Starting to re-find my love of google+. Facebook tends to just be a collection of highschool and other old friends' updates about their lives: marriage, kids, etc. It is nice to browse, but in the end I don't think I get much from it. Also, since I was in politics for a while, and made a lot of p...
If you or anyone you know is using bitcoin on android, there is a issue with how android was creating random numbers which made transactions generated on android wallets vulnerable where the private keys could be reverse engineered.
I use BitcoinSpinner, and I upgraded BitcoinSpinner, and then i...
For some reason I have been thinking a lot about health bars, HP in RPGs, and RTS'
The idea of diminishing health until a character is dead just seems to be very far from reality. If you get hit by a sword or arrow or bullet, you are either critically wounded (crippled), dead, or maybe it was ju...
Google Distopia?
So I was watching this video Google Glass - The First Fight & Arrest Caught on Glass - July 4 Wildwood, N...
This looks to be big: https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page
Demo of http://ConstantSail.com for nodepdx ( http://nodepdx.org/ )
This was done completely with node.js using mongodb as the data store, and using jQuery Mobile as the front end framework. Also used was express.js and ejs as the templating engine.
Now available in the iTunes store!
This is my first phone app I have made in over a year. It is a simple RPG dice roller. More apps to come :)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id603097725?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
"Go Go Red Team" "Go Go Blue Team"
Whatever side you are identified yourself with, you are identifying yourself with a side that supports an evil financial system, an imperialist military system, and a corrupt bought out political system controlled by career politicians who's main focus is gettin...
I put out my first android app today. :)
Wow, this looks like it will be a really fun game.
Wow, the fiscal cliff sounds great: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_fiscal_cliff Basically both parties hate it as i...
This is the first time I funded a kickstarter. Although I don't do miniature gaming, I love these little houses that you can pop apart and put back together, and think they would be great for the kids.
I funded this for $15 to get the "Fisherman's Cottage" which comes with a cool sod roof.
I know everyone is all heated up about the presidential race, but if you are local to oregon, check out James Buchal who is running for Attorney General. He is a liberty oriented candidate who got on the Republican ticket through a write in campaign.
Issues that are important to him are ...
I am in on the October Challenge for Ludum Dare, and will be developing http://islandwarfare.com
You can sign up for email/rss/twitter updates on the website. ...
I think conspiracy theories are sometimes conspiracy in themselves.
ZeroHedge put the RT as a bullet point, and feel that it requires a little comment.
I think that the RT is nothing more than a russian news puppet show that is similar to our leaflet bombings of enemies in prior wars. Their pu...
So I now have two separate projects on github where people are forking and merging in code.
I now see the delight in the git experience. :)
A new way to round - rand_round So in grade school you are taught the basics of rounding. If the decimal portion of the number is < .5 round down to the integer so 5.3 becomes 5. If it is >= .5 round up, so 5.8 becomes 6. This is well and good if you are doing something that has an even d...
Ebay's failure as an auction site
Too often when I go to ebay now, I just find merchants filling the search results with either "buy it now" items, or auctions with too high of a starting price.
I wish they would do something about this. A simple solution would be a 5% charge of the listing pr...
This is a pretty no-fills website that has been running since 1999. It emails you whenever a web page changes. I use it whenever a site doesn't provide rss or a newsletter, but I want to keep track of when there are updates.
The original plot of the Little Mermaid was more dramatic than Disney's version.
Book review of Starship Troopers I posted on Amazon.com
This is totally different than the movie, but only in good ways. Heinlein is a expert of political philosophy applied to science fiction and paints a world of a fascist government that is embraced by its citizens, and you can sympathise ...
First done, first paid :)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=90701.msg998158#msg998158
"The code isn't going to write itself"
I constantly tell myself that every time I wonder why things aren't getting done at the speed that I expect for personal projects. Typically it comes down to being overzealous with my project timelines, or just doing too many things that are distracting me f...
My shaving arsenal - similar to your grandfather's:
Burger time
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheArtOfManliness/~3/ks4RTnqVz6I/
When we reach 21 Million Bitcoins, will their be no economic activity, and a deflation spiral?
#bitcoin
I think an assumption here is
Fixed monetary quantity = deflation.
The increase or decrease in money value is not entirely based upon scarcity.
A major factor in inflation is monetar...
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/oregonians-for-liberty?fromplusone=1
http://www.fairvote.org/response-to-a-rogue-convention-how-gop-party-rules-may-su...
Need a decent rating system for a matched based game system?
