Cool stuff you've found on the web

[Jan]

Wow, these things really are useful. The trouble is that when I get to a quarter of the page I forget what the first trickes were.

EDIT: D'oh! D'oh brother was faster and came with exactly the same thing as me. Now people will start thinking that I just stole his idea which isn't true. *dashes away in tears*

[oh_brother]

Don't worry Jan, we believe you. If you say you came up with that witty, sophisticated and urbane comment independently no one will doubt you.

[beowuuf]

Lol, you both need a lifehack to allow you to recall these.


Like a picture of printing all of them out on small bits of paer and putting those bits of paper beside the thing to be hacked like mini-posters

[MasterWuuf]

Don't worry Jan, we believe you. If you say you came up with that witty, sophisticated and urbane comment independently no one will doubt you.

'The like-minded sound alike'

Someone has to come up with those

Spoiler

wise?

sayings.

[Gambit37]

The 99 Life Hacks page seems to have vanished under the weight of it's own usefulness.

Don't worry, go to the Google Cache page, load it in your browser, then do a File > Save As to save it to your computer (To ensure it saves all the images, make sure you choose "Save Complete Page" and NOT the "Page / HTML only" option!)

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... clnk&gl=uk

[linflas]

Get ready for something unbelievable : http://vimeo.com/44915449

[Jan]

I can see that the obsession with youth(-look) has reached just another level. I'm "looking forward" to lasers that would do this in a few seconds in real life.

[linflas]

CSI deblur is now real ! http://gizmodo.com/5953601/incredible-c ... sed-photos

[cowsmanaut]

when applied over multiple frames of video it should be even better.. As this is what most "upres" dvd players do.. now with this in place the end result should be fantastically crisp images

[Gambit37]

^^^ Deblur - saw this a while back and I still think it's magic

134 year old recording heard for the first time:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/a ... ng/264147/

[terkio]

48 puzzles: Houdini's hat
http://www.pizmogames.com/games/load.php?g=houdinishat

[Jan]

LOL. A very good find! Very entertaining - although once I realised I can

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re-align the hat against the edges

it became quite easy. Except the timed ones, of course. I'm not good at timed things. My patience ran out at 3.5. But as I said, it's brilliant!

[Gambit37]

Bank Robber Gets Back Money He Stole Because No One Else Wants It
http://gawker.com/5955217/bank-robber-g ... e-wants-it

[Gambit37]

Fake houses hiding the London Underground: fascinating!
http://150greatthingsabouttheundergroun ... r-gardens/

In fact, worth reading the whole blog, there are some wonderful photos and writing in there. Great for fans of anything London Underground.

[terkio]

48 puzzles: Houdini's hat
http://www.pizmogames.com/games/load.php?g=houdinishat

Jan wrote:LOL. A very good find! Very entertaining - although once I realised I can

Spoiler

re-align the hat against the edges

it became quite easy.

Solving puzzles without this, is an additional challenge and shows better the beauty of the hat moves.

Except the timed ones, of course. My patience ran out at 3.5. But as I said, it's brilliant!

My score:
_1 Rabbits: 36
_2 Spiders & Ice: 32
_3 Squirrels & Light: 33
_4 Master Illusions: 19
Timed ones I failed: Paint roller with rugs, Paint checkers, Dance, Race.
Who can do these ? Is there a trick ?

[Jan]

I don't remember the solutions of course but I did enjoy the painting ones. Oh, and what I really really DID enjoy was smashing the yucky spiders.

[Jan]

"Mexico 'smugglers' car' gets stuck atop US border fence": http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20166317

[terkio]

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

[MasterWuuf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57oUeO_O ... ults_video

Nice sound for the type of music (Bee Gee knockoffs?).

Er Mah Gerdners!

[Seriously Unserious]

good find.

(Bee Gee knockoffs?)

not really, IMO, they're in completely different genres, this is rap and the bee gees did that late 70's/early 80's disco music.

Anyhow, the music sounds good.

http://scatterheart.ca/The latest from a local up an coming band. I first heard them live at my local Canada Day celebration and they definitely have the talent to go far. So far they have 3 songs out, and my favorite is The Human Hart Is an Awesome Machine.

[terkio]

TrollBall

http://trollball.fr/chaotic-trollball-video.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZWOJLK6lA

[Seriously Unserious]

that TrollBall was a unique find. I've never seen anything like that before!

[terkio]

A "sport" from Canada France Belgium. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollball
I do not find any reference to Troll Ball in english.
You'll find a lot with Google about it, but only french speaking.
http://trollball.org/

I found one in english about live action role-playing game with TrollBall in Quebec http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicolline

[Seriously Unserious]

Thanks for the link, that was interesting, learning more about what people do for entertainment.

[linflas]

This is art.
http://youtu.be/zwA8ikH-nBg

No ?

[Seriously Unserious]

I took a look that the video.

It's noting like anything I usually see. From what he had to say early on in the show, I'm not surprised from the write-up below that there was some inspiration from Bob Ross' Joy of Painting shows in this production.

I found what looks like a full episode of one of his shows: Bob Ross: Winter Moon for anyone who's not familiar with Bob's painting style. Of course, by watching the 2 shows, you'll see that both have vastly different approaches to painting though, with this guy's scream-based abstract style and Bob's nature-themed paintings.

[Gambit37]

A Glitch threatens ALL computer games!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... Q2P4LjuVA8

[Seriously Unserious]

that was funny.

[Seriously Unserious]

Hell Roads:

This was originally aired on Discovery Chanel, but was posted to youtube in 3 parts:

1. Hell Roads: Part 1
2. Hell Roads: Part 2
3. Hell Roads: Part 3

[linflas]

Gravity lighting : http://vimeo.com/53588182