Strongbad & Homestarrunner

This website, homestarrunner.com, is something that i haven't kept really up to date on but i have enjoyed it considerably in the past - so i assume you will also enjoy it (if you don't already know about Strongbad/Homestarrunner). Homestarrunner, as you can find out by checking out the wikipedia article, has been around for quite a while and has developed a pretty large following. So much so that they've recently released a game for the Wii (and PC) - Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attrractive People. I haven't tried it yet, but i've embedded the trailer below:



Here are a couple of my favorite SB emails (something to pay attention to is that, generally, at the end of the episode there's some clickable content to get a little extra feature - or if you just wait around something will happen). Not all the time, but a lot of the time:

Techno

Guitar

Dragon (aka Trogdor the Burninator)

Feel free to post your favorites in the comments section. The Halloween episodes are also worth checking out - try to guess what each character is dressed as.

Welcome back!

Ok, so i haven't been paying a lot of attention to this blog for a while, but i thought of a good 'topic' that i think will keep me updating - it's something that i'll be looking at/for anyways, so it should be good. I'm going to try and be my own Digg.com - that is, i'll be posting interesting videos and articles that i find, or my friends find, from all around the web. Generally they'll be funny or insightful videos and/or geeky developer stuff. But i think there'll be enough fun things for anyone.

So to start off i found this interesting interview over at O'Reilly that asks questions to the "project software engineer for the Phoenix Lander Mission". Some pretty interesting stuff. They have to work under some pretty stringent guidelines and ensure that a 700lb object lands on a planet millions of miles away... pretty crazy software/hardware feat!

On a bit of a lighter note, my co-worker Matt sent me a link to this cool website that does a lot of i'm hoping to do in the future - and that is provide lots of entertaining videos and content. So you might want to check out todaysbigthing.com. The one for today is especially cool - stop-motion is a huge internet hot item. Some people are taking the medium to amazing levels. I've embedded the video below in case you want to check out all my other stuff as well:

Western Spaghetti



Continuing on, another co-worker (Clinton), sent me this fun game that grabbed my attention for a while - IndestructoTank A.E. Not a lot to explain, just make sure you hit the ground every now and again or else you run out of gas (not sure how that works, but i didn't make the game!)

Well i think that's enough for my first post on this new topic. I've got a number of videos that i plan on putting up here soon, it's just a matter of time now. Hopefully i can get a couple of people to view the blog and if my friends at work keep coming up with content, then i'll have lots of goodies to share with the masses (or just you 2 people who'll show up randomly - thanks by the way)...