The 119 Little Pigs

Best wished to Randall Munroe, who can make us laugh even when he’s taking time off to deal with a family illness.

This Is Brilliant

Would’ve been better at xmas though. It’s an ad btw, sorry about that. Some ads are just good.

Follow Your Tweets As They’re Retweeted

Cool little webapp that maps your tweets as they get RT’d, developed by Foot.ie user tetsujin1979. Here’s the deets:

Hello, and welcome to ReTweetGraph, a site for displaying the progress of a tweet as it is retweeted by users and their followers.

Login at any time by using the login link on the left

Click Create Graph to begin creating a new graph.

Click Gallery link to see a list of previously created graphs

Click Links to see a list of related sites and a contact form

Yes, I should really have posted this on Twitter, but posts here are forwarded there anyway, and I’ll do anything to avoid actually visiting that goddamned awful website and the vast majority of total fucktards that populate it. Apart from my followers, obviously, salt of the earth donchew know. At least ye’re slightly more intelligent than FourSquare users. A bit.

People Are Awesome

This is for Kelvyn. Some of these are almost certainly fake – the basketball from the roof one was done by Mythbusters recently, although I haven’t seen it yet – but I’d guess most are real. You can’t really argue with the title: there’s an awful lot of dickheads out there, and “extreme” sports do very little for me, but some people are very definitely just plain awesome.

New Orleans Scrapping Surveillance Cameras

Further proof that they just don’t work. They don’t even deter crime, much as proponents would like us to believe, they just move it.

Bruce Scheier: They’re not worth it:

In seven years, New Orleans’ crime camera program has yielded six indictments: three for crimes caught on video and three for bribes and kickbacks a vendor is accused of paying a former city official to sell the cameras to City Hall.