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Tag Archive for '2006'

…It’s Stockpile Saturday: Link Fest #2?

Last week’s Stockpile Saturday was a success, so this week, I’m bringing you 20 more links that I’ve been saving for some time now. Enjoy.

The Amateur Gourmet is a great food blog that does the occasional review in comic book style. It’s a refreshing look at alternative ways of displaying content.

[The Amateur Gourmet: Chutzpah, Truffles & Alain Ducasse]

[Via: How To Change The World]

OwnYourC is a beautiful flash driven site that was created by the Colorado Teen Anti-Smoking Initiative to force teens to make tough decisions.

[OwnYourC]

[Via: Josh Spear]

Pickleball is a sport that combines ping-pong, tennis and badminton, and uses a simplified combination of tennis rules and strategies.

[USA Pickleball Association]

[Wikipedia - Pickleball]

Locksport International has put together a Guide To Lock Picking that serves as the perfect primer for anyone that’s looking to get into the sport. It’s done in graphic novel form, and gives great step-by-step information about lock picking, re-pinning, making tools, and more.

[LSI - Guide To Lock Picking]

[Via: Popgadget]

To promote their new Qashqai, Nissan has created a new extreme sport called the Qashqai Car Games. Looks like fun.

[Qashqai Car Games]

Jeff Thomas loves Nixie tubes (glass tubes that are filled with gas and can display numerals or other information). Most people are content with clocks that feature the technology, but Jeff wanted a watch, so he designed his own. Sadly, he only made 20, and they’re already sold out, but hopefully another company picks up where Jeff left off.

[The Nixie Tube Wristwatch]

Nabaztag, the Wi-Fi rabbit from Violet, is an ambient device that connects to the Internet and can give you selected information.

[Nabaztag]

Extra Tasty is a site devoted to inebriation, thought the design is clearly attributed to the more sober, as drink recipes, drink possibilities, tips and tricks, and a soothing color scheme are all easy to access. Get your buzz on.

[Extra Tasty]

Su Blackwell cuts amazing sculptures right out of the pages of well-known books. Each design ties into the plot, and the results bring the story to life.

[Su Blackwell]

Toss ‘N’ Track is a Frisbee that can be tracked on the Internet. Each disc has a unique number printed on it, and after playing with it for a while, you simply toss it in the disc’s intended direction, and let someone else find it. They can then log the disc into the site, and you can see how far it travels.

[Toss 'N' Track]

Steve ‘The Grape Guy’ Spalding is currently The World’s Fastest Grape Catcher with his record 67 grapes in one minute from 15 feet. And you thought your talent was worthless.

[Steve The Grape Guy Spalding]

Reuters has an amazing video of the current world record for most dominoes toppled, 4,079,381, being set by an international team of 90 builders from 13 countries. I’ll bet they were glad no one sneezed.

[Reuters]

The Tooluxe shop puts you in control of some very promiscuous store clerks for a series of highly interactive advertisements with Matt and Angie.

[Virtual Tooluxe Shop]

My Monopoly lets you create your own unique and personalized Monopoly game. You can choose a theme, and then add your own names to all of your favorite places. Want to call Boardwalk ‘Your Mom’? Go ahead, the world is yours.

[My Monopoly]

Dangerously Fun is a web site dedicated to how-to guides for projects that could potentially hurt you. No pain, no gain, right?

[Dangerously Fun]

[Via: bookofjoe]

Evere wonder what words your bartender hates hearing? Thankfully, Jeffrey Morgenthaler, bartender extraordinaire, has created a list of the Eight Things You Should Never Say To Your Bartender. If you want to get served up right, make sure you follow the list.

[Jeffrey Morgenthaler - Eight Things You Should Never Say To Your Bartender]

9 to 5 Paintings record what you do on your computer during the day and turn it into art. The site gives examples of the final result, as well as a tutorial for setting up your own double mouse feature so that you can make 9 to 5s of your own.

[9 To 5 Paintings]

Internet Hitchhikers Scotty and Fiddy used the power of the Internet to hitch their way to 50 states (and their capitals) in 50 days. Impressive.

[Hitch50]

If you’re a blog writer, there’s no better place to go for advice than ProBlogger; which is why the list of ProBlogger’s best posts for 2006 is an indispensable resource for all online authors.

[ProBlogger - Best Of 2006]

With a little subtraction, the number 6174 takes on some amazing properties. Read on to discover why.

[Mysterious Number 6174]

Published

Cory O'Brien

on April 7, 2007

in Links

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…It’s Movie Monday: Three Legged Legs?

Three Legged Legs

Today’s Movie Monday features the work of Three Legged Legs. What is Three Legged Legs, you ask? Well, it’s “a hillbilly with stinky hobbit feet, an angry brown guy freaking out all the time, and a guy who likes wearing collared shirts under regular cotton t-shirts”.

The first film is a shorty but a goodie. Humans!, a 60 second global awareness PSA “sensationalizing the excessive, all-consuming nature of the human being”, shows the Earth’s “utter demise in a fun and sickening kind of way”.

The next “animated fable”, Samurai, was a collaboration between TLL and GE for their Imagination Theater campaign. “It’s a tale of a pint-sized samurai faced with a seemingly impossible challenge as proposed by a behemoth Emperor and his wicked minions. Can you spot all the ninjas?”.

Their next short, Los Angeles Lets Be Friends, “depicts friendly monsters overrunning Los Angeles to spread joy and beauty throughout an otherwise drab and monochromatic society. Despite the creatures’ best efforts, the public isn’t swayed”.

Finally, Ricochet, a short “featured primarily as a visual effects showcase”, that “puts the viewer in the middle of an all out battle between two disparate armies set in an apocalyptic near-future environment”. Be warned though, this one gets violent.

You Tube Awards

Bonus: If that didn’t satisfy your movie appetite for the day, be sure to check out YouTube’s 2006 Video Awards Winners. You’ve probably seen most of them already, but maybe you missed one or two, so it’s always good to go back.

[Three Legged Legs]

[YouTube - Video Awards]

Published

Cory O'Brien

on March 26, 2007

in Movies

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…It’s Movie Monday: Right Place?

Right Place, directed by Kosai Sekine, won the Best Short Film award at the 2006 Cannes. It’s a look at the life of a Japanese convenience store clerk and his OCDilemma.

[Via: Neatorama]

Published

Cory O'Brien

on February 19, 2007

in Movies

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…Diggers duplicate comments?

Digg is supposed to be a social bookmarking site where users can share their feelings about each site and let others know about their experiences. Kris Brower wanted to know, out of the 1,255,627 comments made in last year’s 30,000 most popular stories, what were the top 100 most popular comments made by Digg users? Due to Digg killing many of the sites it highlights, http://duggmirror.com made the top spot, followed not so closely by … and lol. Using the data, Kris also put together a Digg Cliché Comment Generator for those times when you just can’t quite figure ot what one liner you want to use. One interesting thing to note is that out of the top 100 comments, 83 were single words. Apparently the Digg user community likes its answers short and sweet. lol

[Top 100 Duplicate Digg Comments From 2006]

[Via: Digg]

Published

Cory O'Brien

on January 10, 2007

in News

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…Pluto got plutoed?

Pluto Replies

In what must have been a very difficult decision making process, the American Dialect Society has chosen Plutoed as the 2006 Word of the Year. Defined as “to demote or devalue someone or something, as happened to the former planet Pluto when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto no longer met its definition of a planet”, Plutoed makes sure that the last planet will stay in our hears and our vocabulary for a long time to come. Though I do like their choice, I think climate canary got Plutoed into second place.

[Photo Via: ThinkGeek.com]

[Via: CNN]

Published

Cory O'Brien

on January 9, 2007

in News

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…You need help getting things done?

If you’re looking to get things done in the new year, then check out 43 Folders’ recap of their most popular, most visited, most commented on, and personal favorite posts about David Allen’s GTD from 2006. From getting started with GTD, to hacking GTD, to doing a “mind-sweep”, this list will have you getting more things done than ever before. Just remember to breathe every once in a while.

[43 Folders - Getting Things Done: Recap For '07]

Published

Cory O'Brien

on January 5, 2007

in Information

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…LifeHack put together their best from 2006?

DYH’s Life Hack #1: Instead of taking the time to find your own stuff, just wait for the best of list to come out so you can get right to the good stuff. LifeHack has hacked their own hacks by putting together a list of their 50 best from 2006, and it’s a must read if you’re looking to increase your productivity and improve your life.

[LifeHack]

Published

Cory O'Brien

on December 31, 2006

in Hacks

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…Fimoculous knows the future?

Want to know what MySpace, Apple, Google, Celebutantes, and lonelygirl15 will be up to in 2007? While Fimoculous might not know any better than you do, their 30 Predictions for 2007 in Media/Tech/Pop does a great job of poking some fun at 30 of the most talked about topics of 2006. It’s predictastic.

[Fimoculous - 30 Predictions for 2007 in Media/Tech/Pop]

[Via: Fast Company]

Published

Cory O'Brien

on December 28, 2006

in News

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…Blogs love recapping?

The end of 2006 means it’s time to go back in time and recap the most popular posts in the blogging world from the past year, which also means it’s a good time to catch up on some great content that you might have missed. The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Gizmodo took the time out to link together some of their best, and they’ve definitely got some must reads, so if you haven’t already, go check them out.

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]

[Gizmodo]

Published

Cory O'Brien

on December 23, 2006

in Information

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…2007 is hard to predict?

As 2006 draws to a close, and 2007 draws near, DYH is going to make the first in a series of annual predictions for the upcoming year. What’s going to be hot, and what’s not? Here’s what I think:

Television is going online. More and more shows are going to be available on demand, streamed directly and instantly into your computer. There’s a reason Google paid more than enough for YouTube, and I think it’s because they plan on using the service to distribute full-length television shows. Instead of ads being a part of the show, users will be able to watch their show uninterrupted, and advertisers will make money through AdSense or a similar service. With the growing popularity of DVR services and place shifting technology (ala Slingbox), it’s pretty obvious that people want to watch their programming when they want, where they want, and without commercials, so it’s up to companies to figure out how to advertise differently. Put it online, add a little viral marketing, make it free, easy and customizable, and you’ve got yourself a winner.
Do it all phones will be the must have gadget. With the Moto Q, Palm, HTC and many more developing phones that are as much computer as they are communicator, the phone that does much more than just talk and photograph is going to rapidly gain in popularity.
Apple is going mainstream. With Intel finally on board, and Apple able to run Windows programs, it’s time for a change. Plus, Vista is looking more and more like a disappointment. Thus, it’s going to be the year of the fruit.
Web 2.0 is going to be ubiquitous. As everything goes social, interactive, user based and community oriented, even Time has acknowledged that people run the Internet now. The Internet is going to become a place where people share their ideas and their opinions, and information is going to be spread to more people in more places than ever before.

So there you have it. Some may be right, most will probably be wrong, but I’ve given it a shot. What do you think? Totally off base or spot on? In a year, it’ll be time to look back and look forward again, but until then, I can’t wait to see what the world brings.

[ProBlogger]

Published

Cory O'Brien

on December 21, 2006

in Fun

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