2009-07-31
Evolution... The wrong way
See more of them here: The world's 50 freakiest animals
2009-07-30
Incredible terrain simulation in... 4kb
This demo production (4k intro) by RGBA and TBC, won 1st place @ Breakpoint 2009, will amaze you with its size… it’s only 4KB, which is too tiny in today’s era of 4.7 GB DVDs and TB hard disks. Watch the demo below, or download and run it yourself from here. Oh, and there is even a soundtrack… Amazing:
2009-07-27
How it’s made: Guitar strings
Interesting video on how guitar strings are made from the Science Channel’s show:
2009-07-26
Kuroshio Sea
This is a must see place:
Design a font with… a car
Two typographers (Pierre & Damien) and a pro race pilot (Stef van Campenhoudt) collaborated to design a font with a car.
The project is sponsored by Toyota (the car is their iQ), and the font can be downloaded here. Here for more photos. Thanks to Tom for sending in.
iQ font - When driving becomes writing / Full making of from wireless on Vimeo.
2009-07-25
Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity
A short video about Einstein and his Special Theory of Relativity, explained in a understandable way:
Basejump @ Karakorum, Pakistan
26 August 1992 – the Autralians Nic Feteris and Glenn Singleman made this highest basejump in an altitude from about 6286 meter, crazy...:
2009-07-24
Shiro Matsui – Hole in the water
Actually, it is an art installation by Shiro Matsui, which is named as “Waterfall of Narcissus”:
2009-07-23
2009-07-22
3D video stabilization
Cool technology, known as Content-Preserving Warps for 3D Video Stabilization by the Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, which was presented in the SIGGRAPH 2009. It lets you convert any amateur digicam to shot as a professional camera, in term of stability of the pictures. Watch the video below, and learn more about it here:
2009-07-21
2009-07-20
CollegeHumor – Web Site Story
2009-07-19
Great Pacific Ocean garbage patch
Some says it has the size of Texas, some others France… or it can even be a continent. Watch the video below and read more about it here.
2009-07-18
Panama Canal tour
2009-07-17
Everything for a perfect shot
A funny photos gallery by Dark Roasted Blend, showing how photographers can give out everything just to have the most oustanding picture.
Click to see more: Everything for a perfect shot
10 worst video game systems of all time
PCWorld has a compilation of some of the worst video game systems ever produced in the market.
Read more: 10 worst video game systems of all time
2009-07-16
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2009-07-12
The sardine run
2009-07-11
Open a Banana Like A Monkey
Abandoned places around the world
DirJournal has compiled a collection of photos, offering visual tours to some of the most abandoned places around the world, click to see more:
Abandoned places around the world
2009-07-10
2009-07-09
18 beautiful rainbow photos
A collection of 18 beautiful rainbow shots around the world, click to see them all:
2009-07-08
Microsoft Surface DaVinci
2009-07-07
Real life Spiderman
The physics of Pixar’s Up
2009-07-06
Eugene Mirman commencement speech
Little Wheel
There was once a world of living robots. But one day a bad accident occured in the main power generator. The world fell into a deep sleep. Bring life back to the world! Really beautiful Flash game:
Play This Game
2009-07-05
2009-07-04
Nano picture of an ant head
A zoomable picture of an ant head. Amazing details are available, click to see:
2009-07-03
Max and the Magic Marker game
2009-07-02
Dante Bucci - Fanfare
2009-07-01
Nitrohaul game
Use the available tools to create a hauler that can transport explosives to the end of each map. Drive your creation with A and D or the left and right arrow keys.
Needs a bit learning, but once you get it, it's Pure Fun: Nitrohaul game