Anything and Everything that is cool, hot, fresh and classic.
Insanely Great Tees wants you to make an iPhone ad, and for motivation, they’re rewarding the winner with an iPhone of their very own (and probably a little bit of Internet fame as well).
To enter, unleash your creative side and make a 30 second spot that is both funny, and includes the words “I’m an iPhone”. Other than that, the rest is up to you, though I’d suggest using puppets. Lots and lots of puppets.
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.
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.
[Via: Popgadget]
To promote their new Qashqai, Nissan has created a new extreme sport called the Qashqai Car Games. Looks like fun.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dangerously Fun is a web site dedicated to how-to guides for projects that could potentially hurt you. No pain, no gain, right?
[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.
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.
With a little subtraction, the number 6174 takes on some amazing properties. Read on to discover why.
Today is one of the Internet’s favorite holidays. Though I’m not going to try and trick any of the DYH readers (I promise), I am going to be covering the hoaxes and pranks that appear around the net. Here are some of the better ones:
Google announced Gmail Paper, a permanent archive service that prints your emails for free onto paper that is supported by giant ads that are printed on the back. It handles attachments, is good for the environment, and there is no limit on the number of times you can use it.
Google announced TiSP, a free in-home wireless broadband service that taps into your toilet. The service is supported by the use of “information gathered by discreet DNA sequencing of your personal bodily output to display online ads that are contextually relevant to your culinary preferences, current health status and likelihood of developing particular medical conditions going forward”.
Woot sold a $1,000,001 bag of crap. When users clicked on the picture of the bag, they were given a coupon code that knocked the cost down to $1.
Tech Crunch, a site that focuses on Web 2.0 startups, announced that it had acquired Fucked Company, a site that focuses on Web 2.0 shutdowns.
ThinkGeek announced “stuff for smart asses”, including a WiiHelm(et), an 8-bit tie, inhalable caffeine stix, and a lonely guy dream vacation digital photo frame. (They also announced that the iPhone was now shipping, but that’s just cruel.)
CollegeHumor made it look as if their domain had expired and was now for sale through GoDaddy.
Technorati switched around their letters and renamed their site haterTonic.
World Of Warcraft introduced a new item called the Tinfoil Hat. “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you”.
CrunchGear gave their entire site a 1999 redesign, complete with flashy gifs, a horrible background, and a no structure (though it still reminds me of a lot of current MySpace profile pages).
So somehow I got the days confused and managed to post a Things Thursday on a Wednesday, and completely ignore Website Wednesday in the process, so here’s my repentance:
Wikipedia is really looking to push the boundaries of decency with their latest project: Porn Stars. From the site:
I guess if you’re going to be the place to go for online information about anything and everything, you can’t just ignore the porn world. That would be like ignoring a substantial part of the history of the Internet. Surprisingly (or not surprsingly depending on how you view the ‘Pedia) the articles are actually pretty informative, giving a complete career history, filmography, appearances, and much more. Plus, you can finally get the “real or fake” question answered by more than just a “dude, totally”. It’s a dirty world, but somebody’s got to document it.
Last week I mentioned the FON free router giveaway, but this week I’m going to dive a little deeper into the service that is FON. FON is “the world’s largest WiFi community”. The service works like this: Members share their wireless Internet access at home, and in return, can get free WiFi access through any of the other Fonero Access Points.
