Link Dump (#1, 2007)
Published Sunday, January 7th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Welcome to the all new Link Dump from Hypercubed. This randomly periodic postings will highlight interesting links I discovered while on one of my many Internet addiction binges. Posting won’t be weekly.. I’ll dump just enough to avoid impaction. Enjoy.
- The Simpsonzu by *spacecoyote on deviantART – What if the Simpsons were draw as anime characters? [via http://digg.com/]
- Futurama: Super Happy Fun Show by *spacecoyote on deviantART – Or how about Futurama characters? [via http://digg.com/]
- chaparyan.com: Unnecessary Censorship – I often wonder about the effectively of bleeping profanity on TV. I remember even as a young kid I could mentally fill in the missing curse word. As this link shows sometimes the word you fill in is worse the original. [via http://www.chaparyan.com/blog.php]
- Howstuffworks “How Hangovers Work” – I thought everyone knew that hang-overs were dehydration. After drinking water is your best friend and the porcelain god is your worse enemy. [via http://digg.com/]
- Sayings and Phrases – meanings and origins – Ever wonder about the origin of Head over heels and Shake a leg? Well now you know.[via http://digg.com/]
- Friday the 13th, 2029 – On April 13, 2029 an asteroid will fly past earth at ~19,000 miles above ground. That sounds like a nice safe distance but realize that the XM and Sirius radio satellites are at ~22,000 miles and the moon is ~240,000 miles above the earth. Sounds like a close shave to me. [via http://digg.com/]
- Windows screwup forces Ubuntu shift – I love MS products! I just hate their OS licensing scheme. This day and age you can but computers for 2 – 3 hundred dollars. Why would you want to pay nearly that much for the operating system? Plus you need to by a new licence for every machine in your home. Buy a new computer and you need to buy a new OS. The one you installed on the old computer is useless. Many people are just giving up on windows altogether! I hope MS realizes that they need to give us a reasonable system or we are leaving. [via http://digg.com/]
- RubyTooth – Submachine 1: The Basement – Short little puzzle game. Reminds me of the old Apple IIe games. [via http://digg.com/]
- Bizarre Boiling – Ever wonder what water boiling looks like in microgravity? Me neither but here you go. [via http://digg.com/]
- WeddingDepot’s Nonresponsive, Passive Aggressive, Customer Service – Consumerist – This article details an exchange between a customer and a customer assistants rep from the website WeddingDepot.com. The article implies that the WeddingDepot customer service rep is in the wrong. I don’t know… the customer service rep sounds reasonable to me. The customer on the other hand sounds off. Anyone that believes that customer is always right crap is full of it. [via http://www.consumerist.com/]
- Techcrunch – Blog Archive – Thank You, Akismet – Akismet is a life saver. It has caught 31,792 spam messages on my site. Can you image deleting them by hand? [via http://digg.com/]
- Play 3rd World Farmer Game Online – Arcade Town .com – I assume that this game has an agenda to show how difficult it is to get out of poverty in the 3rd world. But when I played it after a few turns I was doing pretty well. After 24 turns I had built a school, roads, a medical clinic, and even political representative. Based on this I think I’m going to cancel my sponsor a child donations. [via http://digg.com/]