Links of the Week (Week #23, 2006)
Published Saturday, June 10th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
OK, I know I’m a bad blogger. I’ve written very few posts other then my “Links of the Week” for a while and then I missed last week. The summer travel season is interfering with my blogging! Anyway, here is a double dose of links for you.
- Accessibility Color Wheel – Please, please, please.. if you are making a website, run your color scheme by this site to check “color blindness compatibility”. PLEASE!
- Amazing R/C Airplane flying – What a pilot! | Geek 24: Gadgets, Technology and Geek – This guy has some awesome RC airplane skills.
- Articulos de Divulgacion :: 100cia.com – I was having a discussion with someone yesterday and they stated that they don’t watch The Simpsons because it was too lowbrow. What? The Simpsons is very intellectual… did you know they disproved Fermat’s last theorem (not really read the link). Appearntly the person I was talking to had not watched an episode since season one.
- Big Spanish Castle – This optical illusion will make B&W photos look colorized… very weird.
- Boing Boing: Kids turn “teen repellent” sound into teacher-proof ringtone – Apparently some kids were using (or claiming to use) the Mosquito teen repellent tone as a ring tone.
- brian dilg photography :: services :: imaging – Some interesting examples and discussion of photograph retouching.
- Photoshop & Design Tutorials – Photo Retouching – Skin – And here is a tutorial on skin retouching.
- CoMagz-Water Over A Bridge | Linkadelic Magazine – Now this looks strange. In east Germany there is a canal that crosses over a river. You need to see the picture.
- Couple’s Supposedly Destroyed Hard Drive Purchased In Chicago – Yahoo! News – Rule #1 of Best Buy shopping: never believe the Best Buy employees; they lie. I don’t know what it is but Best Buy employees, from my own experience, seam to operate under the “If you don’t know make it up” policy. I recall one time I went to a Best Buy and asked them what type of memory I needed for my HP computer (this was years ago; before I knew anything about PC hardware). They insisted the computer I knew I had at home did not exist. It was a HP machine with a non standard Intel 486 chip. They insisted it was a Pentium and I didn’t know what I was talking about. Needless to say they recommended the wrong memory. That is where I learned rule #2: always know exactly what you need before entering the store to avoid asking questions (see rule #1).
- DigitalReviews.net – Reviewing Your Digital World :: aXbo Sleep Phase Alarm Clock – With my trouble waking in the morning I could probably use one of these.
- Intelligent Life 2006 | From A to Zzzzz – Or maybe I could just take a pill to avoid sleep altogether.
- Function Grapher Online – Quickly graph that function online.
- gizmag Article: 50 mph Quadski converts from Jetski to ATV in five seconds – What can I say.. this is cool. ATV converts to a JetSki and back. Nice.
- GovTrack.us: Tracking the U.S. Congress – Keep track of your congressmen.
- Honda Worldwide | ASIMO | Technology – Details on how the Honda ASIMO robots see.
- local6.com – News – Baby Born With Third Arm – Scary photo of a child born with three arms.
- noob.us – Howtos and Tutorials – Family Guy Voice Actor – Seth MacFarlane’s Harvard Class Day Speech 2006 – I’m a big Family Guy fan. Check out these videos of Seth MacFarlane giving a “class day” speech and Harvard.
- SPIEGEL Interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “We Are Determined” – International – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – Here is an interview with Iranian President Mohmound Ahmadinejad… he seams a little… out of touch to me.
- The Broken Laptop I Sold on Ebay – Consumerist – If you’re going to rip off someone on eBay make sure you don’t send along your private information.
- Tribewanted: Adventure Island – Home – A new form of timeshare or adventure of a lifetime… I’m not sure.
- Wired 14.06: START – The worst engineering mistakes in recent history.
- Wired News: The Great No-ID Airport Challenge – We have all heard the stories… you can’t fly in the US without ID. Seams like everyone knows that the airports have no legal right to ask for your ID but that if you refuse you get hassled. Well, this guy did it and it wasn’t so bad.