(via NurseMyra)
Category: Asides
Short stuff goes here and there.
Speed up your Linux distro
Linux Format (a British Linux rag) has a PDF guide to speeding up your Linux distribution
POV-Ray scene
Just wanted to point out this amazingly realistic POV-Ray render
Ninja vs. Pirates Dodgeball XBLA
All you lucky bastiches with Xbox360 consoles won’t have much longer to wait for Ninja vs. Pirates dodgeball to arrive
The voice of Portal
I just learned that the voice of Portal’s GLaDOS is classically trained operatic soprano Ellen McLain (via Kotaku)
Vonnegut’s writing rules
Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 rules for writing
Happy worldwide Dungeons and Dragons day
It’s worldwide Dungeons and Dragons day – celebrate with a game
HDTV leader
New York city leads the nation in HDTV adoption
Identity thief stymied by device drivers
Having stolen a drivers’ license printer and a computer for it from the DMV, Timothy Scott Short was captured after calling Digimarc for help setting up the printer
Learn Chiropracty in the fastest time possible
As Charlie notes – nothing says Professional like a degree from an eclectic school of chiropratic
Nad shots
Comic panels of shots to the groin (via boingboing)
Bong bottle
Celebrate teen ingenuity and buy the side-filling water bottle which can also double as a bong in an emergency