Online gaming - meaning playing actual shoot-’em up games and the like, not gambling - may be big business but to its fans, it’s also serious business.
So, in order to avoid newcomer (”noob”) faux pas, Destructoid blog has written a cheeky set of 10 Golden Rules of Online Gaming. For example:
8: Singing is awesome:
Communicating via [...]
Multicast over TCP/IP HOWTO
(tags: multicast atalk)
Multicast the chatwaves - Java World
(tags: atalk multicast)
Appliance parts, electronics parts & more from PartStore.com
(tags: parts repair shopping electronics hardware)
Rules of Thumb is attempting to collect all of the world’s Rules of Thumb in one place.
A rule of thumb is a homemade recipe for making a guess. It is an easy-to-remember guide that falls somewhere between a mathematical formula and a shot in the dark. A farmer, for instance, knows to plant his corn [...]
Twins separated at birth have married each other without realising they were brother and sister, it has been revealed.The British couple have now been granted an annulment after a special High Court hearing. Judges ruled the marriage had never validly existed.Full details of how the brother and sister fell in love and married have been [...]
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straight stolen from reddit.com: what's new online
H-Haus - Models
neat prefab houses
(tags: prefab architecture home modern house models)
Just testing out Textmate’s ability to make blog posts through xmlrpc. Pretty neat. I may never have to leave textmate again!
Apple announced newer faster Mac Pros today. They start at $2799 but you can configure them up to several thousand dollars (including software and accessories).
The really expensive bits are the 32 GB of RAM ($9100), the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 video card ($2850), the four 15,000 RPM hard drives ($800 each), the two 30″ Cinema [...]
Enjoy this video of a perpetual motion machine in action. I don’t believe it for a second, but it’s fun to see the thing in action and listen to the guy’s patter. Also, the sound the wheel makes as it spins is pleasant.
Link (Thanks, pooty McDooDoo!)
straight stolen from Boing Boing
Screencaps comparing the DVD and HD versions of LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring (roll over to toggle the images). Quite a difference. (thx, alex)
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straight stolen from kottke.org
Merb | Looking for a better framework?
ruby framework
(tags: ruby framework merb mvc programming web webdesign)
Forgotten NY
neat page about NYC
(tags: architecture blog cool history old NYC photos urban photography)
Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection >> Home
(tags: photography history archive images photo photos)
Matthieu Aubry, Julien Rouvière and Xavier Maurice have developed a drum system that uses two cameras to track drum sticks in real-time. This allows the player to drum away on virtual drums, the computer analyzes what the player is hitting in the virtual world and plays the corresponding sounds.
“Video acquisition of the 2 cameras simultaneously, [...]
Ultimate Server-Side Web Development Cheat Sheets
(tags: cheatsheet reference programming development php perl python ruby)
Blogger sickbastard, poor guy, is apparently hated by the giant e-tailer Amazon! Link
I’m guessing the book is Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
straight stolen from Neatorama