I just implemented the glicko-2 rating system (similar to ELO, except much better) in javascript: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/RobKohr/glicko" class="ot-anchor bidi_isolate" jslog="10929; track:click" dir=...
I am surprised it took people this long to strap a gun to a quadrocopter. Unfortunately, FPS is right. This is the future. Though I can see a person controlling a semi-autonomous squad of them rather than just a single one.
One would be the eyes of the operator, and with a mouse he could click mu...
ChangeDetection.com is a great way to monitor a website that you go to infrequently (in this example, once a year). They email you whenever a change happens
The link below is for google code jam's change log, and it is fun to see some of the minor copy tweaks the make over time.
If you have had enough of high res flashy backgrounds, and you would like something a little simpler.
Have a mac, here is how to check if your infected. *Open terminal run this
defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment and this defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
If both those commands come back with something that ends with "does not exist" you ...
An law school professor and former criminal defense attorney tells you why you should never agree to be interviewed by t...
Unity is giving away iOS and Android add ons until April 8th for free.
They put all over this that this is conceptual design, and not actual gameplay. But I hope they make it look even a little like this as it is pretty hot.
This will require a constant internet connection as they are implementing stuff that will have economic balancing with other cities in your "re...
On FB and G+ games, they don't allow you to modify the permissions for the games. What if I don't want to give you my email address and all of my info?
Checkboxes would be nice, and the game creator will then have the chose of refusing me if I don't give enough info.
For game creators, don't ask...
When I mouse over a person who just circled me, it would be great to see their most recent post(s) without having to click them.
Answers are just the embryos of new questions.
I wish there was 2x, 4x, 8x speed modes for youtube and other video sites. Some interesting talks take to long.
I remember this was a feature on my iphone, and I used to use it for some podcasts.
Can anyone sum up why the google policy changes are important. I would like to know the tl;dr version.
Singing with headphones on is like driving without looking at the road.
I can't stand out of office auto-replies.
I send a message to 10 people and 3 back. I don't care that you took off on friday.
It would be great if when you send out an email you can tack on #noOOO or something like that, and the auto-reply system will not send those back.
Or maybe reverse it...
So the banks are being incentivised 63 cents on the dollar for the for every dollar of a mortgage that is forgiven. This will be paid for with tax funds.
That is huge.
If you are in forclosue is time to give the bank a call and negotiate.
There is a Mongolian place we go to where one of the bins of meat is labeled "Turkey Shrimp." The legendary Turkey Shrimp is a crowd favorite.
This is a sketch of a live turkey shrimp drawn by +<a class="proflink bidi_isolate" href="http...
Follow everyone that someone else is following on twitter
I opened up a second twitter account, and I wanted to follow everyone my first twitter account was following. I went to the "following" page for the first account and started clicking away, till bordom ensued. Then I did an inspect ele...
Virus=very yes
Strong Bad Email
Digg/Reddit like News site. Voting is based on Bitcoins!
I created a site where you can post links, videos, images, and blobs of text (h...
This will make it so you can click a button to open iTerm in any finder folder:
Download *<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://raw.github.com/gist/905546/e1a34cf2d217d44858146af71d76546d3289c4b0/finder-open-iterm-here.scpt" class="ot-anchor bidi_isolate" jslog="10929; track:click" dir...
XKCD has a great comic about how to create a strong yet easy to remember password: http://xkcd.com/936/
And this site created a generator for it: <a rel="nofollow"...
Pissed about SOPA, it will be back. Here are some better ways to keep it from coming back:
Make sure these pricks don't get reelected:
Lamar Smith (R-TX) -- introduced the legislation Harry Reid (D-NV) Howard Berman (D-CA) Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) Steve Chabot (R-OH) J...
Particle physics have come a long way.
This is a new Multiphysics simulator by Lagoa Technologies Inc.
It looks like SOPA and PIPA have likely been stopped as politicians have dropped support for it.
It was a great move for freedom, but on a more sour grapes note: where was this outpouring of popular dissent when so many non-internet freedoms have been taken away.
It looks as though without yest...
editthis.info and cueflash.com ...
Picture wars is a forum based game where a 2-d sidescroll style map is used. 2 or more players each use their own sprite pack armies in a turned based war game.
Each turn, players move their units and attack things by updating the image. Whatever makes sense is considered acceptable. Along with ...
Strong Bad makes a techno song.
I dropped google a couple weeks ago as my default search system in favor of duckduckgo.com. The reason was that the results for technical terms started getting mor...
