MUST WATCH: Animatronic WALL-E Spotted in LA - Wow, now that's cool!
Found a great article on Capturing Delicate Wisps of Smoke complete with setup, pictures, and video. Good for the photo buffs out there.
IO9 has a nice ditty on how you could Now You Can Have the Real Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy using simple and easily available parts.
Random post of a list from another site: The 11 Best Songs from Geek-Movie Soundtracks. Geek + movie + music sounds good to me :)
I'm not 100% sure what kuler is.... it appears to be a way to design and share and rate color mixes. Hard to describe, hit the link (you may need a flash upgrade) and check it out. Interesting stuff from Adobe for sure!
See the R2-D2 Projector in Action from slashfilm. Oh. My. God. I want one!
Kinda creepy.... check out /Film's Batman vs The Dark Knight Trailer, a side by side comparison of the new Dark Knight trailer and the original Tim Burton's Batman trailers.
DIY Photography, one of my daily reads, has a list of Six and Two Halves Must-Read Free Digital Photography eBooks.
Update: Fixed title.... six, not sex...
Pointed out from a coworker: Photoshop tutorial: Tonal range and the Curves tool. This is a free tutorial from Chromasia.com, which has a bunch of other for-pay tutorials. If they are up to the quality of this one.... that's good stuff. Note that this particular one could easily be translated to other programs with curves and layers.
So not only is this Spiderman Tattoo amazing from an artwork perspective, but from a dedication perspective. This guy is apparently way into spidey, and has no worries about what this will look like in another 40 years or so....
Very cool video of a hacked up POV cam (viewing from a head mounted tracking camera)..... check it out.
There's even a DIY site for the project.
Save Baby Gorilla has the video (for now anyway) of Artie Lange Quitting the Howard Stern Show. Thankfully for us Stern fans, Artie was back on Monday.
Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press (Pt. 1of6) passed on from Darren. Very cool, the awesome Stephen Fry works to create his own Gutenberg printing press.
Sure to insult someone..... hit the Gallery of Motivational Posters at FreeThoughtPedia.
I don't like just blatently re-posting stuff from websites I'm sure you read anyway.... However the title cutest kitten in the world over at Cute Overload seems to be fully accurate.
Over the weekend I found the site for Designing Interfaces, the O'Reilly book which has a bunch of free content / chapter summaries / useful info. Interesting read for app and web devs alike.
Google has a Movie Showtimes Search system? Who knew!? (not me obviously). Works for Canadian postal codes too!
When Cute Overload says gem of cuteness they aren't kidding!
Pointed to this Dangerous Path video this morning. My first thought was "a harness? pussies!" and then after watching the rest of the video... yea, good call. What crackhead thought that that path was a good idea?!?
Via digg is 9 mind tricks to get what you want .... little subtle things to incline other people to do or act how you want, nothing nasty, just a few subtle little tricks to get a bit of an edge up.
Here's a video of a rare asiatic lion cub recently born at a japanese zoo. Due to the rarity (300 in existance :( ) they have been raising the cub by hand. Very cute big kittycat!
So cool, Baltar is My Homeboy shirts. Someone, for my birthday? Please!
Combine the Red Army Choir (the Solviet official army choir), the Leningrad Cowboys, a Finnish rock band, and you get Sweet Home Alabama. Actually sounds pretty damn good, though as they said on Reddit, my WTF meter is going off the scale!
Not only has Capria, the Battlestar Galactica prequel series been approved, but io9 has new details.
Tutorial found via Fozbaca on How to create HDR Photos in Photomatix.... very simple, with a nice simple explanation of some of the tone mapping settings.... I like simple.
Hands, plus paint, equals... ? How about this set of pictures. Numbers 12 and 17 are my favorites... very creative (though I hope this isn't his only skill!).
Just as a note, when you put out a video on how to Learn to Shave with a Straight Razor, noting that you cut your face badly enough to leave a scar probably isn't the best idea. However, still a cool video on how to do a badass thing :)
Photoshop Express - Getting Started is a set of videos for the Photoshop Express beta that was just released.
