http://benturner.com/other/links.php A collection of links found through various sources. en-us Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:24:50 -0600 Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:24:47 -0600 15 http://benturner.com/ben.gif http://benturner.com/other/links.php http://www.truehoop.com/other-peoples-nba-writing-150-almost-danish.html So you're playing ball and some guys invite you to try out in Denmark. What an opportunity! Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:24:44 -0600 http://www.flattv.philips.com/index.cfm?event=main&cat_id=1&subcat_id=2 I like the idea -- project averaged light outwards from the TV to create more of an ambient surrounding. But does it work without distracting you? Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:24:41 -0600 http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/games/manifesto.html All the shit that bothers gamers, like stupid A.I., lazy coding, and nonsensical design. Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:24:39 -0600 http://www.cityofheroes.com/media/Costume%20Contest%203/mid/mid21.jpg I never would've guessed! Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:53:14 -0600 http://www.deadjournal.com/users/filmyday/285673.html Is the kangaroo still alive????? Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:53:11 -0600 My luxury is more important than your childrens' clean air. =P Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:53:09 -0600 http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=episode3 And as usual, he didn't like it. Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:53:05 -0600 http://www.seanbaby.com/superfriends/wondertwins.htm#SUPERTHEATER This guy on my team likes to do the whole "Wonder Twin powers activate, form of..." thing and it cracks me up for some reason. Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:53:02 -0600 http://chowned.org/photoforum76132605.jpg Those wacky Asians! Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:53:00 -0600 http://www.wallstreetfollies.com/beartypes.htm I used to identify with perma-bears but there comes a time when you have to re-evaluate. =P Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:52:57 -0600 http://www.livejournal.com/users/theferrett/519211.html Pictures from a graphic novel, in which dinosaurs tried to attack Noah's Ark! Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:18:15 -0600 http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/video/taser_video3a.html If I lived in Florida, I would be pretty obedient to those trigger-happy tasering Florida cops. Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:18:12 -0600 http://nata2.info/humor/flash/smokekills.swf Indisputable proof that smoking has caused all the bad events in the last decade. Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:18:08 -0600 http://www.motormate.com/ I can't believe I saw ads for this on TV. It's just weird. And people are actually buying this shit! Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:18:06 -0600 http://ah.utdallas.edu/people/fturner.html He's a professor at UT Dallas. Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:18:03 -0600 http://cheston.com/pbf/archive.html Hilarious sense of humor. Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:18:01 -0600 http://blogs.msdn.com/jonathanh/archive/2004/12/22/330288.aspx You know how slow it opens and how it still runs even if you close a browser window? Fucking annoying. Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:17:57 -0600 http://www.flickr.com/photos/76586516@N00/ Neat photos, and Gorillaz-like Artwork. Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:17:48 -0600 http://www.rexona.nl/movies/stuntcity.wmv Haha, I'd totally live there! I'd swing onto the back of cabs! Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:17:53 -0600 http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=1666 I'm yelling this in Iraq. LEEROYYYYYYYYYYY JENNNNNNNNNNNKINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNS. Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:17:44 -0600 http://www.flickr.com/photos/88893304@N00/ A lot of photos from a Marine in Iraq from perspectives/places we haven't seen before. Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:22:12 -0600 http://static.thepiratebay.org/apple_response.txt The laws don't apply overseas. Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:22:09 -0600 http://slate.msn.com/id/2117224/ Jason Kottke This slate.com article says Americans are paying their debt down, and it's hurting credit card companies. Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:22:06 -0600 http://www.juicystudio.com/fog/index.asp Jason Kottke My Soapbox frontpage rated in the 8's -- and I always thought I was a fairly sophisticated writer. =( Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:22:03 -0600 http://ifuckedanncoulterintheasshard.blogspot.com/ The Time cover pissed off a lot of people I think. Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:22:00 -0600 http://www.indietits.com/archive/2005_04_01_archive.html A cartoon strip with a cynical view of music. Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:47:32 -0600 http://www.audiodregs.com/beck/totalmix.html Probably my favorite song off the album, along with "Hell Yes". Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:47:29 -0600 http://www.joliehomewrecker.com/ The hottest woman on the planet? Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:47:27 -0600 http://sltrib.com/jazz/ci_2662455 Shouldn't teams compile information on tax laws for their players? Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:47:25 -0600 http://www.gamespy.com/articles/595/595975p1.html?fromint=1 A look at a pretty neat little game that emphasizes user customizability and uniqueness within an adaptable world. Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:47:23 -0600 http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/11/people.shelton.ap/index.html Hahaha. I hate this guy on The Apprentice. He really needs to get fired. Once every show, he does the "NO SIR, I AM THE BEST AT SO AND SO". He's out of control. Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:22:09 -0600 http://www.network54.com/Forum/message?forumid=274559&messageid=1112215571 Nice! Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:22:07 -0600 http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/04/08/DDG27BCFLG1.DTL A different take on jihads. Get your acts together or we will blow you all up. Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:22:04 -0600 http://cruddyaward.blogspot.com/ I wouldn't have said the hooker was worse than the girl whose boyfriend's brother got her pregnant. Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:22:01 -0600 http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3832393 Man, the U.S. car manufacturers are just getting destroyed by the Japanese. Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:21:59 -0600 http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3839554 Declining savings rates, aggressive rich investors, and their consequences. I save maybe 25-35% of my income a year right now! Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:21:56 -0600 http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3819476 Jason Kottke I guess this Web 2.0 thing is attracting fresh attention. There's a lot of cool new services and software out there -- and some big names looking to absorb them. Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:40:02 -0600 http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=8648226&size=o Clever. Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:39:59 -0600 http://www.shreddies.org/gmaps/ Waxy.org A blog for tracking the cool satellite maps people find. Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:39:57 -0600 http://stm.info/English/metro/art/a-index.htm I really like the photos from Place Des Arts Station. Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:39:54 -0600 http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/kimmyxgibbler/pope.jpg Tasteless. Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:03:40 -0600 http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/resources/programming/xmlhttprequest/examples Ajax is the hot thing for site developers. Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:03:36 -0600 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360216/ A movie about Yao Ming? He still plays soft, like he doesn't feel he belongs on the court. Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:03:34 -0600 http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php Google's big on using Ajax -- that's how they seem to do advanced Javascript-like things on gmail and google maps. Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:03:31 -0600 http://www.pbs.org/wsw/tvprogram/#poll The money managers polled by this chief portfolio strategist for Russell said that they wanted money in large cap growth. Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:03:28 -0600 http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news;_ylc=X3oDMTBpb3M3YzRkBF9TAzk1ODYyNTg0BHNlYwN0bQ--?slug=ap-nasdaq-100open&prov=ap&type=lgns Holy cow! How did Federer come back to win this? I saw him slam his racket down, then go into a third set tiebreak, after being down two sets to zero. Amazing! Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:03:24 -0600 http://www.apple.com/trailers/newmarket/rock_school.html A documentary that seems just like "School of Rock" but serious and with Bobby Knight as the teacher. Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:03:21 -0600 http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp I test as an INTJ, mastermind, strategist. Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:03:19 -0600 http://www.capalert.com/capreports/sincity.htm Sin City scores 0/100 with this Christian movie review site. Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:03:15 -0600 http://theteatime.free.fr/talc/rocky.html Jason Kottke Hitting the slab of meat behind the butcher was great. Sat, 02 Apr 2005 20:00:29 -0600 http://www.fincher.org/Misc/Pennies/ I usually just throw my pennies away, but these people make structures out of them. Sat, 02 Apr 2005 20:00:26 -0600 http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/news/ci_2635087 "Saying that the CIA's existing clandestine service is unlikely to overcome a history of poor performance, the report recommends creating a new Human Intelligence Directorate within the CIA to build a better spy service. It also urges major reshuffling of the FBI and the Justice Department." The intel community seems confused and aimless right now. The President seems to have swept most mistakes everything under the rug, and what was left fell on the intel community. Sat, 02 Apr 2005 20:00:23 -0600 http://www.mosnews.com/feature/2004/05/21/petrov.shtml "'I just couldn’t believe that just like that, all of a sudden, someone would hurl five missiles at us. Five missiles wouldn’t wipe us out. The U.S. had not five, but a thousand missiles in battle readiness.' It just didn’t seem like any scenario considered by military intelligence before." Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:53:59 -0600 http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1448381,00.html John Battelle "Google, it seems, has jumped the shark. It has been overtaken, left standing, and not by some new startup of ultra smart MIT alumni or by the gazillions in the Microsoft development budget, but by the deeply unhip and previously discounted Yahoo." Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:53:56 -0600 http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2005/03/conspiracy-theory.html Awesome photo frames of Kristol getting pie'd in the face! Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:53:53 -0600 http://www.2flashgames.com/f/f-1326.htm "Lure people into your cave by using your pudding and camera." Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:53:51 -0600 http://flag.blackened.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=72081 The replies to the topic crack me up. Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:53:49 -0600 http://www.pentagon.mil/releases/2005/nr20050330-2342.html A lot of mumbo jumbo Army-speak, but sometimes good new things (and bad new things) can come of it. There's rumors that we linguists are supposed to get a huge increase in foreign language proficiency pay, but it hasn't been approved yet. Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:15:08 -0600 http://www.rockportinstitute.com/resumes.html "It is a mistake to think of your resume as a history of your past, as a personal statement or as some sort of self expression. Sure, most of the content of any resume is focused on your job history. But write from the intention to create interest, to persuade the employer to call you." Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:15:08 -0600 http://img54.exs.cx/img54/8681/schaivo26yp.jpg Sometimes I feeeeel like I'm beating a dead horse. Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:15:08 -0600 http://www.blogginwallstreet.com/2005/03/budget-deficit.html This chart of the budget deficit puts things in perspective, going back to the 60's. Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:15:08 -0600 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39192964,00.htm MySQL is great for me. But evidently the pedants love to pick on it. Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:15:08 -0600 http://quizilla.com/users/retromex/quizzes/Which%20Napoleon%20Dynamite%20character%20are%20you%3F/ I was Lafawnduh. =P Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:15:08 -0600 http://www.decisionpoint.com/ChartSpotliteFiles/050121_decennial.html Every year ending in 5 going back to the 19th century has been a big rally year for the Dow. Interestingly, a lot of key bottoms occurred in March. Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:15:08 -0600 http://mediamatters.org/items/200503290005 "And you're asking me if a CAT scan was done? How could you possibly be so stupid?" Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:01:51 -0600 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/files/story2782.php "The CIA must cultivate foreign sources, reward service overseas, and tap America’s top students to once again get good information on enemies of the United States." Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:01:51 -0600 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/files/story2774.php A brief article suggesting how money should be re-allocated in the military. Nothing new I guess. Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:01:51 -0600 http://www.nba.com/suns/news/shirley_blog.html Hahahaha this shit is great. =P "I play for (I use the term loosely; play for/cheer for—same thing) arguably the best basketball team in the world. My responsibilities include: 1. Showing up for buses, practices, games, etc. on time. 2. Refraining from causing undue stress to anyone by misbehaving on road trips or wading into the stands to attack fans. 3. Practicing hard when given the opportunity. 4. Entering games when my team is up by an insurmountable margin and attempting to break the shots-per-minute record." Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:01:51 -0600 http://caps.blogspot.com/2005_03_29_caps_archive.html "Or so opines Ed Yardeni in his latest missive to clients. The chief investment strategist at Oak Associates writes that the Fed's hiking interest rates these days because of worries of a "speculative bubble" in real estate. Inflation per se, by contrast, isn't the trigger this time around in the tightening of the monetary screws." Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:05:12 -0600 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002198103_dotcon1main06.html Jason Kottke A look at how InfoSpace left its investors holding the bag. Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:52:16 -0600 http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=47 Jason Kottke A cool stunt held above a Whole Foods Market involving choreographed dancers. OMG SI TEH FEDS RUN! Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:56:07 -0600 http://www.computerhope.com/areacode.htm A list of area codes and their corresponding coverage areas. Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:56:07 -0600 http://www.usrecordsearch.com/ssn.htm You can learn a lot about a person from the numbers in their social security number. Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:56:07 -0600 http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book.htm A bunch of charts looking at the economic numbers for the U.S. in the 20th century. While poverty had a massive dip among minorities, look at the debt situation. Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:56:07 -0600 http://home.velocitus.net/magicman9er/spy8.jpg Advanced technique from a spy manual: the man ladder. All aboard the man train! Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:56:07 -0600 http://home.velocitus.net/magicman9er/chegriffin.jpg If Peter Griffin was a socialist revolutionary. =P Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:56:07 -0600 http://www.livejournal.com/users/qwantz/28155.html?thread=527099 Things which I will do for love: Anything. Things which I will not do for love: That. Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:50:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts Some config changes to speed up Firefox for broadband. Oldie, but goodie for reference. Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:22:29 GMT http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm Listen to "Stairway to Heaven" forwards and backwards, with lyrics. Plus other songs from Britney and Pokemon. Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:22:29 GMT http://scripts.phucknut.net/index.php?page=systeminfo Post specs of your computer through mIRC like CPU speed, memory usage, HD space, etc. Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:22:29 GMT http://www.netdisaster.com/go.php Waxy.org Barrage your site with meteors, submerge it in floods. Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:49:29 GMT http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/education/a/dliarticle.htm A little outdated, but a fairly detailed description of what life is like at DLI, the joint military language school. Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:49:29 GMT http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/002526.html "Flickr has been on my radar for a while now, but I only recently began to start playing with it. I'm impressed as hell. After my first 10 minutes of playing with it, I found myself thinking "why don't we build stuff like this at Yahoo?" In other words, I realized that we could probably learn a lot from this when it comes to building next generation applications at Yahoo." Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:49:29 GMT http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67007,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3 Regina Lynn says we're all just dying to view porn on our PSPs while on the subway!!! Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:49:29 GMT http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/3/19/133129/548 Jason Kottke "There are a number of reasons why the courier life was particularly attractive to this budding young programmer. Part of it was of course standard Office Space fantasy. But there was more. Gibson and Stephenson had taught me that the messenger, the mailman, was a vital romantic figure. The soldier of the information age." While I joined the Army. Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:30:29 GMT http://www.woostercollective.com/2005/03/wooster-exclusive-banksy-hits-new.html Jason Kottke "Dressed as a British pensioner, over the last few days Banksy entered each of the galleries and attached one of his own works, complete with authorative name plaque and explanation." Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:30:29 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/arts/music/06leed.html?ex=1267851600&en=a13c0fac87670850&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland Jason Kottke A look inside the failed attempt to bring out one last Guns'n'Roses album, at great expense and stress. God I love this band. =P Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:30:29 GMT http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1585422789/ I think I read an article about Dean Karnazes in "Esquire". He ran 262 miles straight once. Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:30:29 GMT http://www.dpreview.com/news/0503/05030901samsung_schv770.asp Hmmm... A 7MPixel cameraphone? Oh, that'll only cost about $100, right? I'm dying for the next generation of affordable cameraphones to come out so I can moblog decent photos. Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:30:29 GMT http://next.yahoo.com/ Similar to Google Labs. Yahoo! seems to be catching its stride again, with useable products. Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:30:29 GMT http://slate.msn.com/id/2115126/fr/rss/ I'm thinking "Life Aquatic" drummed up interest in this article, which talks about modern-day pirates. Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:30:29 GMT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Turner Found this recently. My grandfather, Victor Turner, for whom I was named, was a famous anthropologist. Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:30:29 GMT http://www.topsecrettraining.com/index1.html I'm training to be a cage fighter. "The shocking story of how the U.S. military, the feds, and every martial art school on the planet is trying to prevent you from getting this elite combat training." Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:00:00 GMT http://www.activetradermag.com/commentary/hartle/holdrs/comhartle_holdrs.htm A list of Merrill Lynch's HOLDRs, similar to SPDRs or tradeable index tracker stocks. Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:00:00 GMT http://www.babbage.demon.co.uk/morseabc.html Just in case you might need it. Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:00:00 GMT http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?country_id=97&x=6&y=6 One of them says, "Don't confuse the cache with the black 'poison do not touch boxes.' They are what they say and part of the vector borne disease control team's tools." Uhh, right. Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:45:29 GMT http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/battlefield-2/572130p1.html Having generals down to squad leaders for team management seems cool. The models look nice too. Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:45:29 GMT http://battellemedia.com/archives/000601.php I find that most of the stuff I work on is online. Will thin client theory finally realize its hype? Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:45:29 GMT http://newyorker.com/talk/content/index.ssf?050314ta_talk_surowiecki "Still, the trend is unmistakable; in the words of Martin and Moldoveanu, the 'talent class has declared war on shareholder capitalists.'" Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:45:29 GMT http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3487041 A good look at Google's internal database and querying architecture. Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:45:29 GMT http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000740032884/#c138316 So a guy posts a story of his dad finding out about his sexuality, to win a flash drive? Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:45:29 GMT http://www.morganstanley.com/GEFdata/digests/20041115-mon.html The senior economist at Morgan Stanley is extremely bearish. Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:45:29 GMT http://news.ft.com/cms/s/14d1fb9c-8da0-11d9-a4d2-00000e2511c8.html Warren Buffett is shorting the dollar and can't find good value plays to put cash into. Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:45:29 GMT http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/ Jason Kottke PBS Frontline has interesting topics, and it's nice to be able to stream the episodes. Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:45:29 GMT http://gprime.net/video.php/whatsaho Jason Kottke "What's a ho?" Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:45:29 GMT http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453432.0569444443.html Oh ya? How is the U.S. managing THAT? Not by having a national filtering proxy mentality, that's for sure. Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:45:29 GMT