Great comment on hacker news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3451527
sunchild 27 minutes ago This is such an important point: there is...
Top 50 entries for the 48 hour game development competition.
Fake Amazon Reviews
Important when looking at reviews on Amazon: click on their profiles and see what else a person reviewed.
I find a lot of reviewers are fake, and are really just sock puppets of the person selling the item.
When the person reviewing the item only ever reviewed this item,...
Obama signed the NDAA today.
The Act legislatively codifies the President's authority to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects without trial. This can include US citizens on American soil.
(at this point I had about a dozen sarcastic remarks about Obama, but really I think none are needed.)
Being a father of a 4 year old, I have watched someone learn their first language. He really understands english very well, but he has shown me the many inconstancies and exceptions in our language. It would be great to use a survey of common "mistakes" a child makes in understanding the english l...
Anyone interested in minatures should check out shapeways.
You can have them 3d print pretty much anything you can come up with.
#rpg #gaming
Thinking of setting up a utility to have the amazon turk sort out all of the good photos in my photo albums.
A better way to fight SOPA
GoDaddy has been a supporter of SOPA which has caused many to boycott them.
Here is an even better way to hit them in the bottom line...
Add this somewhere in your webpage (you can just stick it somewhere in the footer)
GoDaddy is #1 in google for "Domain Registrati...
Reminds me of the girl from Real Genius
Triangles!
FAIL! !!!!!!!
Google has been manipulating their algorithm, with the goal of making it more friendly to users.
This means it will find results that do not match all of your criteria, but are more "meaningful" ~= higher page rank.
They have also ditched the + operator (+keyword) which forces only results that ...
It is really annoying when source code download sites don't provide a url that you can use with curl (usually it is some html redirect page that does tracking for them).
I want to download the code onto the server. I don't want to download it locally and then scp it to the server.
What I love ...
It looks like the next batman movie is a mortal kombat crossover: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion_(Mortal_Kombat)
The D...
After futzing with Adobe Illustrator for a while, and getting fed up, I hand coded an SVG file and imported it in. So much easier when you want to be accurate. Trying to tell the software what you want with pointing and clicking just isn't as good as typing in
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=53869.0 I added a description of how I handle ecommerce.
An image of a bitcoin mining rig. It is so industrial, it looks almost like equipment to do real physical mining.
Pictures like this remind me never to get into mining. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq9z4zJUom1qfy0bho1_500.jpg" class="ot-anchor bidi_is...
Using my kids' playroom as a photo studio can be amusing in retrospect.
http://printcoins.com/images/gallery/cheque.jpg
Bitcoin cheques now available on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://printcoi...
I am sharing the share of my own post ... and deleting original. ...
Nice, someone has pulled videos together for all of these academic classes.
Really, set up any command to run on startup as a service (and have "start/stop myprocess" commands available to you).
Much easier than init.d
http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/run_nodejs_as_a_service_on_ubuntu_karmic/
This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
I run a UGC site on a dreamhost virtual private server called cueflash.com. A user posted up content that was copyrighted, and dreamhost recieved a DMCA takedown not...
So someone sent a DMCA notice to my service provider. They were complaining about content that they considered their copyright in a wiki I am hosting. It was a page about their news station WHKY TV. Looking through the history of the page, I could see that a bunch of people worked together to crea...
I wish I could pay not to see ads on youtube. I would pay $10 a year to not see them. Surely that is worth more than the advertisers are paying you.
I got tired of being distracted by that little red notification, and was about to write an extension to hide it. Thankfully someone beat me to it.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ogcfegjiehdakiogchpnllekccphhebd
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/october-challenge-2011/?uid=4337 Launched <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://c...
brilliant
What happens when you round 3.6 ---> you get 4.
What about in a game? Should every time a player kills 3.6 of an enemy, should it be really 4?
Probably not, but the math might have that happen all of the time. It should be that it rounds up 60% of the time. Over time, the average player would ...
Working hard on Constant Sail: Pirates & Traders for the October competition. It is a pirate game where you sail around a world and trade goods. It is multiplayer and web based with a big emphasis on PvP fighting.
As you can see, even though I am making this for the web, it is being formatted to ...
Visited the portland occupy protests today and had some great chats with some revolutionaries :)
This is what 3d should really be.
Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual enviro...
Totally into ...
We're going on tour in October, check it out!!! Pomplamoose 2011 West Coast Tour Los Angeles October 21 @ The Troubadour Tickets: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/62829/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=150526285036434 Santa Barbara October 22 @ SoHo (21+) T...
