"Rolle plans to carve his own legacy after Oxford by attending medical school and becoming a neurosurgeon. He has started a foundation that is building a medical clinic and recreation center on a remote island in the Bahamas." This guy sounds like a real d-bag.
I don't want to over-Canabalt all of you, but bear with me as I get this out of my system. Below are a few items, some of them obvious, that might make the game a little easier for you.
Going too fast? Run into a box. The game takes longer, but going slower makes it a lot easier.
Tapping the screen more lightly results in a lower jump.
You can play the game using your own music. If you have a song playing when you launch the app, it will lay the sound effects over that. If you are a serious nerd about it, you could have a song that is silent so you can focus on the sounds of the game.
When a bomb is dropped, it makes a noise one building's-length before it lands.
A bomb always lands in the dead center of the building
Claire perfectly explains why anniversary cards are inadequate. In the end she wants a card that says, "Being married to you is fun! Let's do it another year at least. I heart you." Couldn't agree more.
Know Your Meme is my favorite video podcast. Even for someone like me who probably knows a little too much about the internet, I'm constantly learning new things. This site is also great for anyone who is confused by "The Twitter" and "FaceSpace".
The video above is my newest favorite episode. I suggest you watch it.
This is the proposed design for Rome's new soccer stadium. I'm not sure if I like it, but it feels like the future.
the stadium's skin is surrounded by a perimeter band and screens. through the use of advanced technology systems messages will be communicated on the exterior using
the latest generation LED devices.
More pictures and more information can be found at Designboom.
"While digging through Usenet, I stumbled on these three unidentified tracks that pick apart three of the Beatles' original multitrack masters, isolating and highlighting pieces from 'She's Leaving Home,' 'A Day in the Life,' and 'Come Together.'"
Todd VanDerWerff of the A.V. Club argues that 30 Rock is primarily about great one-liners and lacks a good storyline, which means we may be in danger of growing weary of the shtick. I hope he's wrong.
"What do you think about health care? Would you take the public option?" "Have you ever heard me play guitar? I'm really fucking good. You know what I'm bad at? Answering questions about public health care. This is not in my wheelhouse. Do you have any questions about music?" John Mayer just went up 2 points in my book. [via Dan]
I am becoming obsessed with the iPhone game Canabalt. In the game, you run and jump for as long as you can before you die. Maybe not revolutionary, but it's damn fun.
My biggest problem with the game is that the only way to share your scores is to tweet them. You have a leaderboard on your phone, but it's not global. And since I'm so awesome at the game and Sippey asked nicely, I built a public leaderboard based on people's tweets.
For those who are technically minded, I have a script that hits the Twitter search API every few minutes and grabs people's scores. I went back as far as Twitter would allow to grab old data and I'm ignoring scores from people (cheaters) who posted from the web and not the API (which sucks for me as I've gotten 16k+, but didn't tweet it).
