Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Strange things people do...

Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

Only a programmer would appreciate these fine resources. Dig in!

Revenge of the Tattooed Nerds

Have you ever got excited enough by a tech aspect, notion or a cool tech gizmo, to get a tattoo representing it? These guys have already done that.

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.

Friday, October 28, 2005

Woopy - Photos around the globe

Woopy mixes a world's map and photos around this nice Flash interface. Check out the photos and submit some...

Friday, September 30, 2005

GUIs in time...

GUIs (Graphical User Interface) have been around since '70s. It's merely impossible for you to have been trying all these GUIs. So you want to have a glimpse of them, and here are two dedicated sites:

uberGeek

Geeks are everyware, and that's a good thing :). But these geeks are funny.

Shiny-Shiny - a girl's guide to gadgets

Shiny-Shiny is a cool site about gizmos, but girly gizmos! It's easier to respond to "What women want?" after you've red this site.

Gizmag - all about gizmos

Gizmag is a site dedicated to all the latest and coolest gizmos. Lots of interesting stuff.

StarWars X-wing from metro tickets?

There is this guy Hubert de Lartigue that will show you how (in many complicated steps :) ) to create a X-wing from a French metro ticket. Impressive.

Sockoff - wallpapers

Sockoff is a place where artists meet. Also you can find few excellent free wallpapers. Also featured are links to the picture's author - giving you the possibility to find more such pictures.

Leo Burnett

Leo Burnett Ad Agency's site is simply amazing. Check it out

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

bleu blanc blog - Wallpapers Firefox

This guy, bleu blanc, presents some high-res images all about Firefox. Check'em out.

Lunacore Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Chipworks

Some of the chips have artwork along usual circuitry. Chipworks discovered them and presented them in nice galleries. Eg: Game-Cube's video processor (Flipper) has a dolphin on it, AMD Athlon has a Texas icon and a pistol shooting a bullet... Got interested?

Google MyWay

Google Search Techniques - gread tips for Advanced Google Search Techniques