JAJAH - web-activated telephony

JAJAH - web-activated telephony

Haven't tried it....yet....

Mathmos: Thaw

Mathmos: Thaw Candlelight Holder

File this under cool but pointless...

Fast way to compare arial photography from the different sources

http://www.flashearth.com/

fast switch between google, yahoo, ask etc...

Whoops there goes the productivity...

A site detailing every flash game ever featured on digg. With a photo, a short description and a rating.

http://www.games1.org/

It even has frogger!

The Hexadecimal Colours Game

The Hexadecimal Colours Game

This is surely the official Arblognot challenge - please post scores in the comments section below :)

The Netflix prize

I really want to be working on the netflix prize but I can't because then I would have no time left in my life. The idea is to write a program that comes up with better movie recommendations for netflix users. So that people have something to work with they've released a lot of data. Some of the most interesting discussions on the forums are about the data. Like this one that is a spookily accurate way of mesuring not just which films have the best rating but which films are loved, hated and divisive. It's a well written clever discription and worth reading. And it all flows from a simple question why is Miss Congeniality the most rated film on Netflix?

Netflix Prize: Forum / Miss Congeniality

Line Rider

Quite an fun little game:

Line Rider - beta by *fsk on deviantART

Phosphor

This is amazing, like Doom/Quake but entirely online
(OK, you need a bit of Flash installed...)

Phosphor

Well I was impressed :) I am quite old you know...

The Evening Cinematic

Nick has started a brief blog:

The Evening Cinematic: "The Evening Cinematic
The Evening Standard is offering a free cinema ticket to every reader everyday this week to see a film everyday next week. This is the record of my attempt to buy every paper, see every film."

Why God doesn't exist by Richard Dawkins

A nice contentious post to get your blood singing

The story of the iPod

Ever wondered what the first song to be played on an iPod was? You can either read this article by Steven Levy which is interesting in other ways too, or I can tell you...

Wired 14.11: The Perfect Thing

Spiller - Grooveject (If this ain't love)

New Era of the Recipe Burglar

A thought provoking article about whether recipies should be under copyright.

New Era of the Recipe Burglar | Food & Wine: "Pete Wells explores the mysterious world of kitchen spies, copycat chefs and copyright lawyers who might, one day soon, change the way we eat. "

AutoStitch

AutoStitch: "Autostitch™ is the world's first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever, Autostitch is a breakthrough technology for panoramic photography, VR and visualisation applications. This is the first solution to stitch any panorama completely automatically, whether 1D (horizontal) or 2D (horizontal and vertical)."

Microsoft Research Group Shot

You know the situation. You've got some great pictures of some friends at a party. But if only you could have Steve looking happy like he does in one picture moved into the picture where he looks rubbish but Jeff looks good. Or something. Basically you need Microsoft Research Group Shot.

You can choose the faces from any photos and combine them together and it does the magic for you.

Here it is Microsoft Research Group Shot: "Microsoft Research Group Shot"

And here's a great example of it which explains things much better: http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardholden/189985904/

Google Maps Nighttime!

Google Maps Nighttime!: Although "The underlying 128 megapixel night imagery from NASA uses a map projection different from Google Maps'. The two are aligned near the NYC-Madrid-Tokyo axis only." It's still pretty cool.

atelier v.

atelier v.

Some 'reimagining' of everyday household objects (in German)

Some are better than others, but I liked the lampshade and the ice cream holder!

What's the difference between George Bush and Himself?

Check out this clip from the daily show. On the day they realised that no Democrat would ever be able to defeat him they decided to show that perhaps the best person to defeat him was himself. It turns out he ran for President on a very different platform than the way he ran to stay President. Flip-Flopper or what...

Songbird 0.2 Video describing what its about

Worth watching just for the mad guy doing the demo "sweet and Oi"




here's the songbird site:
http://www.songbirdnest.com/node/875

List of CSS Tools

List of CSS Tools: "A nice List of CSS Tools"

"World Cup air" vendor blows off steam in court

"World Cup air" vendor blows off steam in court: "A Chinese entrepreneur is suing a Beijing trade bureau for denying him a permit to sell bags of 'World Cup air' and for scotching his plans to bottle and sell '2008 Olympic air', a newspaper said on Thursday."

Ten Best Flickr Mashups

Ten Best Flickr Mashups

Although this article is quite old there are a whole load of fun apps to play with here that I'd never heard of. Eg. Draw something and it will find pictures that look like your doodle, spell words with flickr letters, a really neat navigation tool, a colour picker which also finds you pictures using that colour and some games.

The Filter

Welcome | The Filter: Sort of Pandora but only using your own music. Here's the blurb: "It's better than your shuffle button!
Instead of browsing at random through your music collection we’ve created a program that can build you excellent playlists to fit your mood. All you need to do is select a few songs from your iTunes library and then start The Filter."

Splice - Meet. Mix. Mashup.

Splice

"Record sounds, compose songs, listen to music, make friends and remixes... all through the browser window."

And to think I paid* for CooldEditPro. And Reason2.0

* ok, not in the real sense of money, but still...

A great 404 error?

uh oh

from lileks a very kitsch site.

Online world to get news bureau

Online world to get news bureau: "Reuters has opened a virtual news agency in the Second Life online world."

Guide to Springfield - The Simpsons

Guide to Springfield - The Simpsons a map of everything in Springfield

A strange little movie

This is a very strange animated movie, a little grotesque

A war between albulm covers

FireFox 2: for all your browsing needs

A new preview version of Firefox is out. It incorporates all of the features from the very popular (in our house) tab extension, such as a close button on each tab and session recovery. Cool.

Google pushes into Office space

Google pushes into Office space:

Search giant Google is relaunching its online spreadsheet and word processor software, in yet another challenge to archrival Microsoft.

Peter Sellers doing a surprisingly large number of british accents

That random/shuffle thing again

Oh no, not Steely Dan again

Steven Levy really liked Steely Dan, but so too, it seemed, did his iPod. Like a lot of people, he began to wonder about its shuffle - was the random function really random or a result of dirty tricks, blunders... or even telepathy?