My brain has melted
Surely nobody in the world could ever grasp this! Behold, the 4-dimensional Rubicks Cube
Boingy boingy boingy redux
Seen the beautiful Sony Bravia bouncing ball advert? Then you’ll like this tribute to it performed in the game Battelfield 2. A new extreme in bunny-hopping.
Pinata Pain
Well, what do you think would happen when you give bunches of kids big sticks and ask them to whack a dangly donkey stuffed full of sweeties? LSFW due to banners
Encyclopodia – the encyclopedia on your iPod
Nifty idea, install Wikipedia on your iPod.
Airstream – a design clasic
For years mrs grom and I have harboured a desire to get us an airstream. I’m loathe to call it a caravan, it’s not even in the same league. Previously these were only available imported from the States but they weren’t road legal over here but now they sell from Lancashire so time to start saving (a lot!) and I might make it to Glastonbury 2016 in one. You can bypass having to give your details by downloading the brochure from this page.
Mac News
Not sure if Steve ‘big’ Jobs is still talking or if he’s just finished but the low-down on all of the speculation about the Mac announcements is over. Nothing blew my mind and a summary is available over at Mac Rumors. There’s a new iPod stereo for the home which has a built-in dock, all future Macs will be intel-based but that was about it really.
Best of Bootie 2005 CD
Time to get your mash-up on for the Best of Bootie 2005 CD compilation featuring some of the classic bootlegs from last year.
Boingy…boingy…boingy…
This is so immature of me but I can’t stop being hypnotised by the bouncing b00b13s. I bet you can’t resist clicking size ‘G’ and heavy activity out of morbid fascination.
Caution: broke my firefox but fine in IE
If Microsoft Re-designed the iPod
Two mitten-wearing posts in one day! People will talk!
Here’s what would undoubtably happen if Microsot re-designed the iPod.
Super Mario Parkour
Super Mario Parkour – it’s crazy wall jumpingfrolics with added nintendo-yness which gets better and beter the further through it gets.
Th th th thats all Folksonomy
Zonetag is another nice mashup for Flickr that allows Series 60 mobiles to upload photos to Flickr and uses cell tower IDs to infer location via Flickr’s tags.
Bring the noise
Heh, Grom forgot that I’m a fully signed up mitten wearer when he gave me the keys to Pri.me towers, anyway Noise for OS X pumps pink noise through yer headphones to drown out all those orrible windows users.
The Happy Poster Project
Just round the corner from my office there’s a tiny slogan spray-painted on the wall of a building site – it simply says “Smile at a stranger” and I know loads of people at work have noticed it over the years. I like these random slogans of positivity so I’ll be happy to take part in the Happy Poster Project. ‘Isn’t Life Smashing’ and ‘Have a Jolly One’ are classic slogans. Certifed a ‘gouranga’-free zone.
Massively Multiplayer Pong
Massively Multiplayer Pong is exactly waht it says it is. It’s almost like willing it through telepathy. Beautifully pointless.
The Perfumed Garden
Wha-hey, a site dedicated to John Peel Radio session downloads aptly entitled The Perfumed Garden. Is that Bogshed I see in there? And Viv Stanshall’s sublime ‘Christmas At Rawlinson End’? Schweet.
OOTTINLTO
Another decent Odd one out OOTTINLTO links today – try a GIS for french flag. Odd one out is NSFW as usual.
cheers Biohazard
Tom Bakaraoke
Genius!* Tom Baker karaoke can only be described as Tom Bakaraoke
*disclaimer: IMHO anything featuring Tom Baker is automatically classified as an official work of genius regardless of quality
The Passion of Benny Hill
Ooh, someone’s going straight to hell for this mash-up – The Passion of Benny Hill.
Pointless Site of the Day
I think everyone knows the superb tinyurl which is a really handy site but for sheer and utter pointlessness, how about GiantURL instead?
actually I can think of one use – it may help to get round some webfilters but then tinyurl is still better
FOOBIES!
Wondered where all the b00b13s had gone from Fark? They’re now over on FOOBIES.com. Do I even need to say that this is utterly NSFW!
Google Current
Google have done a deal with a new cable channel in the States to provide their Zeitgeist so you can now get a hlaf-hourly update on what the world is surfing for.
Dynamic images
I know there are loads of sites that do this and we’ve posted many in the past but I like the set-up and the decent choice of Dynamic images on this site. Excellent for pranks in the office.
Monkey News
How Tokyo zoo officials practice catching an escaped gorilla
Nudist knitware
Not much else to say about this photo apart than its Swedish, possibly NSFW (if you have a policy regarding knitted genitalia) and …..well its just wrong.
Buffy – Abridged
The whole 7 series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Abridged to 3 minutes. Brings back so many memories.
The Making of Grace Jones
Interesting description of the making of the iconic image of Grace Jones from her first album cover. It had never occured to me that this picture was so heavily manipulated – these days such trickery would be at the forefront of my mind but back then it just made Grace seem more freaky. It didn’t make her music any good either.
Novel locations ‘Flickrised’
An interesting idea that seems to be gaining ground is to visit locations mentioned in books and file them online. I originally came across the F:F:F site that has images of locations from William Gibson‘s excellent novel, “Pattern Recognition“. Today I came across a boingboing link to a superb Flickr set of images of locations for Neal Stephenson‘s weighty (but magnificent) “System of the World” trilogy.
March 20th
Interesting result when you do a google search for March 20th – that’s a date for the diary!
Brit Spy in spy-stone love story
As if the story of the British ‘spy stone‘ wasn’t bizarre enough, then this little gem of a story came along. WTF?
