How into a game do you gotta be to create something like this?

David H.H (Yep, the Ruby on Rails guy) channels me in this post about why he doesn’t like hard problems.

“Because for me its all about value (and probably attention span): If you can get those magical 80% of the solution for 20% of the effort, how about just finding a way to cope with the missing 20% of the solution? If you can, you get to solve five easy problems (with comparable value) instead of solving one hard.”

Woah. Nifty optical illusion.

“The illusion illustrates Troxler fading, complementary colours, negative after-effects, and is capable of showing colours outside the display gamut.”

Whatever, I just think it’s neat.

Dave Devries takes childrens’ art and paints it real. How very cool.

Do not forget the past my son, as the old ways remain alive, well, and in many cases, better. See for example these Morse Coders wiping the floor with a couple of texting dweebs. Watch the movie

So Robby Gordon is complaining that Danica Patrick has an unfair advantage due to her weight (100lbs). Good Lord man, I thought race car drivers were big tough guys who muscled their way around in circles using fast, heavy, macho machinery. Along comes a pretty girl, practically kicks everyone’s asses on the track and suddenly Gordon sounds like a seven-year-old who had his ice cream cone taken away. He’s refusing to race “… until the IRL does something to take that advantage away.”

Now I’m guessing the Indy folks will eventually force the weight to be even, like with jockeys, but c’mon guys don’t whine about it. I hope she kicks your ass after they even things out. Then what?

You realize the same thing happened to me when I was playing professional basketball. Shaq was so tall it gave him an unfair advantage. The NBA refused to do anything about it, so I walked away. Neener neener.

I keep waiting for someone at CNN to show up and explain that putting Nancy Grace on prime time, or on the air at all, was just a big practical joke. She’s not provocative, she’s inflammatory with no shortage of wussy boys (aka Defense Attorneys) to sit there and take it. She’s not hard-hitting, she’s just a whiny little bitch girl who somehow got to play with the big kids. And since when is it “guilty until proven innocent?” Someone please make her go away.

I’ve watched two movies today. Both are portraits of real-life men fighting mental demons. The first is Aviator - big budget, big stars, big director - horrible movie. The second is Tarnation - made by some guy for $218 using iMovie on his Mac - and infinitely better. I’m going to have trouble shaking both of them, but for entirely different reasons.

Someone has come to their senses and forced the goofballs in Cobb County GA to remove those unintentionally hilarious evolution disclaimer stickers from the science textbooks. I mean after all, they are “science” textbooks right? Since when did we start referring to metaphysical nonsense like “Intelligent Design” as science?

By the way, my favorite related ID quote is by non other than Douglass Adams…

”. . imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in. It fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well. It must have been made to have me in it!’ ”

Anyway, the stickers are coming off - and thank God for that, eh? link

One thing I really love is when someone a lot smarter than me rants about exactly the same things I do, only better. Mark Hurst of Good Experience nails a bunch of em, and I’ll summarize here, but be sure to read the short paragraph he adds to each of them.

Mark says: “These are things that NEED TO STOP:”

• Cell phones that make noise when they turn off.

• Cell phones that require a password to check voice mail.

• “Gray text is cooler.”

• “Small text is cooler.”

• “Non-underlined links are way kewl.”

There are a few more, but these just so nail it that I thought I’d bring it up as a public service. If you’re guilty of encouraging any of the above, stop it.