Oh man. So, a conversation about Henry Rollins led me to dig up this goofy-ass video on YouTube. This goofy-ass video saved me. No lie ( Read more... )

I feel like a total jerk for forgetting to post about this until the deadline (aka TODAY Fri Jul 22), but if you are seeing this and are or know anyone who meets the following criteria ( Read more... )

Hotkeys for "resize window to fill left/right/upper/lower half/quarter of screen", "fill screen", etc. Yes this should have all been built into the OS, but given that it's not, and how often I want to be able to read in one window and write in another without having to cycle between them, it's made a huge difference since I started using it a few ( Read more... )

It's only going to be $15 normally, but pre-order is 10% off.

Now maybe I can finally get past the part where a scratched CD always caused it to glitch out and die when I had it back in the day. :(

https://www.gog.com/game/day_of_the_tentacle_remastered

Here's the premise: your uncle has just died. It was sudden and unexpected, and no one knows exactly what happened yet. He was an old-school techie guy, and your aunt has given you a bunch of his old computers to go through, including the one he was using when he died, a weird old proprietary box of some kind. You power it up and it fails, but ( Read more... )

My company, Akamai, is hiring an entry-level data scientist (basically, crunching some really cool network operations data in Python and/or R). I have a sense that I must know *someone* who would be into this, but I can't put my finger on who, so if you are or know someone who's interested, the job description is below. If you're someone I know, ( Read more... )

tl;dr: crowdfunding campaign to support a good techie cause ( Read more... )

I'm finding that I really enjoy creative sound design, but there's a special kind of insanity that goes with it ( Read more... )

It's not much to look at graphically, and the interface can be clunky at times, but this is one of the best games I've played this year. It's also now on super duper sale as part of Steam's winter event ( Read more... )

It's basically the model linked below, but going for $50 instead of $150 because its owner (not me, a friend) is moving and doesn't have space for it any more.

If you're interested, let me know and I'll put you in touch!http://m.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/art/