Posts Tagged “On Cool Stuff”

January 24, 2008
Amazing photoshop'd images...

Wow - some people are amazingly talented. The winning entry for the crestock.com photoshop competition: Go check it out - some amazing images there.
January 24, 2008
Cool photos...

Some nice photos I found a while back: Josef Hoflehner - Landscape Photographs.Apparently he's got an exhibition on until 29 February at Atlas Gallery, Dorset Street, London.Just have to find the time to get down there!
December 13, 2007
Photography techniques...

Cool post I ran across today: 16 Inspirational Portrait Photography Techniques.Nice.
July 01, 2007
If the eye was a digital camera...

Okay, this is slightly nerdy, but hey, I thought it was interesting... Notes on the Resolution and Other Details of the Human Eye.Apparently its equivalent to a 576 megapixel camera... Cool.
June 26, 2007
Way cool...

Go check out Photosynth that Microsoft Live Labs has put together... Very cool.
October 14, 2006
Reverse graffiti?

Is cleaning a crime? 'Graffiti' by cleaning grimey walls... from Neatorama, via Dan Bartels.
August 16, 2006
Flash animations fight back..

Very cool… Flash animations fight back…
July 25, 2006
I love Top Gear!

Absolutely loved watching Top Gear last week - laughed so much I cried... <IMG alt=":)" class="emoticon" src="/images/emotions/emotion-1.gif" border=0>They've got a bit of a thing against caravans, so, just for a laugh, they decided to go fo...
July 16, 2006
Hand made ferrari...

This is on display round the corner from work...Yes, its a hand-knitted ferrari. Some people have far to much time on their hands...More info on The Times website.
July 06, 2006
I'm jealous...

I’m extremely jealous of this guy. (Not of his dancing skills though).
July 06, 2006
Creepy. Cool. Bizarre. Impressive.

The Little Girl Giant.via Gadgetopia.
May 17, 2006
Anyone speak dutch???

A friend of mine has started up a website that, while its mainly in dutch*, has some pretty damn good artwork on it. Granted, she is a graphic designer, so you'd expect it to be good, but I quite like her designs. Check it out: Heavenly Green at w...
May 12, 2006
Chalk art...

Something I meant to post a long time ago, stolen blatently from KC (who stole it from someone else):This chalk art is amazing. Check it out.
April 29, 2006
I love this site...

Overheard in the office always gives me a chuckle.Especially this one (or maybe I'm just twisted <IMG alt=":)" class="emoticon" src="/images/emotions/emotion-1.gif" border=0>).
April 19, 2006
hehehe...

A brilliant Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller the other day:<IMG alt="Non Sequitur by Wiley - Lawyers and the truth." src="/images/nonsequiter_lawyersandtruth.gif" P <>
March 06, 2006
Moving the earth...

Just in case anyone has a bit of spare time one Sunday afternoon, and they're pottering around, trying to find some little job that will get them through the long dark tea-time of the soul*, or even if someone is getting the feeling that they dont...
September 01, 2005
One giant leap for developers...

Ran across this site a while back - a competition where you can win ipods, dvd's, or a space flight, 99 km above the earth, just for entering a competition...Whatever will they think of next...?
August 13, 2005
Now this is cool...

Is it a boat, or what???Check the Hydro-Foam - very cool. I'd want one, but I know it would only sit on the shelf and gather dust....
August 05, 2005
Just in case you wanted to know...

... how to destroy the earth.I mean, really. Properly. It lists all sorts of technically and scientifically accurate methods of destroying the earth. From being sucked into a microscopic black hole, to it getting hurled into the sun to it bei...
June 13, 2005
Woohoo!

Back in the good old days, I used to absolutely love McGyver. Used to watch it every week, without fail. I used to watch it with as much regularity as my sister and mother used to watch A Country Practice, or as much as they watch Home and Aw...
June 13, 2005
Bonus!

Got an email the other day from Bulldog, our internet provider.Just for the hell of it, they're going to up our connection to an 8 meg connection (instead of the current 4 meg). No extra cost, nothing to do. Damn... How annoying. Not.
June 01, 2005
Billiant...

This is absolutely brilliant. Do not view while drinking coffee…
May 28, 2005
The scary thing is...

... I know some people who would be involved in something like this.
May 17, 2005
Solar Death Ray...

Some people have way too much time on their hands. Either that, or they have delusions of meglomania...This guy's built a solar death ray machine, and uses it to attack poor inanimate objects, and even cute little duckies!
May 06, 2005
Turkish Currency

Chatting to Allison the other day, talking about the currency in Turkey. At the start of this year, they changed from Turkish Lira (TL) to New Turkish Lira (YTL). In doing so, they just chopped 6 zero's off the old currency's value. So, a can of c...
April 20, 2005
Computer jargon explained...

Error message: Terse, baffling remark used by programmers to place blame on users for the program's shortcomings. Lots more 'explanations' to be found at http://www.effect.net.au/lukastan/humour/Jargon/PC-Jargon.htm.
April 16, 2005
It was a dark and stormy night... 2005 Bulwer-Lytton winners.

Stolen blatently from http://paulboutin.weblogger.com/2005/03/30#a1183 Listed below are the 10 winners of this year's Bulwer-Lytton Contest, aka the "Dark and Stormy Night Contest" run by the English Department of San Jose State University,wherein...
April 11, 2005
Hokey...

Going through my old email, I ran across this one from the end of last year: With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person which almost went unnoticed last wee...
April 05, 2005
Credit card fraud...

The Credit Card Prank II is definitely worth a read... Warning: Do not read while drinking coffee...
April 02, 2005
*Shock* *Horror* I got me an iPod Shuffle!

Went out to a team lunch the other day, to celebrate the fact that we released dealscope onto mergermarket, and apparently, everyone liked it lots and lots, both internally and externally. So, to thank us for this, the boss/company gave us ea...
March 11, 2005
How come nobody reads my blog?

Ran across this while reading Scoble's blog yesterday, and thought it was kind of appropriate...<IMG src="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/zzzzzz7654197.jpg" P <> If you like it, go check out the <Ahref="http://www.gap...
January 13, 2005
On Cool Stuff... America warships on the open seas

[Edit: Apparently putting object tags in a post is evil, so i've taken it out the embedded video. Just use the download link to view it]This has been doing the rounds for a while as an email, but someones gone and made a video of it, so I just hav...
January 12, 2005
On Cool Stuff... Is your monitor dirty?

Is your monitor dirty? Here's an easy way to <FONT color=#cc3300>clean your screen.[Shamelessly stolen from http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000372.html]
December 20, 2004
On Cool Stuff... My very own robot...

Just found an article about how you get get affordable kit-robots that you can build at home!They are “capable of speech synthesis, speech recognition, motion sensing, obstacle avoidance, and more”. Pity it looks like a printer on whee...
December 20, 2004
Cool Stuff... Patriotism...

Okay, for some reason at the pub last night, we got talking about that Fosters advert that they showed during the last Olympics. Just went looking for it, and couldn't find the video, but i managed to find a transcript of it, and a few interesting...
December 19, 2004
Cool stuff - Macs - Crash Differently

I know this has been around for a while, but I thought I'd share it again.A very very funny take on the "superiority" of macs - from a mac user - mac.wmv (I've started branching out with the topics I'm blogging about. If you only want to hear abou...