Dave Kellam

Check out this D&D ad against online role-playing games (via BB). If you’re going to sit in your basement pretending to be an elf, you should at least have some friends over to help.

The new Harvey Danger album is available for free online via Bittorrent or direct download. They give a lengthy explanation for the rationale on the site.

The $100 laptop is moving closer to reality. The article has some images of the device, it has a handcrank for locations with unreliable electricity.

Marc has written up a WordPress plugin for Audioscrobbler/Last.fm that will display a listing of the last few songs played.

Backup your photos with this Java based utility for flickr

The New Yorker on Intelligent Design — “I wasn’t criticizing,” said Buddha. “I was just noticing.” “What about a koala?” asked the Lord God. “Much better,” Zeus declared, cuddling the furry little animal. “I’m going to call him Buttons.”

Rock, Paper, Scissors doesn’t have enough variety for you? RPS-15 has more than a trillion permutations. The ambitious can also give RPS-25 a shot.

You can use a beer can to make a padlock shim for opening locks.

Joen was looking for some sort of flash music player to play music samples. I found the XSPF player and a WordPress plugin for it. I’ll probably give this a test-drive soon, I have a few plugin type things to get working on this site.

The Shadow Percussion Project is an adaptation of a few tracks from DJ Shadow’s Entroducing performed live by a high-school band. Worth checking out for Shadow fans and former band junkies alike.

For those that took a peek under the hood at slashdot you remember the mess of tables and 2000-era code styling. It’s gone. Everyone’s favourite geek news site is now running on HTML 4.01 and CSS. It might save them some bandwidth.

Extreme Ironing is the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt