December 31, 2005
December 30, 2005
100 things we didn't know this time last year | 45. C3PO and R2D2 do not speak to each other off-camera because the actors don't get on.
December 29, 2005
December 28, 2005
The ultimate hangover cure? | Alcohol sales go through the roof at this time of year, as do those of supposed hangover cures. But the holy grail for revellers is a panacea that prevents damage in the first place - could taurine be the answer?
The History of Amazon’s Tab Navigation | Amazon.com popularized the tab navigation metaphor online. Through the years they explored multiple interface design solutions to make their growing product inventory accessible to Web users. As a result, some interesting lessons emerge when one looks at how the site’s top-level navigation has changed over the years.
Igloo Builders Guide | Building an igloo is easy and fun. And the igloo is a great place to spend the night on a small 'expedition' in the mountains. Much warmer than a tent, and can be built just about anywhere.
December 27, 2005
Mysql bäst i test - mer än bara prisvärd | Oracle och IBM hamnade på delad andraplats, medan Microsoft inte ens fixade pallplacering.
Tomten slog till 6-åring - polisanmäld | Tomten i finska Rovaniemi fick nog av sexåringens hyss och daskade till honom.
December 26, 2005
December 25, 2005
The Headington Shark | became the most famous resident of Headington when it landed in the roof of 2 New High Street on 9 August 1986.
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Christmas | A celebration so venerated, so long-lasting, and so ubiquitous — rich with traditions of both religious and secular origins — could scarcely avoid creating a rich legacy of folklore and legends. Here is but a sampling of some of the many tales we associate with Christmas and the holiday season.
December 23, 2005
December 22, 2005
"Highly critical" Flaw in discovered in Symantec AntiVirus | The only solution at this point is to filter RAR archives at email or proxy gateways, or disable and uninstall Norton AntiVirus.
Harry Potter Broomstick: Bad Vibrations? | Mattel is marketing a toy broomstick in its Harry Potter line that is raising eyebrows.
December 21, 2005
A photo tour of the Transparent Factory in Dresden | The building and grounds are beautiful, and the whole process of both making and selling Phaetons is totally different than that for any other car in the world.
Eero Aarnio plastic furniture | This website contains information about the designer Eero Aarnio and his famous plastic furniture like ball chair / globe chair, bubble chair, pastil chair, tomato chair and others.
December 20, 2005
The World's Longest Palindromes | In 2002, Peter Norvig read that Dan Hoey had created a computer program that had generated a 540 word palindrome in 1984. Thinking he could do one better, Norvig created his own version of the program. Both programs were based off of the classic phrase “A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.”
December 19, 2005
Template Resignation Letters | Guarantee a stylish and dignified exit by using one of these template resignation letters. You can now customise each one before printing, to fit your own circumstances.
Typeworkshop.com | origines from workshops given by Underware during the last years. Most of the stuff which you see on this website at the moment, derives from these workshops.
December 18, 2005
Will Apple Push "Intel Inside"? | It sure is hard to imagine Jobs & Co. putting the chipmaker's ubiquitous logo on their gleaming mach
Body of Christ? Not So Nice! A Sacri-licious Experiment | By themselves, communion wafers are pretty vile. That would explain why they have to "sell" them with a free sip of wine.
The Devil Is In Your Chimney! | Is Santa Claus, Satan? (A Special Report Concerning the Origin of Santa Claus)
December 17, 2005
December 15, 2005
Does your wife do this too? | a survey to find out when people who had been married for three years first heard their wife pass gas!
Pencil sharpeners banned after attack | a pupil dismantled one and used the blade to slash another child's neck.
December 14, 2005
adland: BBC "Faces" campaign withdrawn after more than 1300 complaints | "As a registered psychotherapist, I wish to protest that this image is disturbingly psychotic. Its unacknowledged aggression could make a fragile viewer ill"
Muppet Wiki | is a collaborative project to create an encyclopedia for everything related to Jim Henson and the Muppets.
December 13, 2005
How do you tackle an invasion of giant jellyfish? | They are called echizen kurage and they sound like monsters from the trashier reaches of Japanese science fiction. They are 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles, they have drifted across the void to terrorise the people of Japan.
December 10, 2005
Visual Poetry | translates any text into a series of images by looking up the words on Google image search and projecting the most relevant results as a slide show.
December 08, 2005
December 06, 2005
November 29, 2005
Extreme Ironing Bureau | the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt.
Resurrect Your Writing, Redeem Your Soul | You know you’re on the Information Superhighway to Hell if crap like enhance, leverage, implement, context, driver, focus, core, actionable, outcome and stakeholder crops up in your copy.
November 27, 2005
Pixy: Let's Favelets | Favelets (or bookmarklets, or favemarklets) are browser's favorites (bookmarks) linked to a javascript code. Activating such bookmark will cause executing this code (instead of loading new page, like regular bookmarks do).
Google Analytics makes site owners illegal | According to Swedish and European Union law, it's illegal to set cookies without telling people on the site that you do, what they're used for and how they can be avoided.
November 26, 2005
November 25, 2005
November 23, 2005
Numberspiral.com | Number spirals are very simple. To make one, we just write the non-negative integers on a ribbon and roll it up with zero at the center.
November 22, 2005
November 21, 2005
November 20, 2005
November 18, 2005
Postcrossing | send a postcard and receive one back from a random postcrosser somewhere in the world.
The Principles of Universal Design | They have been carefully thought out by advocates of universal design. Principles like concepts do not change in time.
November 15, 2005
Kate Bush sings Pi (incorrectly) | All was well for the first 53 decimal places but then Kate sang "threeeeee oneeeee" when she should have sang "zeeeeeeerooo" instead.
