Saturday, November 19, 2005

Full Spectrum Panoramas

Beautiful 360 degree panoramas.
Pyramids at Giza, Egypt.
Aupostolou Louka, Cyprus.
Monte Tamaro, Switzerland.
Chateau de Salm, France.
Monte Perdido, Spain.
BMX Dirt Jumping, Pier 17 New York.

Use either the crappy interface or play with the numbers in the url for more photos.

Top 25 Inventions

Time Magazine's Top 25 Inventions of 2005.
Wikipedia on inventors. Inventions listed by year.
MSN Encarta Top ten Inventions.
The Great Idea Finder. Find out who invented what.
Inventors.org Invention how to, history and more.


National Inventors Hall of Fame. Invent now
The Patent&Trademark Office.
Encyclopedia Smithsonian.

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly III

Three websites. Three categories:

The Good, The Bad (-man Ernesto Hoost) and the Ugly.

World Series of Poker

The World Series of Poker 2005 Final in Las Vegas Nevada.
A must see for any pokerfan. The final round is now online.

Episode 28
Episode 29
Episode 30
Episode 31
Episode 32, The Final Table.

Microsoft Office 12 & Vista

Microsoft Office Professional 12 beta.
Torrent to download.
And why not install Vista while your at it.

Friday, November 18, 2005

Water Dwellings

Living on water. Article on the Dutch answer to rising sea levels.
Another, and another.
Water Dwellings Projects. Water real estate in Amsterdam.
The futuristic Trilobis 65 floating home.

Gorillaz

3D Game. Drive your buggy through the course.
Needs Shockwave to run.

Most of the Yeti Sports.
Feed the Fish game. Fun because the interface works.

The Top in Flash Programming

Fantasy interfaces by FI. Probably some of the best flash based sites made so far.

(thanks to Marco!)

Thursday, November 17, 2005

You Muppet

The very best scenes of The Muppet Show. Download (403 mb avi) Update 17:00 to late, closed down.



David Icke's The Biggest Secret on rapidshare. (pdf 46mb)
Crazy book by a conspiracy thinker. Good read though.

Google Base

The new Google database service launched today

yesterday. Google Base.


Want a Gmail account? Email me and I'll send you back an invite.

Pandora's Box

Pandora.com. Do a search for an artist or song that you like.
Pandora will play music very 'similar' to the song or artist of choice.
Part of the music genome project.
(Yeah right!, a lot of words to say: free music)

Update: plays original artist too.
Update 2 : this site is amazing. Lets hope it stays in the air.
Via.

This is my Island

Buy yourself an island. Anywhere.

OceanFootage

Otters rule. 40 clips.

Bald Eagle vs. Otter.

Piracy

Article about modern day piracy.
Piracy report from ICC.
BBC on piracy.
Piracy in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Observe Planet Earth

NASA Earth Observatory. Watch weather, foilage, temperature and many others change over time.
Also see Visible Earth.

Pictures
The Blue Marlin (east) from Visible Earth. See also West.

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly II

Three websites. Three categories:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Update: much worse.

Never an empty Glass

The Beerhunter. One of the better applications of Google maps.
And something for the dog.

Want more beer? Go so see Look at This.

Online Newspapers

Just about any major newspaper available.
Scanned in original format.
Pressdisplay
Bugmenot login

(repeat request when this login doesn't work anymore)

Update: bugmenot accounts have been depleted. No show for the second page.

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Flickr on Altered Signs

Fotoseries on altered roadsigns and other various public items.

Java BitTorrent Client

Azereus is a BitTorrent client written in Java. It doesn't ask for upgrades to Pro and has no built in adverstising.
Download Azereus. Use it myself and get good download speeds.


Revolver. One of the best movies I have seen in a long time. Great characters and very good plot. Torrent.

Latest Generation 3D FPS

Games for free. Latest releases.
Play online against other players.

America's Army (1gb.)
Wolfenstein Enemy Territory. (257.8mb)
GunZ The Duel International edition. (132mb)
(thanks to Maarten:)

Monday, November 14, 2005

Free Movies

Star Trek Parodie. Good special effects for a free movie (103 mins.)
The Danish Spacemen from out of space. Very funny (12 mins. subs.)
Botch. Short martial arts film. Pretty good (9 mins.)

Google H4XoR

Change the Google interface to Hacker or Elmer Fudd speak, or any other language.
Nice trick on other people's computer.

Change the settings here.

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

Three websites. Three categories:

The Good, the Bad and the (very) Ugly.

Leonardo da Vinci part 1

Some of the best links I have found on this subject so far:

Wikipedia on da Vinci,
The Complete Notebooks, vol. 1 and vol.2 (text only).
The Drawings of Leonardo. Great pictures.
Webmuseum Paris. Large pictures of da Vinci's paintings.
Leonardo da Vinci online. Overview.

Volvo Ocean Race

Race organisation official site.

Team Ericsson, ABN Amro, Movistar, Black Pearl Racing (tip!), Brasil 1 and as last team and poorest team: Sunergy and Friends.




The new VO70, a 70 Foot oceangoing sportscar.
The VO70 disected.

Wrong Lyrics

Some people haven't got a clue as to what they are actually singing.

Check your own lyric knowlegde.

Start singing

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Top Gear

Watch some BBC Top Gear episodes and items.

Google Video

Bugmenot

Great service. Just type in the url of the website for which registration is required. Bugmenot will give you back a selection of loginnames to use.

Paysites included. Click here

Doom II Flash

Doom II in flash. Needs Shockwave player to run.

Click to play.

Unexpected Database Applications

In addition to googeling your boy- or girlfriend our female companions now have a searchable cheatin men database to their exposal.

Manhaters

Snoop Doggy Dogg

The best album he made so far.

Doggystyle. All mp3's. (via.)

Tricks of the Mind

What you see isn't always what you get.

Meet Mr. Angry & Mrs. Calm.

Paul Pees Furthest

Microsofts far less well known co-founder
Paul Allen's mega super yacht Octopus.

See also here, and here, and here, and here.

Spooky Freemasons

Wikipedia on freemasonry.
A freemasons hospital.
Kiwi freemasons.
The Grande Logde of England.


Anti-freemasonry watch, also very spooky.

Secret Archives of the Vatican

Find out which books the catholic church doesn't want you to read.

Enter the library

Entire rotten.com directory about religion. Good read, and none of the other "funny business".

Sniping School

Flash game. More difficult than you think.

How far can you get?

Feeling like a genie

A view from inside a of a bottle.
Needs quicktime to run. Click for site.

The Niggar Family

David Chapelle, also on video.google.com

Very funny. Search for Chappelle to view other videos.

Celebrity Jeopardy

Wally

The worlds most beautiful boats and yachts.

Wally Yachts