The most useless machine

If you want to build one:
http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Most-Useless-Machine/

Found at:
http://d.yimg.com/gg/u/...

A board game for kids that teaches programming

Discover fundamentals of computer programming by playing a board game! c-jump helps children to learn basics of programming languages, such as C, C++ and Java.

Link:
http://c-jump.com/

2009 Darwin Award winners revealed

And the Winner is:

(31 July 2009, South Carolina) Two disguised men entered a Sprint store on Sparkleberry Lane, pulled out guns, and stole wallets, purses, and credit cards from employees before ordering them into a bathroom. Both men fled, but they could not flee from their own stupidity. 23-year-old James T. had disguised himself by painting his face gold.

Yes, in order to conceal his identity during the robbery, James had covered his skin with spray paint. If this isn't a Darwin Award, what is? Paints are clearly labelled, do not get on skin, do not get in eyes, do not inhale. Paint fumes are well-known to be toxic, and the metallic colors are particularly noxious. James began having trouble breathing (surprise!) and died wheezing shortly after the robbery took place.

To add insult to injury, the disguise was ineffective. Witnesses were certain as to the identity of their assailant. Had he lived, James, like his surviving accomplice, would have been charged with armed robbery.

Link:
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2009.html

Would you pay $17,500 for a video game?

$17,500 for a video game is just plain crazy.

Link:
http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/...

World's largest photo - 26,031,250,000 Pixels

It took 172 minutes on a rooftop to shoot 1655 overlapping 21.6 megapixel images and 94 hours to stitch them together. The result is not only a gorgeous 26 gigapixel view of Dresden, Germany, but also the world's biggest photo.

Link:
http://gizmodo.com/5429290/

Where the image resides:
http://www.dresden-26-gigapixels.com/dresden26GP

Facebook Lense Flare

Place your cursor in any comment of profile update box and type the following key sequence:

up up down down left right left right b a enter

Enter the keys listed above, in the sequence above, with no spaces and you'll see the lense flare effect when you mouse click or type a key anywhere in Facebook.

Veign on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Columbia-SC/Veign/5980723881

Guy Makes Awesome Tunes Using only Windows Sounds

Someone has too much time on their hands. The result is pretty amazing considering he just used only Windows sounds from XP and 98.

Link:
http://www.spike.com/video/guy-makes-awesome/3290850

What's Inside a Cup of Coffee?

water + bug killer + cockroach alarm pheromones + starter chemical for Tamiflu + acid + some other very weird stuff

Enjoy your next cup, I will.

Link:
http://www.wired.com/science/...

Discover new places with Plarker

Plarker™ is a way discover new places to visit. You add places to your map. Your friends add places to theirs. Then share your maps. The places on your map and your friends map are overlayed onto a single map.

This is a personal project of mine that I am excited to release.

Link:
http://plarker.com

100 worst movies of the last 10 years

Anything on the list that you liked?

Link:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/worst_of_the_worst/1/

video: Federer’s Amazing Shot

Fold a World-Record-Setting Paper Airplane

Found at:
http://lifehacker.com/5351386/...

video: Ninja's, need I say more

How big is the internet?

Microsoft's Bing team puts the amount of web pages at "over 1 trillion". And Google has already indexed more than one trillion discreet web addresses.

Link:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/...

25 Elegant Workstations for Your Inspiration

Whether you work on a Mac, a PC, or both - the way your workstation is set up reveals a lot about your sense of style and work attitude. Have a comfortable place where you can do your work can lead to increased creativity and productivity. This collection presents some excellent examples of elegant, beautiful, cozy, and well-designed workspaces so that you might get some ideas and inspiration from them.

Link:
http://sixrevisions.com/...

Flight Aware live flight tracking.

FlightAware was the first company to offer free flight tracking services for both private and commercial air traffic in the United States. FlightAware offers live flight data, airport information, weather maps and charts, as well as aviation news to nearly two million users a month. FlightAware also powers operational management and dispatch software, airport FIDS (flight information displays), and provides reporting data to aircraft and airport operators.

Link:
http://flightaware.com

Also, check out Flight View:
http://www.flightview.com/

Easy online image cropping application at Quick Thumbnail

I recently expanded the functionality of Quick Thumbnail to include a Quick Image Cropping tool. This tool lets you crop an image by uploading a file or by entering a URL to the image file. Once uploaded, Quick Cropping allows you to select the cropped area and each time you press the Crop button a new output is generated. No need to reload the image, simply adjust the selection area and press crop again.

