These are my links for September 8th through September 19th:

• Foldit – Solve Puzzles for Science
• Getting Started on the Google+ API – Google+ Platform Blog –
• Freetronics –
• HTML5 Rocks – A resource for open web HTML5 developers
• Shako Solenoid Valve for Water Drop Collision Photography –
• Secularism and Its Discontents : The New Yorker –
• CastingWords – Transcription services: Audio, Video, CD/DVDs… 
• Amazon Mechanical Turk –
• HiViz.com – Learn High Speed Photography. DIY kits
• David Scott Lewis, the mystery hacker who inspired the film "War Games" | VentureBeat –
• David Scott Lewis, the hacker who inspired WarGames –
• 1980s in film – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –
• UT Painter Hall Telescope –
• Czech Heritage Society of Texas –
• The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science –

These are my links for August 14th through September 4th:

• Downloads (2010-2011 Fall) | CS 193P iPhone Application Development –
• UIPickerView – Creating a simple picker view | iPhone SDK Articles –
• Steve Jobs: Jerry Pournelle Reflects –
• Dreamstime – Stock Photography
• Fotolia.com – Royalty Free Stock Photos
• Evernote software company plans new studio, aggressive hiring in Austin –
• Five Ways to Speed Up Lightroom – O’Reilly Digital Media Blog –
• Does the 1796-97 Treaty with Tripoli Matter to Church/State Separation? –
• Python documentation –
• Why most people don’t finish video games –
• Tracking the Trackers: To Catch a History Thief | Stanford Center for Internet and Society –
• Violet Crown Trail | Hill Country Conservancy –
• South Austin Medical Clinic –
• World War II in Photos – Alan Taylor – In Focus – The Atlantic –
• Understanding & Using Ansel Adam’s Zone System –

after lunch at Garrido’s, originally uploaded by rosicrux.

Austin, Texas

These are my links for April 19th through May 7th:

• Missing The Point: It Doesn’t Matter If Torture “Works” –
• Transistors go 3D as Intel re-invents the microchip –
• DSLR Mirror Lock-Up – Worth the Effort or Not? –
• Take Shape For Life –
• A Keyboard and a .45 –
• Oleg Volk Photography –
• CrimeReportSearch –
• The First Zombie-Proof House –
• OOSChecker: The Ultimate iPad2 Treasure Hunter –
• Affordable Weekend Getaways and Vacations – LivingSocial –
• Texas3006.com –
• Corps Lakes Gateway: Texas –
• Lily Ponds Cottage – New Ulm, Texas –
• Google Encrypted Search –
• Portal 2 and Steam on PlayStation®3 –

These are my links for April 1st through April 9th:

• Unlock Your Vonage Cisco ATA 186 –
• Squirrel fishing at Univeristy of Texas – There used to be an old albino squirrel at the University of Texas when I went there in the 90's.  I accidentally found this picture of him on a "squirrel fishing" website.
• How Slavery Really Ended in America – NYTimes.com –
• How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) – Austin Kleon – And there is nothing new under the sun
• Trunk Club Men’s Outfitters: A clothing service for men –
• Metamaterial Reveals Nature of Time and the Impossibility of Time Machines –
• W3Schools Online Web Tutorials –
• TinEye Reverse Image Search –
• Glen’s story…. a cautionary tale for shooters –
• TSA: Traveling with Special Items –
• Underwater Sculptures Help Save the World’s Oceans –
• why the gun is civilization –
• Army Artwork & Images –
• iPad2Tracker – Find which local Targets, BestBuys, Walmarts, RadioShacks and Sam’s Clubs have the iPad 2 in stock and available. –
• Apple iPad 2 Stock Tracking: How to Find One –

These are my links for March 13th through March 19th:

• debt collection, bankruptcy, personal finance & consumer rights | Caveat Emptor –
• consumerlawyer.mn — aggressive consumer advocacy –
• Y Combinator –
• How to Incorporate a Business –
• Beautiful by Nature – Turks and Caicos Islands – Turks and Caicos Tourist Board –
• FIAT of Austin –
• The Secret World –
• Langley Ranch –
• Japanese Earthquake Implications Quick Q&A –
• Someone is doing something nasty –
• Micromegas –

Tilt Shift Photography of ExploreUT this year.

There was no credit listed so I will post the official University of Texas Facebook page where it was posted.