To match up with Opera getting 100% in Acid3 on an internal build yesterday, WebKit achieves Acid3 100/100 in public build. Of course, it's apple only AFAIK, so we still have the "first public windows build to pass Acid3" award :)
Seems an internal build of Opera is the first browser to pass Acid3 test. Good to hear.... though these days 100% compliance doesn't really mean anything, depending on who you talk to. Still, 100% compliant browsers can't be all that bad, can it?
Ars Technica has the goods on how Canadian ISPs furious about Bell Canada's traffic throttling. As a sysadmin of a canadian ISP who does resell from Bell I can relate. On one hand bandwidth throttling isn't a terrible thing, on another it's a slippery slope from restricting P2P traffic to other services.
From the "No shit, Sherlock" department comes PUNDO3000.com which (in German) shows what the packages of food look like compared to the actual contents. Unsurprisingly, there's a fairly wide gap between the two.
The Best Pun list via Digg.
I tried to come up with a pun about famous German philosophers, but I Kant.
Very punny.
Thankyou, thankyou, I'll be here all night.
Seems that the companion cube has been spotted in the wild!
Pictures and details of a very sweet Tri-Monitor Rackmount Computer Build.
Brian Dettmer's insanely creative Book Autopsies - super cool.... not 100% sure what sort of brain you need to come up with this stuff, but I'm glad someone does!
1-900-NERD-GIRL = Slander and Lies! - pointed to me by someone, the argument that there are sexy nerd girls. The host is quite hot too, I will have to peruse some of the other videos. Just wish I could subscribe to youtube via itunes like other video podcasts.... oh well, soon enough.
Valleywag has a Demo video of Facebook Chat. Looks fairly well implemented, not obtrusive and fairly usable. We'll see how it goes when it actually comes out.
Ars Technica has a good look at the past, present, and future of file systems.
Nice list from ploomy.com via Fozbaca, a list of The Top 15 Songs to Get You Pumped Up. I'll have to see how well these work next time I'm at the gym.
Wow, this is amazing, check out the Discovery from 2001.
KnickerPicker - online dressing room. Pick your model, pick your undies, watch the girls walk out... turn 'em around, move them closer, farther away... I'm so happy for technology :)
Kari Byron from Mythbusters in FHM. Oh yea... giggy-giggy!
Very cool video of a F15 Eagle Dog Fight.
Bryan pointed out this BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA themed battleship game for the Season 3 release from amazon.
A few links for everyone....
Hit the Dan (Dano) Steinhardt Archive for some truly awesome work.
Robert Scoble's latest endeavor, FastCompany.TV has launched. This is, as far as I can tell, more of what Robert was doing at his previous jobs, interviewing folks in the tech industry, and putting it all on video. No subscribe on iTunes link though, you have to click on 'more episodes' and there's a RSS link there (though it doesn't seem to work if you put that into iTunes :( ).
Hey Robert, congrats on the new gig.... ICANHAZITUNESLINKPLZ? KTHXBAI! :)
Via Scoble is the WorldWide Telescope intro talk from the TED conference. I'm not entirely convinced, this looks fairly close to a combination of google sky (or whatever it's called) and Cellestia. However, I'll have to wait till it's available to the world before I can make any judgement. Anything that increases learning and awareness of the world and the universe is a good thing though, right?
Just a few bits for the morning that have been in my queue....
Here's the first "awwwwwhhhh" for the morning... check this video of a Lion reunited with his rescuer. Super-cute. Here's the reddit thread where I found it. I love the first comment.... where do you "find" a lion? :)
The Bender Brewer Project is a must for all true futurama fans. Someone want to get me a christmas present? :)
Stephen Fry's Podgram is up and available via RSS and on iTunes.
What appears to be the latest in a really lame attempt from Microsoft at marketing, or connecting with the cool kids is Source Fource.
Can someone please explain this to me? Is this just a "buzz" creator? A legitimate product of some sort (obviously aimed at confusing "open source")? A cross-promotion with Lego?
The only thing I can gather from the site is maybe this is a new qualification system of some sort.... though I'm unsure the reaction of a fortune 500 company to hiring a "ISV Super Gal".
