LonnieOlson

Last night I made the mistake of playing with some very strong magnets near my laptop. Magnets are hard to resist, especially when they trigger the magnetic switch that puts it to sleep. Unforunately I moved the magnet too close to the hard drive.
I heard a single click. Fear strikes! I [...]

I found a command line RPG with a twist, it is comeplely non-interactive. It is called “Miller’s Quest”:http://www.beastwithin.org/users/wwwwolf/games/millerquest/ You just launch the game, create your character, and watch it progress. At first I thought it would be really lame, but after a while of watching I can’t get enough.
I even hacked together [...]

Stolen from “Yeast Radio.”:http://www.yeastradio.com/ Here is a hilarious movie about Xmas.
“Xmas video.mov”:http://www.kittypee.com/files/Xmas%20video.mov

“Apple”:http://www.apple.com/ put up some “sample code”:http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/ASCIIMoviePlayerSample/ASCIIMoviePlayerSample.html that can play QuickTime movies in your Terminal window.
Before:
!/images/4t.jpg (screen capture from QuickTime)!:/images/4.jpg
After:
!/images/3t.jpg (Capture from ASCIIMoviePlayer)!:/images/3.jpg
Oh, BTW, those are screen caps from “DigitalLifeTV”:http://www.digitallifetv.com

At the “UPHPU meeting,”:http://uphpu.org/article.php?story=20050926112303663 Jeff Barr showed us where “maps.a9.com”:http://maps.a9.com is going. I started browsing around it, and found my workplace and the accompanying “map”:http://maps.a9.com/?mapMode=m&mapBvr=&ypLoc=28+S+400+E%2C+Salt+Lake+City%2C+UT&mapFrom=&To to be pretty creepy. However, this idea could really be a great thing. No more confusion about crappy landmark directions. Now you can have that _deja [...]