These are my links for January 27th through February 5th:

• Top 10 uncracked codes – Taman Shud
• Taman Shud Case – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –
• PoliceHQ.com by Streicher’s – 800-367-3763 –
• Chris Bathgate Sculpture – machined sculpture
• Amazing Woodcarving Master –
• Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code –
• Stopping Power –
• Heini Hemmi – Alpine Skiier won 1976 Olympic Giant Slalom
• Austin Explorer –
• In-N-Out Burger Heads To Texas –
• Lightroom Adjustment Brush Basics –
• Gun Supplies | Gun Accessories | Parts from Top Gun Supply –
• Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn’s Revenge | Mythic Entertainment | Ultima Online – Trey "Rosicrux" Neshyba in game credits for Ultima Online
• AIM Surplus Home –
• Candida 1-2-3: Diet and Supplements (Step 1 of 3) –

These are my links for January 16th through January 26th:

• Handgunlaw.us –
• Best Choices for Self Defense Ammo –
• Post your character builds! –
• Archaeologists find new clues why the Maya left –
• The Notes of Japanese soldier in USSR –
• Female Student | Attractive Student | Dead Website Girl found –
• Official Samsung LNxxA650 Owner’s Thread – AVS Forum –
• As Above So Below – Bridge in South Austin near SoCo – dedicated to Trey (not me)
• S100A10 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –
• Stuxnet cyberworm heads off US strike on Iran – the Stuxnet worm included one component designed to send Iran's centrifuges spinning out of control and another to record normal operations at the nuclear plant and then play them back so that everything would appear normal while the centrifuges were tearing themselves apart.
• Austin Rodent Control & Rat Exterminator TX –
• Austin’s Wildlife Removal –

These are my links for December 23rd through January 4th:

• Best Buy Masters Computer Science & Information Technology | Ratings & Rankings | GetEducated.com –
• CSU CS Online Masters Degree –
• Portalarium – Game Developer in Austin (Richard Garriott has joined this team)
• Car2Go Sweeps Austin Off Its Wheels – Car2Go to hopefully expand its area, and definitely expand its fleet with new cars
• bunnie’s blog –
• TF2 Backpack Examiner – Blueprints –
• Musican killed in home burglary attempt, authorities say –
• James Jean | Home –
• Chumby Spare Parts at Sparkfun –
• The animal world has its junkies too – Animals that get high
• MakerBot Industries – Robots That Make Things. –
• chumby sphere forum –
• Chumby hacker board beta – ChumbyWiki –
• chumby hacker board wiki –
• Texas State History IMAX Theatre –

These are my links for November 29th through December 3rd:

• Digby – mobile development in Austin
• Mutual Mobile Inc – app development in Austin
• Skylighter.com – Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Chemicals
• Synergy – use keyboard and mouse across LAN
• marlinowners.com –
• End of an era for Austin City Limits –
• Austin City Limits Taped For The Final Time On The Forty Acres – ACL

These are my links for November 7th through November 21st:

• Das Keyboard –
• Hyperbole and a Half –
• AustinRecruiter.com –
• AccessUT – UT students and alumni recruiting – HireTexas
• the Experience eRecruiting Network – University of Texas Natural Sciences Career Services eRecruiting
• Necropolis of Britannia Manor III (Unknown Cache) in Texas, United States created by LordBritish –
• ArduiNIX – Arduino Nixie Tube Kit
• Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds –
• Is Death the End? Experiments Suggest You Create Time –

These are my links for October 10th through October 12th:

• Feeling chipper, the wood ant caught bringing science to life –
• Pinballz Arcade – Austin Pinball arcade
• dzone.com – developer links
• Baguette et Chocolat – French pastries in Austin

These are my links for August 21st through August 22nd:

• AppsAmuck – iPhone Development Tutorials and Examples
• Creating an iPhone Application – Tutorial One –
• Application Submission Feedback –
• Olivia Munn Interview on Collider – via Scott Wampler

These are my links for August 19th from 16:41 to 19:47:

• The Secret Tunnels Under UT –
• H2Orange – Clean. Crisp. Pure Texas. Purified Texas Water. –
• Texas Water in UT Tower-Shaped Bottle to Raise Millions for Academic Scholarships –
• Bit Twiddling Hacks –
• five-essential-phone-screen-questions – from steve yegge

I think we all knew it would happen, or at least ‘horns like me thought about it enough that it almost seemed a memory. Major Applewhite, one of the most loved and decorated quarterbacks in University of Texas history, has come home and joined the University of Texas coaching staff.

The boy-man that filled the turn of the decade with brilliant on-the-fly calls, and snatching us from sure defeat so many times. Racking up a ton of school records even though he shared quarterback time with Chris Simms. The beautiful teamwork with Ricky Williams. Man, I loved those seasons. I loved watching him cool as Eastwood while the pocket would collapse around him.

Anyways, enough nostalgia, we’ll have plenty of time for that, as we’ll see him on the sidelines on every game now, just not in the same uniform. He’ll be taking over the vacant running back coach position… which is a fantastic timing, as we are the top pick of the top pick high school running back: Darrell Scott.

