June 29, 2006

What's the Biggest Lie About Blogging? | What have some other bloggers, more wizened than me, found to be the biggest lies? So I asked my friends and colleagues, “What the biggest lie about blogging?”
SORELLARIUM 13 | My God, would have I loved to live on Moonbase Alpha among all that gorgeous furniture, illuminated wall panels, computers, monitors and germ free environment ! I'd never thought that someday thanks to the internet and the 70s revival during the 90s, it would be possible to have that wonderful furniture in my own home !

June 27, 2006

Older brothers a link in being gay | The last male child in a family of many boys is more likely to be gay than a boy who is born first or has less brothers, according to new research.

June 26, 2006

Design Barcode | Unsightly barcodes have been raping the beauty of package design long enough. That's why we came up with a way to give barcodes a fun and beautiful makeover, while keeping its functional utility intact. We christened this new type of barcode the "Design Barcode" and pitched it to various manufacturers throughout Japan. As a result, many companies adopted it into their package design, and we helped to turn barcodes into a new channel for companies to communicate to their consumers.
Great Photographers on the Internet

June 22, 2006

Dancing around the world | Mission complete.
oh, don’t forget... | remind yourself, or someone else, about an event at a specific day & time queue up birthday reminders for the next several months have your to-do items sent to you throughout the day

June 21, 2006

Chocolate Covered Bacon
BumpTop Prototype | Keepin' it Real: Pushing the Desktop Metaphor with Physics, Piles and the Pen. BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.
What Did Rhythm & Hues Do To Marlon Brando To Make Him Speak In SUPERMAN RETURNS? | Behold!
Funny and Weird Statues in Children Recreational Parks

June 20, 2006

Why do we still believe in group brainstorming? | So you need some fresh, innovative ideas. What do you do? Get a group of your best thinkers together to bounce ideas of each other…? No, wrong answer.
Monty Python Rabbit with Big Pointy Teeth Slippers | Killer rabbits for your feet! People love fuzzy bunny slippers, but how does the bunny feel about it?

June 19, 2006

Damn Brids | online game
Extortr | online blackmail for the masses.
SuperMoine | Google Video, 3 min 18 sec.

June 18, 2006

World Cup Games | a list with different websites that use soccer to promote products.
And You're So Funny? Write My Script | Ze Frank, in his Brooklyn neighborhood, makes and stars in video shorts on the Web. Like a lot of young adults, Mr. Frank, 34, has a Web site, zefrank.com. There, he documents elaborate and often ridiculous stunts of his own creation, like having two people on opposite sides of the world simultaneously place pieces of bread on the ground, creating what he calls an "earth sandwich."
Pianolina, the interactive Piano by GROTRIAN | Play with the floating tones, create new atmospheric melodies and let yourself be fascinated by the charm of the Pianolina.

June 17, 2006

Nokia replaces Playboy’s cover with another magazines cover | a fake cover for the reader to wrap around the Playboy and turn it into a business magazine
Computers Can Soon Transform 2D Images Into 3D | Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has announced that they’ve found a way to help computers learn the geometric context of a 2D image automatically. Not only will we be able to generate 3D scenes from a single 2D image, the technology could also be used with gadgets and robots to better comprehend what their “eyes” see.
SMSRotateD | a demonstration application that triggers screen rotation based on the orientation data it retrieves from the Sudden Motion Sensor (SMS) built into newer Apple notebook models.

June 14, 2006

Diet Coke 'experiment' gives Mentos a surge in publicity | The company spends less than $20 million on U.S. advertising annually. He estimates the value of online buzz to be "over $10 million."

June 12, 2006

Musicovery | webRadio
Zbiginiew Rybczynski's Tango | Oscar winning animated short (1982)
WeeklyShot | a new kind of group photoblog and photo challenge. Every week we announce a new theme, then photographers interpret this theme and upload their own photos in response. During the week users critique the images and decide which ones get featured on our homepage photoblog for all to see.

June 11, 2006

Bonsai Kitten | wmv
Future Batteries To Charge In Seconds | M.I.T researchers have revealed that they have been working on a breakthrough battery technology that could make fast-charging and long-lasting rechargeable batteries possible. But instead of developing something new, they turned to improving a technology from the past! And it turns out to be the capacitor, which was invented some 300 years ago.
Zarqawi Portrait Sets Record Price For Photography | the US Government paid a record-setting $286 billion -- plus $240 for framing -- for this portrait.

June 08, 2006

Opera Mini™ 2.0
2 Minute Photoshop Tricks | a weekly(ish) podcast for beginner to intermediate Photoshop users. Our tips and tricks aim to give you a basic understanding of Photoshop by walking you through quick examples of real world Photoshop tasks. The tricks are designed to very detailed, straightforward, and as useful as possible.
The largest collection of free sounds on the internet | Now with 1,980 high quality sound effects for use in web pages and games.

June 07, 2006

David Hasselhoff - Secret Agent Man | David Hasselhoff is licensed to kill. He kills music genre after music genre and the occasional one hit wonder. Surrender or die.
10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid | If you want to craft an error-free message that reflects your professionalism, be on the lookout for these common grammatical slip-ups.

June 06, 2006

Bread that now comes in cans | In a sense, it's the next best thing to sliced bread: Bread that comes in a can and stays fresh for up to three years, that is.
Animator vs. animation | (swf)
A gallery of walls with stuff written on
List of foods named after people
Swedish Chef Collection

June 03, 2006

Stereotypes | Eric Myer Photography.

June 01, 2006

The interrobang (‽) | a rarely-used, nonstandard English-language punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of a question mark and an exclamation point. The typographical character resembles those marks superimposed one over the other. In informal writing, the same effect is achieved by placing the exclamation point after or before the question mark, e.g. "What?!".
Science of Candy: Visit a lollipop factory!
Das Vinci Code | A subtitled German trailer to the Da Vinci Code by the Heavy Heads at HEAVY.COM