Tag Archives: linkblogging

Recent Links: Comic Strips, Moon, Hotspot Safety, Flash Forward and More

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Kelson

Comic strips and art:

SMBC: Where does the time go when you play online games?
XKCD: Server Attention Span
The Joy of Tech: The Internet is running out of tubes. (via @brionv)
Classic Spamusement: They hold a whole lot of it. I had no idea….
Bizarro on Facebook slacktivism (at Failblog).

Sci-fi and fantasy:

Keeping Up With the Cardassians. For months, this is what I heard every time someone mentioned the Kardashians. (What can I say? My brain is more attuned to Star Trek than to reality TV.)
Author Robert J. Sawyer answers pointed questions about Flashforward and the TV adaptation, including what went wrong. I have to agree that it was really hurt by focusing too heavily on the conspiracy arc.

Coolness!

Discovery spacewalk seen from the ground (Thierry Legault, of course!)
Majestic Snow Batman towers over Vermont
Ultra hi-res moon. The full-sized image is 24,000 x 24,000 pixels and half a gigabyte!
Flash Coffee is a product tie-in just waiting to happen! (That F’ing Monkey). It would fit right in with the Central City Track Team shirt.

Tech stuff:

Gmail accidentally reset thousands of accounts last month. (They got it back — this is Google after all.) I’ve come to rely heavily on Gmail, but I still keep a local copy of all my email in case something like this happens. (Engadget, via @pobox)
6 ways to use public Wi-Fi hot spots safely (C|NET).
Mobile Content Is Twice as Difficult (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
Map of smartphone marketshare by OS & manufacturer. It’s a 3-way split between iPhone, Android and Blackberry. iPhone & Blackberry are of course one manufactuer, while Android is divided mainly among HTC, Samsung and Motorola. (via @androidandme)
Things Real People Don’t Say About Your App or website (via @brionv)

Posted in Comics, Computers/Internet, Space, Web Design | Tagged Android, Batman, coffee, flash, Flash Forward, iPhone, linkblogging, mobile, moon, security, Star Trek, usability | Leave a comment

Links: Paper, Flickr, D&D Advice, LEGO Firefox, etc.

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Kelson

Some interesting links I’ve encountered over the past week or two.

Help! My Half-Elf is Pregnant! – The 11 strangest Dungeons and Dragons questions from the “Sage Advice” Column
15 things worth knowing about coffee by The Oatmeal.
Photos: When Niagra Falls Ran Dry

And now some techie stuff:

Interesting idea: Paper.li extracts links posted by Twitter and Facebook accounts you follow, then creates a daily newspaper page featuring headlines, links and excerpts from the top stories.
Who Came Up With Computer Symbols?
Thomas Hawk’s Open Letter to Carol Bartz, CEO Yahoo Inc. on why Yahoo! should consider Flickr a core product.
Firefox made of LEGO

Edit: Not a link, but I should mention: between a bug in Akismet and me not having time to go through it, I ended up with more than 2,000 comments in the spam folder just from the last 3 weeks. I don’t have time to look through that many items for false positives, so I just cleared it all out. If you left a legitimate comment that hasn’t shown up on the site, I apologize.

Posted in Computers/Internet, Food, General, Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Tagged coffee, D&D, Facebook, Firefox, linkblogging, social networking, symbols, Twitter, web2.0, yahoo | Leave a comment

Links: Book a Day, Long-Exposure Photos, Bogus Ads, Xmarks

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Kelson

How To Read a Book a Day by The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. (via @johannadc) I don’t think this will work for the new Wheel of Time book.
Incredible ultra-long exposure photographs.
Belly Button Lint and Bogus Ads
XMarks lives! It’s been acquired by LastPass and is going to a freemium model. Since I pledged to pay for it if they went that way within my price range, I should probably find the time to upgrade to the premium edition. And install it on my Android phone!

Posted in Computers/Internet, Entertainment, Strange World | Tagged linkblogging, photography, reading, Xmarks | Leave a comment

Links: 1.0 Releases, Sci-Fi and Science Fact, The Missile that Wasn’t

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Kelson

Matt Mullenweg on Apple, WordPress & tech release strategy. 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number
Robert J. Sawyer on the relationship between science fiction and science fact: The job of sci-fi isn’t to predict “THE future,” but “to suggest a smorgasbord of possible futures, so that society may choose the one it wants.”
Mystery California missile turns out to be a contrail lit by sunset, seen almost end-on so that it looked vertical. The photo actually reminds me of a contrail I once saw.
A fun recreation of George Seurat’s painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jette. The photo was staged back in 2006, but I hadn’t seen it until it popped up on Reddit a few days ago. I find it amusing that people have been posting lyric fragments from Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George in notes on the photo. There’s also a side-by-side comparison of the painting and the recreation.

Posted in Apple, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Strange World | Tagged art, contrail, linkblogging, missile, Seurat | Leave a comment

Recent Links: Books, Comet Photos, Language and More

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Kelson

Catching up on linkblogging.

Comic Strips

I found a printout of this User Friendly comic strip while cleaning out my old desk last month. Ah, tech support! Help, I can’t send e-mail!
XKCD on spambots vs. constructive comments (warning: language)
Two comic strips about book collections: Wondermark and Girl Genius. I stumbled on the Wondermark strip at Long Beach Comic-Con (write-up ~~should be done today~~ is online) and it really hit home, between the fact that I grew up loving books for exactly this reason, and the impending arrival of the next generation. As for Girl Genius, I think Castle Heterodyne’s library could give the Beast’s a run for its money.
Fake Science explains the difference between regular and decaf coffee. Insert obligatory “It was ground this morning” joke.
C-Section Comics shows the difference between iPhone, Android and Blackberry users. For the record: Android user, picked up the link from an iPhone user. Hmm…

Photos

Incredible star trails and a derelict ship at APOD.
Usability study: Photos as Web Content (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
Amazing close-up photos of comet Hartley 2.
Twitter Fail Whale Hat.

Other Stuff

Someone wants to buy a cosmic treadmill from me: Umm…Not For Sale?
Wrapping up Cyber Security Awareness Month at @sans_isc. If you use a computer, you should at least take the time to look through this.
Gotta love the MPAA’s priorities. A brief scene of therapeutic swearing earns the same rating as an entire film full of graphic, gruesome torture: The King’s Speech vs. Saw 3D.

Posted in Comics, Computers/Internet, Space | Tagged Books, coffee, linkblogging, reading, security, techsupport | Leave a comment

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