“I don’t know who that is, but it doesn’t matter,” said Scott

Oh, you’ll know! Scott is stunning to watch and I am excited about him possibly donning the orange, especially after we lost Jamaal Charles to the NFL a bit early. But hearing that Applewhite was coming back eclipsed all my excitement for Scott. Unfortunately I wont be getting student tickets for free after I graduate in May, but that doesn’t matter.

“He does everything right,” Coach Mack Brown said. “He’s got class, he’s smart, he’s got great faith. He competed his tail off.”

He also is being given the title of Assistant Head Coach.

Awesome.

• Nuclear Dawn – Welcome » Half-Life 2 mod
• Drawn to be alive » inventive mod
• Darsana » standalone multiplayer medieval game
• Troubleshooting a Peer to Peer Networking » on Windows machines
• Htaccess file – Rewrite »
• Pepakura Designer » Turn 3d computer models into paper models
• University of Texas Videogame Archive »
• South Austin Museum of Popular Culture »
• Vulcan Gas Company posters » Austin myusic venue from the 60′s that was the predecessor and inspiration for the Armadillo World Headquarters
• Device wakes man with severe brain injuries | U.S. | Reuters » A man with severe brain injuries who spent six years in a near-vegetative state can now chew his food, watch a movie and talk with family thanks to a brain pacemaker that may change the way such patients are treated, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
• Will playing games create a two-tier society? » Scientists say gamers are more visually intelligent. But what does that mean for the future of the net?
• Beer in space: A short but frothy history »
• Firefox/Thunderbird Extension Wizard »

Here’s Will Wright displaying a creature sequence from beginning to end in Spore at SXSW yesterday. It’s much like the original videos he showed when introducing the game a year or so ago, but obviously it’s being demo’d with the current engine and with a new creature being made up on the the fly. He gets all philosophical in the middle, as game designers are wont to do, and skips over village creation. But he goes much more into planet and space modes than before. The 17 minute video shows off planet weather, terraforming, planet invasion, creature encyclopedia, and galactic and intergalactic exploration.

Looks like the game is coming along just as expected. I’m hoping the replay value turns out as good as it seems, from the videos. And I hope the release date doesn’t get pushed back anymore (it currently resides at Q2 ’07).

Living in Austin since the 80′s, it’s bittersweet for me to see what SXSW has become. On one hand, we get the best of all media worlds coming here: started with music, and expanded into movies, and now is huge on electronic entertainment. On the other hand, as a perpetual student, I can’t afford even a portion of the events anymore, much less the one grand fee of seeing everything.

Le sigh.

In a study of the top 20 American cities, Austin, Texas topped the list of cities with the most time-saving services. The city has the highest per capita “in and out” gyms, quick-copy centres and quick-change oil services.

Additionally, the city is building a toll road around the city that only accepts electronic tolls.

The EBay Express study assessed a city’s “impatience” by the number of convenience-oriented services on a per-capita basis. Services included convenience stores, one-hour cleaners, Wi-Fi hot spots and speed dating services among others.

Guess it’s not just the drivers

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While this could go the way of elitist hobnobbing, it also has some great potential.

Details are emerging of Nintendo doing their own viral marketing just before the release of the Wii console. They will be having private parties in select major cities. In fact, Austin is one of the only four cities rumored. The others are LA, Chicago, and Denver. Nintendo chooses several people as hosts and those luckies invite 30 of their closest friends. Little is known about the content of the parties beyond messing with the new console and guests being whisked there in secret. The parties will start in mid-October.

The quality of the parties will be in the hosts. Who are how they are picking them is anyone’s guess at this point. Will they pick local celebs, hardcore Nintendo geeks, General gamer types, or regular people wandering down SoCo? I doubt it will be entirely random.

Seems that they are trying to make it sorta trendy, so I would bet they are going for the 4th-6th street crowd or possibly even focus on University of Texas students.

A bit ago I reported that Nintendo was going to be promoting the Nintendo Wii grassroots style by using a series of private sessions with regular gamers and non-gamers across the country.

Nintendo is going to use some mysterious formula to calculate buzz and cool and then select a few people as “hosts” for this private Wii parties. The plan, it sounds like, is for Nintendo to select a few of these hosts for each city.

Then the host gets to invite a couple dozen friends, family and the like. The hope, I hear, is that it won’t be just a Wii and 30 Nintendo fanboys. What Nintendo really wants is a nice mix of soccer moms, dads, grandmas, worker bees, technophiles and, yes, some hardcore gamers.

The event will feature a number of Wii games, but the only two I’ve been able to nail down are Wii Sports and WarioWare: Smooth Moves.

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