Attention TV Junkies/Children Of The 80’s
Your childhood beckons, in a convenient MP3 format. Just try to get those TV theme songs out of your heads now…
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Friday Video Dump
A hearty round of applause to the Internet[s], for all the free entertainment we derive therefrom. First up is an amazing Honda commercial from the UK, followed by a rather silly spoof of said commercial, executed in true Monty Python-/Benny…
WhatTheFont: A Very Useful Graphics Design Tool
I stumbled (courtesy of digg) across WhatTheFont today and thought it worth sharing. WhatTheFont is a tool that will take any image that you feed it and spit out the font used to create the image in the first place,…
Name That Pattern
What do “Smoky, Honey, Body, Sweetness, Medicinal, Tobacco, Spicy, Winey, Nutty, Malty, Fruity and Floral” have to do with each other? Are they newly-incorporated Disney dwarfs? Exotic dancers? Proposed hurricane names? Nope. They’re the newly-certified “12 tastes of whisky”, meaning…
Run For It, Marty!
“Image of the day”, indeed! Check out the humorous photographic evidence of a fire suppression test gone horribly awry at Ellsworth Air Force Base. Witness what happens when a scheduled 15 second burst of fire-retardant foam takes more than 20…
Sniglets: Words That Should Be In The Dictionary, But Aren’t
Now this is cool: sniglets is the overarching term that has been adopted for words that ought to be in the dictionary yet aren’t, such as: “Aqualibrium (ak wa lib’ re um) – n. The point where the stream of…
Visualize Your Google PageRank
This is pretty sweet. Visual PageRank View is a tool that crawls your site and visually displays the Google PageRank for each of the links on your site, giving you an idea of just how “popular” Google thinks each of…
A Tour Of The Enemy’s Camp
No, not The Screwtape Letters, but a hefty photo-laden tour of Microsoft’s Macintosh lab. Their setup is truly one to be envied.
True Stories From The Officeplace
I actually had occasion to use the word grognard in a work email the other day. I guess all those years of reading CGS Plus finally paid off. *grin*
Holy Real Life Gran Turismo, Batman!
It’s a wonder no one was killed. Apparently, a French filmmaker enlisted the help of an F1 driver in August 1978 to make an incredible film of a speed run through the streets of Paris in a Ferrarri 275 GTB.…
