MetaFilter posts tagged with nerdalert

419 spam received; put down, flipped, reversed.

heeeraldo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:31:19 -0800

Marian Bantjes, typographer, designer, and Layer Tennis competitor, received a 419 spam email and turned it into this print. She's also written a number of interesting pieces for Speak Up; my favorites are the ones on design clichés, posters from the War Effort, the design language of heraldry and a (satirical) critique of the alphabet.

Cis-lunar space is no place to get whanged

Divine_Wino — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:18:10 -0800

War in Spaaaaaaaacccccce! A practical discussion of weapons that would work in space and orbital combat.

Orthodox platform agnosticism

Blazecock Pileon — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:05:50 -0800

I dare you to throw a bunch of compilers at me! Pshaw!

I'm improving my Snake Rattle n Roll as we speak

BlackLeotardFront — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 18:35:51 -0800

Bisqwit's NES Time attack videos site has been mentioned before, but the site and the time attack community have both grown quite a bit and the redesigned wiki-style site deserves another look. The site now has tool-assisted runs of SNES, Genesis/Megadrive, and GB/GBA games in addition to the rather comprehensive NES collection. You can now check out and vote on submissions, view works in progress, or learn the motivations and methodology, and dare I suggest, make one yourself - but be you aware, it is both difficult and addictive. For "speed runs" - as opposed to time attacks - of newer games and older games without using emulators, check out the Speed Demo Archive (runs listed here) . And you thought you could beat Contra fast...