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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

⇒ dilbert backlog






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Monday, April 27, 2009

⇒ post of 3 weeks

Commando dissertation (yes, that Arnie movie from the 80s):
http://www.screenjunkies.com/movienews/commando-best-film-ever-pt-1


Blitz Blintz


A large meat pizza rolled like a blintz filled with ranch dressing.


source: this is why you're fat



Super-humans:
Bear_Grylls
Dean_Karnazes
Yiannis_Kouros
Bernd_Heinrich
Franco_Columbu

sadistic tetris
http://sovietrussia.org/f/src/tetoris.swf

interesting CG articles from people who understand the format:
http://denofgeek.com/movies/177951/top_50_movie_special_effects_shots.html
top 24 worst SFX of all time

photography:
http://sergey-larenkov.livejournal.com/
amazing past and present 'bleed ins'

webhosting candidate:
http://www.hostgator.com/shared.shtml

speed test your ISP:
http://www.speedtest.net/

I like this ad:

Unleash some Man Leather with Lynx Instinct



by Bartle Bogle Hegarty. The song playing is Look good in leather by Cody ChesnuTT


artistic, simple:



joyous, uplifting, hilarious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMvqfxsyYQs&feature=player_embedded
position: absolute - the ultimate web developement movie

sweet bruce lee vs iron man stop motion clip:

I think the fight choreography mostly came from the Matrix (Neo vs. Morpheus)

Dilbert:


Moe comics:


Basic instructions:


SMBC:


tyson the skateboarding dog (on OPRAH):

his homepage here

Superpunch:
so much good stuff that I had to put it all in a separate post

useful:

Startup Manager: How to select a startup volume
Apple Remote Desktop: Connecting through a firewall, NAT or VPN
Disk Utility: Unable to format disk 500 GB or larger

Sydney Wifi:
list here and here


most 'installations/visualisations' basically take an array of objects with flip-flop capability (on-off modes) and turn them into a 'screen'. I've seen similar large scale displays with fire, leds, shades of wood, etc.

King of RX8 Homebrew:
iPod touch controlled RX8!

another doomsday weapon/cheap energy source:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/nif-scientists-set-the-controls-for-nuclear-fusion/
Didn't they learn anything from the Large Hadron Supercollider?

DLSR stuff:

camera reviews
canon eos 450D deal
eos 450d review
nikon d300 review
Canon EOS 450D wiki
Nikon D300 wiki
EOS 450D popphoto review
Nikon D60 popphoto review
In case you haven't figured it out by now, I'm looking to get a Canon EOS 450D.

engadget:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/29/mac-friendly-houseport-usb-to-z-wave-adapter-shipping-soon-en-ma/
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/29/piezoelectric-nanowires-could-lead-to-blood-powered-ipods-cellp/
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/
AVDPJUB9


papercraft tank:


little red riding hood retold:

Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.

something special:


interesting post about how Google makes design decisions here.
Without conviction, doubt creeps in. Instincts fail. “Is this the right move?”


hilarious web design egotism
bring down IE6

zeldman's web validator

awesome anti-IE6 splash screens:

click here for more from Hugs for monsters

watch-mcbess-draw
video-of-underwater-vocano-erupting
seven-simian-samurai
yellow-submarine-juice-boxes
how-to-make-stop-motion-anmiation
voltron-munny-and-more







http://community.atom.com/Post/The-5-Most-Disturbing-Animals-On-Earth-Vol-IV/03EFBFFFF0182C7B8000800B4D02B/
http://www.asylum.com/2009/04/03/giant-sea-worm-terrorizes-aquarium/

http://www.wififreespot.com/aus.html
http://blog.photos2view.com/2008/03/16/free-wifi-in-sydney.htm
http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_ATP_World_Tour

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/07/2537559.htm

http://www.mirror.co.uk/life-style/2008/08/14/doctors-don-t-know-why-my-legs-are-getting-bigger-115875-20697469/

http://www.favicon.cc/?action=icon_list&order_by_rating=1

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1625
car custom

http://www.snotr.com/video/2104
spidey in xmen


weirdly wonderful

http://wellmedicated.com/inspiration/an-ode-to-criterion-box-art/
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=357454
http://www.gamepro.com/article/features/107258/the-9-biggest-moments-in-pro-gaming-page-3-of-3/
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/a_bestofyoutube?page=2
http://beastdaigo.jp/

in news:
enough is enough! I've had it with these muthaf#ckin' snakes on this muthaf#ckin' plane!


Engadget goes legs-on with Honda's walking-assist devices (with video!)



Cyberdyne said to be mass producing $4,200 HAL robotic suit



oh shi...this is me now.



kawaii-ne!


cool 3d commercial for Phillips' new 21:9 tv


http://cowbell.typepad.com/forty_deuce/2008/10/robin-soderling.html
hilarious write up abour tennis player Robin Soderling

work for Apple? Sure, why not?
http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/apply.html

Rafa Nadal's crazy clay-court playing record

awesome parkour-with-bike: here
the song playing is Band of Horses' the funeral, awesomely free on their site.

detailed breakdown of why HDTV ruins classic gaming here

unfrozen caveman lawyer


sneezing captured in 1000 frames per second

Sneezing In Ultra Slow Motion - Watch more Funny Videos

cracked:
http://www.cracked.com/article_17276_5-scientific-ways-make-water-do-magic.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_17199_7-most-horrifying-parasites-on-planet.html

mordant orange:


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