November 13, 2005
Douglas Adams on Windows '95 | The author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy takes on Bill Gates.
Linkdup | Design, content and technology are coming of age on the web and this maturation continues at a pace. It can be difficult to know where to look to see the best sites, so we collect and categorise them for you and save you the time and effort.
November 11, 2005
FUCK this website | This is not social commentary. There is no message. It's not meant to offend, exploit, or embarrass anyone. All real stickers. All real signs. All in fun.
Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic | examine briefly the two contrasting visual approaches employed by Gates and Jobs in their presentations while keeping key aesthetic concepts found in Zen in mind.
November 09, 2005
November 08, 2005
November 05, 2005
November 04, 2005
BrushFind.com | Searching For Photoshop Brushes Just Got Easier
Chomp Champ's the name | puttin' em away is the game!
What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex | A cross-referenced list of everything Tolkien said about elf sex
Tom Petty - Into the great wide open | mpg
Koufax - Isabelle | Directed by: Travis Kopach
Japanese Male-or-Female Detector System | Yamaha Motor has unveiled a camera system that recognizes if a person is a man or woman and puts them into one of five age groups.
Nokia Web browser for S60 3rd Edition | is based on the WebCore and JavaScriptCore components of Apple's Safari Web Kit, the industry's smallest and fastest open source full Web rendering engine for mobile devices that Apple uses in its popular Safari Internet browser.
Chomp Champ's the name | puttin' em away is the game!
What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex | A cross-referenced list of everything Tolkien said about elf sex
Tom Petty - Into the great wide open | mpg
Koufax - Isabelle | Directed by: Travis Kopach
Japanese Male-or-Female Detector System | Yamaha Motor has unveiled a camera system that recognizes if a person is a man or woman and puts them into one of five age groups.
Nokia Web browser for S60 3rd Edition | is based on the WebCore and JavaScriptCore components of Apple's Safari Web Kit, the industry's smallest and fastest open source full Web rendering engine for mobile devices that Apple uses in its popular Safari Internet browser.
November 01, 2005
Scare Tactics | Just when you thought the fear had passed, it comes back — bigger, better and more hilarious than ever! SCI FI's outrageous hidden-camera prank show is back.
A night out in Helsinki | Dominic Hughes accompanies a police patrol as they deal with the drunken excesses of a Friday night in Helsinki and meets a victim of the country's hard drinking culture.
October 31, 2005
Pictures of green flashes | an atmospheric refractive phenomenon where the top edge of the Sun will momentarily turn green.
October 30, 2005
emaillierte Hinweisschilder | wie Sie früher in Hauseingängen, Gaststätten und Werkstätten hingen, entfalten auch heute noch ihre intensive Wirkung
Anti-iPod | Rise against this cult!
SmashMyiPod.com | You donate, we smash!
Apple iSmack nano | addresses the growing problem of people being mugged for their digital music player.
Apple Rip-offs | Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
iPod nano cards | on Shibuya train platform.
SmashMyiPod.com | You donate, we smash!
Apple iSmack nano | addresses the growing problem of people being mugged for their digital music player.
Apple Rip-offs | Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
iPod nano cards | on Shibuya train platform.
Does graphic design really make a difference? | Graphic design is misleading in that it looks like a leading role, when in fact it is a supporting role. If one wants to play a leading role, one should learn to play violin instead of playing viola very loudly in order to be noticed. Otherwise, one will end up giving the viola a bad name.
October 29, 2005
October 28, 2005
Bouncy Balls: The BRAVIA Commercial | Sending 250,000 multi-coloured 'superballs' bouncing down the streets of San Francisco may seem the strangest way to do this, but that's exactly what Danish director Nicolai Fuglsig did for the BRAVIA commercial in July this year.
October 26, 2005
14 things you didn't know about Bill Gates | 11. One of his teachers said about him "Bill was an amazing programmer, but a disgusting person".
The Canon Logo | introduced in 1935, has undergone several changes as the company has grown. Despite these modifications, the strong character reflected in the sweeping inward stroke of the "C" has remained intact from the day that the company was founded.
Tennents - Pintlings | A brutal series of murders in a land populated by anthropamorphic pint glasses...courtesy of Aardmann animation.
Pappa avgör din livslängd | Den kanske något drastiska slutsatsen kan dras från alldeles ny forskning i Umeå om vad som avgör hur länge vi lever.
Daring Fireball: CSS Syntax Checker for BBEdit and TextWrangler | is a combination of Perl and AppleScript that allows you to syntax-check CSS files using the W3C’s CSS Validation Service.
Take on Telemarketers with this Counter-Script | Like a telemarketer script, it provides a flowchart that you can follow and fill out based on the telemarketer's responses.
The Dilbert Blog: Dangerous Donuts | The problem is that there’s an unwritten rule in newspaper comics that you can’t show a gun being fired. I suggested a compromise. I would keep everything the same, except the gun would be replaced with a donut… that fires bullets.
October 21, 2005
Newest Webcams | These webcams were found automatically through a variety of clever search techniques.
October 20, 2005
October 19, 2005
The Inspiration Gallery - Damask Wallpaper Patterns | Damask, once restricted to formal rooms, has today come into much more general use than ever before in its long history. In this adaptation to our 20th century life, two extremes of patterns have evolved.
Official Google Blog: We get letters | ...their son was born on September 12. His name? Oliver Google Kai.
October 18, 2005
The Flying Toasters are Back (for free) | Remember the days of the flying toasters? Those days are here again!
SwarmSketch | an ongoing online canvas that explores the possibilities of distributed design by the masses
October 17, 2005
October 16, 2005
October 15, 2005
October 12, 2005
October 11, 2005
October 10, 2005
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