You’ve holed up in a small house with the rest of the survivors. You’re pretty sure that you can make the house safe, though you’re not sure for how long. The house sits in the middle of a pretty broad patch of grass, so the visibility is good, but you’re concerned about that one side […]
DirectDraw Hack via /. — my hat is off to this guy (all for the love of the greatest "combat space flight sim" of all time) (tagged: graphics hacking windows DirectDraw WingCommander ) Awesome death spiral of a bizarre star at Bad Astronomy (Discover Magazine) (tagged: astronomy space science weird ) Zombie Pandemic Tracker (tagged: […]
Cool Stuff: Zombie Wedding Cake Awesome. A.: Ben is right, this needs to be the cake at our 2nd wedding. (tagged: via:kheiligh zombie ambulothanatophobia food ) Steak House or Gay Bar? Fun for 5 minutes worth of laughter. (tagged: humor ) Flickr Adds People Tagging. And It’s Better Than Facebook’s. About damn time. (tagged: flickr […]
JSTalk (tagged: javascript Cocoa JSTalk todo ) Re: 2012, Zombies & The Singularity at Babel Clash by paolobacigalupi (via John Joseph Adams) (tagged: zombie ambulothanatophobia essay blog todo ) Mac Dev Center: What’s New In Mac OS X: Mac OS X v10.6 via DF — heady stuff and most of it over my head, but […]
The Art of Penguin Science Fiction via B² (tagged: design literature scifi art typography illustration ) Here & There via Warren Ellis — "a horizonless projection in Manhattan" (awesome) (tagged: design visualization art map ) Classic Illustrators by Name via the w00t blog — a Flickr collection of scans of classic "Golden Age of Advertising" […]
These are my links for January 25th through January 30th:
Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to two new U.S. studies.
Hen of the Wood "Fine Dining in Waterbury, Vermont" — recommended by Adam & Sue and now by the Terrapin… (tagged: via:terrapin Vermont food ) Acorn 1.5 release notes via DF: looks like some nice improvements (perhaps time to try it again?) — http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/ (tagged: Acorn Mac OSX software graphics ) "Bacon Zombie" T-Shirt Design […]
Facebook breastfeeding Quicksilver copy and paste zombiephobia or: fast torpedo sled bike from ME to AK holiday book lists As an aside to last month’s search term haikus, a couple of interesting observations from December’s search terms: 229 “zombie phobia”-related searches referred – including 21 for “ambulothanatophobia” and even one for “ambulothanatophobia get over it”. […]
Make A GIF I've been obsessing about cheesy animated GIFs lately. I don't know why. (tagged: design graphics gif generator tools ) Whole Grain Soups and Stews At Mighty Foods. (tagged: via:aspiringlibrarian food recipe ) List of The Wire characters at Wikipedia: wanted: visualization of all characters, color-coded and indexed by the number of episodes […]
If anyone is looking for some last-minute gift ideas for the beloved bookworm(s) in their lives, F_D has a few recommendations to pass along. I’ve picked my top ten reads from ’08 1 and posted them here for you to serve as gift ideas for the avid 2 readers in your lives. The list is […]