- Coding from the Barka Lounger
"Why will a company that pays its engineers a fully-loaded salary of over $10,000 per month spend only $150 a month on the physical work environment most critical to them?"
Tags: business, management, furniture, office, work, environment - Video: Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition Tested - Perl Scripting
Hilarious video of someone trying to write a Perl script using Vista’s speech recognition. To be fair, these kinds of problems are probably common to all speech recognition, but it’s still funny. "Press Caps Lock. Press Caps Lock. Press Caps Lock."
Tags: video, microsoft, vista, speech, recognition, perl, coding - Warren Ellis discusses his new book, Crooked Little Vein
"I …wrote the first ten thousand words of an utterly unsaleable novel. I handed her this horror of a thing, complete with Godzilla Bukkake scene… thinking… that she’d decide I was insane and never bug me again. Two weeks later… she’d sold it…
Tags: warrenellis, comics, books, interview, politics, literary, agent - Video: Alien Vs Predator (Shower)
Hilarious commercial for Alien vs Predator.
Tags: aliens, predator, video, games, commercial - Video: A Tried And Tested Method - The Longcut
Another info-graphic inspired music video. This one’s not quite as good as the Royksopp one, but it’s still pretty interesting.
Tags: music, video, longcut, infographics, visualization, design, subway - Project Rooftop
"Project Rooftop is where cartoonists and illustrators bring their costume design skills to task in tribute to the superheroes and villains we’ve grown up with. This site is intended to promote excellence in costume design as well as foster continued in
Tags: comics, art, illustration, costumes, superheroes, design - Gallery: Settlers of Catan Live
Yeah. Settlers of Catan - on Xbox Live. I cannot freaking wait. I think it’s the trading interface that will make or break this - if they can make this game as easy and fun to play as the 360 version of Uno did, then I may have difficulty ever going back
Tags: settlersofcatan, catan, microsoft, xbox, 360, live, settlers, video, games - Veganism vs. the Viking Funeral at partialmarshall.com
"He has deemed it the Viking Funeral, as he thinks it resembles three vikings on a boat sent off to burn (in the microwave, in this case). Ready? Here it is. Viking Funeral: Toast. Three cheese stuffed sausages. A blanket of cheddar. "
Tags: food, cooking, sausage, cheese, toast, vikings







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