During a discussion of Charlie Stross's epic tale of Windows installation , a Making Light reader called Ajay worked up this killer formal structure of "the well-established genre, the tale of godawful Windows-installation woes": I. Exordium. The ...

feed item - whytewolf - 12/17/2009 - 22:43 - 0 comments

Here's a nice little game-theory exercise: You are in a game show with nineteen other players. You don't know the other players, you can't see them, and you can't communicate with them. The game you are in is called 'Greed!', and is straightforward ...

feed item - whytewolf - 12/17/2009 - 22:20 - 0 comments

Many thanks to copyranter for reminding me about the world's greatest anti-smoking ad, illustrated by Frank Frazetta, and co-starring the world's only selectively-blind teenage surfers. (Click image for a closer look.) Previously: ...

feed item - whytewolf - 12/17/2009 - 13:41 - 0 comments

1 Predator drone: $4.5 million Intercepting video from the Predator drone's unprotected communications link: $25.95 Predator drones are built by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. of San Diego. Some of its communications ...

feed item - whytewolf - 12/17/2009 - 06:59 - 0 comments

Here's a gigantic gallery of the abandoned River Country water park at Walt Disney World, which has been shuttered for years (I last remember playing there in about 1987). The park was supposed to be kind of rustic and homey, and now the ...

feed item - whytewolf - 12/16/2009 - 10:27 - 0 comments

Translated.by is a service for groups of volunteers working to group-translate texts into their native language, intended primarily for use on magazine articles, blog posts, and other short works. Presently, the language options are English, Russian, ...

feed item - whytewolf - 12/16/2009 - 03:32 - 0 comments

The Type n Walk iPhone app enables you to see in front of you, via the iPhone's camera, while typing. I haven't tried it yet, but it's a cute concept. I'd imagine their lawyers wouldn't let them call it Type n Drive. Type n Walk ...

feed item - whytewolf - 12/15/2009 - 18:55 - 0 comments

Deleted. Y'all are right. There are way too many errors in there and I didn't pay nearly enough attention to ferreting them out before I decided to post. My bad. As penance, I offer you this image of a Scutigera coleoptrata being eaten by a Venus ...

feed item - whytewolf - 12/15/2009 - 15:48 - 0 comments

Marking messages as unread is a quick and easy way to remind you to read a thread when you return to Gmail, but you couldn't mark specific messages within long threads as unread—until today. The newly released feature, called "Mark Unread From ...

feed item - whytewolf - 12/15/2009 - 12:00 - 0 comments

Love this vintage Listerine "decanter" - packaging used to be so sweet. Vintage Packaging Design ( via The Dieline ) Previously: Japanese creative packaging design solutions to ugly barcodes ... Paean to iron-on ...

feed item - whytewolf - 12/15/2009 - 01:30 - 0 comments