AFK JFK | Thinkin’ Lincoln : A Weekdaily Webcomic by Miles Grover

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Priceless

“One day after publisher Random House signed former President George W. Bush to write a presidential memoir entitled Decision Points, Mr. Bush announced that he had tapped former Vice President Dick Cheney to write the memoir for him.

“This book will detail the twelve greatest decisions I’ve made in my life,” Mr. Bush told reporters in Crawford, Texas today.  “The thirteenth greatest decision was hiring Dick Cheney to write about the other twelve.””

via [borrowitz report], via email suggestion.

Try it, you’ll like it. The Borrowitz Report is great for worktime RSS feeds. It’s short, humorous, and packed with humor. It’s like a long-form satire article boiled down to the bare minimum.

From craigslist:

“Are you hosting a corporate event, a trade show, sci-fi convention, or
even a private function? Looking for a unique way to make any gathering
of people unique and memorable? Look no further! Our Minneapolis,
Minnesota based DeLorean Time Machine rental is an excellent means of
creating unique memories that will last a lifetime. Companies such as
Hyatt-Regency Hotels, SystemWare and more have used our time machine to
enhance their corporate events by creating a time travel theme. The
ways to wrap the theme of time travel around your event are endless.
Need advice? We have worked with numerous creative event agencies. Drop
us an email and let’s talk
“

Check out the details here http://timemachinerental.com/

The rates are pretty good, too. It’s $2 for every mile of travel from
minneapolis plus $750 for the first day and $500 for each additional day. That means it would cost me $1759 to have it hang out in my back yard for a night. “Hey baby, you want to black out and let me have my way in this totally awesome replica of a time machine from 1985? Drink up”.

A college friend of mine just concluded his Thesis Defense. Dr. Wagstrom successfully defended his thesis on Open Source Software and communities.

It’s a little heady at over 200 pages, but it’s good reading if you’re into seeing how OSS communities function and how to exploit/coexist if you’re a big company.

The thesis includes an investigation with Eclipse developers, for those who are interested.

A photobug was recently describing the benefits of a view camera. I always thought they were just old-timey cameras. What I didn’t realize is that the rear section where the photo is exposed could move towards/away from the front, up/down, or tilt. Those features give you an amazing amount of control over the way an image is captured. You can even take a picture of a tall building close up by kajiggering the camera correctly.

It’s weird that we’ve got these fancy digital cameras, but have lost many of the abilities of this old machine.

Let’s hear it for those who have come before us!

Play Sirtet.

It’s like tetris, but
1) You only drop single blocks
2) Blocks only disappear when they form tetroids
3) If you have more than four blocks of a same color touching, they are now dead and can’t be cleared.

It’s fresh. [Try it] via [ironic sans] via [thinkin-lincoln]

I was hunting for a way to send midi messages into flash/actionscript for some live animation hijinks. I would use my midi controller to trigger animations using commercially available sequencing software to record / retrigger once I had the sequence right. I mean, building all of that functionality into flash would be fun, but I’m only going to be alive another 30-50 years, so wheel reuse is sometimes preferrable.

Unfortunately I’ve not found any native support. Just when I was considering creating a midi translator, somebody beat me to the punch. It’s a java application that takes the midi messages and connects them into flash.

Abumarkub via [random internet searches]

I’m going to try out some print-on-demand.

I’ll post the shirt, buy one, and see how I like it and get back to you. But you can buy it now, if you like _heavy_ metal.

BTW, you can customize the color and type of shirt.

Order of the Heavy Feather by postmodernsideshow

They’re going for $5.50 (or best offer) apiece if you buy the whole lot:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280325739808

Free shipping. Ooooh. Free shipping.

It’s not that funny, except it’s underwear pervert humor applied to the flaccid economy.