Lightbox JS v2.0

Lightbox JS v2.0: "Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers."

Remember the idea of having a floating splash screen appear once a day on the intranet? Well this looks like the ticket! It dims the background and changes the size dynamically of the box that pops up (check image set for max features).

Chew by Numbers - Gum Art Kits

Chew by Numbers - Gum Art Kits: "These kits allow kids to create vibrant artwork by chewing tasty wads of gum and spreading the chewed gum onto the ChewByNumbers art board. Each kit teaches project planning skills and helps develop fine motor skills, concentration, and creativity. Meanwhile, kids enjoy every step of the artistic process. Art has never tasted this good. "

Calling all passive-aggressives

Calling all passive-aggressives | Ask MetaFilter: "Calling all passive-aggressives
What are some good examples of gifts that are anything but? I know the obvious classics--drums for a 2-year-old, liquor for an alcoholic--but am looking for ones that are more insidious."

Friends don't let friends produce Developer UI

The attack of the grey buttons (obviously the wrong grey - heh)

An article about what happens if you let developers design the user interface (except me natch ;): This Is What Happens When You Let Developers Create UI

Some choice screen shots:





and one from our very own intranet (I must admit that it's not one of mine, and if I ever had more lifetime magically given to me it would be first on my list to upgrade):

How many tyrannosaurs in a gallon of gasoline?

Google Answers: Carbon content of fossil fuels and dinosaurs: "How many tyrannosaurs in a gallon of gasoline? "

On a scale of 1 to Incredibly Cute

Baby Pandas will generally score quite high:

Web page text area resize

Resize any web page text area with a bookmarklet - Lifehacker

Any good for our CRM/intranet text boxes? Just a thought...

Bill Bailey discusses U2

(Wow 2 U2 refferences in a week)

Photo Contest - National Wildlife Magazine

Photo Contest - National Wildlife Magazine: "The winners of the magazine's 35th annual photography competition"

The best (or weirdest) covers

Ben Folds doing Dr. Dre's Bitches Aint Shit:



From here a pretty awesome list, if you check nothing more then listen to NINA GORDON doing NWA's "Straight Outta Compton", they're all here: The Torontoist Cover Song Catalogue

Fear of Girls

Oops I Did It. Again

Oops I Did It Again: The Original

Coo, you live and learn, eh?

What do you get when you combine U2 and Jesus? U2charist of course

Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation:

What do you get when you combine U2 and Jesus? U2charist of course.

"Looking for a way to engage your congregation in the MDG's and in new forms of worship? You've come to the right place. Perhaps you've heard about them on the news or by word of mouth. Perhaps, you are just now hearing about the U2charist. What is it?

A U2charist is an Episcopal Eucharist service that features the music of the rock band U2 and a message about God's call to rally around the Millennium Development Goals. The U2charist is a great opportunity to reach out to the people in your congregation and larger community, especially young people. This service the music and message of U2 about global reconciliation, justice for the poor and oppressed, and the importance of caring for your neighbor. Led by the global MDG ambassador, Bono, U2 is calling people worldwide to a deeper faith and engagement with God's mission. The U2charist seeks to be an extension of this ministry."

EDF are sending cute animals to turn your computer off

EDF ad prints Cute animals want to come and turn your computer off.

Very effective adverts even thought the science about computers might be a little off.

Windows Desktop

Did you know Microsoft had a rival to Google Desktop?
Windows Desktop Home Page: "Windows Desktop Search helps increase the productivity of information workers by enabling them to quickly and easily find what they are looking for. "

Striker II: USB Laser Guided Missile Launcher

Striker II: USB Laser Guided Missile Launcher - Gizmodo

"The $50 Striker II is the 'next generation' USB missile launcher, featuring a class 3 'laser guidance system' for better aiming. "

No. Really.

Lulu Titlescorer

Lulu Titlescorer: "Want to know if you've got a killer title for your novel? Now, for the first time in literary history, you can put your title to the scientific test and find out whether it has what it takes for bestseller success."

Top 20 replies by Programmers to Testers when their programs don't work

Top 20 replies by Programmers to Testers when their programs don't work

2000+ mashups

Tunes at Good Blimey!

