Check out the Worth1000 PhotoShop contest Beer Swap. Above is one of my favorites… 🙂
Beer Swap
del.icio.us links for 01-11-06
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Most culinary items featured in The Simpsons are not meant for human consumption…
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Mmmm… donuts.
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The linked post is informative, but the comments in the thread are even more incisive.
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hilarious…
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“In a bit of unintended humor, Wall Street closed Apple’s stock Tuesday, the day the company unveiled its first Intel processor-based computers at Macworld, at $80.86.”
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Yeah, well, it’s still no “Empire Strikes Back” :-p
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[via Boing Boing]
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So far “Cordarounds” are only available in Seattle. Whatever…
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[via Screenhead]
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even worse than I expected…
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what a moronic asshole…
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Ask MetaFilter contributors come up with MP3 links for this fun song
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“RedWire DLX jeans… will have an iPod dock and controller joystick built into the pockets.”
[via Boing Boing]
The North Star Has Companions
HubbleSite reports that:
By stretching the capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to the limit, astronomers have photographed the close companion of Polaris for the first time. This sequence of images shows that the North Star, Polaris is really a triple star system.
Wow.
firstgoatse flickr photo set
The flickr photo set “firstgoatse” records the reactions of people who have never seen the “Internet shock site” Goatse. If you don’t know what Goatse is, then you’re probably better off, although the photo set may not make sense to you. Wikipedia has a good entry on the Interweb phenomenon, although I will warn you that the topic is pretty NSFW.
Scientists Finally Figure Out How Bees Fly
Live Science reports that scientists have finally figured out how bees fly. “Using a combination of high-speed digital photography and a robotic model of a bee wing, the researchers figured out the flight mechanisms of honeybees,” which were apparently much more complex and exotic than was anticipated.
One thing I hadn’t realized was that proponents of “Intelligent Design” had for some time used scientists’ inability to explain bees’ flight mechanisms as ammunition towards their cause. On that topic Doug Altshuler, one of the researchers at the California Institute of Technology, commented that “We were finally able to put this one to rest. We do have the tools to understand bee flight and we can use science to understand the world around us.”
del.icio.us links for 01-10-2006
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“He couldn’t beat me,” [goalie Jose] Theodore said. “That’s the main thing.” 🙂
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find your blogs’ rankings in search engines
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I like the fried shrimp one, although the headless Barbie one is a classic too… 😉
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Billy Joel is still one of my favorite musical artists…
egoSurf
OK, so I scored 6124 points at egoSurf , which finds your blog’s ranking in Google, as well Yahoo, MSN, del.icio.us and Technorati, if you so choose. Woo hoo!
del.icio.us links for 01-09-2006
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“Troops conducting urban operations soon will have the capabilities of superheroes, being able to sense through 12 inches of concrete to determine if someone is inside a building.”
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“Firefox is very close to hitting a critical mass of 10 percent, which could mean a more rapid adoption rate.”
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interesting rule variations on Monopoly board game
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Groklaw’s parody of Coldplay’s CD DRM “sets out the terms under which a pizza pie can be consumed.”
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How do you spell “aargh?” This page has an interesting visualization that correlates search results with variations on spelling.
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As much as I like Spike Jonze, I don’t know about this…
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“Open for business later this year.” I hope this doesn’t suck…
The Viral Chart
The Viral Chart is a pretty nice roundup of the latest popular Interweb viral videos, ads, games, etc.:
Viral Marketing is the future of commercial advertising. Virals can be videos, games or just web pages which are strategically “seeded” on websites, blogs and mailing lists around the Internet.
As soon as Internet users start forwarding the link or the clip to their friends, it’s gone viral and it will continue to spread across the Web, potentially reaching audiences of millions.
The Viral Chart is a huge leap towards quantifying these audiences.
Google Pack
Google has released Google Pack (FAQ and official blog release), a bundling of free software that includes:
- Google Earth
- Picasa
- Google Pack Screensaver (info on a standalone screensaver without Google’s logo here)
- Google Desktop
- Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer
- Google Talk
- Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar
- Norton Antivirus 2005 Special Edition (with 6-month trial subscription)
- Ad-Aware SE Personal
- Adobe Reader 7
- RealPlayer
- Trillian
- GalleryPlayer HD Image
This is actually a solid bundle of software and is pretty much exactly what I use in each class of applications, with the exception of the bloated Adobe Reader, which I have replaced with the Foxit Reader, and the even more bloated RealPlayer, which I have replaced with JetAudio and/or Media Player Classic. I never heard of GalleryPlayer HD Images, but it is not enabled by default (nor was Google Talk, RealPlayer, or Trillian). Apparently Google Video Player was bundled at one time but was removed for some reason.
The download also includes an “updater” that monitors new software version releases and allows for easy upgrades. If I hadn’t already downloaded just about all of these applications for myself, I would really love this. This fact is why it’s hard to disagree with one comment at Hot Links that opines that this is “aimed squarely at the ‘parents-of-geeks’ market.” 😉
