The Zone

Et lille tip fra 37signals om hvordan man virkelig får noget arbejde fra hånden. Det gælder om at undgå afbrydelser så man kan fokusere på opgaven.

When you have a long stretch where you aren’t bothered, you can get in the zone. The zone is when you are most productive. It’s when you don’t have to mindshift between various tasks. It’s when you aren’t interrupted to answer a question or look up something or send an email or answer an im. The alone zone is where real progress is made.

Det må være derfor man er så pokkers produktiv når man arbejder hjemme.

1 rød papirklips

Ikke noget man tilskriver særlig stor værdi... Men det kommer vel an på hvad man vælger at gøre med den.

Radio on-demand

Træt af alt det crap de spiller i radioen? Så lav din egen station hos Pandora. Det er en flash baseret player som streamer musik ud fra en anden sang eller artist du kan lide. Sitet er baseret på the Music Genome Project, som har analyseret en hulens masse musik og klasificeret de forskellige elementer musikken indeholder. Du kan stemme på de numre der spilles og på den måde fintune stationen efter den type musik du har lyst til at høre.

Jeg startede en station ved at vælge Comfortably Numb med Pink Floyd. Efter en halvtimes tid spillede Pandora Fire in Cairo med The Cure. Hvorfor mon de spillede den?

Based on what you've told us so far, we're playing this track because it features a subtle use of vocal harmony, a vocal-centric aesthetic, minor key tonality, electric rythm guitars and a dynamic male vocalist.

Googles kalender lanceret

Der har længe gået rygter om at Google var på vej med en webbaseret kalender. Nu har de endelig lanceret den på calendar.google.com. Læs mere og se screenshots hos TechCrunch. Eller gå direkte til den officielle overview side hvor følgende featureliste er taget fra:

Calendar Sharing: Set up a calendar for your company softball team, and share it with the whole roster. (Your shortstop will never forget about practice again.) Or share with friends and family so you can view each other's schedules side by side.

Invitations: Create event invitations, send them to friends, and keep track of people's responses and comments, all in one place. Your friends can receive your invitation and post responses even if they don't use Google Calendar themselves.

Quick Add: Click anywhere on your calendar where an event belongs (or use the Quick Add link), and start typing. Google Calendar understands whole phrases like "Brunch with mom at Java Cafe 11am on Saturday," and will pop new events right into your agenda.

Gmail Integration: Add your friend's Super Bowl party to your calendar without ever leaving your Gmail inbox. Gmail now recognizes events mentioned in emails.

Search: Find the date of the Baxter family BBQ (you knew it was sometime this summer). Or, search public calendars to discover new events you're interested in and add them to your own calendar.

Mobile Access: Receive event reminders and notifications on your mobile phone.

Event Publishing: Share your organization's events with the world. Learn more with our Event Publisher Guide.

Lost suger

Fik totalt grineflip da jeg læste 10 reasons LOST sucks.
Især punkt 1:

Nothing ever really happens. Oh, you think something is going to happen. The previews show that something is going to happen. Sadly though, in the end nothing really happens. It’s amazing that you can watch a whole season of the show and end up pretty much where you started. Yep, still on the island. Nope, still don’t know what all the crazy stuff happening is about…

del.icio.us

Jeg har nu brugt del.icio.us i over et halvt år og bliver mere og mere glad for det. Hver gang jeg støder på et website, som jeg vil bookmark så bruger jeg min "post to del.icio.us" browser button til hurtigt at gemme mit bookmark på del.icio.us. Dermed har jeg altid adgang til mine bookmarks på http://del.icio.us/thomasbc. Man kan hurtig finde et givent bookmark igen ved hjælp af de tags man påklistrede det under oprettelsen. Jeg kan kun anbefale at oprette en del.icio.us konto og komme igang. Du skal nok blive glad for det senere :)

Find flere del.icio.us brugstips i artiklen The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users.

Se også dette treemap over de mest populære del.icio.us bookmarks i øjeblikket.

Firefox memory tweak

Man kan få Firefox til bruge mindre hukommelse når man minimere det. Der skal bare en lille konfigurationsændring til og så vil Firefox flytte sin memory til harddisken ved minimering og derved frigive RAM. Læs mere her hvor følgende beskrivelse er snuppet fra:

1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.

30 seconds of fun

God artikel på Wired om voldelige action spil. Forfatteren skriver om hvordan man nu for tiden mest priser store komplekse spil og at sociale aspekter vil drive MMO spil til mainstream markedet. Det er næsten politisk ukorrekt at tale om skydespil, men som han skriver så var det ikke den gribende historie og de troværdige karakterer som fik folk til at spille det populære Halo:

No, they played it because of what the designers called the game's ability to deliver "30 seconds of fun," over and over again. And those 30 seconds didn't consist of moderating a frickin' guild meeting, if you know what I mean. Nosiree: They consisted of wasting every last freaky alien that wandered anywhere near your muzzle.

Ind i mellem har man brug for bare at slå hjernen fra og klikke løs :)

Will Wright's Spore

På Game Developer's Conference 2005 fortalte Will Wright om det nye spil han arbejder på, kaldet Spore. Den 1 time lange præsentation indeholdt også gameplay clips, som er klippet sammen til denne video:



I artiklen Will Wright: Game Design and Extraterrestrials (PC) sammenfatter GameSpy Will Wright's Game Design Keynote Speech fra 2006 Game Developer's Conference. Det er et indblik i hvad Game Design består af, med eksempler fra Spore.

EVE action thriller

Fandt nogle scans af en artikel fra PC Gamer (September 2005), som handler om hvordan en mercenary corporation i EVE Online infiltrerede en anden corporation for at dræbe deres CEO. De brugte over et år på operationen og plyndrede samtidig det andet corp for flere milliarder ISK.

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Tapemonster

Browsede lidt rundt i mine billeder og fandt et par stykker af et tapemonster

The Tao Of Jack Bauer

Modtog følgende oplysninger fra en kollega i dag:

• If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Myers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he'd shoot Nina twice.
• You can lead a horse to water. Jack Bauer can make him drink.
• If you wake up in the morning, it's because Jack Bauer spared your life.
• Upon hearing that he was played by Keifer Sutherland, Jack Bauer killed Sutherland. Jack Bauer gets played by no man.
• Osama bin Laden's recent proposal for truce is a direct result of him finding out that Jack Bauer is, in fact, still alive.
• Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.
• Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.
• Jack Bauer was never addicted to heroin. Heroin was addicted to Jack Bauer.
• Every time you masturbate Jack Bauer kills a terrorist. Not because you masturbated, but because that is how often he kills terrorists.
• 1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Jack Bauer. Sounds like a fair fight.
• Jack Bauer played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won.
• Jack Bauer killed 93 people in just 4 days time. Wait, that is a real fact.
• Jack Bauer doesn't miss. If he didn't hit you it's because he was shooting at another terrorist twelve miles away.
• Jack Bauer is the leading cause of death in MiddleEastern men.
• Lets get one thing straight, the only reason you are conscious right now is because Jack Bauer does not feel like carrying you.
• Jack Bauer's favorite color is severe terror alerted. His second favorite color is violet, but just because it sounds like violent.
• When life gave Jack Bauer lemons, he used them to kill terrorists. Jack Bauer f*cking hates lemonade.
• When you open a can of whoop-ass, Jack Bauer jumps out.
• Jack Bauer got Helen Keller to talk.
• Jack Bauer can get McDonald's breakfast after 10:30.
• Killing Jack Bauer doesn't make him dead. It just makes him angry.
• Simon Says should be renamed to Jack Bauer Says because if Jack Bauer says something then you better f**king do it.
• The quickest way to a man's heart is through Jack Bauer's gun.
• Jack Bauer can beat the gay out of Elton John.
• No man has ever used the phrase, "Jack Bauer is a pussy" in a sentence and lived to tel...
• People with amnesia still remember Jack Bauer.
• Jack Bauer makes onions cry.
• It would only take 1 bullet for Jack Bauer to kill 50 Cent.
• The real reason the Army ditched the "Army of One"campaign? Jack Bauer sued for copy right infringement.
• Jack Bauer named his cat 'Chuck Norris.' Why? Because He's a pussy.
• Jack Bauer doesn't urinate or defecate. He secretes waste through his pores as two chemicals which can be combined to create napalm.
• That cougar that stalked Kim was actually Jack Bauer's pet cat. Jack used his Beastmaster powers to keep an eye on Kim and to keep her in line through fear.
• The only reason terrorists keep attacking LA is so they can meet Jack Bauer.
• The ancient Chinese built the Great Wall of China not to repel the Mongols, but rather to repel Jack Bauer. It failed when he attacked over the Himalayas.
• Chase wasn't actually in any danger from that terrorist virus. Jack Bauer just cut off his hand because that's how he warns all of Kim's boyfriends.
• Jack Bauer creates an "airtight perimeter" by yelling at the air and calling it a pussy until it gets its shit together and falls in line.
• Jack Bauer parts LA traffic with his enormous penis. That's why he can reach anywhere in the city in the span of a commercial break.
• The reason CTU's superiors are called "Division" is because Jack Bauer broke their building in half in a fit of rage because they couldn't bring him a sandwich in 24 hours.
• Jack Bauer actually finishes every mission in under five minutes. The 24 hours is just creative editing.
• CTU stands for Jack F*cking Bauer.
• God rested on the 7th day. Jack Bauer will be spending his 7th day working his usual triple shift without sleep. Lazy ass God.
• Jack Bauer would have gotten the ring to Mordor in 24 hours.
• Jack Bauer knows where Carmen Sandiego is.
• Once a year, Jack Bauer kills and eats an entire blue whale. This is why he is never seen having lunch.
• If Jack and MacGyver were locked in a room together, Jack would make a bomb out of MacGyver and get out.
• The reason that it’s forbidden in Islam to create a likeness of Muhammed is that Muhammed is afraid that Jack Bauer will recognize him.