Something for everyone, even with its own embedded player so you can preview before downloading. Skill.

I have in my hand...

...a piece of paper:



Store 256Gb on an A4 sheet

A Smarter Computer to Pick Stocks

A Smarter Computer to Pick Stocks - New York Times

Or, as Rupert would say, a bigger computer to pick etc etc

Anyway, interesting...

Random things found on google maps

A cool set of random things found on Google Maps (if you only look at one of them make it the last one):


Portal to the next world (in Holland)

Only in America, giant text saying that somebody loves you

This is clearly where MC Esher grew up

What is almost certainly not a B52 bomber

A real plane

A native American wearing an Ipod

The proof that some of the maps are scanned in by hand: A 50 foot giant bug

Invisible Japanese Refrigerator

Why hide all of that food away in your refrigerator? When you could have a transparent fridge instead?

Invisible Japanese Refrigerator

Fancy Pants

A nicely addictive platform game.

Fancy Pants

Just watch out for the angry penguin!

Art in a vending machine...

Hayvend: Art in a vending machine...

Dotted around London are vending machines in which you can buy some random art for £2.

Via Nick

Barcodes - but cool

A gallery of barcodes being 'designed' for a change.

Imagini™ Gift finder

Imagini™ Gift finder
"This interesting new web-app uses your visual preferences to determine what you want for Christmas. Incredibly cool. Customize your wish-list and send it to friends and family."

Indian student develops paper-based storage system

Indian student develops paper-based storage system: "A Kerala student claims to have invented an eco-friendly, paper-based storage system capable of compacting 90 to 450GB on a single disk, Arab News reports."

Contrary to popular opinion, it transpires that dolphins are rubbish!

Animal Reviews: "Look down a bit and you'll find our current list of reviews. We've decided to organise them alphabetically, which means that if you're dyslexic (or thick), you could potentially be here for days looking for otter or something. Underneath that, there's a space for your reviews, so get emailing."

Media Stuff

Here are two free web based music mixers:

JamGlue

Splice

JamGlue is supposedly simpler in interface terms, and it's faster to go end to end and get your MP3 at the end but Splice has more features, including proper beat-matching. JamGlue has a kind of social aspect to it to try and get people rating eachothers tunes.

Here are two free web based video mixers:

JumpCut Like JamGlue for video (owned by Yahoo!) has the social aspect

EyeSpot Seems like this is just video editing rather than remixing.


And finally, because clearly this is what we've been waiting for since the internet went broadband, and clearly these people have had the best new startup idea in years:

SingShot Online karaoke anyone. You sing, people rate you and meet you. They even have songs by the Beatles licensed. Clearly somebody had a strokey beard meeting and said. Why is MySpace successful? Because it has music and social stuff in it. And somebody piped up and mentioned that most of the music on MySpace is rubbish, and a dream was born.

Tiny Antigua grabs the US by its illegal, online dice

Tiny Antigua grabs the US by its illegal, online dice The Register

"The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 was rammed through Congress by the Republican leadership in the final minutes before the election period recess. According to Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), no one on the Senate-House Conference Committee had even seen the final language of the bill. The Act is title VIII of a completely unrelated bill, the Safe Port Act, HR 4954, dealing with port security - Professor I Nelson Rose of Whittier Law School, Gambling and the Law: The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 Analyzed"

More on the creationism museum from the Guardian

Stephen Bates is given a sneak preview of the world's first Creationist museum: "The world's first Creationist museum - dedicated to the idea that the creation of the world, as told in Genesis, is factually correct - will soon open. Stephen Bates is given a sneak preview and asks: was there really a tyrannosaurus in the Bible? "

As the Times changes its font to Times Modern

Here's a gallery showing all of the mastheads since 1785
The Times mastheads

DOS Games Archive

DOS Games Archive

It very much does exactly what it says on the tin.

Which File Extension are you?

I got:

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Which File Extension are You?

I cheated to try and make my answers better and I *still* got that! Cuh! :(

Which File Extension are you?

You must all post your results thank you. I got:



Which File Extension are You?

Adrian:


Which File Extension are You?

Where are you?

http://www.ip-adress.com/
IP-adress.com shows you fast your IP-address of your internet connection and locates your city or the city of your isp based on your ip. The geolocation is shown with google maps.

