January 2010
Download Torrents Remotely With ReactorFeed →
(TorrentFreak) This is damn handy, actually. I’ll be giving it a go over the weekend. Note that any feed you create is PUBLIC by default, and thus easy to find by guesswork. Private adds a sort of hashtag to the URL, making it… they say “impossible” to find, I say “much harder”.
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Sex Explained Graphically by Pens - Frucomerci.com →
Technically, completely work-safe. And pretty funnny (via Andy Davidson).
Ancient dog breeds →
(Wikipedia) The fourteen breeds of dogs that are most closely related to wolves, making them the oldest breeds of dogs created by man.
The breakdown: three from China, three from Tibet, two from Japan, two from Russia, one from Alaska, one from Afghanistan (two guesses as to the name of the breed), one from the Congo, and one from the Fertile Crescent region.
Of these dogs, three (the...
asymmetric fashion choices, real and imagined
ragbag:
a long time ago, evolution found a way to cut a few corners when it stumbled across bilateral symmetry. now, evolution had only to make half a frog (or whatever) and then could mirror it and move on to the next thing—a half giraffe or something.
there are a whole bunch of ramifications to this shortcut though really, the most important one is that you and i and all of our fellow...
New Ubisoft Games Must Always Be Online →
(Rock, Paper, Shotgun) Ladies and gentlemen: the easiest way to piss off fans.
Fuck Yeah TV Tropes! →
tristn:
So I caved and created this fuckyeah tumblelog.
It was only a matter of time… :D
Ascended Glitch - Television Tropes & Idioms →
tristn:
When a Good Bad Bug is particularly liked by fans of a game (more than just the God Modders,) sometimes something interesting happens. This is when a glitch is upgraded to the status of a legitimate gameplay mechanic or feature in a sequel, update, or expansion. This is a refreshing attitude from game developers, who otherwise tend to take a zero-tolerance approach to the squashing of...
Watchinky:
This is a test of the Puppy Broadcast System. DO NOT BE ALARMED
CBC News - Theatre - Bard too bawdy for Nashville... →
Oh Lord (via @Jer_LRR).
“Opposition to certain developments as inappropriate anywhere in the world is...”
– NIMBY (Not In My BackYard) - Wikipedia (via tristn). I like BANANA. :D
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of...”
– Stephen King (via fwarg & quote-book) (via travors)
Why Bono is wrong about filesharing →
From The Register, via @Glinner. Absolutely true.