Dear Microsoft friends of mine, you know who you are, please explain this stuff to me.... :)
Coding Horror points that Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book is now available online for free from Byte (they're still around?). This is a tome of a book which I picked up many years ago at one of those super-cheap computer book sales and have only glanced through, as it's fairly intimidating. Jeff makes it sound like a must-read for any programmer though.
Twelve Important Rules for Photography has the sunny 16 rule and 11 others. Good to have all nicely condensed! (Hhehehe, moony 11 rule..... )
Now You Too Can Frag Frakkin Toasters, with your own viper pilots license. Way cool!
WWTDD has a good scoop on Lindsay Lohan's re-creation of Marilyn Monroe's last nude photoshoot, with gazongas fully engaged where needed. It's honestly fairly "meh", but hey, naked pics of celebs? Bring it on! Link is mostly SFW (photoshopped out boobages, with links to non-edited versions).
Inspired by a post from Scoble, someone put up an Obsolete Skils wiki.
Star Trek Phaser With Blu-Ray Laser... I would love one of these! Wonder how the transit cops would react to me "stunning" loud talking commuters though... ?
Lifehacker has a good post of Top 10 Free Wallpaper, Fonts and Icon Sources. All the goodness needed to pimp out your desktop.
Pentrix - Pen Spinning Revolution.
Laughing Squid points to a Time Lapse Video of San Francisco Fog. Best part for me is the planes zipping overhead...
Darren Barefoot posts a link to Five Gorgeous Minutes of Dance, Set to the Lyrics of Lou Reed. I normally would have passed it by, being the uncultured slob that I am, but it features a version of "Waiting for the Man" by the Velvet Underground, one of my favorite heroin songs (about, not to do it to!)
From Fozbaca's daily link roundup comes 15 Exercises for Learning a new Programming Language... something I'm going through right now in my learning of Ruby. Very cool stuff.
Interesting and amusing presentation by Zed Shaw called Mongrel, 2500 Lines, and Economics in which he talks about how the tiny little program called Mongrel (the server used in Rails) became sucessful. You may remember Zed from his rant a bit ago :)
How a BitTorrent Tracker Owner Hides from the MPAA/RIAA is a fascinating article over at torrentfreak about how to fly under the radar online.
Found out about the Rarindra style workflow from these comments over at reddit.com which pointed to this photoset at photo.net. Very cool look, though overdone (IMHO) if done all the time. Still, an impressive use of photoshop for sure!
7 Viral Videos You Didn't Know Were Staged (and How They Did It) from cracked.com via Digg.
The Ukulele Orchestra of GB - Smells Like Teen Spirit... coolest version of Smells Like Teen Spirit you'll see all evening :)
Ed Bott says that Windows Vista SP1 is done and will be arriving mid-March. It looks like SP1 will not be automatically installed if there are known driver conflicts, which is an interesting (and good) way to do it. I hope that SP1 will deliver the improvements for Vista that people have been talking about and asking for.
How Dr. Gregory House is like Sherlock Holmes.
Ar'alani's photos and his favorites, suggested by Thomas Hawk.
Flow|State has a really good article on how he's Looking forward to seeing Facebook apps drop their pointless mystery. Lots of screenshots and a nice explanation of the crappy user interface that 99% of the facebook apps out there have.
Interview with Nitesh Dhanjani and Billy Rios, Spies in the Phishing Underground. Via BoingBoing and /.
Found iVideosongs.com via an article on TechCrunch, free and pay video tutorials for learning to play the guitar, and what looks like a fairly "ok" library of songs to learn (only 2-10 songs per section it seems.... it is still beta though. Pretty cool stuff!
Blast Off Fat (Way) Faster from Health.com. Standard type tips I think, nothing magic (not that there's anything magic about improving your fitness), still good to read through.
A Rookie Guide to Digital SLR Cameras is a great article that is going around which gives you the ups and downs for new, or potentially new DSLR owners. A bit slanted towards Nikon it seems, but as a Pentax user I couldn't care less, and quite frankly, it really doesn't matter for 99% of the users out there. My philosophy has always been to tell people to go and handle the cameras and make sure you feel comfortable with the feel, controls, and weight, as if you're not comfortable you're going to tend towards not using your new $1000 toy and it'll be a moot point anyway!
