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Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 4:53 pm
by 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*
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 4:59 pm
by 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.
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 7:03 pm
by 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

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 11:27 pm
by MasterWuuf
oh_brother wrote: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
wise?
sayings.
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 12:59 am
by 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
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 2:58 pm
by linflas
Get ready for something unbelievable :
http://vimeo.com/44915449
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 3:30 pm
by 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.

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:53 pm
by linflas
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:01 am
by 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

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 1:51 pm
by 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/
Nice puzzles.
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:14 pm
by terkio
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:28 pm
by Jan
LOL. A very good find! Very entertaining - although once I realised I can
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!

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:48 pm
by Gambit37
Bank Robber Gets Back Money He Stole Because No One Else Wants It
http://gawker.com/5955217/bank-robber-g ... e-wants-it
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:58 am
by 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.
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:59 pm
by 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
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 ?
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:21 pm
by 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.

Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 3:03 pm
by Jan
"Mexico 'smugglers' car' gets stuck atop US border fence":
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20166317 
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 3:00 pm
by terkio
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 1:58 am
by MasterWuuf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57oUeO_O ... ults_video
Nice sound for the type of music (Bee Gee knockoffs?).
Er Mah Gerdners!
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 6:05 pm
by 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.
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 7:12 pm
by terkio
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 8:15 pm
by Seriously Unserious
that TrollBall was a unique find. I've never seen anything like that before!
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:00 pm
by 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
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 11:42 pm
by Seriously Unserious
Thanks for the link, that was interesting, learning more about what people do for entertainment.
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:25 pm
by linflas
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 12:17 am
by 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.
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:32 pm
by Gambit37
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:24 pm
by Seriously Unserious

that was funny.
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 12:17 am
by Seriously Unserious
Hell Roads:
This was originally aired on Discovery Chanel, but was posted to youtube in 3 parts:
- Hell Roads: Part 1
- Hell Roads: Part 2
- Hell Roads: Part 3
Re: Cool stuff you've found on the web
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 10:01 pm
by linflas