard 2008-07-11 03:52:11

Here's the new Mirror's Edge 2D trailer and some 3D screenshots - Joystiq

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/10/heres-the-new-mirrors-edge-2d-trailer-and-3d-screenshots/

This looks like a sweet concept. I love the idea of parkour but am too lazy to actually do it. A game about it would be just the ticket.

nonbeard 2008-07-10 15:11:09

We have lost control of the apparatus

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/09/we-have-lost-control-of-apparatus.html

"databases suck"

nonbeard 2008-07-10 05:26:31

Core77 / design magazine + resource / post

http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/chinese_minicastles_protected_by_un_10426.asp
nonbeard 2008-07-10 01:08:51

Algae Eating Cyprinids from Thailand and Neighboring

http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/cyprinid.html

The flying fox-looking fish with the smooth stripe is fine in a community tank. The remarkably-similar-looking fish also known as a flying fox with a slightly bumpy stripe is intensely territorial and hates other fish of the same species

nonbeard 2008-07-09 09:39:00

Fake Difficulty - Television Tropes & Idioms

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FakeDifficulty
nonbeard 2008-07-07 17:49:49

Hide & Seek Festival 2008 : Programme

http://hideandseekfest.co.uk/programme

Looks fun. Partially organised by my favourite LJ stalkee severalbees

nonbeard 2008-07-06 08:52:04

Desktop Tower Defense

http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Game.asp

Interesting genre

nonbeard 2008-06-30 06:55:33

Traditional Irish Soda Bread - Society for the Preservation of Irish Soda Bread

http://www.sodabread.us/

NO YEAST

nonbeard 2008-06-29 11:27:05

Play ELEPHANT RAVE, a free online game on Kongregate

http://www.kongregate.com/games/jmtb02/elephant-rave

omg, best game ever! Turn the volume up.

nonbeard 2008-06-24 02:36:06

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) on Vimeo

http://www.vimeo.com/1211060

Best SBS ad ever.

nonbeard 2008-06-23 06:36:48

Video Games: New Video Game About Designing Video Games Is Probably A Sign That No One Will Ever Again Play Outside

http://gawker.com/tag/video-games/?i=396276&t=new-video-game-about-designing-video-games-is-probably-a-sign-that-no-one-will-ever-again-play-outside

Like many well-adjusted nerds, I sometimes fantasise about creating an MMORPG, but don't want the backbreaking deadlines, heartache, and million-dollar losses. Seems like this game's for me!

nonbeard 2008-06-18 07:16:03

Super Mario Bros.: blik Surface Graphics

http://www.whatisblik.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=B&Product_Code=NIN-SMB1

Awesome

nonbeard 2008-06-16 05:46:58

St George Aquariums Pty Ltd

http://www.hotfrog.com.au/Companies/St-George-Aquariums

Apparently this is the best place in Sydney to buy aquariums :(

nonbeard 2008-06-15 07:13:03

Sourdough Bread: How To Begin (easy sourdough for the beginner or novice)

http://www.io.com/~sjohn/sour.htm

I've had a sourdough starter (named George) in the fridge for several weeks. Now I want to make the bread!

nonbeard 2008-06-15 03:37:46

Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing

http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html

I use less than seven habits

nonbeard 2008-06-13 02:32:50

Frank Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Williams

The guy behind the counter translated my order for a "flat white" into "one Frank Williams". Here is Frank Williams.

nonbeard 2008-06-11 04:09:05

William Gibson Interview: William Gibson Talks to io9 About Canada, Draft Dodging, and Godzilla

http://io9.com/5015137/william-gibson-talks-to-io9-about-canada-draft-dodging-and-godzilla

"I don't want people to be completely sucked into the mechanism. They should remember that they're riding on a rollercoaster. But I roll with the human characters."

nonbeard 2008-06-11 03:57:54

Coding Horror: Exploring Wide Finder

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001131.html

Terrible benchmark: an trivial, embarrassingly parallel problem. Coding horror guy's right about the real value of the test. That said, the fastest Ruby implementation is slower than the slowest Python implementation. Gosh.

nonbeard 2008-06-10 17:12:15

English too hard for students, principal says | NEWS.com.au

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23838302-421,00.html

Teehee, Shore kids are stupid

nonbeard 2008-06-10 06:50:14

Squirrelfish bytecode

http://webkit.org/specs/squirrelfish-bytecode.html

New JS backend for Webkit has regexp and getter/setter bytecodes, making x86's BCD support look positively RISC. Now to put it in hardware... ;)

nonbeard 2008-06-10 04:34:07

Natascha Kampusch: from darkness to limelight - Times Online

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article4044283.ece

“I believe that one characteristic of being happy is that it is not a constant state. If one were constantly happy, how would one notice the difference when one is unhappy? In that sense, I can say that I am happy, among other things.”

nonbeard 2008-06-02 13:57:32