Links of the Week (Week #39, 40, 41)
Published Sunday, October 15th, 2006 at 3:21 pm
Wow, it has been three weeks. I didn’t even realize it. I think after posting my latest version of Xinha Here a few weeks ago I forgot completely about the links for that week. Beyond that I was just lazy as usual.
- What would the end of the human race mean to the earth? – Short answer: the earth would be happy. [via http://digg.com/]
- The entire text of A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking [via http://digg.com/]
- Boing Boing: 3-D figurines of Second Life avatars - Get a 3D version of your online avatar. Very geeky cool.
- Classic Trek @if(is_geek)… - Classic Star Trek scenes set to the music of Nine Inch Nails (warning: explicit lyrics).
- dodgeit – free. receive-only. email. no set up. rss. – This is a cool idea. If you need to receive e-mail just once just give a dodgeit address. Check it later from any browser. No sign-up, no password, just an e-mail address. [via http://digg.com/]
- Jack Slocum’s Blog – WordPress Comments System built with Yahoo! UI – This guy implemented a comment system that allows visitors to his blog to comment on individual paragraphs. [via http://digg.com/]
- Nine Bar-Mapping Sites: Happy Hours, Ratings, and Beer at Dethroner – Need a drink? Here are nine websites to help you find a new watering hole. [via http://www.lifehacker.com/]
- Ottobib – Tired of writing those MLA or ABA citation references by hand? Visit this site and get the reference by simply entering the ISBN. [via http://www.lifehacker.com/]
- Rentometer, by iiProperty: enter an address and get rental comps back! – How does your rent compare to your neighbors? Check here. [via http://www.lifehacker.com/]
- Scientists discover ‘shadow person’ | COSMOS magazine – It is amazing the types of tricks the mind can play on us. Scientists are discovering how to induce these tricks by stimulating parts of the brain. What I want to know is who volunteers to have their brain electronically stimulated? [via http://digg.com/]
- Stevey’s Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile – I’ve been hearing the word Agile programming being thrown around a lot in the last few years. Before that it was extreme programming. It all seamed like a bunch of motivational speaker mumbo-jumbo. This article describes the good and bad parts of Agile programming. The best part of this article are the incites it supplies on Google work methodology. [via http://www.littlehart.net/]
- TruthMapping.com: Home - Here is an interesting concept. Imagine a discussion forum that instead of the discussion being organized by time and thread it is organized by each individual point of discussion. Each premises and conclusions is discussed on it’s own.
- Turning Portrait Into Stone Statue with Photoshop | Consumer Electronics News, Reviews, Tips & Tricks – I haven’t tried this myself but it seams easy enough. [via http://digg.com/]
- vNES – Online classic Nintendo emulation. [via http://digg.com/]
- Squirl: Nintendo Toys – Pre-1980 – Nintendo had been selling toys long before the video game system made it a household name. Here are a few of their products. [via http://www.boingboing.net/]
- whitney music box var. 0 – chromatic – 48 tines – Musical tone generated by a spinning spiral. Hypnotizing. [via http://digg.com/]
- YouTube – “Little Superstar” – Creepy and cool at the same time. [via http://digg.com/]
- YouTube – Biff’s Question Song (Stand-up Comedy) - If you see Buff form Back to the Future don’t ask him what it was like working with Michael J. Fox.
- YouTube – dove evolution – Think the woman on the cosmetics poster is hot? Sure she is… and it took a lot of work to make that happen. [via http://www.umlo.com/]
- YouTube – Virtual “Beatbox” – This guy takes a few video clips of himself and turns it into a beat box. [via http://digg.com/]