That said, Pentax is the only way to go. That and VIM. And OS/X. Oh, and your favorite band sucks.
:)
Robert Capa - Lost Negatives is an interesting article over at the NYTimes about a cache of about 3500 photographs that were presumed lost, but resurfaced years later.
Youtube has a video introducing the Pentax K20D with some nice details in the 7 and a half minute presentation. For those who don't know, Pentax introduced the K20D and K200D DSLRs recently.
Great article by Andrew Chen on Does Facebook reflect your true friendships?
Ever wonder exactly what your geek and/or designer friends are talking about when they rant about some law by a guy named Fitts? Well Visualizing Fitts’s Law has a nice look at exactly what "infinite target area" and such terms are all about.
Shaved Bumblebee. Not much more to be said, other than a hilarious, disturbing, and fantastic 3d creation!
This one's for Raskal..... Jeep Vs Tree :)
Why is Apple Launching New Gear a Week Before Macworld? is the question asked (and possibly answered) by the linked image over at Gizmodo. Some cool (though probably impractical) mockups of a potential Macbook Touch were sent over to me as well.
Thanks Darren!
WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier is a "BLOG" written from letters and notes from an English soldier in the trenches during WW1. Interesting concept and an interesting read. There was a similar project a few years ago recreating diary entries from..... something else that was really old... Anyone remember what that was?
Coding Horror has a good article on Understanding User and Kernel Mode, and what the difference is between the green and red lines in your task manager.
Yo! You SETI@Home users who turned off your client and forgot about it (like I did)... according to a slashdot story there's a 500-fold Increase in Data Flow from SETI Telescope, so re-install the clients, log in and start chugging through that data!
AVSIM Online has a review of Jon Patchs excellent Vancouver+ addon for Microsoft Flight Simulator/X. I was on the beta team for Vancouver+ and must say, it's a very cool thing to "fly" over your own hometown and have it not as a random generic set of random building textures, but what you're used to driving through every day.
The review has lots of screenshots to show what you're going to get, including some not 100% desirable effects.
Now the guys Winter Surfing in Toronto... they're hardcore!
Thanks to Robert for the link!
Blizzard posts a really good roundup of how Firefox 3 is rocking on Linux.
I have to say I agree with him. The performance improvements, memory leaks plugged, and great visual integration make it more and more of a joy to use on my linux development machine. Be sure to check out his visual comparisons of version 2 and 3.
I've always thought of myself as more a "Jedi" kinda guy, but with posters like these, or this, or this (full gallery with a few more here, I'd be happy to wear the stormtrooper white!
This picture of fireworks over Oslo is most impressive.
Found a good article on something I've always suspected about.... the HDMI cable scam:
Let's begin by going back in history to the birth of really expensive cables. It started with speaker wire. When you connect a normal speaker to a normal stereo system, you are sending both a signal (in the form of an oscillating wave) and a lot of power (potentially hundreds of watts) through the speaker cable. Someone realized that to send a lot of power, a thick cable would cause less distortion. Thus, mega cables were born. And they were expensive.
Now run, hurry to take back those $200 Monster Cables you got at Christmas and replace them with cheaper versions!
Via BoingBoing comes a Colormation Screen Test video from the 60s which is creepy and cool all at the same time.
Impressive photography over at AOL Visions site.
Remember the SU-27 back in the day (well, I do). Anyway, check out the pics and videos of the Su-30MK and how amazingly maneuverable it is.... man, you can't do those stunts!
Coding Horror has a nice little article onCard Shuffling for all the coding geeks out there.
Laughing Squid reminded me that Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day is incoming quickly. More info here.
Now this is just a super-cool use of technology. Cellphone's slosh and rattle reveal its contents is basically using shaking a cell phone of PDA with an accelerometer can produce sounds / images to indicate things like power level, number of emails, email senders, etc. Similar and different to the color based feedback that was proposed and partially implemented under the GNOME desktop (can't seem to find a link to anything specific about it right now, but it was proposing to use things like a green color in a download icon to represent good speed or orange or red for stalled downloads, stuff like that).
