I typically hate the random flash games that go around the web, but I stumbled on one today that’s actually pretty fun, if only because of the mechanic at work. It’s called Invisible Cursor. The game randomly spawns targets for you to click, but you can’t see the mouse cursor, forcing you to “feel” your [...]
Read More for fun, gamingI was reminded today of Office Max’s classic series of commercials set to the tune of Rubberband Man by the Spinners and starring Eddie Steeples who now stars on the television show My Name Is Earl. I absolutely loved these commercials when they came out; you can’t help but dance in your seat with that [...]
Read More for fun, get inspired, marketing, social networkingI wanted to post another post in the “for fun” category on Friday, but couldn’t come up with anything decent. Late-night stumbles to the rescue! Better late than never, right? Anyway, what kind of a beat would you throw down using the gun sound effects from Call of Duty 4? Serpento has one idea…
Read More for fun, gamingIn my life as a full-time employee, I ran a membership management system for an international non-profit that organized over 40,000 volunteers at the local, state, and national levels in almost 30 countries. It coordinated physical material deliveries (part of the system was a full shopping cart installation), managed electronic documents, and delivered news to [...]
Read More for fun, hardware fail, Twitter, usability failSo I was testing some updates to Fwd:Vault’s mail processing logic today, and I was using a billing message I received from 1&1. While tracking down a bug, I noticed a fantastic header line in the raw message: [...] Message-Id: X-Billing-Backreference: 357619014-200908300000@@9420000.7395000.357600000 X-Binford: 6100 (more power) [...] Let’s hope it’s more stable than Tim Taylor’s [...]
Read More for funJust the latest entry in my get inspired series, my wife let me in on this one. It’s apparently made the news and ended up in more than a few facebook posts, so I am (as usual) just late to party. Oh well. Always dance, and always do it to your own beat. Have a [...]
Read More for fun, get inspiredThe following screenshot was taken from the documentation for Google Page Speed (aka the Google version of YSlow), under the section “Parallelize downloads across hostnames”… I don’t know about you, but I love looking at half-delivered web pages. Let’s hope the guy who wrote this isn’t also responsible for the search engine’s built-in calculator.
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