The Muppet Willie Nelson is out of jail and still he comes to us with his tail between his legs. He admits that he is ashamed that he never read “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”. He is ashamed that he hacked into our bank accounts and cleared out all the money. He […]
Parallel programming environments: less is more via Research@Intel (via DF): the point of this story is not to overwhelm your audience with choices (people may tell you that they WANT lots of choices but the reality is that if confronted with too many choices, they won’t make up their minds) (tags: work essay psychology marketing […]
And then it became clear to me: Depression Era folks and kids that grew up as part of the Video Game generation have at least this much in common: they pick up and save everything because you never know when you’re going to need it 1. Though whether you need it to patch the hole […]
Wheel of Food via Ben: just feed it your zip code and it tells you where to go for lunch! (tags: entertainment flash food games humor shopping visualization weird)
A small team of spies planted in some Soviet downtown. We are here to look for a prince, a descendant of Nicholas II; he plays his own game of deep cover and has worked his way up through the Communist party’s ranks. The prince is high enough on the Soviet food chain that we feel […]
Writing blunders via Bohemian Word Werks (via B^2): some 20 deadly writing sins (tags: literature writing todo) envision the product’s description (tags: absurdist dev humor) Video Game Idea: “Space 911” via Call Me Fishmeal: seriously dude, make this game. (tags: games writing essay todo) Ahem … via Charlie’s Diary: a plug for his new book […]
Another “big winner” in the A+++ group on Flickr. (Special thanks to A. for finding and posing with the critter.)
Personal goals for 2007: let’s see where we are after Q3: Write approx. 80,000 new words of fiction. …with at least 40,000 words of “totally new” fiction. As I updated this goal once already this year, I won’t bother updating it again. That would seem like cheating. That said, I think I may have picked […]
This is so incredibly awesome. CSWD‘s recycling program is now accepting all types of plastic. Numbers 1 through 7, baby. Some restrictions may apply 1? Still, this is huge and I must say, I’ve been waiting for this for years. UPDATE: Double-bonus! Looks like another update made to this new round of the rules allows […]
Google push-pin maps Superfund365 Pygmalion script “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, as these are haiku poems, I do […]