Anyone accept #Bitcoin on any e-commerce or game site?
Does anyone want the domain: PopulationMatrix.com ? I had plans on building something like Survey Monkey with it, but I don't think it would be worth my time.
I think it is a pretty awesome name, but not worth it to me to do the $10 renewal. If you want it, let me know (though keep in mind it wi...
If you have a search results page on your website, try to minimize the amount that users have to use the pager on those results.
Google gets away with showing only 10 results, because they are awesome at delivering what you are looking for in that first page. Your results probably aren't that su...
"Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines." (http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2907)
Greed is not the problem. Capitalism is not the problem. Corporate control of the government is the problem.
What is amazing is that there are so many interesting products that you can buy now. Looks like a great way to get some cool presents for people for christmas.
1994 - Pulp fiction & Inflation
There was a scene that really focused on the cost of a $5 milkshake. This was between two characters that probably blow plenty of money on coke and heroin.
Today, a $5 milkshake is no big deal. Heck, that is how much a coffee is (the cheapest beverage to make on e...
I am looking forward to the race to the bottom in the tablet wars.
Give me a call when they are priced right above the raw materials it took to produce them.
What do people in Ludum Dare use for timelapse on Mac.
Want to add jquery to a page you are viewing on your browser for some quick hackery?
Create a bookmark with this as the location:
javascript:void((function(){j=document.createElement("SCRIPT");j.src="<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.pack.js" class="...
What a great video.
Official video for 'The Stampede' by Biting Elbows from our debut EP - 'Dope Fiend Massacre' Click to Tweet: http://clicktotweet.com/7fIbn Buy @ iTunes http://goo.gl/07jyf @ Amazon http://goo.gl/53Kcl facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bitingelbows www.BitingEl...
Minecraft
http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2011/09/hardest-game-for-adults.html
Attempted to play Dwarf Fortress last night. It is a tough game to get into.
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
http://www.vayapotra.es/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/2rmqi6o.gif
http://ciracar.com/build-a-house-for-less-than-5000/
It is simple:
If you send a newsletter and your unsubscribe link requires me to log in, fill out a form, or do anything for that matter, I go back to the email and just mark as spam.
If you are too lazy to make it easy to opt out, I am too lazy to help you with your email deliverability.
Unsub...
Been researching the Cetera audial algorithm after hearing about (and experiencing) the Virtual Barber Shop for the first time. The technology in itself is incredible, and it surely opens an entire world of alternative entertainment and media. It's a surprise no one's really capitalised on it yet...
Portal clone that instead of just traversing space, you do a snapshot and can connect moments in time (moving you and other things through time).
in which i rip off portal and snapshot http://www.superfundungeonrun.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph60iKWmtos
This looks very cool. Interesting concept. I wonder how well it plays out.
_scoreTag allows you to tag your posts the same way you could using twitter #hashTags
It is has a _chromeExtension which turns a _scoreTag into a link. This allows users to quickly find other posts regarding a particular topic.
Why not just use #hashTag? Well, google ignores the # symbol when i...
Calling a PHP File From HTML's Script Tag
Have you been programming in php for years and need to write some javascript, only to find you really could use a php function to solve a js problem.
Well stop before you rewrite it.
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://phpjs.org/" class="ot-anchor bidi_isolate" jslog="10929; track:c...
http://sale.images.woot.com/An_Elephant_in_Bantha_Clothing7leDetail.png
Currently #1 on Ludum Dare. Pretty crazy game.
Fun and challenging game. It requires deep thought, but not as heavy as chess and go. This is a good thing as it makes it easy to play a bunch of rounds of it without being overwhelmed.
Don't lose your marbles -- make them stronger with this classic marble strategy game from Foxmind. See mor...
This is a pretty unique game.
In it you create a fleet and send it into battle, but the catch is that you don't control anything once play begins.
Most of the actual interaction you have with the game is tweaking the ships, and you can do it in extreme detail. This is basically where you grit ...
Ha!
Fairy tales of old were pretty scary. http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm047.html
This was a semi-sarcastic comment I made on how all politicians are controlled by political donations: "Maybe to remove the whole illusion, we should just literally vote with dollars. Those dollars can than be used by the govt in place of taxes. Could lead to an interesting distopia or utopia. Who...
Grizzly awesome
So my 3 year old is totally into video games (in particular a game on the wii called Excite Truck).
This game and a bunch of games on the iphone that he likes has led me to one conclusion.
Menus suck (especially if you can't read).
