7.24.2006
How to Make Chopsticks
"I love a wide variety of Asian foods. Whether it's Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, the best restaurants serving Asian cuisine don't offer you the option of using a fork - it's chopsticks or nothing. This is a little more complicated when my four-year-old son comes along, because he still hasn't quite figured out how to use chopsticks. A great little noodle house around the corner from my house presented the solution the day they brought out a pair of chopsticks modified to be kid-friendly."
Free English Visual Novel Construction Tool "Blade Engine"
CuriousFactory and Buredo today announced the release of "Blade Engine", a free game engine and construction kit aimed at making Visual Novel easy to construct, fully localized into English.
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7.20.2006
Make a timeline of your life story at Dandelife - Lifehacker
"Web app Dandelife, a "social biography network," creates a timeline of your life linked to textual posts, YouTube videos and Flickr photos."
Geek to Live: Map yourself - Lifehacker
"Map your first kiss, your elementary school or the best place to buy local fresh mangos. Use your personalized map as a travelogue, restaurant recommender or simply as a reference . . ."
7.19.2006
Download of the Day: BabySplat - Lifehacker
"Let your toddler bang on the keyboard to her heart's content with BabySplat, software that displays random colors and shapes and plays fun sounds in response to random keypresses."
7.12.2006
Word Origins
But according to Charles Earle Funk (and other sources), hoodlum was the accidental coinage of a newspaper reporter. In a story about a gang of ruffians led by a fellow named Muldoon, the reporter spelled the name as Noodlum to avoid reprisals. The newspaper's compositor misinterpreted the name as Hoodlum.
From http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20010327
One of the most notorious criminals of the Barbary Coast was Muldoon, who had so much muscle he was hard to arrest. The San Franciso newspaper led a campaign to help clean up the town. But rather than printing his name they put it in backwards = Noodlum. A bit obvious, the reported then changed the N to H = Hoodlum. So every time this criminal's activities were written up, it was as Hoodlum. Soon the name was synonymous with crime and illegal activities.
From http://www.factoidcentral.com/words/H.html#34
If you look really closely at the Family Name History, "dun" means fort. My uncle, also a Tom Muldoon, a Bishop (dec'd) maintained that the literal translation was "defender of the fort". His story, & he had kissed "the stone" was that our ancestors boat was swamped during a contest to prove who was the most loyal to the King of Ireland. The first to put his hand on the King's shoulder as a gesture of loyalty was to be chosen as the "top dog" in his army. Our ancestor apparently cut off his hand and threw it. It hit the King on the shoulder & he was named the "Maolduin" or defender of the fort. The coat of arms features a severed hand.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/muldoon/messages/260.html
From http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20010327
One of the most notorious criminals of the Barbary Coast was Muldoon, who had so much muscle he was hard to arrest. The San Franciso newspaper led a campaign to help clean up the town. But rather than printing his name they put it in backwards = Noodlum. A bit obvious, the reported then changed the N to H = Hoodlum. So every time this criminal's activities were written up, it was as Hoodlum. Soon the name was synonymous with crime and illegal activities.
From http://www.factoidcentral.com/words/H.html#34
If you look really closely at the Family Name History, "dun" means fort. My uncle, also a Tom Muldoon, a Bishop (dec'd) maintained that the literal translation was "defender of the fort". His story, & he had kissed "the stone" was that our ancestors boat was swamped during a contest to prove who was the most loyal to the King of Ireland. The first to put his hand on the King's shoulder as a gesture of loyalty was to be chosen as the "top dog" in his army. Our ancestor apparently cut off his hand and threw it. It hit the King on the shoulder & he was named the "Maolduin" or defender of the fort. The coat of arms features a severed hand.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/muldoon/messages/260.html
7.07.2006
Google Video Secret Categories
Hidden categories have been found by modifying the query string that Google Video doesn't list anywhere on its site. Publishers are given 38 categories to select from to add their movie. Now you can search through those 38 categories. Also found was the "movers and shakers" by country.
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A Link to a HUGE list of 80s Music Videos!
Not sure how legal this is, but this site has linked a ton of working 80s videos...
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7.06.2006
The Health of It All : Eating Fast Food
"I have created this list of selected items from common fast food restaurants for you to use when you must eat out. I have kept it pretty straightforward and the only information included is calories and fat. The items listed fall generally under 400 calories or so and under 15 grams of fat. If you are going to be stuck eating at such restaurants this is a fairly good guideline to use for any meal."
Free PDF download of magazine for older gamers issue #4
2old2play.com just put up issue # 4 of their free print magazine, 2o2p Magazine, in PDF format. This months issue has several game reviews, great editorials about console vendors on the stock market, game rental services, Castlevania, Retro Gaming with Street Fighter, and much more. Totally free.
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