davextreme: February 2006

28 February 2006

On TiVo Top 10 Moments of Games Agony of Defeat Wins Out

Canadian skater Marie-France Dubreuil slamming to the ice was the most instant replayed moment of the games

27 February 2006

Mock Trial

I watched the series finale of Arrested Development again over the weekend, and I can’t stop laughing at Judge Reinhold’s court show Mock Trial with J. Reinhold and the show’s band “William Hung and His Hung Jury.”

24 February 2006

Teaster posted for Spider-Man 3 released

That’s not a black and white photo. He’s wearing a black spidey suit. You know what that means.

23 February 2006

30 Boxes

If I were to use a calendar app, this would be the one.

Google Page Creator

It’s free, you can make static webpages with it, and generates pretty clean HTML.

22 February 2006

Daring Fireball: The Safari Shell Script Execution Exploit

“It boils down to this: you can’t safely double-click files from untrusted sources, and you never could. This is no different today on Mac OS X 10.4 than it was a decade ago on Mac OS 8 and 9.”

YouTube - NBA 2006 Dunk Contest

All Google's Roads Lead to Kansas

All Google’s Roads Lead to Kansas

Wired story about the farm that’s at the very center of Google Maps from its default position.

19 February 2006

NEWSARAMA.COM: JEPH LOEB ON "SAM's STORY"

NEWSARAMA.COM: JEPH LOEB ON “SAM’s STORY”

Beautiful, sad story about how the comic book world came together to honor Jeph Loeb’s son, Sam, who died of cancer at 17.

17 February 2006

Blue Ball Machine (Classic GIF Returned)

Fun.

16 February 2006

Skiing

I’ve begun to hate watching the men’s Olympic skiing events. Not because I don’t like skiing, but because of the voice. There’s some coach on that team who’s always yelling “you can do it” or “go get ‘em” or “come on, boy” at the players right before they start, and I can’t stand him.

作品目次

Really cool origami gallery.

kwc blog: 4th Law of Robotics

Little Food People 2

Litlte Food People

15 February 2006

Official Google Blog: Testimony: The Internet in China

Boing Boing: Why Publishing Should Send Fruit-Baskets to Google

Good piece by Cory Doctorow on Google Book Search.

14 February 2006

mediabistro: Another Look At The New CNNI

Super simple on-screen graphics.

Gmail: Help Center - Can I use emoticons?

Gmail’s emoticon list. Personally I prefer them in all their ASCII glory rather than the graphical versions.

How to fold a fitted sheet

The World is Watching | Spread Firefox

Firefox now claims 10% of the worldwide marketshare.

WR-07 - A Real Transformer

\WR-07 - A Real Transformer

13 February 2006

Olympic Schedule

Bravo to NBC for showing a replay of the primetime Olympics block every night at 1:30 AM. It solves the problem of having to decide between watching the Olympics and other networks’ primetime shows, like 24, which is new tonight. Most of the time networks go for an all or nothing approach. Admitting that some people might not watch your show and showing a rerun that night lets those people see it, along with anyone who happens to work during primetime instead of having to watch infomercials.

View the full schedule of NBC’s Olympic coverage.

How to Make Garfield funny...remove His Thought Balloons

How to Make Garfield funny…remove His Thought Balloons

10 February 2006

Arrested Development Finale Tonight

A reminder: the final four episodes of Arrested Development air tonight on Fox. If you hadn’t realized how much Fox inexplicably hates that show, witness that it will be directly competing with the Olympic opening ceremonies. In other words, two of television’s funniest hours all year will almost certainly lose ratings to two of television’s most boring.

Half-Life 2 Rube Goldberg Device

There are some things video games let you do in a perfect way that you couldn’t ever do in real life. Like, say, build a Rube Goldberg device that involves blowing things up and killing mutants.

The Plane and the Conveyor Belt

The answer, from an MIT professor.

The case of the plane and conveyor belt (kottke.org)

Forgot to link to this yesterday.

09 February 2006

Swimming in syrup is as easy as water

08 February 2006

Google Talk

With the coming integration of chat into Gmail, I figured I’d give Google Talk a whirl. Almost everyone uses AIM, I know, but if you want to catch me, I’ll be signed into Google Talk for a few days. My username is my email address.

Using it so far for all of one chat, it’s a nice client. First, it’s simple, which is key. Second, I like the pop-up notification they use, at least on the Windows version. I like that it filled in a friends list for me from my most-emailed Gmail contacts. I even like that it can auto-log all the conversations in Gmail, creepy though that may be.

There’s little chance I’ll use it from home, but if I do, I’ll be using this method to use Google Talk with iChat.