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Archive: July, 2006
The bbc.co.uk homepage winner
The BBC recently ran a competition to redesign their homepage. The winner’s design while not all that visually spectacular is full of great ideas. If you’re interested in this sort of thing check out the winners design, and the runners up.
Stuff your face
All the following posts were all found by Pieter – yummywakame link hunter extraordinaire and editor of no less than 301 posts. Adulation and applause welcome in the comments.
Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites
“New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon’s National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks.
And it could harness advances in internet technology – specifically the forthcoming “semantic web” championed by the web standards organisation W3C – to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.”
Find out more…
Availabot
The ultimate USB gadget! Availabot stands up when your instant messaging buddy is available… and falls over when they go away! More info at availabot.com
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Brighton Wok – The Legend of Ganja Boxing
A Kung Fu movie set in Brighton. Awesome trailer!
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Star Trek vs. Star Wars
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Could You Learn 40 Languages?
Carlos do Amaral Freire, a Brazilian linguist, easily translates 60 languages, including Chinese, Portuguese and Sanskrit.
Is he a genius? A freak of nature? Surprisingly, Freire probably isn’t much different from your average bilingual. more…
Tristan D'ism #12387-b
While playing with little boats he’s made from various board games:
Captain: Take us to the Corner of Doom!
First Officer: No, take us to the other Corner of Doom!
Sneaky sneaky little fly
So look who I found on the blogosphere today… Weirdly, the very first post starts off, “Well its been more than awhile since I posted in this blog….”
Im hoping new tracks will be posted from time to time ;@)
How to become a runner
Tips from marathoner Brandon Seils such as “Get High”, “Pain is your friend” and “Break through the wall“:
For most runners, there’s a wall at the three mile mark. This goes for the most beginner runners up to and probably including the long-time marathoners. The first three miles of any run are the most difficult and painful to get through. After this point, however, it’s easy to “just keep going.†Back when I was training for the Boston Marathon, and would go out for 2+ hours on a 20 mile run, the hardest miles were the first three. It’s also these first three miles that make it difficult for running to become habit. You really have to struggle past this, in order to develop a tolerance for the sport.
Fake ad agency does it better
Reuters: A Dutch design student bored with conventional advertisements has set up a fake online agency offering advertising space for beer, cars and TV stations on prostitutes’ thighs and cleavage.
On his website www.instoresnow.nl, Raoul Balai also proposed painting brand names on zoo animals and floating huge billboards off popular beaches to get vacationers’ attention.
“I was getting sick and tired of advertising everywhere,” Balai told reporters. “But I don’t want to preach, and I thought satire would work better.”
Far from taking his ideas as a joke, an Amsterdam zoo had its lawyer threaten Balai with a defamation suit after his website depicted fish from the zoo bearing the brand name of a frozen fish company.
Prospective customers phoning his fake agency are kept on hold and bombarded with sales pitches until they give up.
Protect the Western Arctic Reserve From Big Oil
The Western Arctic Reserve, also known as the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, is the largest tract of unprotected, relatively pristine public land in the United States. The 23.5 million-acre reserve is home to imperiled polar bears, seabirds and one of the densest populations of nesting raptors in the world. Its shores and lagoons harbor beluga whales, seals, walruses and other marine mammals. The BLM is accepting comments on a planning document that sets the stage for oil and gas leasing in the western Arctic for decades to come. Help save this national treasure by telling the BLM to protect the Western Arctic Reserve from dirty fossil fuel development »
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