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Wiimote Makes Your Screen A Canvas

Johnny Chung Lee of Carnegie Mellon University decided that the infrared camera inside the Wiimote could be put to interesting uses ... and he's right. This is some of the coolest stuff I've seen for a while. If some company out there doesn't build a $50 kit that converts your monitor to a poor man's Cintiq they're missing a really good opportunity.

You might also recall one of his earlier efforts, the $14 DIY Steadicam bracket featured in Make Magazine #1. I'm starting to be a serious fan of his. =]

Do Not Watch This While Eating or Drinking

Let my mistake be your forewarning. As I'm settling in to finish a last bit of serious work before heading to RubyConf tonight, my eyes fell on The Escapist's Zero Punctuation Review of Valve's Orange Box.

This is blow-coffee-out-your-nose-FUNNY. Now I just wish they had a Wii version of Portal; until then I'll have to settle for this.

A(nother) Blast From The Past

A very smart friend of mine named Andy posted this video on his Facebook profile:

Besides being engaging, it showed a google search which leads to the w3.org's archive of the first website ever. Bonus: the first ever categorized list of websites, back when it seemed like we could invent a taxonomy to cover the internet (shades of Yahoo! ;) and ... an even earlier list of web servers circa 1992 ... thus referential nature of the title of this post.

A Blast from the Past

Tripped over this looking for some other things: A list of all the www.*.com hosts from some indeterminate time long ago January 18, 1996. All 2227 of 'em.

If I get 'round to it, I may see which are still up and owned by the same entity.

Prolly not.

Economics & Fishing

Anyone ever notice that nearly every reading in economics involves a fishing story?

I think it's so economists can deduct fishing vacations as research.

Alice is Lost!

Have you seen her?

DIY Upper Atmosphere Photography

I can't wait until Sam's old enough to think this is cool so we can do it together.

I might not wait.

Link: SABLE-3 Balloon Launch.

ThereWolf!

We played Werewolf! at the Velvet Cloak Inn where Beth and I had stayed the night before. They gave us The Charter Room for the evening as it's currently closed for renovations. They were awesome to us, incredibly hospitable; one of the owners, David Smoot, personally worked on the air conditioning issues in the room (it was a toasty 86 when we arrived) and was about to rip the protective cover off the wall when the guy with the key called and got it sorted.

Werewolf Rules and more Pictures of the Villagers.

BTW, staying at the Velvet Cloak was incredibly great. Super hospitable, great rooms poolside, strong-fast wifi ... and the Charter Room opens again in three weeks! Sorry I'll miss it this time around, but I promised Mr. Smoot that we'd drop in next time we're in town. And we will.

Names as best I remember them (send me more and I'll fix this; I'm teh suck with last names it seems): Carl Youngblood, Chris Redinger, Joe Martinez, Tony Devlin, Coby Randquist, Rick DiNatale, Ted Behling, Evan Light, Marcel Molina Jr., me, Chad Fowler, Lyle Johnson, Devin Mullins. Not pictured: Ryan Daigle.

Update: So now I'm home, have slept (a little), and am rapidly correcting names as I learn them have added everyone's names, and see that I left out the part about how astonishingly fun the games were. They were. I'm really looking forward to Rails Edge now. =]

LOLCODE ... OMG!!1

I can't stop laughing. Particularly at this example. And this feed.

KTHXBYE.

Link: LOLCODE.

Boobs, Injuries, & Dr. Pepper

Okay, this is a geek blog. And a lame one as I so rarely link to someone else's blog. Come to think of it, this is pretty much masturbation to techporn in prose for all that I care about readership. I'm no linkwhore.

So you know it's serious if I say, YOU MUST READ THIS BLOG. Particularly, THIS ENTRY.

You'll blow milk out your nose. And she ain't gonna clean it up for you.

Link: Boobs, Injuries, & Dr. Pepper.