Salient chunks from Blowing the Whistle, by disgraced former NBA ref Tim Donaghy. The guy obviously has an axe to grind, but the detail and name-dropping extent he goes to is pretty remarkable. This is gonna cause some serious shitstorms in the NBA.
UPDATE: As I was writing this, the book was dropped by the publisher, due to the NBA threatening to sue the hell out of them.
Interesting news from the world of creating video games:
The Unity engine is becoming even more affordable to independent and hobbyist developers, as Unity Technologies has retired the $200 “Unity Indie” offering and replaced it with a free license, simply called Unity.
Sounds like a great deal for the price.
Inspired by Jason Kottke’s Apollo 11 broadcast, the team behind Me and Orson Welles is presenting a broadcast of the Mercury Theater’s infamous War of the Worlds, 71 years to-the-minute from it’s first airing in 1938.
The impatient can find the audio on Archive.org.
The nose is all wrong, but this graceful creature is nonetheless my
friend Lorraine, who has just suffered a grievous accident in which
she fractured her spine. She is a dancer and a model and is now
bedridden, totally unable to support herself. Tomorrow I will be
running a tipjar marathon in which I paint portraits of her all day,
and collect donations on PayPal for her medical bills.
“Dancing Bear” means Eliza paints as long as people keep money in the tip jar. Seriously, she will paint forever if you keep giving her money. Once it’s going, you’ll be able to watch/interact on USTREAM.
Top tippers will get one the paintings themselves, or one of two $50 gift cards to Clockwork Couture, purveyors of fine Steampunk wearables.
Warren and his filthy assistant Adriana are doing a t-shirt a week, and selling via Cafepress. First up: “LOVE means never having to tell the authorities where I buried you.”
You were responsible or many of the most retch-inducing websites on the internet, and you only got worse with time. We’ll miss you.
Great tip from Guillermo Esteves. Worked a charm on this very site.
So you met someone new and the next time you see them they’re dressing exactly like you and they like all of your favorite bands now and you try to be nice about it and not get creeped out but it’s fucking CREEPY and a couple months later you wake up and they’ve stolen your skin.
Yeah, that’s what the Microsoft Store is like. It’s the Single White Female store.
Peter Serafinowicz reveals the truth behind this classic Beatles song.
Great detail and some analysis from 2d boy. Points of interest:
Overall, sounds like a win for everybody.
This is where the robot head of Jack Kirby has been taking you too, all this time. This is a universe that abuts our own, a vast space of cometary ideoplasm and speaking atomic structure.
Premiered last night at midnight. I grabbed my copy from iTunes (for some strange reason, there are no torrents), but you can watch it the legal way on adultswim.com. That is an order. Things of note based upon my first viewing:
Overall, though, bravo. This is Jackson and Doc’s growth spurt as storytellers, and we’re all being made witness to it. I can’t wait for more.
For the first time in a long time, the comments are turned on here at Extra Future HQ. You can comment on any post, I imagine I’ll turn comments off on older posts, but we shall see.
Don’t make me regret this.
As it says on the tin. Enjoy your weekend.
Looks great, supports every major browser including iPhone’s WebKit, and:
Raphaël uses the SVG W3C Recommendation and VML as a base for creating graphics. This means every graphical object you create is also a DOM object, so you can attach JavaScript event handlers or modify them later. Raphaël’s goal is to provide an adapter that will make drawing vector art compatible cross-browser and easy.
Mark Pilgrim dives in to HTML5 video, and swims around. This is essential reading for web developers.
For World of Goo’s 1st birthday, 2d Boy are having a “pay whatever you want” sale, for the PC, Mac and Linux versions of the game. There is no excuse not to buy this.
Since I introduced the ability to us a different domain for your shortened URLs in la petite url 1.5, I’ve had several email inquiries about how to set it up. With that in mind, I’ve put together the following tutorial, which I hope will help those of you who need a push in the right direction.
The first step we’ll be taking to set up a domain name for your la petite url links is the most important: Registering a domain name to use. It can be anything you like, but I’d personally follow these guidelines that I just made up:
The above are not hard rules, they’re just suggestions. Do whatever you feel comfortable with.
If you manually control your web hosting like some kind of nerd, you can simply set the new domain name (in my case http://exfu.ws) as an alias for your main domain name (in my case http://extrafuture.com, ‘natch). If someone else is in charge of your hosting, this is exactly what you need to tell them:
Dear {Support Team For My Web Host},
I have purchased the domain name {your short URL domain name}, and would like it to be configured as an alias for my other domain {your main domain name}. In short, requests to {your short URL domain name} should be treated the same as requests to {your main domain name}.
Thank you,
{Your Name}
Maybe you should send them a present, too. At any rate, be kind to your support minions, for one day your life may depend on them. They will probably tell you that you need to configure the DNS of your new domain to point to their servers. Here’s a tutorial on how to do that if you registered with GoDaddy, which I had nothing to do with.
If you know how to do this in the various Control Panel softwares that are out there, let me know. I have no idea, because I don’t use ’em.
This one is easy as pie: Log in to your WordPress site, then go to Plugins, look for “la petite url”, then click “Settings” under it’s name. In the la petite url settings page, look under “Domain settings.” Click the “Custom domain” circle, and next to that enter in your new domain name, minus the http://. For me this would be “exfu.ws”. Once you’ve done that, click “Save Changes”, and wait for the changes to be applied. It’s only like a second. Don’t be so impatient. Ah, there it is.
You should be all set, now. If you have problems, concerns, or comments, address them to one of the contact methods listed at the top of this site.
Phil Nelson 