Blogger: Switch your FTP blog to the new Blogger

Blogger Buzz: Switch your FTP blog to the new Blogger

Although it seems you don't get to use all the funky web2.0 templates.....yet....

If I Did It

If I Did It
O. J. Simpson has written a book in which he explains that he couldn't have been the murderer because if he had been going to kill his wife he would have murdered her in a different way, which he goes on to discribe...

If I Did It

If I Did It
O. J. Simpson has written a book in which he explains that he couldn't have been the murderer because if he had been going to kill his wife he would have murdered her in a different way, which he goes on to discribe...

'A Horse Named Paul Revere,' a children's book by The Beastie Boys

'A Horse Named Paul Revere,' a children's book by The Beastie Boys

Most random Microsoft support page?

Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music

Musicovery : interactive webRadio

Very very cool:

Musicovery : interactive webRadio

Does a blog post count as "fair disclosure"?

A truely Arbuthnot relevant type of article:

Does a blog post count as "fair disclosure"?: "Christopher Cox, head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, recently posted in the discussion thread attached to Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's blog. The posting was in response to a letter Schwartz had written (and made available on his blog) more than a month ago, asking if the SEC would be willing to update 'Regulation Fair Disclosure' to allow companies to first share corporate information over the Web. Cox's response: let's talk about it."

BlueScreen Screen Saver v3.2

BlueScreen Screen Saver v3.2: "One of the most feared colors in the NT world is blue. The infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) will pop up on an NT system whenever something has gone terribly wrong. Bluescreen is a screen saver that not only authentically mimics a BSOD, but will simulate startup screens seen during a system boot. "

Sacha Baron Cohen -- the Real Borat -- Finally Speaks

Rolling Stone : Sacha Baron Cohen -- the Real Borat -- Finally Speaks: His first full interview since 1998 out of character.

A very cool beat-box performer using video

Apparently he can't play drums or the piano, he just edited it all together.

Phil "Bonzo" Jupitus

It's a Bonzo life: On the road with Phill Jupitus
Join Phill Jupitus every day, for all the injuries and the Horlicks, on a reunion tour with the Bonzo Dog Dooh Dah Band, in the Times (if you don't look at the adverts you're actually costing Rupert money).

It's a Bonzo life: On the road with Phill Jupitus

Air guitar T-shirt rocks for real

Air guitar T-shirt rocks for real: "Australian scientists have created a T-shirt that allows air guitarists to play real music - without resorting to a real guitar. "

Hello World

INFILTEC: HUMOR: "Hello World" programs

One for you, Mr A...

White House caught re-writing history

Season Shot - Ammo with flavor.

Season Shot - Ammo with flavor.: "Season Shot is made of tightly packed seasoning bound by a fully biodegradable food product. The seasoning is actually injected into the bird on impact seasoning the meat from the inside out. When the bird is cooked the seasoning pellets melt into the meat spreading the flavor to the entire bird. Forget worrying about shot breaking your teeth and start wondering about which flavor shot to use!"

Dina font

Dina is a monospace bitmap font, primarily aimed at programmers. It is relatively
compact to allow a lot of code on screen, while (hopefully) clear enough to remain
readable even at high resolutions.

Dina

Mr Andronov? Notepad need never look the same again :)

Surprises Inside Microsoft Vista's EULA

Surprises Inside Microsoft Vista's EULA

(via Doug-Of-The-Server, haven't read it all yet but looks fun fun fun...)

A tour of Adobe’s Apollo project - Universal Desktop

A tour of Adobe’s Apollo project The Universal Desktop: "Late last week I had the chance to sit down with Kevin Lynch, the Chief Software Architect at Adobe and talk with him about Adobe's strategy over a number of products and about the direction of the Flash Platform. He also took time to talk about the Apollo project and demo some of the applications that people within the company are building. "

Whoopee

Whoopee

This is my close friend Antonia's blog. She has just had a baby, hence the latest post(s). The rest of it is hugely funny/rude/personal but a wonderful read. Enjoy...

MapKit

Editable Maps (which you can add pictures to automatically) on your own site.

MapKit