Monthly Archives: February, 2010
links for 2010-02-25
Date Badges and Comment Bubbles for Your Blog | CSS-Tricks
One of the things you run into when your blog becomes bigger, is that you need to cram more info into less space, to make it possible to display all the information you want to show. One of the things I did to do that is [...]
links for 2010-02-23
Polycase – Plastic Electronic Enclosures
Polycase has over 1400 styles, sizes, and colors of plastic electronic enclosures for your project!
(tags: enclosures cases case enclosure boxes pcb plastic project diy box electronic)
Passage
Passage is a dice game.
What you need to play
2 dice
Object of the game
The object of this game is to be the first person to roll the point value 11 times.
How to play the game
Everyone rolls both dice once. The player with the highest roll goes first, the player with the lowest roll rolls one die [...]
links for 2010-02-19
Beej's Guide to Network Programming Using Internet Sockets
Hey! Socket programming got you down? Is this stuff just a little too difficult to figure out from the man pages? You want to do cool Internet programming, but you don't have time to wade through a gob of structs trying to figure out if you have to [...]
Par
Par is a dice game.
What you need to play
5 dice
Chips, tokens or coins.
Object of the game
To score more then 24 with five dice and eventually collect everyones chips/tokens.
How to play the game
A player rolls all five dice, if the score is above 24 everyone pays them a token for every point above 24.
For example: if [...]
links for 2010-02-12
10 Bizarre Rites of Passage – Listverse
Boys of the Algonquin Indian Tribe of Quebec were brought to a secluded area, often caged, and then given an intoxicating medicine known as wysoccan, an extremely dangerous hallucinogen that is said to be 100 times more powerful than LSD. The intention of the ritual was to force any [...]
links for 2010-02-11
YouTube: Nerds fight over Green Lantern origin
The video shows mostly health hazards and crotch shots because I didn't want to be obvious about recording them fighting. Either way, the audio is pretty hilarious. It is perhaps the most ridiculou…
(tags: todo video)
What good technology podcasts are out there? – Stack Overflow
(tags: toread programming podcasts audio stackoverflow [...]
Paper, Rock, Scissors Ultimate
Paper, Rock, Scissors Ultimate is a drinking game.
What you need to play
At least one hands
How to play
It’s basically paper, rock, scissors. Same rules apply but if you lose you take a shot of whatever you’re drinking. The only difference is that ties are actually good for once. If a tie happens, (eg. scissors vs. scissors), [...]
links for 2010-02-02
The Space Review: The billion-dollar space pen
Space has its urban legends of course, and the Million Dollar Space Pen is one of the more enduring ones. It is neither as outlandish nor as unbelievable as the story about faking the Moon landings, and even though it seems more credible than a massive government conspiracy, it [...]
One-’O'-Five
One O Five is a dice game.
What you need to play
5 dice
Object of the game
To roll a set of 5 of a kind for every number from 1-6 before any other player.
How to play the game
Each player takes turn rolling the dice and setting aside any dice with the target number. If they fail to [...]
