User:Johnruble
= wikipedia stuff=
I fix grammatical and hyperlink errors as I encounter them, but my only real contribution is the picture on the Kurt Eisner page.
= neat stuff =
- Clive Cussler's books
- computer games
- Nintendo DS Lite (check out the download station)
- Nintendo DS homebrew
- NVIDIA (and graphics cards in general)
- Wii!
- Modular Origami
- U-MYX
- Pulp magazine
- Pixel art scaling algorithms
- Rhyming_slang
= random cool pages =
- featured pictures are way cool, especially the panoramas
- Biosphere 2
- Demoscene
- The Turk
- Zeppelin
- Formicarium
- u-boats (indeed, wikipedia is really good at all kinds of military history)
- MC Escher
- TR
- Machu Picchu - gotta go here someday.
- Dolby Digital - (specifically this picture)
- Security theater
- 2-XL - I used to have one of these as a kid, which I used primarily for playing The Four Tops' best of.
- Enigma machine
- Write Only Memory
- Joe Arpaio
- :Image:Video_Standards.svg 2
- Loudness war
- Airborne aircraft carrier
- Lake Peigneur
- London Beer Flood
- Boston Molasses Disaster
- Centralia, Pennsylvania
- Fan death
- Greeble
- Samuel Whittemore
= teevee =
- hustle zomg this is the best show evar
- firefly
- deadwood
- battlestar
- scrubs
- becker
- lost
- Discovery HD Theater, excepting that motorcycle show
- Arrested Development (TV series)
= music =
= movies =
= software =
other wikis
- [http://mythtv.org/wiki/ mythtv wiki] ([http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/User:Jrr my user page]) all about Mythtv
- [http://www.wowwiki.com/ wowwiki] ([http://www.wowwiki.com/User:Jrr my user page]) is one of the best WoW resources out there
- [http://wiki.pocketheaven.com/ pocketheaven wiki] is all about portable videogame pira.. i mean development
- the [http://tviv.org/ tv-iv] is all about tv shows
- [http://www.productwiki.com/ productwiki] will be interesting to watch. it's a good idea, but we'll see how the implementation goes.
- [http://www.wikihow.com/ wikihow] is really good when you need a laugh. they have serious guides about ridiculous things.
- [http://wiki.dreamhost.com/ dreamhost wiki] is a great idea and more service-based companies should follow suit
- i'm a little disappointed that [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ wikibooks] doesn't use the same login as wikipedia.
- [http://www.wiili.org/index.php/Main_Page wii linux wiki]
- [http://www.natrium42.com/wiki/Main_Page nawiki] natrium42's wiki - lots of crazy awesome DS hardware work
miscellany
= scream =
What is [http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/37529 this scream]? It's not the Wilhelm. [http://z-design.deviantart.com/ This guy] points out some of its memorable uses, and provides a [http://foofy.swiftco.net/zane/yell.wav .wav]. After five years, I have a answer! It's the Howie scream.
= tf2, nolf, evil genius, james bond-ey style =
I like the style of these games. Is there a word for it? I'm not only referring to the secret base with minions in jumpsuits and big blue computers, but also the music and everything else.
TF2: ..."light-hearted and whimsical visual style...", "stylized, cartoon-like approach 'heavily influenced by early 20th century commercial illustrations'"
[http://somafm.com/ somafm] has a "secret agent" stream