Some good tips (all of which I'm sure I violated in my contract work) at the Freelance Blog. 10 Absolute "No's!" for Freelancers... something good to keep beside your phone for the next call that comes in :)
Jeffrey has published some Lightroom export-to plugins for Flickr, Smugmug and Zenfolio.
I'm not sure what Sarah Michelle Gellar did to deserve the title "Maxim's Woman of the year", but lets be honest, who really cares? Maxim + Buffy = Hawt!
Some amazing photoshop work (check out the 'making of' slideshows) from Christophe Huet. Found via LaughingSquid.
Quick video from youtube of a Supra From Hell.... looks very benign and boring till the last few seconds..... those guys definitely didn't expect that :)
Parkour, The Art of Moving From Point A to Point B in Vancouver, BC.
Man I wish I was as fit as those guys! Maybe there's an overweight-computer-geek version I can try....
How to Win at Monopoly - some interesting tactics.
YouTube - HALF LIFE IN 60 SECONDS is pretty much exactly what the title says. Thanks Darren!
Bummed about your caffeine curve? Here's a good primer on how to give it up (coffee and / or caffeine that is).
Foose Fooled is a short video on youtube of a prank pulled on Chip Foose of Overaulin'
A selection of greate wildlife photos from Nick Brandt. I love the use of Black and White personally. Definitely inspiring work for anyone with access to African wildlife and photography :)
The iPod Death Clock displays how long your iPod (based on serial number and a few usage questions) will be in this world.
Thanks today (tonight) to Oneiros (again) for the last few tips and tricks getting Portal finished, probably the first game I've completed in single player since.... quake 2. Anyway he pointed me to Half-Life 2: Portal, a hack to allow you to use the portal gun in other Source based games (ie: HL2, HL2:Eposide 1,2, etc).
Gizmodo has their Google Phone Wishlist and some great ideas about how google can integrate their various services into a cell phone.
Ubuntu has released the Gutsy Gibbon into the wild, stories, torrent links, screenshots, and reviews are everywhere.
Found 10 Reasons to Learn Ruby, and even if Ruby isn't your can of beans, it's got some nice and simple introductions to some of the more powerful features of the language (which I've read a couple of books on but have yet to really dig into.
The 10 Most Asinine Movie Twist Endings, for all your quick-and-dirty list material.
Interesting project... Brian Auer asked people to edit his photo. He got back 28 Ways To Interpret A Photo.
You think you're passionite to your hobby? This guy makes his own swords.... from scratch. Scratch!. Like, from the ore scratch. Smelting it himself from scratch.
Now that's cool
Found another nice little article with 10 dirty little secrets you should know about working in IT. Everything from the insanity of management to the pain of babysitting ancient, unmanageable servers years out of date and out of support but still running business critical services. :)
Interesting look at how to Double Your Salary* (*Without A Second Job) from Men's Health. It's not a get rich quick thing, just an interesting avenue to pursue for some extra money. I almost didn't post it except for this line:
He simply found capitalism's G-spot and started rubbing away.
Found this through reddit.... the The Right Brain vs Left Brain. Displays an animation and depending if you see it moving one way or the other shows you are left or right brained. I was surprised, turns out that (at least according to this test) I'm right brained, which does not include things like logic and detail oriented (ie: coder qualities) but instead I fall into the "uses feeling, 'big picture' oriented, and fantasy based" category. Very.... odd. I'm interested to see how other people I know react to it, and if they fall into the category they think they do.
Remember a while back there was some buzz about a big-ass X-Wing model rocket (where "big-ass" is like, 21' long). Anyway, it got launched and flying! Well... kinda. Check the video :)
Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently Serialized on BBC Radio. Link in the story is for RM only (bleah) but there are links to more useful file types in the comments.
