Where the stuff in Cloverfield happens

Nice Google Maps mashup. It is sequential.

Monty Python on YouTube and iTunes

Official YouTube channel

Everything you could even want on iTunes

Jim Gaffigan is a funny guy

We’re watching “Beyond the Pale” for the second time. The Hot Pocket bit just cracks me up.

Lord British in Space

Not a bad way to spend $30 million, I suppose.

Richard Garriott is the first game designer in space. The creator of the Ultima series of video games was launched into orbit 17 hours ago with a crew aboard a Soyuz TMA spacecraft.

[From Game designer Richard Garriott blasts into space on a private rocket - Taiwan News Online]

McDonalds + Line Rider = Commercial

McDonalds used Line Rider for a commercial!

Story of a Peanut: The TiVo Remote’s Untold Past, Present and Future

 

Cool Story

Patton Oswalt kills a hobo

Not really (I think), but he says so in the commencement speech he gave at his high school this year.  Not a bad speech.  It had drugs, murder, and Minnie Pearl in it.

It’s always interesting to me to see what people say when they go home again.  Some people handle it well, others don’t.

Bob Hope once said, “When I was twenty, I worried what everything thought of me.    When I turned forty, I didn’t care what anyone thought of me.   And then I made it to sixty, and I realized no one was ever thinking of me.”    And then he pooed his pants, but that didn’t make what he said any less profound.

Patton Oswalt

Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars

Some of these are really funny.  The C# debate appeals to the geek in me.

C#

In the name of the programming language C#, is that # thing (octothorpe) after the C a number sign or the musical sharp symbol? What should the wrongname template say? Some argue that a Microsoft FAQ supports the sharp symbol, while others argue that the ECMA standard promotes the # symbol and that it has better browser support. Some propose using # as a superscript (C^#), which few editors like. Editors repeatedly reverted between each other, some refusing to discuss the issue on the talk page. The issue was resolved with an e-mail exchange with Microsoft stating that in their view it’s an octothorpe symbol representing the sharp symbol, similar to how “<=” represents the less than or equal symbol, and that thus Microsoft does not disagree with ECMA. Written “Netscape” but pronounced “Mozilla”, eh?

Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Top Ten reasons to watch BSG

from before this season, on the Letterman show.  Number one is never the funniest on these things.

 

I guess you’ll do

Odd, depressing, yet strangely funny

 

Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator

I would have been Stockyard Mudslide Palin, for what it’s worth.

Intro to Computer Science free online from Stanford

I can remember when I took that class, albeit not at Stanford.  It was the fall of 1996 and I had never written a program in C before.  I did have some really bad habits from teaching myself BASIC and Pascal though. 

Now, you can get all of that knowledge for free on the Internet.  I can’t image how much farther along I would be if I had had the opportunities then that I have now.  The world is an amazing placew.

This course is the largest of the introductory programming courses and is one of the largest courses at Stanford. Topics focus on the introduction to the engineering of computer applications emphasizing modern software engineering principles: object-oriented design, decomposition, encapsulation, abstraction, and testing.

Stanford School of Engineering

New Muppet Christmas Special this year

 

Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and the rest of the Muppets will help NBC celebrate the holidays this year.
The network has announced its holiday-specials lineup for this year, and it’s a little bigger than usual. The Muppet special, titled “Letters to Santa — A Muppet Christmas” is one of several new shows NBC will use to help fill out its end-of-the-year schedule, in addition to old standbys like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Christmas in Rockefeller Center.”

NBC Plans Muppetational Christmas – Kermit and Co. will star in one of several new holiday specials – Zap2it

Worldwide Tropical Cyclone Names

 

Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center. They are now maintained and updated by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. The original name lists featured only women’s names. In 1979, men’s names were introduced and they alternate with the women’s names. Six lists are used in rotation. Thus, the 2008 list will be used again in 2014. Here is more information about the history of naming hurricanes.

Worldwide Tropical Cyclone Names

Moffat is the new Dr. Who chief

This season should be better.  I liked Russell T. Davies a lot, but he took the series in a lot of strange directions.  Although, Moffat has said that he would like to take it in some darker directions as well.  hmmm…  Let me rethink that.

Steven Moffat, who has written some of the most acclaimed episodes of the BBC’s Doctor Who, has been named the lead writer and executive producer of the hit SF series, replacing show runner Russell T. Davies, the British Guardian newspaper reported.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=54530