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February 28, 2006
February 27, 2006
Panama Canal time-lapse video
This is a time-lapse video made from the Panama Canal Miraflores Lock's webcam. Grabbed the stills and stitched them together. Makes an impressive video of a week's activity at the Canal, but then speeded up. Check it out - a great & cool watch! -1 week compressed into 11 minutes.
February 26, 2006
Old ladies can be dangerous
Little old ladies can be dangerous!. This video starts with a coupe of guys on skateboard, but then the camera turns around and focusses on an old lady and a Mercedes. The effect one little handbag can have... check out the video.
February 25, 2006
Let them sing it for you
Very nice application. Just type in some words, and they will sing it out loud for you, using samples from hundreds of different songs and lyrics. Try out "Let them sing it for you.
February 24, 2006
1950's Disney concept art
A gallery of great unused concept art for the 1950s Disney project "Mars And Beyond."
February 20, 2006
The Origin of the Peace Symbol
One of the most widely known symbols in the world, it's known as 'the peace symbol'. It was designed in 1958 by Gerald Holtom. Read more about The Origin of the Peace Symbol.
February 19, 2006
Shameful anti-democrat video
WWII veteran Senator Daniel Inouye, the Ranking Member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee recently said: "The Republican Party’s latest ad Retreat and Defeat is a shameful and disgusting attempt to distract the American people from the problems in Iraq. It may improve the President’s political fortunes, but Bush should realize how shameful it is to play politics when what we really need is leadership".
February 18, 2006
Swatch FlashMobs - ShakeTheWorld
All over the world groups of people of all sizes (mobs) are coming together to do something ...different. Check out this worldwide Swatch FlashMob competition: ShakeTheWorld. Organise one, and win prizes.
Sudden outbreak of mud and gas geysers in Oklahoma
An outbreak of geysers spewing mud and gas into the air in Oklahoma USA is puzzling state and local officials. The geysers have appeared throughout the countryside of a rural area, with stretches of up to 12 miles between spots, and some as short as a quarter of a mile.
Bob Marley rules
The King of Reggae still rules his kingdom! Check out Bob Marley.com
February 16, 2006
Library of Life
Library of Life lets you share your memories and record them online forever. From a few words to a full multimedia website, Library of Life ensures that your memories are kept alive forever and those who mean the most to you are never forgotten
February 15, 2006
Its a Wonderful Internet
Just go online for modern fairytales like this one. Turn up your sound and explore and click every pictures, there's lots of hidden surprises everywhere. George is playing online games when suddenly.....everything in his life is completely different, nothing is as it was before... See Its a Wonderful Internet.
February 14, 2006
Coca Cola's "How Chill is the world?"
A new Coca Cola project is WorldChill, a website that maps how people around the world are feeling at any given time. Visitors rate their feelings according to five brief definitions, "freakin'", "bugging", "uptight", “calm" and "chill" , this input makes up a Global Chill Map...A perpetual state of Chill is hanging around the Pacific Ocean.
Bumvertising - advertise on street bums
Bumvertising™ (the use of sign holding vagrants to advertise) is the newest advertising medium. Homeless men are an enormous potential in wasted labor. Bums use a business model that takes advantage of high volume traffic, which is such great exposure - a value that was not being utilized. Check out the Bumvertising site.
February 13, 2006
Do you see dolphins?
"What do you see here? Interestingly, research has shown that young children cannot identify the intimate couple because they do not have prior memory associated with such a scenario. What they WILL see, however, is the nine dolphins in the picture." Dolphins?
February 12, 2006
Dust Houses Art
When Colombian Maria Lopez moved to Philadelphia do a Master’s degree in art, she cleaned houses to help support herself. Her series of Dust Houses are toy doll houses covered over in vacuum cleaner lint, representing the themes of domesticity and the other, the ideas of cleaning up after oneself and putting one’s house in order. She's now a succesful artist.
February 11, 2006
War of the Worlds online comic book
Have a look at this online comic book of War of the Worlds as told by H.G.Wells, have a picture a day: 24 weeks and 115 pages encounting. Great pictures and beautifully drawn !
February 10, 2006
Ugly can be beautiful
Brad Pitt has been spotted in these, as well as Matt Damon. But they're ugly as hell! Ranging in between dutch clogs and spanish sandals, this is the hottest thing in shoe-ware of this moment! (available in all colours of the rainbow). Check out the Crocs website.
February 09, 2006
Airmail in America
This site includes information on the history of the Airmail service, several of the aircraft used, and under the pilots / rest of the best section, biographies of most of the 200+ pilots who flew for the Air Mail Service from 1918-1927. Check out Airmail in America.
Kilroy 2 - Chernobyl farms
Kilroy 2 - Chernobyl farms is an online 1st person shooter. Just shoot to kill all the mutated animals in Chernobyl.
February 08, 2006
Artworks made of paper
Someone has very delicate hands to be able to make all these beautiful intricate paper artworks. Check out this beautiful collection of Art made of paper.
February 07, 2006
Airplane Oops!
Statistically there is only a small chance the aircraft you're sitting in will crash. But fuck statistics! Check out this gallery of pictures of aircraft situations where "something went wrong".
February 06, 2006
Weird online MP3 Player
You play songs by dropping one of the balls on the left inside the gramophone-like machine. A playlist could be implemented with a robot that picks up and drops the song-balls automatically or by a feeding tube that would drop one ball at time. Check out this weird MP3 player.
February 05, 2006
The Ariel Atom 2
A bodyless tubular chassis promises raw fun. Squeeze the throttle and the Atom shoots forward because it weighs so little. check out the site for this little radical car: the Ariel Atom.
February 04, 2006
2005 Ferrari Design Competition
The challenge: a Ferrari design competition. Who makes the nicest car?
February 03, 2006
Ali G meets NBA stars
You've seen'em make soaring dunks, 3s from another time-zone, and cross-over dribbles that could break the crowds ankles. But now NBA stars are going one-on-one with Ali G and he's got the skillz to drive you hard to the laughter. Check out the videos at Respect & Truth.
Birds are living dinosaurs
A perfectly preserved fossil of a feathered creature that lived 150 million years ago has provided further evidence to show that modern birds are actually living dinosaurs. The fossil grew to the size of a magpie and probably lived most of its life on the ground rather than in trees.
February 02, 2006
The Logo Graveyard
Gone, but not forgotten. Visit the Logo R.I.P Graveyard to see a commemoration of logos withdrawn from the commercial warzone, though they are considered icons of their time and design classics. Includes a Book of Condolences.
High Alarm over dramatic weakening of Gulf Stream
Scientists raised the high alarm today that the powerful ocean current that bathes northern Europe in warm waters from the tropics has weakened dramatically in recent years. This could trigger more severe and extreme winters and cooler summers across the region. Anybody remember the film Day After Tomorrow? Well it's really happening now!
February 01, 2006
Card Toss game
Another lovely time-waster! Just sit in your chair and toss playing cards into the hat. A winning streak will increase your points fastly. Play it Sam! Check out this flashy Card Toss game.
The Celestial Mechanics Project
At any given moment, there can be 30,000 manmade objects in the sky above us: Planes, helicopters, satellites, weather balloons, space debris, and other diverse technologies. The Celestial Mechanics Project is a planetarium artwork combining science, statistical display, and contemporary art to visualise the mechanical patterns and behaviors of flying objects. Also check out visualisations of complicated flight plans over the US.
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