This is a flash animation showing a woman begin drawn from the inside out, beginning with her skeleton.
http://www.pelourinho.com/movies/c003702/
Use the [x1][x2][x4][x8][x16] to speed up or slow down the drawing. You can also use the play/pause/stop buttons.
I think I saw this a few years ago. But I recently stumbled across it again:
http://www.sffej.net/fun/BillyConnelly.html
The volume on it is high, and it includes coarse language — so if you're at work turn the volume down or shut the door.
Turns out the Toyota Prius can supply 5-6 kW of power at 220 volts DC for as long as you've got gas in the tank. PriUPS.com is a guy who is working to figure out the details on how to get this power into his house for power outages. You might also be able to make money by feeding power back into the grid during times of peak demand, but that would depend on the price of gas and the price of power.
Carlton Draught (beer) has an ad, "It's A Big Ad":
A funny cross between a beer ad, and a Lord-of-the-Rings-style epic battle sequence.
(The ad runs as a Java applet. Yeah, it's annoying but it's worth it)
You too can join in the Santarchy fun…
Santarchy 2005
One unsuspecting city
Hundreds of Santas
Hours of fun
Never heard of Santarchy? You're in for a treat.
Saturday, December 10th, starting at 12 noon, hundreds of men and women dressed as Santa Claus will begin their annual day-long march through the city of Seattle. And all over the world Santas will be coming together this month to march on their own cities — from McMurdo, Antarctica to Auckland, New Zealand; Barcelona, Spain to Tokyo, Japan; Helsinki, Finland to Seattle, Washington. Think of it like swallows flying back to Capistrano, or the Monarch butterflies making their migration to Central America. Okay, maybe it's a little more like lemmings throwing themselves off cliffs — but it's still a LOT of fun!
But Why and How, you ask?
The Leaf Aptus 75 is a 38 megapixel (6726×5040) camera back. It's also captures in 16-bit color (compared to 8-bit color for most cameras). Since it's just a camera back, you have to bring you own medium-format camera to the party.
"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
– Bonnie Jean Wasmund
This is a cool picture:
(full size, 2800×2200, 1 MB)
This pattern is caused by winds blowing from right to left in this picutre. There is an island on the right side of the picture that is setting up the vortex. More details are available on the site that hosts this picture.
Scott Adams, author of the Dilbert cartoon strip, had this funny post in his blog:
I’d better reduce the font for this entry because it’s about the guy sitting next to me on the flight to Chicago.
Before takeoff, we both sat here tapping away on our Blackberries, sending last-minute messages. But where I interpreted the flight attendant’s instruction to turn off all electronics as just that, the high powered executive next to me had a different view. He interpreted it to mean hide your Blackberry when the Flight Attendant is looking. Otherwise, keep working all the way through takeoff.
On one hand, I’m almost totally certain that a Blackberry can’t bring down an airline. If it could, even in the most unlikely scenario, it surely would have happened a dozen times already. If you consider all of the flights in the world and all of the cell phones and Blackberries and laptops and PDAs that have traveled on them, it seems impossible that they could be a threat.
But still. There he was, tapping away, and maybe, just maybe killing me. I thought about doing something, like informing the flight attendant. But I need to rely on this passenger to move for me at some time during this flight so I can use the rest room. It could be a tense, uncomfortable flight if I get him angry. I had to weigh a 20% chance of not getting a timely wiz versus a .00000001% chance of a fireball-related death.
So I just sat there staring at the rule-breaker thumbing his little death machine while the pilot gunned the engines and headed skyward. Could this be the one time when a Blackberry causes a jet to plunge into the Rockies? How certain was I that this was safe? Can you ever be sure enough in these situations?
My only solace is that if this puppy goes down, the headlines will read “Plane Crashes. Dilbert Cartoonist is turned into Charcoal.†That’s called Top Billing, baby. Take that, rule breaker! I hope he’s not the new Chairman of the Fed or something. That would really suck.
Frustrated by the limited capacity of that 2GB iPod Nano you just bought? Got an extra 200 GB IDE drive lying around?
