Friday, January 30, 2004
Concentrate on the four dots in the middle of the picture for about 30 seconds. Then close your eyes and tilt your head back. What do you see?
Bitpress
Now this is what makes the internet great! Slow motion movies of food being shot. This is the best thing I've seen in ages! Bitpress (requires Quicktime)
New Scientist
Good interview with a linguist who as a child could say "I don't want to go to school" in 52 langauges". New Scientist
Thursday, January 29, 2004
BobsRecovery
Internet weirdness... Man has car accident...face hit steering wheel...takes photo's of munted face healing over time...euuuu! The one is gross and not recommended for people who are squeamish. BobsRecovery
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
CamPlus (Cambridge Plus) - Webcam of Central Cambridge, Market Hill and St Mary�s Church
Another cambridge webcam - it's snowing heavily as I write. CamPlus
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Science, Trying to Pick Our Brains About Art (washingtonpost.com)
Does a Rembrandt portrait or a van Gogh still life press some special buttons in every human being's brain? WashingtonPost
New Zealand News - NZ - Spam-free world in two years, says Gates
Spam-free world in two years, says Gates. (If he can pull that off he deserves the knighthood!) NZ Herald
Monday, January 26, 2004
Automatic Email Munger
I put my email on here and was immediately deluged with spam. Now I use the Automatic Email Munger
Mike Rowe Forums
This one won't last as Mike has sold the rights to his domain to Micro$oft, but it's an interesting story. NZ Herald see also: mikerowesoft.com
New Zealand News - Technology - Knighthood for Bill Gates
Apparently it's true...Knighthood for Bill Gates. Arise Sir William? NZ Herald
New Zealand News - NZ - The Return of the King wins top Golden Globes
ROTK wins top Golden Globes, but even more amazing... there's a picture of Peter Jackson wearing a suit (mind you they don't show his feet, so maybe he still had his shorts and jandals [aka flip-flops, thongs etc] on). NZ Herald
New Zealand News - World - Film records effects of eating only McDonald's for a month
Film records effects of eating only McDonald's for a month... and folks, it ain't pretty. NZ Herald
Saturday, January 24, 2004
The Morning News - The Non-Expert: IKEA
How to survive the IKEA addiction.Morning News
Yeah I know it's saturday and what the hell am I doing at work...actually it's lunch break for a course I'm doing here, and sad bastard that I am I couldn't stay away from the net.
Yeah I know it's saturday and what the hell am I doing at work...actually it's lunch break for a course I'm doing here, and sad bastard that I am I couldn't stay away from the net.
Friday, January 23, 2004
Introducing the Banana Label Collectors Intranet
Introducing the Banana Label Collectors Intranet... bananas
Niall's Pilgrimage Photos
Niall was on the pilgrimage with me and has already posted his photo's to a website. Niall's Pilgrimage Photos
Innocent Drinks - For fresh fruit smoothies and other healthy fruit drinks - tel 020 8600 3939
This is a really great website, it's everything I like in web design, and a socially/environmentally conscious company to boot. Support these folks - drink their drinks! Innocent Drinks
Penguin baseball - good clean fun, he he he. Penguin via Double Chocolate
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Runaway elephant halts NZ traffic
NZ so seldom gets into the news - glad to see the Beeb is keeping an eye out for important antipodean happenings. NEWSFLASH: Elephant escapes from zoo. Sigh. BBC
Thursday, January 22, 2004
defective yeti: Go You Chickenfat, Go
Another good blog - David you'll like this one. defective yeti
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
New Zealand News - NZ - In the family: Judy Thompson, sister of Neil and Tim Finn
Tim and Neils's sister Judy talks about the boys. Good stuff for Finnatics - you know who you are :-) NZHerald
musicplasma : the music visual search engine
Cool graphical app to search musicians - shows relationships with other artists and similar styles. musicplasma
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
ScienceDaily News Release: Census Finds Mountain Gorillas Increasing
Mountain Gorillas making a come back. ScienceDaily