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,…
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…
“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…
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…
No, not The Screwtape Letters, but a hefty photo-laden tour of Microsoft’s Macintosh lab. Their setup is truly one to be envied.
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*
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.…
A caller to Rush Limbaugh’s program today just identified himself as an “undocumented Border Patrol agent”, i.e. a part of the “Minuteman Project”. Heh. Linguistic turnabout’s fair play.
Those of you that have been following the development of Nintendo’s latest console, the “Revolution”, already know that it is slated to be able to emulate the NES, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64 and Gamecube, granting gamers access to 25 years…
