A great (short) summary of the current web

A great (short) summary of the current web

Homer takes a photo of himself every day for 39 years

Google Charts API

Ever wanted to dynamically create charts on the fly?

(Um yes, until quite recently when we bought something)

Well don't worry, here's a free version of it from Google

The Page 69 Test

The Page 69 Test

Cool.

Thesixtyone

Boing Boing: Music discovery game connects indies and fans - The SixtyOne

Thesixtyone is a "music discovery game" created by two USC students who quit their jobs to build a site that helps musicians and audiences discover each other. Fans use Digg-style thumbs-up to rate the music that's uploaded, but the game is that each rating costs you points, and you get more points if you rate up a song that lots of other people rate up too.

TheSixtyOne

Mouse Cheese Spam

Mouse innovator building a better trap for spam - International Herald Tribune

MP3 Blogs -v- RIAA

MP3 Blogs Offer File Sharing Even the RIAA Could Love

"Although the term “file sharing” has all sorts of ugly connotations, it’s not necessarily a bad thing. In some cases, it’s even a win-win-win situation for the recording industry, music lovers — and Google."

Rather topical!

Edit your photos! On Flickr!

Coo.

This might just make me swap from using Gallery php 2.0 (as hosted by the lovely doug of the server)

Edit your photos! On Flickr!

Nourish

"Nourish is a next generation newsletter service which allows you to take any RSS feed from content you publish (like a blog), and convert it into an automated email newsletter your readers can subscribe to."

Nourish – RSS to Email Service – Blog Powered Newsletters

Let's get SPAMMING!

One Web MP3 Server

Er, does this sound,l like, er, useful?

One Web ASP MP3 Server

"One Web MP3 Server is a free ASP application that turns your MP3 collection into a website. It allows you to quickly access your music over a local network or even the Internet. Now you can browse, search, create playlists and listen to your files using one interface, from any remote computer. Use the built in player for ultimate simplicity or stick with your preferred MP3 player, such as Winamp."

exljbris

Free Quality Font Foundry:exljbris:

Mmmmmm.

The Beard Cap - get yours knitted now!

Great for farming in the snow. And keeping your (fake) moustache warm.

From Craft Magazine's blog.

This is not a promise to make one.

Google Share this

Not sure why this hasn't been announced but it looks like a thing that could be a very easy way of doing arblognot

Share This

Juce Analytics

Aparently a good blog about Data Analysis, but now with an added feature - really nice templates for standard charts: http://www.juiceanalytics.com/apps/

The blog is here

Dreams Of Flying

I liked these:

Jan Von Holleben

Solveig thinks his stuff was on at the V&A earlier this year too.

FE-Mittelschrift (kottke.org)

Erik Spiekermann appears again!

FE-Mittelschrift (kottke.org)

"The official typeface for our license plates is now called FE-Mittelschrift, with FE meaning it is Fälschungs-Erschwert, i.e. difficult to forge. Apparently car thieves, terrorists and notorious law-breakers had been exploiting DIN's geometric construction principle and turning E into F or 3 into 8 etc by simply using a bit of black tape or white paint."

Maybe we don't need an iPhone

Just one of these

Helvetica. Period.

"The 50s ad has too many exclamation points, lots of wedding-invitation-style script, and it's very cheesy.
Now, look at this, a few years later.
Same product. A big glass of cold, refreshing, crisp Coke. And in Helvetica bold:
'The real thing. Period.
Coke. Period.
Any questions?
Of course not."

Helvetica rocks. And Michael Beirut works for Pentagram (career profile here). He contributes to Design Observer.

Also, the film is out on DVD on 26 November. Yay :)

Songza!

OK this is rather cool. Search for artists/tracks and it 'just finds them'. I think it may pull in audio from YouTube videos but I'm not sure yet. Lovely interface though:

Songza

As they rather pithily put it:

"Songza - The music search engine & internet jukebox. Listen. Now."

Visual Complexity

A site with complex visual charts.

It has a genealogy of pop music.

Tate in aqua, olive, mustard and black

Tate's branding, including their 18 shade corporate colour scheme

Test the colour of your cooking

This company is about to buy Pantone apparently. They make colour guides for various food products, including the Frozen French Fry standard and the Frozen Cherry Colour standard.

I wonder what Pantone colour a semi-cooked chip is? I'm thinking 601C.

Android - It rocks

This is me writing

Meat Earings

I don't know why:

Buy this NOW!!!!!!

Officially the coolest thing I've seen for a while.

An SD card for you camera which not only holds 2 gigs of data but also provides you with wifi access to said data.

You can set your computer to wirelessly download the pictures whenever the camera gets into range, and you can even set it to automagically upload them to flickr when it does...

EYE-FI

Pickleodeon

Pickleodeon

Because when you think of going to the cinema, you think of pickled onions.

Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century

Yes it's what we've all been waiting for:

Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century - The Blog

MOO Holiday Cards

Go on, Kat, you must have some to enter?

Holiday Photo Card Competition!

Buy Your Cards Here!

Indexed

A collection of diagrams on index cards




http://indexed.blogspot.com/

And many more...

Gmail IMAP

Now that is going to be most useful, no?

Gmail gets IMAP from Download Squad

4Food

Another sauce* of culinary inspiration?

4Food | Channel4.com

* sorry

AutoRuns

Mark Russinovich's AutoRuns...
AutoRuns

via Xav...

Mentat

Not the best name, IMHO. But a simple interface for a task and project management tool - sound like something we may have been discussing?

Mentat

Disclaimer: haven't tried it, just looked at the screenshots!

xobni: it's inbox backwards

A inbox organising system. It automatically works out connections between your contacts, people you're ignoring, and most importantly it lets you see a list of attachments from all e-mails sent.

Watch the demo

So it looks like Yahoo! should buy Isotoma!

Or at least Sleevenotez:

Check out this post from the head of Yahoo! Music!:

Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs. Context, a Presentation for Some Music Industry Friends

bits that should make you want to read are:

in a manner of speaking iTunes is a spreadsheet that plays music. It’s context-free. You just paid $10 for that album — who plays drums? I dunno, WHY DON’T YOU GO TO THE WEB TO FIND OUT, BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE THE CONTEXT IS.

...

But the content experience on the Web is crap. Go to Aquarium Drunkard, click an MP3. If you don’t get a 404, you’ll get a Save As… dialog or the SAME GOD DAMN QUICKTIME BAR FROM 1995. OMFG. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THIS IS ALL WE’VE ACCOMPLISHED IN 15 YEARS ON THE WEB? It makes me insane.

...

FIX IT. Your fans are pouring their music-loving hearts into blogs, Wikipedia, etc and what tools have you given them to work with? Not much, unfortunately.

This is what I’m vowing to devote my energy, and Yahoo!’s energy to

Go tell him to buy Sleevenotez. It's the product he wants and it already exists...

WebRunner

Turn websites into applications, sort of, with WebRunner

It allows you to "can" a web application, eg. Google Reader, so that it has its own icon etc, and that all of the cookies are independent. This means two different users could use google reader on the same pc.

You Want Wi-Fries With That?

Cool.

McDonald's to offer free Wi-Fi in restaurants

Pity their coffee is so terrible :(

Wi-Fi Detector T-Shirt | Uncrate

(Nick) Hell yeah!

Wi-Fi T-shirtUncrate

8 Reasons Windows Users Don’t Switch

Succinctly put:

Apple Matters | 8 Reasons Windows Users Don’t Switch

I am still drooling over those new MacBooks though. Shinyyyy.

When Tim Curry went to the mall

I found this through a non-link on Stephen Fry's blog (somebody said "google this").

It's a sweet story of a girl working in a store, who suddenly discovers that Tim Curry has walked in. Priceless

SketchCast

Draw and record your voice, creating an embeddable video

Vicipaedia

Vicipaedia - the Latin Wiki

Given the proliferation of the 'dead language' at AS Towers this week, seemed somewhat appropriate...

SKYplay

I thought these were rather good:

SKYplay - a photoset on Flickr

Daisy's Dollop

Yes, a cow pat made out of Toffee. What everyone's always needed:

Buy online

Fight For Kisses

This is one of the more bizare things I've ever seen on the internet:

Fight For Kisses

userstyles

Have we had this already? Or did I miss the memo?

userstyles.org

"userstyles.org is a collection of styles that puts you in control of the appearance of websites and of Mozilla applications. These styles can remove annoying parts of websites, change the colour scheme, streamline your browser, and much more."

You just install the Stylish add-on for Firefox/Flock/Thunderbird, then away you go.
I am currently, at home, looking at my regular Google Reader as if it were Mac OSX!

Macs Really Do Run Windows Better

I now have one eye on that shinyyyyyyyy MacBook:

stevenf.com: Macs Really Do Run Windows Better

Stephen Fry is a geek

Stephen Fry is a geek

Want to resize a photo?

Wow! Just wow!

Hand Puppet Master

That's a handy skill:

EXTERMIKNIT!

Yes!

EXTERMIKNIT! Dalek knitting pattern

MOO + Facebook

Is this the same mini-sticker people that we had before? Now with added linky linky to (ahem) Facebok:

MOO | Make stickers, MiniCards and NoteCards using your Facebook photos

Incredible Flying Car Blog

An interesting blog called: Incredible Flying Car, has stuff like this:



And body popping stick men.

DIFRWEAR

RFID blocking wallets and passport holders: DIFRWEAR

Closed? No go.
Open? Read at will.

Although I imagine when I come to renew mine in 9 years time, the whole system will have gone 'pop' anyway.

Blogger Play

Blogger Play will show you a never-ending stream of images that were just uploaded to public Blogger blogs. Warning: Safe Search is on, but some things that are Safe are NSFW.

Google Library

Google Library

You can use google book search to find books and then say, "I own that". A free library catalogue service for your stuff.

Deezer

MP3's on tap, French-stylee.

Deezer

fork handles: Deezer Geezer

Convert between any (almost) file formats - zamzar

ZamZar

You can either point it at a url or upload the file, choose the file format you want and it will convert it and e-mail it to you. It even works out that if you point it at the page of a movie on youtube you want the movie converted not the page.

Online Mind Mapping (or Org Charting) - bubbl.us

I really like the tab / enter option when you're typing - give it a go and you'll see what I mean...

bubbl.us

Joshua Davis++

Coo: Apple - Pro - Profiles - Joshua Davis

Da Font

A searchable list of fonts with example text...

Da Font

Do my stuff

Need to get something done? Get somebody else to do it:

Do my stuff

If only to prove my geek credentials

like google maps for space - wikisky.org

The Nerd Test 2.0

No, no, you first...

The Nerd Test, Version 2.0

Tauba Auerbach

The thoughtful typographical art of Tauba Auerbach

(via kottke)

Compost This

A really nice site with all the dos and don'ts. Includes things not on the sheet like ash and toilet roll tubes which are good. Check out the entry on peeing on the compost heap (note the related item).

Compost This

Calsberg don't do litter...

Calsberg don't do litter...

Reader++

Google Reader Just Got Better

"We found it!"

Radio 2.0 - prototype - live version out in 9 months

Take the social media aspects of the web, but don't make people go on the web!?!?! These people are crazy!

You are listening to your DAB radio in the kitchen, and you can a list of your friends and what they are listening to and you can switch to what they are listening to automatically. Because this DAB radio has a mommy frickin wifi connection in it!

Olinda - Social radio hardware

Jasonnnnnn might be interested.

Scribd

Scribd is a really easy way to share documents. You can literally, without logging in or setting up an account, point it at a folder and it will suck up all of your documents and turn them into web readable format so that everyone can read all of your private stuff.

I'm sure it's useful for something... (maybe a prank!)

Weekly World News

The latest headlines, from the world of the weird: Weekly World News

Global Cooling is an Ecological Disaster —ON PLUTO!

DIETING WOMEN SHOULD AVOID SWEET DREAMS

HONEYMOON COUPLE ATTACKED BY GOLDFISH!

Statue Falls from Space —MILO DE VENUS

Every home should have one

What's that? A ceramic representation of roadrunner's death... Plenty to choose from, this one is called: "Death Scene: While Enjoying a Cliff-top View, the Roadrunner's Throat is Chewed Through". Click on the picture for the full gallery

Jame's Food pr0n

A video collecting together all of the saucy bits from Jamie's new series and making them sound downright naughty!

Food pr0n

Stop Frame Animation

Possibly the greatest thing on YouTube.

Rockabye Renditions

Rockabye Renditions is a series of albums of the various artists performed in the style of lullabys: Lullaby Metallica anyone?

The best introduction to a site...

Why not have the "Click here to enter site" link move so it's even harder to click on? No really

Rack 'em hippy...

What kind of book are you?

What kind of book are you?

Perl in a Nutshell - the song

fork handles: Footing The Bill

Here's that thing, just in case!

Walk Score

Jeff Bridges Blog

It's pretty trippy man: Jeff Bridges Blog

John Mayer's Blog

It was this post that I liked:Happy Birthday Chad

but his whole blog looks good.

Ctl-Alt-Whatnow?

A brief bit from David Bradley who was the inventor of Ctl-Alt-Delete, he's on this panel here with Bill Gates and he accidentally slams Bill Gates - okay maybe not that accidentally.

This looks like a really interesting show, I wonder if there's a full version anywhere. The guy to the left of David Bradley, with the beard, is Dan Bricklin who invented the spreadsheet. So a very interesting group.

PG Tips

Find Out Your Blog's Film Rating

Actually this is one for Nick, really...

Miro

(used to be Democracy Player, looks good!)

Miro is a free, open source internet tv and video player

Londonist: Live Review: iWeekend

Londonist: Live Review: iWeekend

with Beardyman!!

Will it blend - iPhone edition

Will it blend - iPhone edition

Within Tent To Kill

Brooker++

Within Tent To Kill

Visualise this

Visulisation is the new staring blankly at a screen listening to music

Check out this video and then if you want it go here

I haven't even looked yet, but I knew Adrian had to see the pun

Play that funky music, bok choy

On X I am ...

On X I am ... - getting tired of trying to identify what your identity is on each of your different online services? Well help is at hand

Time it takes for Doug to link to this story? Not long...

BBC has been accused of forcing people to use Microsoft operating systems by the European Commission

Asshole driven development

Asshole driven development

Streats of London

Streats of London - Food related street names, in London.

Don't ask why

Convert your images into HTML for fun and slowness. Why you would ever ever want to do this is kind of beyond me, but for the ingenuity of it you have to give them something.

It just uses thousands and thousands of 1px x 1px cells in a table! Great but does it validate?

The worlds first vertical keyboard - now with mirrors

Safetype Keyboard Design - How to Use

A very silly thing on Wikipedia

A very silly thing on Wikipedia - The disambiguation page for the word "Dump". Please ensure you read to the end...

Your Page Here - An igoogle gadget

On igoogle (Personalised Homepages) you can use this gadget to add any page you want.

Your Page Here - An igoogle gadget

Seadragon / Photosynth

Obviously we were way ahead of the curve here at arblognot on Photosynth. But as Wired are finally catching up here's a great demo of the product now coupled with Microsoft's recent aquisition Seadragon:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

The truth about Recycling

The truth about recycling - It doesn't just work with old jokes.

A less curvy clock

A less curvy clock

CatFishing

Highly Highly Addictive game based on wikipedia...

Catfishing

Polar Clock

A very very cool clock:

Polar Clock

Maybe you'd like to use it as a widget?

The Top 10 Geekiest Yarn creations on the Web

(knitted and crochet)

The Top 10 Geekiest Yarn creations on the Web via MeFi

bookofjoe: Cell Phone Mini Clapper Board

bookofjoe: Cell Phone Mini Clapper Board

Yes. Mini Troy Road....???

PediaX - AJAX-Wikipedia Mirror

PediaX - AJAX-Wikipedia Mirror

not explored yet, thought i'd share first :)

A solution to the socket shortage?

And people took the piss out of me!

A solution to the socket shortage?: "As a survey reveals two-thirds of Britons say they don't have enough plug sockets in their homes, what's the answer: messy multi-plug extension boards, more outlets, wireless electricity even?"

Street Level view on Google Maps

Street Level view on Google Maps

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together at last

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together at last, Q&A session not pre-preared speeches. The first time they've appeared on stage together in 20 years.

My Crazy Roomate

This is pretty funny:

My Crazy Roomate

USB Panic Button

USB Panic Button

We so need one of these at AS towers...

How not to make a website

How not to make a webstie - This may be the greatest website of all time

from the ever wonderful Sites that Suck - Daily Sucker

Ban Comic Sans

Ban Comic Sans

Beardyman's Death of Elivis

Beardyman's Death of Elivis

Twiigs - Online Polls: Create, Vote, Share

Twiigs - Online Polls: Create, Vote, Share

all nice and web2.00000000000000000

Microsoft tops Pipes with Popfly, a Silverlight-based mashup creator from Guardian Unlimited: Technology

Microsoft tops Pipes with Popfly

Code Snippets for Web Designers (Parts1-5)

Useful stuff:

25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part1)

And here are parts 2-5:

25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part2)
25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part3)
25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part4)
25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part5)

(from digg but they weren't all in one place!)

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface

The font Nazi is my friend :)

Movies done by animated bunnies

Movies done by animated bunnies

Top Ten funniest music videos

There are some real classics here:

Top Ten funniest music videos

Font-tast-ic

50th Birthday of Helvetica

The Pie Pie Chart Shirt

The Pie Pie Chart Shirt

via Kat, via Kottke

A new product from Ikea

A new product from Ikea

On purpose? I know not.

elgooG

elgooG - Yes it's google backwards. Why? I don't know.

Gulf Of YouTube?

A map of online communities by Randall Munroe

Quite nicely done, if presumably immediately out of date :)

Dabble DB: Explore Dabble

Dabble DB: Explore Dabble

Watch the 7-minute demo...

Live Image Search

Okay, so I thought the coolest thing about Live Image Search was that it let you scale the picture so you could zoom back, but no the coolest thing is that it now provides you with a never ending page when you search, so that you just keep scrolling down past images until you find one. No more clicking! Really clever.

Live Image Search

Wooden Memory Sticks

No really: Wooden Memory Sticks
via Kat

This may be the cutest thing evah

A load of old Pollocks?

A painting competition to find the worst painting of the year rather than the best. The link is to last years entries, but voting is open for this year.

Book Art

I really shouldn't let Katherine see this, she'll be desroying books before I can say, "please don't destroy the books"! ;)

Or something, anyway here you go: Cara Barer

Good vs. Evil Foosball

NOTCOT: Good vs. Evil Foosball

I think that might look rather good in my new shed...

Download of the Day: Google AutoPager (Greasemonkey) - Lifehacker

Google AutoPager (Greasemonkey) - Lifehacker

"Typically, when you get to the bottom of a search page, you have to click Next to view the next batch of results. Not so with AutoPager: It fetches and appends the next batch as you scroll down, creating the illusion of infinite scrolling. Obviously you could just increase the number of results that appear when you search, but that makes for longer load times. AutoPager retrieves extra results a page at a time, as needed. Great little script; works like a charm."

One likes that.

Oh go on...

While we're on the subject of Mark Ronson why not have:

Mark Ronson V Kylie



and while we're on the subject of Kylie, why not have:

Kylicious (Kylie V Fergie)

Two Covers to kick start the week

Mark Ronson - Just (Radiohead source) - Great video too



Alice Russell - Seven Nation Army (White Stripes source) - That's some voice

Remember The Milk

Remember The Milk - Via Kat

TURING'S CATHEDRAL by George Dyson

The future of computing?

TURING'S CATHEDRAL by George Dyson

Viacom Vs. Youtube

YouTube - Viacom Vs. Youtube: ""

Animaris Rhinoceros

Everyone Forever / Art / Animaris Rhinoceros: "The Animaris Rhinoceros Transport is a type of animal with a steel skeleton and a polyester skin. It looks as if there is a thick layer of sand coating the animal. It weighes 2 tons and it stands 4.70 meters tall. Because of its height it catches enough wind to start moving."

Make sure you watch the video at the end of this page - it's breathtaking!

Welcome to Google TiSP

Welcome to Google TiSP: "Sign up for our free in-home wireless broadband service

Sick of paying for broadband that you have to, well, pay for?

Introducing Google TiSP (BETA), our new FREE in-home wireless broadband service. Sign up today and we'll send you your TiSP self-installation kit, which includes setup guide, fiber-optic cable, spindle, wireless router and installation CD."

Mobile phone tracking

Mobile phone tracking: "GSM mobile phone tracking system via the GPS-TRACK satellite network. Based on repeater triangulation, the system tracks mobile phones using GPS and GSM technology "

Pretty cool, but also kind of freaky. Throws up a few privacy issues!

USB / iPod desk hub

Do we have 'holes' at our place? Ace:

Belkin's USB / iPod hubs neatly plug excess desk holes - Engadget

Scrybe - an evolved online calendar

Watch the video very very cool. Very pretty, but well thought out design. It even has a sync to paper format with a foldable 8 day planner. You can also seamlessly integrate todo lists, and just watch for the way it shows you the surrounding context for the day that you're in. Very nice.

Welcome to Scrybe

We Need To Talk

We Need To Talk

Think psychological therapy should be freely available on the NHS. Then sign up.

Cook's Thesaurus

Run out of blue cornmeal? Missing your plugra? Forgot the silver beet? Then you need the:

Cook's Thesaurus

"The Cook's Thesaurus is a cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools.
Entries include pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions."

(via Offmesage but he never credits me when I send stuff in so blart to him)

SpinVox - Why don't I know about this already?

SpinVox is a UK startup which you can have instead of your own networks voicemail. When you receive a message it performs Voice-to-text on it and sends you a text telling you you have a new message but also telling you what was in the message! It can also be set to send an e-mail, publish live to your blog and so on. pretty Nifty.

An interesting mini (5 mins) documentary about Christian Marclay

Bed sharing 'drains men's brains'

Bed sharing 'drains men's brains': "Sharing a bed with someone could temporarily reduce your brain power - at least if you are a man - Austrian scientists suggest. "

Calgoo Calendar

Calgoo Calendar - Find, Use & Share

Calgoo Beta is now available to the public. Check out the many improvements: faster, updated interface and works with Outlook, iCal, Google Calendar and Google Apps...

NSFW! No Really NSFW! Use My Something As A Something Else

What's Special About This Number?

What's Special About This Number?

25 UK Web 2.0 startups to watch in 2007

Techscape :Blog Archive - 25 UK Web 2.0 startups to watch in 2007

And at number 12: Sleevenotez!

Also, Dropsend looks pretty useful (and cheap)...

Mimoco - Star Wars Series

Mimoco - Star Wars series

mimobots are little friendly data fiends! Feed the 2" monsters all your essential data (tunes, pics, presentations, docs, etc.) and transport your files in style wherever you go. mimobots lead the creative revolution in personal electronic accessories and functional designer toys - truly a marriage of art and technology!

So it begins: Viacom to sue Google and YouTube

So it begins: Viacom to sue Google and YouTube

20 Greasemonkey Addons

Some of these are very cool:

20 must-see Greasemonkey Addons

Yeeeeeah!*

* sorry, Alex...

MeetHalfway.com

MeetHalfway.com

Find places half way between you and the person you're meeting. Resurants, hotels, bars, etc.

Freebase

Freebase

A closed alpha - but the idea of a database for everything where you can add your own fields and structure on anything. Very cool, I imagine it might work very well with pipes.

Google Calendar usefulness?

Read and write support for Google Calendar

Outlook 2007 seems to play nice too. Didn't have time to look at SyncMyCal...??

Cat Herding

cat herding - Google Video: " "

Ironic Sans: Idea: Joost's missing feature

Ironic Sans: Idea: Joost's missing feature

popurls

popular urls to the latest web buzz

Now that looks very cool indeed. LIke a really smooth Google homepage. Mmmmmm.

YouTube - Windows Vista Speech Recognition Tested - Perl Scripting

YouTube - Windows Vista Speech Recognition Tested - Perl Scripting

YouTube - Vote Different

YouTube - Vote Different

More About Technology and Presidential hopefuls

More About Technology and Presidential hopefuls

US defence contractor looks for quantum leap in radar research | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited

US defence contractor looks for quantum leap in radar research | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited: "They designed an exploding cigar to kill Fidel Castro and hired fortune-tellers to fight the cold war. Now the US military is taking its war on terror where even Albert Einstein feared to tread - into the baffling world of quantum mechanics. Lockheed Martin, a main US defence contractor, thinks it can exploit research on the fringes of theoretical physics to build the ultimate radar, which could see through anything, from buildings to solid earth."

Sprout

Beautifully drawn little clicky Flash game:

Sprout

You can become one of several different plants/trees but you have to do it in the right order to progress to the end of the game. Easy to play, gorgeous to look at.

Tumblelogging

Firstly:
pixelspread: Why Tumblelogging Is Useful...

And this is the site:
http://www.tumblr.com

Who knows...may suit arblognot??

Linux and Apache are Presidential Material

Forget the policies. Do the potential presidents use Open Souce?

Discursive: 2008 Presidential Technology Race: Urchin, Online Video, Linux, Apache: "Linux and Apache are Presidential Material"

Rapper West flies in Welsh curry

Rapper West flies in Welsh curry: "American rapper Kanye West has ordered a £2,000 takeaway from a restaurant in south Wales to be delivered to him in New York - along with the chef. "

Lonely man brought donkey to hotel room, court told

Lonely man brought donkey to hotel room, court told

Pipes: Rewire the web

Pipes: Rewire the web

Ever fancied making a mashup but simply couldn't be bothered to get knee deep in code? Well Yahoo has made it drag and drop simple. Now all you need is an idea. You can view existing ones but you properly play you'll need a Yahoo! login.

Principles of economics, translated

YouTube - Principles of economics, translated

The opportunity cost of watching this is...er...thing.

Ning

Ning relaunches instant web community tool - Lifehacker

Site: Ning

Er...

Back to work today

We can rebuild him. Better, Stronger, Faster.

AFC Wimbledon worse than Milan?

Is AFC Wimbledon's oversight worse than Milan's ref fixing?

Kind of one for Kris really!
OK, and me.
And Alex's new found love for football.

Kat? :)

Rap Apple and PC

.: thisisaknife :.

You may recognise Kris (Klumsy Tounge) about 5 minutes in doing his version of the Mac and PC adverts. He's the guy who works with Beardie Man.

Britain for Americans

Britain for Americans

I think that's all clear, then.

Pac-Mondrian

Classic Gaming Meets Modern Art
Pac-Mondrian

A Swarm of Angels // Remixing cinema

A Swarm of Angels // Remixing cinema

"A groundbreaking project to create a £1 million film and give it away to over 1 million people using the Internet and a global community of members"

And nice icons :)

BBCTube?

BBC and YouTube in Deal Talks

Coo...

Awwwww

This made me nearly cry :(

celine dion & anastacia cover of AC/DCs You shook me all night long

YouTube - celine dion & anastacia

And they say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

Of course it should be a travesty of rock justice... But.

Badger

Badge Any RSS Feed

Useful?

Ajaxload

This must be my favourite thing in the world. Ever. OK, after Marmite Guinness:

Ajax loading gif generator

What's next from Apple?

What's next from Apple?

All the things she said (Video Sims 2)

YouTube - All the things she said (Video Sims 2)

Three Panel Hollywood

Three Panel Hollywood

mathlete: WAKE n' BACON

/mathlete/

OK, so we need one of these...

Sell your photos or pictures and video to the press and media with citizen journalist site Scoopt

Sell your photos or pictures and video to the press and media with citizen journalist site Scoopt although this is probably for a different kind of picture than Kat usually takes.

Many Eyes

A sort of Swivel for visualization

Many Eyes

The Baby Name Wizard

A really neat visulisation tool.

The Baby Name Wizard: NameVoyager

Two Ways to Use Your New Found Early Morning Hours

Open Loops: Two Ways to Use Your New Found Early Morning Hours

And this is for Alex, as a kind of in-joke - see the last comment! LOL.

My Top Ten Films of 2006

No, not mine. Kevin Smith's...

My Top Ten Films of 2006

Is any bottle of wine worth $700?

My quest for a $700 bottle of wine. - By Mike Steinberger - Slate Magazine: "Is any bottle of wine worth $700?"

Oscar Torrents

(one for Nick too)

"OscarTorrents is the Oscars as it should be -- everyone can download the year's nominations using the popular BitTorrent service, watch the movies, then use our rating system to choose their favourites. Why restrict the voting to a few bought-off jurors when the whole world can have their say?"

Mobile on-demand subsciption service for music

Unlimited mobile music for £1.99 a week

In what may prove to be the most far-reaching digital music launch since iTunes, Omnifone today took the wraps off its MusicStation service.
The service gives mobile phone users access to the big four labels' music catalogs on-demand for £1.99 (€2.99) a week, using a player that runs on mid-range feature phones and GPRS or EDGE networks, as well as high-end 3G phones - which Omnifone reckons gives it access to 70 per cent of the world's phone users. Indie content will follow, it's expected, as the indies are in the process of setting up their one-stop licensing arm Merlin, announced earlier this month.

Reviews Of Movies I Haven't Seen

Reviews Of Movies I Haven't Seen

Little People on the streets

In a similar vein to Ian's post, here are the little people loose in London.

Steamy!

This is for Alex: Collapsible Steamer

Wists - social shopping

Wists, top web picks from for all. Wists, social shopping scrapbook, wishlist

Wists adds a social aspect to shopping, so you can share what your wishlist on your blog. But even more interestingly perhaps are these three websites that are part ofthe network:

1 - smashingtelly.com - which has a list of the best full length tv shows available on the internet.

2 - cribcandy.com - which is a list of all kinds of really interesting things you might want to buy for your house. Selected by people who seem to know what they are talking about. Because it's not all from shop there's less dross.

3 - popgloss.com - which is the same idea as cribcandy but for womens clothes.

A mouse so tiny you can keep it in your PCMCIA slot

A mouse so tiny you can keep it in your PCMCIA slot

Ultimate Folding Chair

glumbert.com - The Folding Chair

Now that is a fantastic idea. Bars, theatres, at home - anywhere you might need any number of chairs from one to loads. The days of the stackable orange plastic chair are surely numbered?

What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

Who'd have thunk it...

Lend Money to the Developing World � Life Goggles

Lend Money to the Developing World

Kiva is a non-profit site that allows you to lend money to someone in the developing world, empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty. Essentially you can “sponsor a business”. It works in 4 steps:

1. Lenders pick a business and make a loan using their credit card.
2. Kiva transfers funds to local partners. Partner disburses loans to each business.
3. Over time, partner collects repayments and provides business updates at Kiva.org.
4. Funds are returned to lender. Lender may withdraw or re-loan.

Getting good with Google Reader

Hack Attack: Getting good with Google Reader - Lifehacker

Some excellent shortcuts and top tippery (this was in my shared reader links sidebar but it may have fallen off the list by now...)

Steve Jobs - Thoughts on Music

An interesting article by Steve Jobs where he completely agrees with what I said on Doug's blog the other day (he just doesn't cite his references damn him!)

Apple - Thoughts on Music: "With the stunning global success of Apple’s iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to “open” the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to protect its music against theft, so that music purchased from iTunes can be played on digital devices purchased from other companies, and protected music purchased from other online music stores can play on iPods. Let’s examine the current situation and how we got here, then look at three possible alternatives for the future."

Charlie Brooker: I hate Macs

I hate Macs: "I hate Macs"

Apparently this is in Geneva

Sadly there is now mathematical proof that girls are evil

Around the world - Charleston Style

Around the world - Charleston Style: "the charleston to daft punk"

And of course

Monty Python - Sex Education

Tastespotting

Tastespotting

Really great user-contributed pictures of food and food-related things. Yum x 2.

Time Management and gherkins

This is quite an old article, but it remains a good one. The Pickle Jar Theory of Time Management.

Although I think he could have used the gherkins, small gherkins, sauerkraut, water analogy. But his loss...

Bill Gates, Back to School (with Napoleon Dynamite)

Bill Gates, Back to School (with Napoleon Dynamite)

Bill Gates followup on Daily Show the following day

Bill Gates followup on Daily Show the following day

Bill Gates on the Daily Show for Visa launch

YouTube - Bill Gates on the Daily Show: "Bill Gates on the Daily Show"

No really.

Vista DRM hacked on the day of Vista launch

Alex Ionescu’s Blog � Update on Driver Signing Bypass: "However, it does bypass DRM. As part of the Protected Media Path, (PMP), Windows Vista sets up a number of requirements for A/V software and drivers in order to ensure it complies with the demands of the media companies."

We Feel Fine

We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar

A visualisation of how the blogosphere feels

Get a Mac - by Mitchel and Webb

Get a Mac - by Mitchel and Webb

Beardyman Human Beatbox

Beardyman Human Beatbox

Obviously we know him. Can you remember his name Katherine?

Buzz Aldrin Punches Moon-landing Conspiracy Theorist

Buzz Aldrin Punches Moon-landing Conspiracy Theorist

Real Bradford Curry - To You!

"Bradford has a well-deserved national reputation for being the home of fantastic South Asian food. To order on line, browse our menu and simply add items to your basket. We can deliver your food by courier to your home or workplace, usually within 2 working days of placing your order."

Real Bradford Curry

Result! I have many happy memories of wonderful nights working for BBC Radio Leeds covering Bradford City football matches and dining out on excellent curry; that's what sound engineers do. I even shared a balti with Sir Trevor Brooking once...

Voting machine key copied from online photo

DIEBOLD VOTING MACHINE KEY COPIED FROM PHOTO

National Security? We got it...

Tax Takers Send in the Spiders

Wired News: Tax Takers Send in the Spiders: "Websites around the world are getting a new computerized visitor among the Googlebots and Yahoo web spiders: The taxman. A five-nation tax enforcement cartel has been quietly cracking down on suspected internet tax cheats, using a sophisticated web crawling program to monitor transactions on auction sites, and track operators of online shops, poker and porn sites."

OpenMoko - An open source phone with Linux on it

OpenMoko: "The Revolution to 'Free Your Phone' is Coming..."

Oh and Python and Ruby... Doug's going to love this:

Here's a presentation which seems to not be linked to from the site and really gives all of the details:

http://www.openmoko.com/files/OpenMoko_Amsterdam.pdf

Bommer man in real life

Bommerman in real life: By wearing a different colour beanie you choose which character you are and your position is tracked from the ceiling.

PDA? So last century...

The Hipster PDA - for all us uber-techies out there...

Francis Crick was high on LSD when he discovered the structure of DNA

Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD: "FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced thedouble-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago."

Every Video Game Nintendo, Sega and more!

You know like when someone makes a claim like "every video game" and you think really can it be? Well here are a lot of them, and they are all playable right there on the site.

Every Video Game :: Nintendo, Sega and more!

finetune

Finetune is a quite a lot like Pandora except it seems that you can build your own playlists. And that you can add the music from that playlist so that it streams on your blog. Welcome back to random pages which automatically start playing music when you arrive on them...

finetune

It's The Big Red Button!!

The Big Red Button - The Daily WTF

(Alex, you probably saw this, but...!)

Online image editing

[you might have seen this on digg, but useful for those no Photoshop/GIMP moments]

Online image editors compared

Cellsea comes out top, might give it a go...

A

Are you ready to feel the caffeine in your ears?

Download a coffee replacement

"I created and I'm posting here a 20 minutes duration brainwave file [in MP3 format] that I called "Coffee Replacement" because of its feature to keep you in an energizing state giving you a "caffeine" energetic boost."

WARNING!
The following people should not use brain entrainment:
> People subject to any forms of seizures or epilepsy
> People using pacemakers
> People suffering from cardiac arrhythmia or other heart disorders
> People taking stimulants, psychoactive drugs, or tranquilizers

TagMaps - World Explorer

TagMaps - World Explorer

Neat way to find flickr pictures by location.

The Ten Word Review

The Ten Word Review

eg. A Scanner Darkly: Rotoscoping gives Keanu a soul. Shame he opens his mouth.

Geni

Geni

Nice ancestry site - would have been nice to be AJAX rather than Flash but looks groovy...I'm in.

Ms. Dewey - Microsoft's new "interactive" search

Ms. Dewey

Very strange indeed. Type in "Yo Mamma" or "Yo Daddy" for some very strage results...

IKEA Online shoping from spring in the UK

IKEA | Can i Shop Online!: "
We'll be kicking off the New Year in a new way at IKEA, with the pilot of our online shopping service, Shop Online!

We've been working for quite some time now to get everything ready for Spring 07. "

They want you to visit their test site and comment on what's wrong - this sounds quite a lot like Adrian's job. Instead of getting paid you could win £1,000 of vouchers!!!

Star Trek Cribs - The Director's Cut

YouTube - Star Trek Cribs - The Director's Cut

How The RIAA Is Like 17th Century French Button-Makers

Techdirt: History Repeats Itself: How The RIAA Is Like 17th Century French Button-Makers

France, 1666:

"Shortly after the matter of cloth weaving has been disposed of, the button makers guild raises a cry of outrage; the tailors are beginning to make buttons out of cloth, an unheard-of thing. The government, indignant that an innovation should threaten a settled industry, imposes a fine on the cloth-button makers. But the wardens of the button guild are not yet satisfied. They demand the right to search people's homes and wardrobes and fine and even arrest them on the streets if they are seen wearing these subversive goods."

Oh how we laughed....

Stormtrooper effect

Stormtrooper effect: "The Stormtrooper effect, also called Stormtrooper syndrome, is a cliche in works of fiction where minor characters (cannon fodder) are unrealistically ineffective in combat against more important characters (almost always the protagonists 'equipped' with character shields). The name originated with the armed Imperial Stormtroopers in the original Star Wars trilogy, who, despite their considerable advantages of close range, overwhelming numbers, professional military training, full armor, military-grade firepower, and noticeable combat effectiveness against non-speaking characters, were incapable of seriously harming or indeed merely hitting the protagonists. The effect is generally employed either to increase the dramatic tension of an action scene or to accentuate the heroes' fighting prowess."

UnSpun by Amazon: Community Opinions ... Ranked!

UnSpun by Amazon: Community Opinions ... Ranked!: "Community Opinions ... Ranked!"

Sort of like Digg but for lists of anything, not just news. eg. Most popular Programing Languages, Most popular beers, etc.

Buy Sealand

Buy Sealand

So the guys behind The Pirate Bay, in a mighty two fingers to the RIAA, are thinking of buying Sealand...

No More Cingular?

Cingular is no more

Suddenly an iPhone in association with AT&T doesn't seem quite so cool, does it?

iPhone: what's in a name

iPhone: does Cisco miss out due to prior art? - Engadget

There is no such thing as prior art when it comes to trademarks, but what they say in the update is the thing I've been saying. Cisco have been inconsistent with protecting their trademark and that's the killer.

Dylan Moran on Children's Parties

"I've got a migraine"
"You can't have a migraine, you're ten you can be electrocuted or dead but you can't have a migraine".

Ultimate iPhone FAQ

The Ultimate iPhone Frequently Asked Questions

The apparently reliable Pogue's Posts (New York Times blog) sets out what the iPhone will and (mostly) won't do...

A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope

A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope

I thought this was very clever...

sizeasy

sizeasy - your size comparison website

Got a, er, thing?
Want to know how it compares to other, er, things?
Length, breadth, height, depth, girth (maybe not girth).

Example: iPhone vs competitors

Vista test-drive...

Take a Windows Vista test-drive on the web - Lifehacker

Haven't tried it myself yet, mind...

The Venice Project

The Venice Project

What is The Venice Project?

The Venice Project is a new venture that combines the best elements of the TV experience with the most powerful internet technologies, in a way that will redefine the way people think about television. It is not a file-sharing application or a video download service.

(they are signing up beta-testers, I thought you might be interested!)

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Morrissey in talks for Eurovision

Morrissey in talks for Eurovision
"Former Smiths singer Morrissey could represent the UK at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, the BBC has confirmed."

Arblognot in takeover talks?

Arblognot in takeover talks

and if you want to know what's going on here try this

Which is from this blog which seems pretty amusing:The Triforce

Macworld Expo Keynote

It's great fun reading it, especially the way he just brashly writes off the incredible success of the last year. As though to say, forget the fact we're incredible at making computers and MP3 players. We're not resting on our laurals. Now these products are going to blow your minds.
Macworld: News: Macworld Expo Keynote

And to be honest from the descriptions of the appletv and iphone they really will!

As a postscript how much are they hating the uk's third channel iTv these days?

McSweeney's Lists

McSweeney's Lists/links/lists/

Some are better than others. There are a lot of puns too, which we like :)

And I'm not sure that just three things should count as a list, really, but *shrugs*

Looks like they've fixed BlogThis! - thank goodness

Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ?: "BlogThis! is an easy way to make a blog post without visiting blogger.com. Once you add the BlogThis! link to your browser's toolbar, blogging will be a snap. Or rather, a click. Clicking BlogThis! creates a mini-interface to Blogger prepopulated with a link to the web page you are visiting, as well as any text you have highlighted on that page. Add additional text if you wish and then publish or post from within BlogThis!"

Channel 4 goes on-demand

You can now download full television programs from Channel 4 for watching on your PC. At about £1 a show for 1 month.

Harvest time? Whose idea was that?

Bit out of date, but a great little article from Giles Coren:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,10653-2359798.html

10 Kick Ass Opening Credits

I almost agree with them too:

10 Kick Ass Opening Credits