There are two ways of sharing your Internet. Either you’re a Linus, and you share your WiFi in exchange for free WiFi from other users, or you’re a Bill, and you sell your WiFi by the day and split the profits with FON (you can also be an Alien and pay for the FON service, but who wants to do that?). The La Fonera router is a special kind of router that outputs two signals. One is a private signal that you can use just for yourself for a secure connection that you don’t have to share. The other is a public signal that other Fon users and Aliens can access. You can even personalize the page that other Foneros see when they log onto your FON Access Point, telling them a little about yourself, your local area, or just to say “hi” to other members. Since the service gets better and better as more people sign on and share their Internet, FON has been running a series of promotions lately to give away free Fonero routers to just about anyone who wants one. Their latest promotion is called Fonbucks, where “FON + Starbucks = cash for you”. It works like this: If you live above or near a Starbucks (or any café/coffee shop) they’ll send you a free router that you can use to steal some of Starbucks’ wireless revenue with. Users pay $2 per day (much less than the $10 that Starbucks charges for a single day), and you receive $1 of that in return. It’s a definite win-win, a hopefully a good way of spreading the “movimiento” (movement). If you’re interested in free WiFi, or making some cash off of sharing your own, then definitely check out FON, because the more users the better.
Bonus: I’ve got a free La Fonero router to give away to one lucky DYH reader. If you want it, just say so in the comments, and I’ll pick out one comment at random and send a router your way. It’s Fontastic.
[FON]
Today’s website is actually a website about websites. Got that? The FWA, or Favourite Website Awards, is a daily updated collection of the best of the web. Each day, a new Site Of The Day is chosen, each month, a new Site Of The Month is chosen, and each year, a new Site Of The Year is chosen (and so on I’d imagine if it survives that long). Each site features a brief description and a link, though that’s probably all you’ll need to begin your web surfing adventure. FWA also features interviews with the featured sites’ designers, which give great insight into the hearts and minds of the Internet’s creators. The sites are great and the topics are vast and varied, so be prepared to kill a few hours just looking around, but I promise it will be worth it. You’ve been warned.
Mark Erickson and his “Infinite Solutions” is trying to become the next viral video star with his YouTube documentation of the process required to sign up for the so secret even Google doesn’t know about it version of Google Television Beta. With everyone desperately hoping for some truth to the rumor (myself included), the video raced down the Internet’s tubes like a roaring river, prompting many people to try the elaborate steps required to get an invite (myself not included). In response to the numerous claims that the video was a fraud, Mark even posted a second video showing the mythical program once again, though once again hiding crucial details with creative editing choices.
Though I do think TV is heading to the Internet (See my 2007 predictions), this unfortunately isn’t it. Good try though Mark, I will give you credit where credit is due for your amazing editing skills.
[Via: TechCrunch]
[Via: Gizmodo]
I’ve reached an epic milestone in my journey to make DidntYouHear everything I want it to be today with the writing of this, my 1,000th post. I can’t believe it. I’ve done the impossible. One thousand little tidbits of information that I hope you found enjoyable, enlighting, or at least entertaining. Though DYH is still small, it’s growing by the day, and I only have the readers to thank. In just five months, DYH has gone from 0 readers to an average of 400 readers per day, Technorati ranks DYH as the 54,399th most linked to blog with 91 links from 63 other blogs, 60 people subscribe to the RSS feed, and Alexa says DYH is the 509,158th most visited site on the Internet. Though by blogosphere standards, these numbers aren’t exactly staggering, keep in mind that DYH has only been around for five months, and is still a relative baby in the eyes of the Internet.
Enough stats though, I’d like to use this post to thank the readers. Without you, DYH would be nothing. I hope that I’ve given back to you in some way, and that you’ve found information and opinions here that you would never have found anywhere else. In the future, I will continue to grow and improve DYH. Look for a design update as soon as I can get a grip on my WordPress coding skills, and more and better games, contests, and prizes as part of TGI Friday. Also, I’m looking to bring you more exclusive content that you won’t find anywhere else, so be on the lookout. It’s been a great journey so far, but it’s only just begun, so sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.
Sincerely,
Cory O’Brien
Stephen Colbert continues to clog the Internet’s tubes and the YouTubes with his witty antics. Here he is explaining the new Cingular AT&T deal. Whatever it’s called, I hope it hurries up with the iPhone, because I’m flacid with rage.
Information Architects put together a Web Trend Map for 2007 that shows “all the big players, the current Internet trends and how they’re connected”. Definitely a cool way to look at the web.
[Via: Information Architects]