Active Cropping Window:

Cropped Results:

Link:
http://quickthumbnail.com/crop/

In time for summer, make your own BBQ sauce

There are several types of BBQ sauce. Most traditional BBQ sauces either use tomato sauce, mustard, or vinegar as a base, and they come in all thicknesses. For instance, North Carolina barbecue sauce is thin and runny, while Kansas City barbecue sauces are thick and sticky.

There are also variations of sauces known as mopping sauces, which is regularly slopped all over the meat while it is cooking. Finishing sauce is used as a condiment when eating barbecue and is not used during the cooking process.

Link:
http://www.bbqrecipesecrets.com/bbqsauce.html

Help a homeless robot

This is funny:
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/...

Knock Knock?

Watch the knock-knock joke from Dwight to Michael:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/62193/...

Help astronomers explore the Universe at Galaxy Zoo

The Galaxy Zoo files contain almost a quarter of a million galaxies which have been imaged with a camera attached to a robotic telescope (the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, no less). In order to understand how these galaxies — and our own — formed, we need your help to classify them according to their shapes — a task at which your brain is better than even the fastest computer.

More than 150,000 people have taken part in Galaxy Zoo so far, producing a wealth of valuable data and sending telescopes on Earth and in space chasing after their discoveries. Zoo 2 focuses on the nearest, brightest and most beautiful galaxies, so to begin exploring the Universe, click the ‘How To Take Part’ link above, or read ‘The Story So Far’ to find out what Galaxy Zoo has achieved to date.

Link:
https://www.galaxyzoo.org/

Rubik's Touchcube

There's something about the feel of a Rubik's cube that just can't be replaced with a touch version. Don't see this going anywhere except filed under 'that's cool but useless'.

Cube craft is something very weird

Cubeecraft papercraft toys are FREE to download.

Each toy features interlocking tabs for construction - eliminating the need for tape, glue or other messy adhesives. To download click on the model you would like then save the template image.

Each toy is designed to be printed on a standard piece of 8 1/2 X 11 A4 letter paper.

Link:
http://cubeecraft.com/

Find people by searching the deep-web

Pipl's query-engine helps you find deep web pages that cannot be found on regular search engines.

Not too bad. Did a few searches and the results were fairly broad and it returned alot of accurate information. The results were better than what you can get from Google - at least in the same time frame.

Link:

How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You

See, its not just me. Oh, and take a look at the kitty in the websites source code.

Link:
http://www.catswhothrowupgrass.com/kill.php

Are you Smart or Stoopid?

Take the test and see. You only have 8 seconds per question so its fast. Don't cheat and post the score you got the first time through

I scored a 27

Link:
http://www.flashbynight.com/test/

Making Coca Cola

Using food-grade essential oils, assemble 3.75ml orange oil; 3ml lime oil; 1ml lemon oil; 1 ml cassia oil (nb. reduce cassia content for next production); 0.75ml nutmeg oil; 0.25ml coriander oil (6 drops); 0.25ml lavender oil (6 drops); 0.25ml neroli oil (optional/removed due to high cost).

Using a measuring syringe...

Link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle...

Doh

Homer, as a real person. Scary...

Link:
http://bp2.blogger.com/...

Amazing origami

Link:
http://www.langorigami.com/art/artmain/artmain.php4

Online floorplan design application

Floorplanner is the easiest, quickest, and best looking way to create and share interactive floorplans. Using point-and-click, drag-and-drop tools, you can make your floor plan in minutes, and rearrange it as often as you want. Then you can save, send, and print your designs to share them, or place them on your own website.

Interesting. Not only can you create a floorplan but you can add and rearrange furniture. What a cool way to plan a room.

Link:
http://www.floorplanner.com/

(as found on DonationCoder)

Yet another online radio station database with iHeard

iHeard is another organized database of online radio stations. Well organized and very ease to use makes iHeard something worth checking out.

We [iHeard] do not host or stream radio stations, we capture and store rich meta data about each station and connect listeners with stations around the world.

Link:
http://www.iheard.com/

How To Beat Carnival Games

Either beat the games or save your money and buy the 'prize' yourself.

Link:
http://www.blifaloo.com/info/beat-carnival-games.php?showall=true

10.855 seconds

The Worlds Most Addicting Game

Revised: New high score for me 20.99

What is your average reaction time?

Test your reaction time:
http://kylan.newgrabs.com/reaction.swf

My best average was: 0.219

Another time wasting (addictive) Flash game

Card Tossing Game

Try and beat 111,594