Some great tips for business writing. #2 is my favorite, my biggest bitch to a buddy of mine who occasionally asks me for my opinion for written business material is he's too verbose and wordy. Maybe this will help convince him! :)
Very interesting, and scary is "Stupid In America" - Full 20/20 Documentary. Basically it's flame bait to some, and no doubt lots will be screaming about it. However, taken at face value, it is not a bright look at a) schools in the US and b) teachers unions.
Interesting look anyway.
Just saw the best catdoor hacking project ever, where the catdoor won't open if the cat has a mouse in it's mouth.
Photoshop Insider has a nice roundup of blogs.
Nice article on EBays Billion Lesson in the Value of Hype, talking about how they paid $3b (that's with a 'b' as in 'bbbbbbillion') for skype, and discovered, unsurprisingly, it wasn't worth quite that much.
It’s almost impossible to pay for a deal through “synergies.”
Mutating Pictures is a project to see if random images are interpreted as faces. There is a 'hot or not' style rating system to allow the system to know how good or bad the results are.
Some good and profound (and always amusing) advice from jwz on backups.
"OMG, three drives is so expensive! That sounds like a hassle!" Shut up. I know things. You will listen to me. Do it anyway.
Too cute to be legal: Orphaned hedgehogs adopt cleaning brush as their mother.
Via OSNews is a look at What's new in Mandriva 2008.0. Glad to see Mandrake is still around.
Holy crap! A LEGO's Ultimate Collectors Millennium Falcon. Many pounds of lego here!
The Unofficial Apple Weblog has a quick review of the new Amazon music store.
Great find by Accordion Guy.... a collection of “Simpsons” Scenes and their Reference Movies. Reference frames from the simpsons and the classic movies they reference.
Update: As per the commenter, credit goes to www.actualidadsimpson.com.
Someone told me about seeing eye ponies ages ago, and I didn't believe them. This link proved me wrong.
Two great links from Coding Horror:
Yup, Alicia Silverstone got naked for the crazy Peta people... here's the ad and high res pic. Yay batgirl!
Here's some more women of PETA.
No one better forget that tomorrow is Talk Like a Pirate Day, so make sure you celebrate, maties! Arrrrr!!!!
Holy spare time batman..... check out pics of this City of toothpicks which is a city, uhmmm... built of toothpicks.
Via Reddit: pictures from the last space mission. Great shots.
Stormtroopers blast through gender barrier! Thank god for a world where hot femtroopers have equality.
I heard the guys on the Howard Stern show blasting on Britney for her VMA performance, so I had to see it. After a bit of ferreting I found some info and a video of her (horrible) performance. I only hope this marks the end of her "comeback".
What everyone needs.... the Nabaztag Wifi Smart Rabbit. Who wouldn't want a bunny that is a wifi access point, alarm clock, will give you news and weather forecast, but will also (and I need this) tell you when to go to bed :)
In a fit of cuteness, check out this slideshow of some pics of a polar bear playing with huskies. Very trippy and cool to see, great pics. Wonder how common this is if there aren't any people nearby.
The Matrix Goggles allow the user to view the world in real time giving the world viewed various effects like you'd get from photoshop. Via Slashdot (I think).
Great video on youtube of some Hand Shadow show by Raymond Crowe.
Holy crap, this is awesome! Wish it was higher res though, I'd definitely put that on my wall.
Rolling Stone’s Top 25 Songs With a Secret. Found while composing a playlist composed of songs about drugs. Also found:
Cool video of a 360 degree light field display, showing some pretty cool stuff.
Make Blog has a great video of Stupid (yet cool) pen tricks. I learnt the first one a year or so back, finally some good instructions on how to drive myself crazy some more!
Sweet! Boing Boing points out that The IT Crowd -- season two, episode one has aired and is around for upload. Links in BB story.
For anyone who is a geek and who hasn't seen The IT Crowd before, it's an absolutely hilarious show about a bunch of nerds/geeks/sysadmins. I'm interested to see if the US adaption is anywhere near as funny as the original UK version. I'd say go and download season 1 first and then watch season 2, if you haven't seen it before.
Saw on shacknews that a World in Conflict Demo was released.
