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If you’re doing any kind of ‘for print’ creative work, it’s important to calibrate your monitor so that what you see on screen is what you see on paper.
Calibrize is a new freeware app that’s designed to help you “calibrate the colors of your monitor in three simple steps. Just download the software and follow the procedure to generate a reliable color ‘profile’ and adjust the colors of your monitor automatically.”
Are you ready to Calibrize?
[Via: The Red Ferret Journal]
Chat Noir is a deceptively simple game.
To win, you must keep the cat from escaping by clicking on dots until it’s surrounded. Each time you click, the cat can move one space.
Can you keep this kitty contained?
How do fake fire extinguishers help prevent forest fires?
Simple: The medium is the message.
By installing these wooden fire extinguishers in the Table Mountain National Park, Animal Farm hopes to show that “it is almost impossible to stop a wild fire once it has started”. Thus, “using a real fire extinguisher on one would be as effective as using the wooden one” and “the only way to stop the fires is to prevent them”.
In addition to being a powerful message, the extinguishers were also carved by The Carpenters Shop, a “Non Governmental Organization set up to teach woodwork skills to the homeless and unemployed”; meaning this is an all-around feel good project.
Simple and subtle, yet powerful.
I love it!
[Via: Creative Review]
Desert Rally is a wonderfully addicting game.
The music is terrible, the controls are simple, and the start is easy, but as it gets progressively harder and harder, you’ll find that it’s progressively harder and harder to pull away.
Think you can beat your high score?
Continue reading ‘…Desert Rally is addictingly fun?’
The Synchronicity Project is a simple yet beautiful idea to “Share the Time and Environment. Photos and Reports of the Globe at Glance.”
Created by Jun Tsuzuki, it’s supported by participants who find the project interesting, and is free to join if you fit that single criteria.
To participate, simply take a picture of where you are at and what you are up to, regardless of what that is, at a designated time.
The designated time is chosen by Jun, and has either a neat and euphonious look (Examp: 11:11:11 on 11/11) or a time during which a historical event took place (Examp: 9/11)
The designated time is also based on the GMT, so your specific time might not match up with the perfect time, but that’s actually the point. It’s supposed to be a portrait of the world at a single point in time, though not necessarily the “perfect” point in time.
If the project interests you, and you’d like to participate, then you’d better find a camera quick, because the next time is January 1st at 00:00:00 GMT (December 31st at 04:00:00PM on the West Coast, and 07:00:00PM on the East Coast if you’re in the US).
What will you be doing?
[Via: Cool Hunting]
This weekend, grab a toothbrush, a battery, and a pager motor, and make yourself a BristleBot.
It’s simple, it’s fun, and it works, so what are you waiting for?
Ever wonder why some coins have ridges, while others do not?
The answer is surprisingly simple:
When coins where made of gold or silver, the value of the coin was based on the value of the metal in it. Thus, a $10 gold coin had $10 worth of gold in it.
Before ridges, thieves would file off the edges of the coins and make a slow but steady profit from passing on the slightly smaller coins, while collecting the rest.
To prevent this practice, the government began minting ridges into the edges of coins so that you can easily tell if a coin has been tampered with.
Though coins are no longer made of gold or silver, they still have ridges, because we’re accustomed to seeing them that way.
Now you know.
[Via: Big Site Of Amazing Facts]
[Photo Via: Clearly Ambiguous]
Sometimes, the simplest games are the most fun.
Off The Rails uses only five buttons, but the great graphics and simplistic gameplay will have you pumping your way through level after level.
Just remember to stay on the rails every once in a while.
TV-B-Gone is a small electrical device that turns off any TV with the push of a button from up to 100 feet away.
Now, with an open source hardware kit from Adafruit and a bit of soldering skill, you can make your own TV-B-Gone.
The kit comes with everything but the tools and the batteries, and is supposedly a “very simple kit and great for people who have never soldered anything before.”
[Via: MAKE: Blog]
