Monday, November 21, 2005

Video Game Consoles

Great collection of Video Game Consoles, with a few info on them.

Old Computer Museum

A virtual Computer Hardware museum. From 1951 (WHIRLWIND and UNIVAC 1) until 1995 (BeBox), all kind of computers are here, with lots and lots of info.

Einstein Archives Online

All about Einstein: gallery, digitized manuscripts, digitized letters, travel diaries. Great site.

Toxic

It's a great little open source GI (Global Illumination) rendering engine. Nice examples too.

Animated backgrounds

Small collection of great animated backgrounds.

Liquid Sculpture

Can you make art from a falling drop of wather? Actually, you can, and this site it's amazing. Lots of incredible pictures.

Cats in sinks

You've ever wanted pictures with cats in sinks. And you'll find a lot of them here.

P.S.:Yes, it's a crazy world out there...

Just Curious?

If you have a special question and you want an answer NOW!, you'll have to post this question at JustCurious. The catch is, you'll have to answer a question first... :) Very fun. Don't miss it.

Come Clean

If you have something on your heart, you can secretly confess here to the whole world, and in style!. It's also very fun to watch what other confessed :). A must see.

The Chronicle of the Future

This is a special magazine: It's about things in the future (a possible fictitious one), with issues from 2000 until 2049.

It's fun to see:
12.02.49 A SUPERCOMPUTER which is claimed to clone consciousness has been ordered to be switched off

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Do you like / want fonts?

Yes! Fonts! And lots of them! Some are commercial, some are free... Now go and see / get them!

Update:
This site advertises 6500 free true type fonts. Check it out.

Top 10 buzzwords

You've all heard words like "virtual reality", that sounds interesting and exciting, it's on everyone important's mouth but you find it difficult to imagine a tangible, real, functional implementation of such a notion. This is a top 10 of such notions.

For your amusement only, two more links:
- a "Job title generator" which creates, "at a click of a button", titles like: Senior Manager of B2C2B M-Commerce Innovation.
- and one "Web Economy Bullshit Generator" which creates, in the same "one click" philosophy, good, useful expressions like: monetize visionary e-markets.

Have fun!

FAA - Flight Patterns

This guy took some data from FAA about the flight paths of the airplanes flying to/from and over USA space and gave them various graphical representations, presented as QuickTime movies. It's very nice thing and you should check them out.