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,…
Apologies for the lack of posting – my primary workstation up n’ died on me today. I’m limping along on my ‘Doze box for the moment, hopefully soon to requisition a new machine. To make up for the absence of…
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…
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…
I stumbled across a couple of nifty photo streams recently via digg and thought them worthy of sharing further. First up is an amazing set of pictures of a rainbow, taken from just about as close to one as I’ve…
Not much going on today, so why not amuse yourselves with a video of Rube Goldberg-esque machines from Japan. Nifty.
Credit goes out to Aron for ferreting this one out. He’s been on a bit of a Flickr kick recently and happened across a Flickr group that is seeking to photographically document the real-world locations described in Neal Stephenson’s Baroque…
Work continues apace, meaning that I’m extremely limited in the time that I can even think about blogging, let alone working up full posts. In lieu of some genuinely new and original content, I’d instead like to offer up links…
Those of you that aspire to “News Junkie” status have probably already discovered commmunity-driven news aggregation sites such as Digg and Fark. Well, another such site has been getting a lot of “virtual ink” recently and has been conducting a…
My conversational Spanish gauge is firmly set at “Empty”, so I’m just going to have to go ahead and guess that no naughty words were used in this compelling video of a fishing show host being repeatedly struck in the…
