The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

• BuyBlue.org »
• GIMP » The GNU Image Manipulation Program
• Knights Templar to Vatican: Give us back our assets »
• Wordpress SEO Plugin »
• jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library »
• freeSSHd » description
• Julia Child was a spy for the OSS against the Nazis » (the OSS evolved into the CIA later)
• Siberian tiger cub presented in Berlin » cutest tiger cub ever
• US boasts of laser weapon’s ‘plausible deniability’ »
• Pi Be Rational T-Shirt | Snorg Tees »
• Get Satisfaction - People-Powered Customer Service »
• The Beginnings of Sierra Part 1 »
• Team Fortress 2 - A Heavy Update »
• Real Snail Mail: a "Slow Art" project »
• Metacritic.com » Reviews, quotes, and scores from leading critics for film, video/DVD, music, tv, books and videogames. Only metacritic.com uses METASCORES, which let you know at a glance how each item was reviewed.

The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

• 142857 » 142,857 is the best-known cyclic number in base 10.[1][2][3][4] If you multiply the number by 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6, the answer will be a cyclic permutation of itself.
• An Artificial Pancreas »
• No Hitler in new Wolfenstein »
• Swarming robots »
• Snowl » Mozilla's foray into social networking
• TCHO » TCHO is obsessively good dark chocolate; where Silicon Valley start-up meets San Francisco food culture.
• BzzAgent » BzzAgent is a Boston based Word of Mouth Marketing (WOM) and Media Network
• Survey Police » Rank, review, and file complaints against online survey companies. Find legitimate online survey panels.
• Software and Hardware Interview Questions and Answers (Microsoft, etc.) »
• GeekInterview.com » GeekInterview.com is an Open Database where you can share Interview questions from your interviews and get answers from experts.
• LAN Party Massacre » A horror movie for fans of video games and traditional gore; Coming 2009
• Design You Trust. » World's Most Famous Social Inspiration.
• Top 10 Conversation Hacks »
• Quantity Always Trumps Quality »
• Riding with Robots on the High Frontier » space and planet photos

cute video of our impending time/matter space implosion!

The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

• Badger & Blade » This is a community dedicated to the art of wet shaving, and men's grooming.
• Larrabee: Intel’s biggest leap since the Pentium Pro »
• TechIT.com | Find Tech Jobs, Tech People & Tech Help » tech jobs
• Download.com » free software
• Google Transit » bus, train, walking and other urban trip maps
• Dadnab » Bus route text message by city
• Whirled » flash games
• POV-Ray » The Persistence of Vision Raytracer
• gotoAndPlay() » Flash games, tutorials and game development
• Flash Kit, A Flash Developer Resource for Macromedia Flash MX Tutorials SWF FLA images clipart Sounds WAVS Animations Help and Support » an online resource for Macromedia Flash development
• Newgrounds Flash Tutorials »
• Armor Games » flash games
• Cake Wrecks »
• rosicrux tumblr page »
• Chronotron » timetravel flash game, acheive goals with your past and future selves

Been messing with fractals, the last few days.  Here’s one I particularly like.

(click to see it ocean-sized)

ghosts in the machine by ~rosicrux on deviantART

It’s about time. Pre-ops to mangoat for finding it.

I love when I can post stuff that’s nerdy, yet I can still show to my not-quite-as-nerdy friends.

Here are simple logic gates, done in dominos.

The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

• Great Hall Games & Distractions » board game store in Austin, Texas.
• Prince of Persia Creator Jordan Mecher To Helm New Karateka Game »
• The Foggy Monocle »
• Criminal Searches » FREE criminal searches on anyone
• NASA Images » NASA Images, a service of Internet Archive, offers public access to NASA's images, videos and audio collections
• Team Fortress 2 » official site
• Ladies and Gentleman, The Fabulous Stains » cult movie that was never really released, featuring Diane Lane and many early punk bands
• Segovia » spanish restaurant in Austin
• Vino Vino — Austin, Texas » wine and food
• A-11 offense could be the future of football »
• Scientists Find the Trigger of the Northern Lights » Aurora Borealis
• ZombieHarmony » One of the Best Free Dating Sites for Zombies
• WarGames » A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars
• Planet eBook » Download free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels
• Pay to have fish nibble the skin off your feet »

old.

I still get that twinge of jealousy with all his equipment that would have cost a pretty penny back then.  Not to mention his parents never seem to care about him wardialing thousands of calls on their line.  My parents freaked out everytime a computer would dial me.  But how else would I join those wionderful BBSes and get my TradeWars on?

WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars

The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

• Newegg.com » Newegg.com offers the best prices on computer parts, laptop computers, digital cameras, electronics and more with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!
• Monoprice » Monoprice, Inc. (DBA. MonoPrice.com) specializes in the wholesale distribution of world class cable assemblies for home theater, PC, and high technology industries.
• Monster octopi with scores of extra tentacles »
• Search free Garmin maps by location »
• Team Fortress 2 » official site
• Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner »
• EeeUser.com » asus eee pc users

The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

• Alamo Drafthouse »
• Ikariam » free browser game ala Civilization
• AMD Is Fighting For Its Life »
• Download.com » Free Software Downloads and Software Reviews
• Cow farts collected in plastic tank for global warming study »
• Water Found on the Moon » yes, our moon
• Kongregate » free flash games
• Google Launches Virtual World Called Lively »
• Sarcasm Society »
• Mighty Leaf Tea Company »
• Commission Junction » affiliate conglomeration
• Toyota Prius to go solar »

The DeLorean company was reformed when Texan entrepreneur Stephen Wynn acquired it.  They currently have a ton of leftover parts that they will be making into new DeLorean DMC-12’s with all kinds of new options.  Plus they plan to manufacture completely new cars and models from new parts in the future.

Headquarters is in Houston, Texas, and I plan to visit soon!

Jalopnik announces the DeLorean and tours the facility.

The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

• The World Health Organization Documents Failure of U.S. Drug Policies »
• Today is the Day »
• Tablet ignites debate on messiah and resurrection »
• Vice Magazine »
• Yoga And Meditation Change Gene Response To Stress »
• Watermelon may one day have Viagra-like qualities »
• Skin Deep » Cosmetic and Sunscreen Safety Database
• I Can Has Cheezburger? »
• passive-aggressive (and just plain aggressive) notes »
• ESET » home of NOD32 antivirus

The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

• Findsolar.com » Find pre-screened solar professionals for solar power system installation, service. Estimate cost, price and benefits, savings of solar energy power systems for home, house or building. Find solar incentives, rebates.
• Lumeta PowerPly » roofing solar panels
• Scientists to test if cancer cure can work in humans »
• www.dontclick.it »
• Sidewayspony »
• thesixtyone - a music adventure »
• Lenny’s Alice in Wonderland site »
• Imminst.org » Immortality Institute | Advocacy & Research For Unlimited Lifespans

The previously mentioned 20 minute gameplay video… in HD:

The big announcement that Blizzard has been keying up to is indeed that Diablo III is in development.  This makes me happier than Starcraft 2, although I’m sure  will enjoy both immensely.  The official Diablo III website has a 20 minute gameplay video already, and it looks really great.  The bread and butter of the Diablo series for me are the animations and immersion, and the video seems to show that in spades.  Not to mention new sparkly weapons and multilayered creatures that come at you from all sides.

Two classes are revealed in an interactive way, the Barbarian and the Witch Doctor, with more to come as they draw out expectation.

No release date is announced.

Here’s the teaser trailer:

The Call of Duty : World at War trailer was just released, along with the revamped callofduty.com website.  The new game will take place in the Pacific theater of World War 2.

The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

• Mystery on Fifth Avenue » The architectural designer Eric Clough embedded clues into a Fifth Avenue apartment, leading the family who lived there on a scavenger hunt through the rooms of their home.
• Epsilon » One of the sharpest flash games I have played so far. The audio and visuals are stunning for a flash game, and the gameplay manipulates gravity, position, time and others.
• Sorry I Missed Your Party »
• Melanoma Stopped in Patient With 5 Billion Copies of Own Cell »
• Killjoy Cooking With the Dungeons & Dragons Crowd »
• Diabetes linked to depression risk, and vice versa »

via coke cans

The trial version is free, the full version is 10 bucks. Get it at the Spore site.

The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

• Jurassic Park comes true » How scientists are bringing dinosaurs back to life with the help of the humble chicken
• Neshyba Peak »
• Bess Bistro » Sandra Bullock’s restaurant in Austin
• Disbeliefnet »
• AsoBrain.com games » Java based multiplayer games
• Cheapass Games »

As the title says, not much more to say. This is a huge update with thousands of changes across the board, both on the frontend and backend… so pretty much a brand new browser. I’ve tested a few of the builds, but a couple of my extensions wouldn’t work with 3 (yet), so I haven’t used it for my main browsing.  But I love the auto-bookmark search addition, which was my favorite feature of the Flock browser.  Plus it seems alot more snappy, and less memory hogging than Firefox 2.

Mozilla is trying to get a world record for most downloads in a day off the thing. See more at SpreadFirefox.