Fed up of those 'context sensitive ads' in gMail? Banish them by adding tragic words to your .sig! (I won't be doing this, because I suspect it's only a matter of time before Google catch on, but it's neat whilst it lasts, I'll give them that.)
The Telegraph had this photo gallery of tarpaulins to stick over your garage door to one-up the Joneses, which'd be funny the first time, I guess...
I'm sure that you're all heartily sick of financial controllers, economists and significant others ascribing present cash-flow issues to 'These Times', but it's looking like no-one told BullionByPost.co.uk. Srsly, I love the interwebz: if you ever need gold bullion delivered to your door, that's the website to bookmark. I just have visions of getting home to find one of those 'sorry you were out' cards from the Post Office: 'We have left your gold bullion... round the back/with a neighbour/on the doorstep...'
The Grauniad had an article slating online game Evony's egregious ad campaign, clearly inspired by some kind of 70s ad executive, working on the 'breasts sell more of everything model'.
Talking of games, here's a long blog by Kid Icarus 222 on the origins of video game characters' names. No, I haven't read it all, but I'm posting the link as a tribute to the scholarship.
We've had some pretty sharp downpours this past week, but, quoth the Torygraph, the Philippines had more (picture gallery). Chile, on the other hand, merely had drizzle, but that was enough to cause an emergency, quote USA Today.
Talking of the weather, the aforementioned precipitation has, as usual, brought the nay sayers on the Climate Change issue to the front on blogs, comments and forum threads. *sigh* Two pictures do NOT a trend make, of course, but it's a vivid enough example of the issue, and was apparently suppressed by GW Bush during his term of office.
Meanwhile, across La Manche, The Times has a photo gallery of the Wildfire at Marseilles... according to the caption, the fire itself was sparked by the French army's shelling practice. So someone, somewhere has got some explaining to do, I'd hope.
In news that must surely harken to the approach of the impending apocalypse, The Times (amongst others) alerted me to Coke's Fizzy Milk. I'll just go and weep in the corner, 'kay? Although on the subject of Coke, and the cola wars, here's a graphic purporting to show the evolution of the Pepsi and Coca Cola logos, side by side, from 1885 to the present day.
Wired had this stunning photo of the space shuttle, docked to the International Space Station, as it transited the sun (total MUST CLICK link).
The Guardian carried stories from two ends of computing history: first off, a living computer, made from bacteria, can solve 'complex' mathematical problems, but even more stunning is the news that the Antikythera clockwork computer is even older than previously thought, and is now being dated to the second century BC. Incidentally, I first heard of this in a Science Weekly podcast last year: it's a pretty good 'cast, so if you're so minded, I recommend adding it to your feed.Continuing the theme, the Telegraph is running this article on how an artificial human brain could be built 'in the next decade'. But AI always seems, like Fusion, to be 40 years away, so who knows?
Now this is kinda weird : YouTube vid showing how Scotch tape, applied to frosted glass, makes it clear(ish).
Talking as I was, earlier in the week, of balloon polls, here's a Grauniad vid of over 300 hot air balloons taking off from France to set a new world record. Soothing :-)
Although... personally, I'd probably consider a treehouse like this to be more soothing still. So. Very. Wants.
OTOH, Andres Amador's sand art is also very easy on the eye (more Grauniad picspam). Beautiful. But that has to contend with this jaw-dropping typographical map of Paris.
All I can think to say about The 2009 Tough Guy Competition is that it looks waaaaaaaaaaay too much like hard work.
Recalling last week's cloud vid, here's the Daily Mail's picture of a space-ship shaped cloud, taken from orbit.
Now I thought that this Times article, ostensibly about Activision jacking up the price of Call of Duty was interesting, partly for the penultimate paragraph: game sales were worth £4.6bn in 2008, vs £4.5 for music and video combined.
via Stumble Upon, I know that Fox News are a soft, soft target, but this screen shot of a map of the Middle East is awesome (hint: as everyone knows, Egypt has always been sandwiched between... Syria and Iran?!!)
Comic Con in San Diego generated this coverage from Wired, and produced this gallery from the Telegraph whilst New Zealand's Body Art Awards contributed this set of surreal images for the paper.
And speaking of comics, I mean to mention in a previous Linkfest that Google has launched comic skins for iGoogle. The best of them seems to be the Superman one, if you ask me, but you may beg to differ.
I love The Register, partly for their very British snark (be sure to check the comments), but also for their magnificent headlines: Microsoft! and! Yahoo! finally! sign! search! deal! (note to the reader: any Yahoo! story at El Reg will always have an exclamation mark appended to each word in the headline).
Speaking of El Reg, they've got a story about smartphone hijacking via SMS, a topic that Steve Gibson mentioned on last week's Security Now podcast (always fun, if you're that way inclined).
The Internet, as we know, is incomplete without cats, so here's a YouTube composition of various cat/keyboard vids interwoven to render some Schoenberg. But if you want big cats, the Guardian has a shaky 33 second video clip of one of the fabled 'big cats' that are said to roam this green and pleasant land (shame about the pre-roll ad: just endure). To cleanse the palette of our brush there with the tin-foil hat brigade, I gallantly conclude this week's feline internet video section with lazy cat on treadmill FTW!
