Stuff n' Things

You have come far, weary traveler, and through many hardships to be here. You have sacrificed everything - your family, your friends, your career, your dignity, everything - to arrive at this ultimate destination. Now you stand at the threshold of a new reality. You've never run away from anything in your life and you'll be damned if you're gonna start now.

Its time to see this thing through.

Its time...

...for Stuff n' Things.

The Stuff

• A stop-motion movie that IBM made using individual atoms!
• An interactive composite image of the Milky Way galaxy showing one billion stars!
• Oscar Toledo's tiny chess program in JavaScript. Click the link, then use "View page source" in your browser to see the impossibly tiny code!
• Fabrice Bellard's virtual machine in pure JavaScript that boots and runs Linux!
• A time-lapse video shot on El Tiede in Spain.
• A list of common misconceptions and a list of cognitive biases on Wikipedia.
• A YouTube video of a Ukrainian daredevil.
• DEVO performing Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA live.
• There's a video game tribute to The Room.
• Watch this video to test your attention to detail.
• Richard Wiseman is interesting.
• Its amazing what a little octopus can do.
• Idina Menzel performing Let It Go from Disney's Frozen on New Years Eve 2014 (with a special surpise at the end).
• Super Torta Menu

The Things

• My console font, known as Tamsyn Font.
• My pointless console-mode stock ticker thing, known as Ticker, that nobody uses, not even me.
• Who doesn't love paper cut-out 3-D dragon optical illusions? Here's one you can print, cut out, and fold. And here is a youtube video of how it turned out when I did it.
• My first JavaScript program, Base Conversion, a programmer's tool for converting between common numerical bases.
• My second JavaScript program, JavaScript Regular Expressions, a tool for exploring JavaScript regular expressions.
• My third JavaScript program, Netmask Tool, a tool for decoding IPv4 netmasks.
• Tommy Wiseau had the opportunity to meet me at Cinema 21 on October 17, 2014: Photo 1, Photo 2.
• Garage Band Classics - The Definitive Collection.
• Can you solve this visual word puzzle? How about this one? Or this?

Quote of the Day

"There's a certain confidence that comes from consistently being right."

Scott Fial