Willie Northway

Recent Finds

5/24 '10 Ninjas save the day - totally awesome
"Three muggers in Australia got the fright of their lives when their attack was interrupted by five black-clad ninja warriors..."

5/2 '10 Death by powerpoint - interesting
“PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.

4/29 '10 Sid Meier 48hr game development - g33k
A 48hr game programming contest held here at UM. One of my former Arbor colleagues is in the flick.

4/22 '10 Foursquare stalking - interesting
When you see a friend check in on Foursquare, it is your duty to prank call them at that place...

'nuff said.

4/13 '10 Outcrazying The Crazy - politics
How A Prankster Plans To Infiltrate And Destroy The Tea Party Movement.

Levin is the leader of Crash The Tea Party, a plan to take down the tea party from the inside. Levin says he's got a growing cadre of supporters across the country, and conservatives from the message boards to the set of the Sean Hannity's show are getting nervous.

"Our plan is not to shout them down," Levin told me yesterday, "but to infiltrate them and push them farther from the mainstream."

4/12 '10 Robots on Segways - interesting
"Australia based Marathon Robotics have taken Segways and turned them into human-shaped autonomous robots capable of moving around streets and buildings just like people in a crowd! The Marathon bots can act like insurgents, hostages, or civilians, letting armed soldiers practice before being exposed to the real thing."

4/2 '10 Colbert gushes over the ipad - funny
This has a funny ending.