Developed by Massive Entertainment, and published by Sierra, the alternate history action strategy game World in Conflict will be in stores September 18.
Very cool pics of the making of a CPU Desk.... basically the top of a desk with CPUs in it. I actually had this same idea 15 years ago or so, putting old electronics on a desk and then filling it with epoxy to create a cool tabletop. Well, maybe not the same idea, but still cool. I could do this as well, just need about 800 more spare CPUs :)
Looks super-cool though.
Mental note: Make one of thesedesktop biospheres for work.
Note for self, for new projects, the new Yahoo! UI Library: Rich Text Editor looks really sexy.
I wish I had this Beginners Guide To Lock Picking the other week when someone here at work locked their laptop in their desk drawer without knowing where the key was.
Well, maybe not 101, but cassette tape culture has a good start!
More sexy stormtroopers via boingboing.
Turn Your Old CRT Computer Moniter Into A Fish Tank. I have a couple of 19" monitors I can use this on....
Well, not "parents" per-se, but the people who reared it before it being let go to the wild. The video will give you a good portion of your "awwww" requirements for the day. Note: no goring involved (luckily)!
And the Bad Astronomy Blog has the 12 things you need to watch it!
When I see this report from FOX NEWS on UFO Disclosure it really makes me understand why the US is absolutely insane. What other reasonable news organization would put the leader of the UFO political action party (or whatever the hell it is) on TV and act as if he's not completely insane.
I for one welcome our new UFO overlords.
X Games Skater Somehow Doesn't Die seemed a bit of a silly title, till I watched the video. Yowza!
Yokohama at night trippy panorama from the Landmark tower. Cooooool!
How cool is this!? Kevin Smith at Comic-con talks about how he'll be directing episode one of 'Origins', a 'Heroes' spin off series.
Got a geek that works extra hard for you, or you think would love a bit of extra recognition? Head over and nominate them for the 2007 Sysadmin of the Year. It not only makes you feel really great to be nominated (thanks keth!) but the prizes are pretty kick ass too!
Oscar the Cat Predicts Patients' Deaths. Sad and cool at the same time.
Yahoo's YSlow Plug-in Tells You Why Your Site is Slow, it's a plugin for firebug, and is now available for the masses. Here's the YSlow plugin page.
I so love Top Gear.... here they are doing a video of a Bugatti Veyron at top speed, which incidentally, is over 400km/h. I think I've seen / posted this before, but I really don't care. We all love watching videos of cars with, you know, 10 radiators and who go that fast.
Video demonstrations of The 12 Kinds of Ads and ad formats.
Wow, this 11 year old drummer is amazing! Helps he's been playing since he was 2!
It's just one pic, but yea, Lucy is hot now.
Very cool picture of storm clouds and lightning approaching the coast.
I really want about 10 of these to begin my takeover of the world.
Cool video of the latest not-for-kids project, the Rocket Powered Matchbox Car.
Some great animal photos via reddit. I particularly like the one of the lions drinking at the same watering hole as the elephant. Bit slow to load though.
Hindu Prayer Shouted Down in US Senate. Truly a grand victory for freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and of course, that separation of church and state! Great job everyone!
</sarcasm>
I knew a couple of these Nine Brain Quirks You Didn’t Realize You Had. Cool list.
#9 - You have an instant playback feature.
Not to be outdone by (IMHO) google earth's superior sat photos, here comes Microsoft Virtual Earth: 26 Terabytes Published to Virtual Earth – Biggest Update Yet.
Nope, still no good sat photography of my house :(
Yowza! You really don't want to Mess with this Dog! Remember those dogs from the Hulk movie? Mirror image!
Who needs sit-ups? Especially when you know what a hot potato is (hint: it's not something super-kinky that you would be afraid to ask your wife for :)
If this story where a Former Chinese Restaurant Employee Tells All is even half true, I will never look at Chinese food the same again.
I found 5 Obscure Facts About the Declaration of Independence which is pretty interesting, even to a northerner like me.
Happy Fourth of July to my American friends and fiends!
If I came home and saw this I think I'd just move. No packing, just pick up my keys and leave forever.
