It's not us, don't click it
Posted: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 3:52 PM by Will Femia
That breaking news spam you got from msnbc.com or CNN is
outlined here. Short version: Those mails aren't coming from us and don't click anything on them.
Bob explains it here.
I'm trying to imagine a culture where
this is what a commuter parking lot looks like and I just can't. It must always look like an Earth Day parade.
How to make a suction cup tire bikeMouse over the images to see the movie poster version of the Watchmen comic art.
I've heard of "manscaping" but literally
coating your head in landscaping is taking things a bit far. I do love the idea that he's wired himself with electricity though.
Oh no, when the right accuses the left of being "unhinged"
this is the sort of thing they're talking about. Not everything is a sign that George Bush has ruined the country and the planet - and I say that fully aware of all of the evils of George Bush and the precarious situation our environment is in, so spare me the angry mail. Going all Henny Penny over sprinkler rainbows sets the whole cause back.
Mathway not only solves your math problems but explains the steps to you. As much as this would be a nightmare for teachers and a blessing for cheating students the people who I think would really benefit from this is parents who are trying to help their kids with math homework using faded memories of 10-20 year-old math classes.
The future is now.
15 buildings that have brought us closer to a Blade Runner present.
Speaking of Oobject links, here they have a collection of
really tiny projectors which caught my eye because I was recently looking at
this "world's smallest" projector. What's the deal with tiny projectors? (Actually, I know the answer. As technology gets tinier, screen sizes can't keep up because they have to actually be readable. So if you can project the image on something else, the technology can keep shrinking (provided the projector technology can shrink better than screens.)
xkcd divines some pretty
good life advice from Google. I love that Google trick for seeing what the Web-public thinks about things. In entering other decisions we can also learn that there are only two results for "I never should have taken the money" versus 5,720 who suffer the opposite regret.
In spite of not really having the time today I ended up fitting in
this entire mulit-media report on a feral girl saved from a neglectful household in Florida. It's very powerful but be prepared to be depressed for the rest of the day. Studying psychology in college the idea of a feral child was sort of a research gold mine, so clicking this I was expecting something more scientific about how intertwined nature and nurture are in human development. There's not much of that at all here. Instead it's a very personal, powerful human story.
Here's a cool but simple toy from the New York Times showing
Olympic medal winnings over time.
New buzz tracker: "
Polymeme helps you discover intelligent content that lies beyond the usual echo chambers of tech news, celebrity gossip or American politics."
Cool use of anamorphosis for
navigating a parking garage. Where have you seen this before? Probably in
that collection of anamorphosis that's been floating around the Web.
I thought the
Animasher would be too simplistic to do anything really complex but go ahead and play with it and you'll see that there's really quite a bit you can do if you're creative enough. I've recently begun to look at animation software and this bodes very well for what else is out there.
