2012-06-03 (Sunday)
Photos
Links
-
The guide to implementing 2D platformers | Higher-Order Fun
I enjoyed this understandable description of different basic ways of constructing the basic physics of platform games. (via CreativeJS)
-
ifttt / Log tweets to a Dropbox file
Nice idea for making a backup of your tweets and @replies. (via Stellar)
-
FIRECalc: A different kind of retirement calculator
It amazes me someone could go to this much effort to create a very complex tool (scroll down…) but leave the interface so bafflingly impenetrable. (via Mr Money Mustache)
-
Soul Sides / Sliced: Breaking Down: The Emotions’ “Blind Alley” (Stax, 1972)
I like this way of discussing a song, displaying annotations while it plays.
Tweets
@SineadHanks Hello. Do you know your Twitter account's been hacked?
@alruii So long as you’re not busy watching men drive lumps of metal in circles!
Even for an event like this the presenters seem to be constantly looking for conflict and jeopardy. "*Could* anything go wrong?"
"It's so democratic."
"It's literally like a floating cathedral."
Home, cup of tea, cake, Twitter.
When we look back on the Jubilee it'll all be laughing street parties, not crowds milling on Upper Thames St unable to get to the river.
Hackney, England, United Kingdom
I'm going down to the Thames in a bit, but I only lasted a few minutes of BBC coverage. Ugh, dreary, smile-faced, vacuous talkathon.
Britain is daytime TV.
@revdancatt Yeah, madness! I’m sure someone 150 years ago predicted that fad wouldn’t last, and they were right!
Using a £660 application just to crop an image. It’s like, oh I don’t know, a simile about a really fast car or something.
Liked tweets
I want to enter the television and slap all of the BBC presenters