VMware Player

VMware har lanceret en snedig VMware Player:

VMware Player is free software that enables PC users to easily run any virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC. VMware Player runs virtual machines created by VMware Workstation, GSX Server or ESX Server and also supports Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disk formats.

U2's Ummagumma monster

William Gibson har på Wired skrevet en artikel om hans oplevelse af U2's Vertigo//2005 tour. Han har fulgt dem bag scenen til nogle koncerter og fortæller bla. om deres brug af teknologi. I et interview med Vertigo tourens video guru nævnes følgende mulighed for brug af video i fremtiden:

"We're thinking of webcasting concerts through U2.com, but part of the deal would be that subscribers could only watch us if we can watch them, through their home webcams, and then we'd all get to watch those images "

Smarte ord

Her er en der virkelig hader alle de smarte ord der bruges for tiden:
If these words were people, I would embrace their genocide.

"Metrosexual: A gay guy still in the closet."

LOL

Tutorial: Find mp3 med google

Søg på dette: ?intitle:index.of? mp3 "sang eller kunstnernavn"
Eksempel: ?intitle:index.of? mp3 Metallica

Tak til Robert for dette niftige tip :)

Disco Elevator

Sådan kan man selvfølgelig også bruge en elevator ;)

taken

Must see flash animation:
"taken" - - by Adam Phillips

Top 10 internet fænomener

CNET har lavet en top10 over internet fænomener. Det er ikke dem alle jeg kender men de har da et par perler med. Min favorit er helt klart All Your Base Are Belong To Us. Kan huske at jeg samlede på photoshopped AYBABTU billeder dengang animationen drønede nettet rundt.

Apples switch reklame med Ellen Feiss er nu også ret god. Hun ser så steneren ud.

Slaver laver MMO guld

1up.com har en artikel om hvordan nogle tjener penge på MMORPG spil. De hyrer en masser "billig arbejdskraft" i østen til at spille et MMORPG. Deres opgave er at samle items i spillet som hovedmanden så sælger for RL penge på auktions websites. Artiklen får det til at lyde ret udbredt, indbringende og velorganiseret. Personligt synes jeg det er rystende at folk bruger deres penge på virtuelle ting i et eller andet spil.