What would be best is a big Go button that is green and flashi...
I would love it if google allowed you to sort your stream by how often you +1 posters.
I am working on a programming game where you control an army of robots via a web api.
You can send orders to robots, or you can install javascript code in robots, and when they are out of communications range from your command center, they can use that code to work autonomously.
The robots wil...
Hi John, this seems like a good cheatsheet for you: http://startuplawyer.com/startup-issues/if-i-launched-a-startup
Going to see The Protomen tomorrow night. Totally psyched.
The first music video of The Protomen. For more info. visit http://www.protomen.com/ [Lyrics] Narrator: No one was left who could remember how it had happened, how the world had fallen under darkness. At least no one who would do anythin...
Needed a simple painting application, but with the ability to do layers, transparency, and a few of the things I take for granted in photoshop. Also needed it on Mac.
This worked well: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://seashore.sourceforge.net/The_Seashore_Project/About.html" class=...
Have you ever played the board game Diplomacy before? I am looking to start a postal game (where you mail stamped letters to each-other) where the adjudication is done via the web (there is no game master). I set up a game that starts in 6 days at the link. Join up, and send me an email with your ...
Filmed and Directed by Amy Hobby. Edited by Tony Zajkowski. Over 20 different NYC female keyboardists playing vintage keyboards at Joe McGinty's Carousel Studio in Brooklyn, NY. Available on iTunes! http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tubular-bells/id398862997 Featuring: Kaia Wong (Mixel Pixel...
Not shown on the menu bar in Hacker News, their is a page called "best," which has less updates per day, and is nice if you don't want to get too sucked in to what is "hot". <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://news.ycombinator.com/best" class="ot-anchor bidi_isolate" jslog="10929; track...
Here's something for the punk rock fans. The Misfits are releasing their first album in 12 years this October. I guess I know what to give my brother for Christmas.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-the-misfits-...
If you need to generate a sound for events (clicking on things, explosions, etc) this works great. Works on OS X, windows, and linux.
Blown away
Industrial Revolutions is the amazing new film from street trials riding star Danny Macaskill. Filmed and edited for Channel 4 's documentary Concrete Circus. Industrial Revolutions sees Danny take his incredible bike skills into an industrial train yard and some derelict building...
Speedcrunch is a great calculator application that is available on all major OSes
It works very much like a scientific calculator, with variables and complex expressions. It also gives you updates to the calculation as you are typing. Though it is seems complex, it is my favorite to use even for ...
Due to really poor sales in the app store (kinda expected since it was just an astroids clone) space rocks is now free. When I get around to it, I will post up the source code on github. It was written with JS using the canvas element for drawing. It was bundled into an iOS app using phonegap.
If...
Full of awesome
http://www.elated.com/articles/banish-javascript-in-web-forms-with-html5/
And even more really awesomeness.
http://www.elated.com/articles/7-lovely-things-about-html5-markup/
How to draw squiggles like a Hilbert.
I like this channel on turntable for electronic music.
It would be nice if they gave a nice title and description view for sharing
This is the best TANK! game ever created. In the fantastically 80's vein of classic arcade games...TANK! is simple, fun and satisfying. Play someone else on your iPhone and relive all the fun that old skool video games used to be.
NOTE: This is a two player game only (on the same device), so be...
What is this fed thing anyway? http://i.imgur.com/20wIm.jpg
Rowan Atkinson comes across an invisible drum kit while sweeping. He's not too bad with it.
http://thoughtballoonhelium.blogspot.com/2011/06/portland-oregon-trail.html
Marvel once again at the wonders of the natural world with Monty Buggershop-Hooty, author of Cooking With A Top Hat and Wilderness Ponce.
Michael Fishbach, co-founder of The Great Whale Conservancy (GWC), narrates his encounter with a young humpback whale entangled in local fishing nets. At first, the animal appeared to be dead, yet Fishbach investigated and quickly discovered that the poor creature was tangled in a fishing net. ...
Awesome.
*DISCLAIMER: Dear movie studio and Benny Benassi- this video is not intended for commercial use. It is simply a side project created for the fun of it. I like apes and monkeys, I like classic movies like this one, I like dance music, I like Benny Benassi, and I used to like glowsticks w...
Test message
So much sexier than the more modern versions.
The late great Peggy Lee, a favorite of mine (I'm a huge Jazz fan). Peggy was a singer in The Benny Goodman Orchestra before going solo. You may also know her as the voice of the Siamese Cats in Disneys 'Lady and The Tramp.'
http://www...
