Got a webcam on your laptop or attached to your PC? Check out the asciicam, a cool little flash webapp which lets you grab images from a webcam and turn them into ascii art. A sample:
Bonus points for whoever can tell what that is. Anyway, a fun little diversion, which you can check out over [...]
I’m posting this week’s Friday Fun link a couple of days early because if you act by Friday you can get it for $8.95. Valve picked up the rights to publish the excellent little rhythm puzzle game that uses your mp3 tunes as the source for the levels it presents you with. It’s good fun, [...]
News of this is all over the web, but as a PA for my friends since I’ve actually had two IM conversations about this in the past week: if you’ve been holding off on buying a Hi Def DVD machine because of the format war, it’s officially and finally over. The writing was on the wall [...]
Soolin is my three year old Golden Retriever. Early in her life the two of us went through what I not-so-fondly call ‘the worstest dog story ever told,’ and I still shudder to think of it. Yesterday another incident occurred which comes close. Susan and I took an afternoon walk on the bike path to [...]
Today’s Friday fun link is less of a game and more of a sort of kinetic toy. It’s a java applet that lets you introduce various elements into a small environment - wind, ice, soil, fire, stone, etc. The fun is in how the elements will interact with each other. Pour down some stone and [...]
Ok, so the news of the Giants win is all over the planet at this point, and it’s not like I have anything super insightful to add, but…man, how fucking cool was that! The last 9 minutes of the game were 9 of the most excruciating minutes of my life - all game I had [...]
04 Feb, 2008
Posted by: dlh In: General
…. here’s a recent one from a hike a couple of weeks ago:
Cheeseburgers in a can. I kid you not. We’re doomed, folks, even if they are delicious.
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It’s a single study, and a very small sample size, but still, this report on webmd
about a study demonstrating increased blood sugars in type 2 diabetics who use caffeine was a major bummer for me. Coffee is my number 1 vice these days, and it’s also the way I feed my sweet tooth. One small [...]
Thanks to the BBC for reporting on some promising research suggesting that playing games at work is good for you. Basically they found that folks that took short breaks to play games while at work had a more positive attitude towards their job. Works for me! I suggest a quick stop at kongregate.com as a [...]