Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Friday, December 11th, 2009
At sometime around 10:40am on December 11th, 2009, both Coding Horror and the Stack Overflow Blog disappeared when their host, CrystalTech, lost the VM on which they run. Coding Horror was immediately replaced with this:
Coding Horror experienced 100% data loss at our hosting provider, CrystalTech.
I have some backups and ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
A collection of solutions for Fantastic Contraption:
My Solutions:
Tube - a minimal tube crawler.
U-Turn - a floppy, crawling chariot.
U-Turn (again)) - a simple cart which uses leverage to apply force on the ceiling.
Back and Forth - an awful contraption.
Back and Forth - a better version which uses many wheels for low ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
These three games present interesting logic puzzles:
Fantastic Contraption - build a machine to get an item into the target zone.
Light-bot - provide simple commands to make your robot traverse obstacles (publisher site with annoying, talking banner ads is here).
Chronotron - solve puzzles using a time machine.
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
I just took a fun test to determine how good I am at discriminating colors. Lower values are better. My results:
Your score: 8
Gender: Male
Age range: 30-39
Best score for your gender and age range: 0
Highest score for your gender and age range: 1464
Neat! Take the test here.
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Craigslist is one of the greatest sites in the world, and the entire Bay Area seems to revolve around it. Sadly, Craigslist's search facility is extremely bad, seemingly only capable of searching within a price range and neighborhood. Craigslist supplies RSS feeds, but this still means I have ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
This story was a very interesting read.
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
It's not even really spam. I assume it's an attempt to validate random email addresses by analyzing bounces.
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
I came across a series of Japanese videos on YouTube. Initially, they appear to be rather mundane and cute. By the 11th video, things take a different turn, and by the 12th video, they're downright weird. The videos seem to be a promotion for Gears of War ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Cracked.com had a so-so article which mentioned Russian discount airline Aeroflot.
The winning comment was by Kostanza:
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
So-called "social networking" sites are a virtual goldmine of comedy. Unfortunately, it's a very deep mine with a tremendous amount of unfunny to get through first. I trimmed down this conversation to the bare, humorous minimum.
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
This delightful YouTube video shows a small child being placed in front of a cobra. The poor cobra is said to be de-fanged and/or has its mouth sewn shut. The cobra is, predictably, annoyed by the child (aren't we all?) so it strikes ineffectually.
YouTube comments are the cesspool ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
I sent an IM to Yumi. When I didn't get an immediate response, I locked my workstation to play some foosball. When I returned, I found this:
[15:24] Jeff: so did you read about the earthquake yet?
[15:31] Yumiko: i did
[15:31] *** Auto-reply sent to Yumiko: I am currently idle.
[15:31] ...
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