Funny Animal Pics Just a random collection of cute/funny Animal pictures.

Tech Support at NBC Dana sent me a link to this video of a clip from Late Night with a very funny bit about tech support :)

GNOME Sound Converter Dump for when I get home from work. SoundConverter - GNOME Sound Conversion, converts to/from pretty much anything that gstreamer can read.

Firefox and Quicktime Icons Wow, the icons that this guy creates are top notch.

Mario A Cappella This WMV video of an a cappella group performing some classic nintendo music is pretty cool. Thanks to Tom Wilson for sending that over.

Shooting Movies with a DSLR I know that the Canon 20D digital SLR has a high framerate, but who knew it was high enough to shoot a movie with. Can't say the movie is hugely interesting, but the method of it's creation is. Some more details here.

Productivity Buster: Proximity I'm not normally one for strategy games, but this one is good. Thanks Dana, my bosses will really appreciate my lack of productivity today :P

Dancing and Juggling Wow, boing boing points to High-speed Dance Dance Revolution kid juggling three pins. Compared to this guy I can hardly handle the coordination to walk and chew gu <trip>.... aw, crap.

GNOME 3.0 Ideas An interesting article on exploring future GNOME ideas over at footnotes. In the comments is also another page with some interesting / radical ideas for design of menus, window management ideas, filemanagement, and others. Make sure you check the bottom of the pages for more links to other interesting stuff. Anyway, they all have some interesting ideas, especially if combined with some of the hardware graphics ideas that are out there for gnome 2.12.

Hopefully some of these will be implemented, and not lost or politiced away.

Self-certifying File System I read about the Self-certifying File System (SFS) in my Security Hacks book. Basically a replacement for NFS where clients are required to authenticate themselves via key before they can share files. This eliminates the dangers of IP or file handle spoofing.

Now I just need a windows client :)

New Open Source Magazine New Malaysian Open Source online Mag: MyOSS Magazine has their first edition up. It's in english, and has some nice articles, including a good one on the linux suspend to disk (hibernate in windows terms) system.

Cute Kittens Awwwww: Cute little kittens. I can't stop clicking!

Icon Wars Iconwars, little flash movie, very funny, thanks Dana.

Update: Illegal mirror of Iconwars from my cache.

Star Wars Lego Video Game The Star Wars Star Wars Videogame.... looks nifty. Thanks BewitchedGem.

Sexy Covers Boing Boing links to a collection of Unintentionally sexual comic book covers. You pervs!

Visual Bittorrent through Etherape Random($foo) posted a link to a cool Bittorrent visualized by Etherape image. Gotta try that myself one of these days.

Things that Make you Go "Awwwwh" Brian sent me this link. Far too cute. Maximize your browser first, and there is some sound involved that adds to the cuteness.

Bike Jump Video Boone threw me this link this morning of some nutters on racing bikes doing jumps into a big foam pit. Best lines heard?

"what do you need buddy?"
"... ambulance...."

Not that I like to laugh at the misfortune of others, but that's damn funny :)

Blender Docs and Tutorials I'm sure that everyone who needs to know knows about this already, but I just discovered the Blender3D documentation which includes some well done tutorials such as Your first animation in 30 30 minutes, which makes things look really easy. One more thing to add to my list of stuff to learn :)

10 Things Longhorn Should Have An interesting post by Brad Wardell over at wincustomize.com entitled 10 Features Longhorn needs. Some good hits on there, ranging from bundling and licensing issues to multitasking and networking. Via Robert McLaws.

New Fantastic 4 Trailer Cool, another longer and better (IMHO) Fantastic Four trailer.

World Wind World Browser from NASA Found this program this morning and haven't been able to get enough of it. NASA World Wind is very similar to Keyhole, but free, with multiple sats (with different modes), but not quite the huge resolution. Very fun.