Finally, I got linked to Voltage, a vimeo-hosted animation of half-synth, half-humans interconnecting to create music. Really, really, reeeeeeeeeeeeeeealllly good.
The Telegraph had this photo gallery of tarpaulins to stick over your garage door to one-up the Joneses, which'd be funny the first time, I guess...
I'm sure that you're all heartily sick of financial controllers, economists and significant others ascribing present cash-flow issues to 'These Times', but it's looking like no-one told BullionByPost.co.uk. Srsly, I love the interwebz: if you ever need gold bullion delivered to your door, that's the website to bookmark. I just have visions of getting home to find one of those 'sorry you were out' cards from the Post Office: 'We have left your gold bullion... round the back/with a neighbour/on the doorstep...'
The Grauniad had an article slating online game Evony's egregious ad campaign, clearly inspired by some kind of 70s ad executive, working on the 'breasts sell more of everything model'.
Talking of games, here's a long blog by Kid Icarus 222 on the origins of video game characters' names. No, I haven't read it all, but I'm posting the link as a tribute to the scholarship.
We've had some pretty sharp downpours this past week, but, quoth the Torygraph, the Philippines had more (picture gallery). Chile, on the other hand, merely had drizzle, but that was enough to cause an emergency, quote USA Today.
Talking of the weather, the aforementioned precipitation has, as usual, brought the nay sayers on the Climate Change issue to the front on blogs, comments and forum threads. *sigh* Two pictures do NOT a trend make, of course, but it's a vivid enough example of the issue, and was apparently suppressed by GW Bush during his term of office.
Meanwhile, across La Manche, The Times has a photo gallery of the Wildfire at Marseilles... according to the caption, the fire itself was sparked by the French army's shelling practice. So someone, somewhere has got some explaining to do, I'd hope.
In news that must surely harken to the approach of the impending apocalypse, The Times (amongst others) alerted me to Coke's Fizzy Milk. I'll just go and weep in the corner, 'kay? Although on the subject of Coke, and the cola wars, here's a graphic purporting to show the evolution of the Pepsi and Coca Cola logos, side by side, from 1885 to the present day.
Wired had this stunning photo of the space shuttle, docked to the International Space Station, as it transited the sun (total MUST CLICK link).
The Guardian carried stories from two ends of computing history: first off, a living computer, made from bacteria, can solve 'complex' mathematical problems, but even more stunning is the news that the Antikythera clockwork computer is even older than previously thought, and is now being dated to the second century BC. Incidentally, I first heard of this in a Science Weekly podcast last year: it's a pretty good 'cast, so if you're so minded, I recommend adding it to your feed.Continuing the theme, the Telegraph is running this article on how an artificial human brain could be built 'in the next decade'. But AI always seems, like Fusion, to be 40 years away, so who knows?
Now this is kinda weird : YouTube vid showing how Scotch tape, applied to frosted glass, makes it clear(ish).
Talking as I was, earlier in the week, of balloon polls, here's a Grauniad vid of over 300 hot air balloons taking off from France to set a new world record. Soothing :-)
Although... personally, I'd probably consider a treehouse like this to be more soothing still. So. Very. Wants.
OTOH, Andres Amador's sand art is also very easy on the eye (more Grauniad picspam). Beautiful. But that has to contend with this jaw-dropping typographical map of Paris.
All I can think to say about The 2009 Tough Guy Competition is that it looks waaaaaaaaaaay too much like hard work.
Recalling last week's cloud vid, here's the Daily Mail's picture of a space-ship shaped cloud, taken from orbit.
Now I thought that this Times article, ostensibly about Activision jacking up the price of Call of Duty was interesting, partly for the penultimate paragraph: game sales were worth £4.6bn in 2008, vs £4.5 for music and video combined.
via Stumble Upon, I know that Fox News are a soft, soft target, but this screen shot of a map of the Middle East is awesome (hint: as everyone knows, Egypt has always been sandwiched between... Syria and Iran?!!)
Comic Con in San Diego generated this coverage from Wired, and produced this gallery from the Telegraph whilst New Zealand's Body Art Awards contributed this set of surreal images for the paper.
And speaking of comics, I mean to mention in a previous Linkfest that Google has launched comic skins for iGoogle. The best of them seems to be the Superman one, if you ask me, but you may beg to differ.
I love The Register, partly for their very British snark (be sure to check the comments), but also for their magnificent headlines: Microsoft! and! Yahoo! finally! sign! search! deal! (note to the reader: any Yahoo! story at El Reg will always have an exclamation mark appended to each word in the headline).
Speaking of El Reg, they've got a story about smartphone hijacking via SMS, a topic that Steve Gibson mentioned on last week's Security Now podcast (always fun, if you're that way inclined).
The Internet, as we know, is incomplete without cats, so here's a YouTube composition of various cat/keyboard vids interwoven to render some Schoenberg. But if you want big cats, the Guardian has a shaky 33 second video clip of one of the fabled 'big cats' that are said to roam this green and pleasant land (shame about the pre-roll ad: just endure). To cleanse the palette of our brush there with the tin-foil hat brigade, I gallantly conclude this week's feline internet video section with lazy cat on treadmill FTW!
Finally, I got linked to Voltage, a vimeo-hosted animation of half-synth, half-humans interconnecting to create music. Really, really, reeeeeeeeeeeeeeealllly good.
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