When Zeppelins Ruled the Earth. A five-minute lightning talk on airships and their disastrous history. Nobody does infectious enthusiasm quite like Simon Willison.
A Crow In Hell. Gothically styled silhouetted obstacle avoidance flash game.
“Trying to decide whether to get Far Cry or Fable tomorrow. Thought it was a foregone conclusion until the reviews started coming in.”— @twitter
Idle Thumbs. The apathetic owners of this great but under-used site for video game news and criticism have re-invented themselves as a very funny and well produced podcast. Contributor pedigree includes Gamasutra & Shacknews.
MacRuby. A new competitor for the RubyCocoa bridge, directly from Apple. Tighter integration leading to better performance, and named arguments allowing for more natural translations of method names. Looks genuinely useful.
Elastic tabstops - a better way to indent and align code. Genius. I'm glad someone is actually thinking about how to fix this stuff rather than just endlessly debating tabs vs. spaces. Hope the developers of all the major text editors take a serious look at this.
“@gwarek Joel Spolsky on the shoe lotion phenomenon: http://tinyurl.com/4leb7c”— @twitter
Joshua Shachter on URL shorteners. Apparently I'm not the only one who hates TinyURL and pals. The founder of del.icio.us expresses his distaste for them over at Hacker News.
The eyeballing game. Test your visual measuring abilities by guesstimating the correct positions of points.
How to Write a Spelling Corrector. A relatively simple implementation in Python by way of explanation. By Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google and author of popular books on AI programming.
The Night Sky. Really nicely paced slide-based guide on how to read the stars. Loading image-slices sometimes give the game away sadly, would've been better served by flat image maps.
Stack Overflow Podcast. Steve Yegge makes a guest appearance on this week's phone-in chat with Jeff & Joel.
Preventative Maintenance Monthly. Online archive of a technical publication from the U.S. Army presented in comic-book style. Once illustrated by Will Eisner during the Korean War. Anthropomorphic tanks FTW!
Cover Band. Artworks painted with famous album covers as the canvas for a show at Gallery 1988 in L.A. Wonderful idea with wonderful results.
Two entertaining cultural phenomena which arrived in my RSS reader one after the other:
That is all...
...no wait, stop the press! Linked to from Laser Portraits is the fantastic Sexy People.
Dtrace Review. Bryan Cantrill giving a Google Tech Talk on Sun's (and his) Dtrace debugging tool. Gets way too gnarly and kernelicious for me in the middle, but still very entertaining and informative.
Just Enough C For Open Source Projects. And for those who first cut their teeth on today's crop of modern, dynamic, memory-managed languages.
Meat Boy. Cute, bloody and tricky 2D vertical platformer.
Zombie Apocafest 2008 | The Brothers Brick. Big Lego community diorama of town fighting off zombie apocalypse. Lots of lovely little details in the flickr stream.
Visit the archive if you wish to skip merrily through time in a devil may care fashion.