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Infinite text playground

http://yourworldoftext.com/defaude

You can type anywhere you like on this endless canvas. To move around in space, you can simply click and drag to move the whole canvas. I know it serves absolutely no purpose and is completely pointless, but I think it’s really funny to toy around with 😎

TLDR :)

http://www.skorks.com/2010/05/how-to-be-a-real-elite-programmer-and-make-sure-everybody-knows-it/

Cool mini-description on how GitHub works

Cool guy, cool story, cool script (it features a Konami code and unicorns!), cool way to communicate the way GitHub works: http://ericharrison.info/2010/05/28/github-is-the-best-thing-ever/

Too much oil

Scary:

Taken from http://www.beowulfe.com/oil/

LOL @ HP

Even though my beloved sister is working for that company, I just cannot hold back from re-posting this:

Please vote for CakeUpArtist

There’s a big youtube contest going on for the next six days and one of my friends is participating. So I’m doing my best to promote her video, of course! :mrgreen:

Alright, my dear readers: Please go to http://www.youtube.com/user/canneslions, enter the word catastrophic in the search box and click on the Go button. There should be only one or just a few videos in the search results now being displayed. Now, please find the one that looks like on the screenshot and click on it to play it. And if you like hit, just hit the green thumbs up button to support that video 😉

Thanks a lot, folks!

UPDATE: I just heard that you don’t even need to have a youtube account. Everyone’s free to vote!

Since no one dared to respond to my last post…

… I’ll have to bring up a new one ASAP. 🙂 I found this picture and could not help but to set it as my iPhone’s wallpaper 😉

Geek-jewel

Now this is some creative data mining:

http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2010/05/9-years-of-sleep

Polonaise flashmob in Munich

On April 3rd, a flashmob event took place at the Marienplatz in Munich. I was showing the city to Freddy and Shiho who visited me at that time and we just managed to be there at the right time. Well, we’ve been roughly ten minutes too late, technically, but the start of the flashmob got delayed somehow so in the end, we arrived at the Marienplatz at the very moment the polonaise started 😀

asciicasts.com

I just stumbled upon asciicasts.com, a cool site that has the goal of transporting the great railscasts.com episodes into plain text so it’s easier to run a full-text search on them. Another benefit is that it can provide translations to other languages, too! I contacted the webmaster a few days ago and will continue translating episodes into german and also set up a repository for coordinating the translation work at github. So if you’re into Ruby on Rails and you’d like to contribute to the community by simply translating a few episodes here and there, feel free to contact me on github or contact the webmaster of asciicasts.com!

These kinds of community-created additions to the rare high-quality tutorials or screencasts in the Ruby on Rails universe are vital! Rails 3 is going to be released somewhere in the near future and with it come lots of changes that many people might not know about.

Ooops, it’s 8 a.m. already… I’d better get up and hurry to my proper job and stop doing so much open-source crap :mrgreen: