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:

src="http://www.bbspot.com/Images/News_Features/2004/10/file_extensions/cgi.jpg" width="300" height="90" border="0" alt="You are .cgi Your life seems a bit too scripted, and sometimes you are exploited. Still a workhorse though.">
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

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?

Viva Border Volleyball!

LA Weekly - Viva Border Volleyball!

I liked this line:

"Hoff suddenly wonders if hitting the ball back and forth constitutes a violation of U.S. Customs law, since goods are technically being transported across an international border."

50 Writing Tools

A list of 50 writing tools that are short, informative, and mention James Bond!

List of films that most frequently use the word f...

List of films that most frequently use the word f*ck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well I thought it might be surprising :)

Developers resource list

Links to almost everything from polishing up on Ajax to colour pickers:
http://www.devlisting.com/

moo | we love to print

moo | we love to print

These look way cool and some/most/all of Katherine's pics would look amazing on them :)

Have a good weekend

Ade

Auction your stuff and donate to charity

A very cool idea from the people who brought you Change the World for a Fiver: Auction my stuff.

USBCELL: Batteries That Recharge Through USB

TrustedReviews - USBCELL: Batteries That Recharge Through USB

NOw that, I think, is a fantastic idea :)

plundr - Avast, ye scoundrel!

plundr: "Plundr is a location-based game of piracy and trading on the high seas. Start out as a bilge-spewing land-lubber in a leaky tub, search the ocean for unsuspecting ships to pillage, upgrade your ship, and amass a fortune in black market goods.
Plundr is designed to be played on laptop computers by players who are navigating through real-world space. The gameplay takes place on Islands where you can buy and sell goods, prey on Merchant Ships, and battle other nearby players. Each Island corresponds to a real-world location.
You will need the Loki location-sensing browser plugin to play this game.
Once you have installed Loki, click here to install the plundr channel. "

Print your postage online directly

Print your postage online directly: "The service is free (you just pay the normal postage price), easy to use and, because you can print your postage whenever you need it, you’ll never run out again."

My prediction? Adrian will buy one!

A great video promoting solar power

SquidSoap - Training Tomorrow's Great Hand Washers

SquidSoap - Training Tomorrow's Great Hand Washers:

Wouldn't it be great if someone could invent a simple, fun way to teach our children to wash their hands? The wait is over with SquidSoap.

Personalised google homepage adds tabs

Well it has: google

Sainsbury's in green package push

Sainsbury's in green package push:

Supermarket Sainsbury's is to sell more than 500 of its own-brand products in compostable packs instead of plastic as it seeks to cut packaging waste.

Amazon Unbox

Video downloads for sale from Amazon:

"There will be many downloads in your life. But only one first download from Amazon Unbox Video. So make it special. Light the candles. Pour a beverage and consider"

Amazon Unbox

Blogger in beta

I somehow managed to totally miss this:

Blogger Buzz: Blogger in beta: "Today we're launching a new version of Blogger in beta! You've been asking for ways to do more with your blog, and you can with this new release. With the beta you can:

Categorize your posts with labels
Control who can read your blog
Change the appearance and content of your blog with your mouse instead of HTML"

THEIR CIRCULAR LIFE

THEIR CIRCULAR LIFE

A way of seeing and hearing an entire day in an instant or you can focus on a particular moment. Quite interesting.

THEIR CIRCULAR LIFE

THEIR CIRCULAR LIFE

A way of seeing and hearing an entire day in an instant or you can focus on a particular moment. Quite interesting.