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Look what The Internet hath brought us today...
25 Feb 2006

Ah ha! The FlickR Stereophotography Pool

Also this compendium of intriguing Shockwave thingies.

Both via Grow-a-brian, now in the cool and interesting roll.

24 Feb 2006

Falling Sand Game:

Small Original

Hellish Version

(Those sites are meant to be in Japanese.)

Large High Resolution Version

I could never get the LHRV one to work; perhaps you'll have better luck.

Quotidian Hell: bringing you the stuff Fark mentioned a month ago, just because we can!

23 Feb 2006

Hey, dja remember that Million Dollar Home Page guy? Just skimming through, I found bits of his weblog quite interesting, including the animated gif of the sale of the pixels, and the story of the hackers who crashed the site and made a ransom demand. I remain astounded that this scheme worked (the page not the hacking), and even more astounded that there are people who ripped off the idea and also managed to sell advertising space. It's a big internet, go figure.

22 Feb 2006

Have you visited the Sixties Project? Can't remember if I've already mentioned this site before, with its great collection of graphic art (posters, badges and comics) from the period.

21 Feb 2006

You are going to hate me for providing this link. Goddamn game almost drove me spare.

20 Feb 2006


19 Feb 2006


17 Feb 2006

World Press Photo of the Year Gallery

Not much good news here.

16 Feb 2006

Do you dare look through the Johari Window?
The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingram in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing yourself from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of overlap and difference can be built up.
Better off with the Calvin and Hobbes Searchable Database, perhaps.

12 Feb 2006

The Wingnut Debate Dictionary

Probably of no interest to anyone who doesn't spend too much of their rapidly dwindling allotted time on Earth reading snarky weblogs.

11 Feb 2006


8 Feb 2006

LensCulture
Lovely webzine about photography.

7 Feb 2006


6 Feb 2006

Apropos the caricatures of Mohamed* brouhaha, here's Artcrime, a site dedicated to the history of vandalism against artworks. Unfortunately the site appears moribund and neglects to mention my favourite case: the veiling and eventual decapitation of "Down by the Lake with Liz and Phil", an outdoor sculpture by Greg Taylor of a nude Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip sitting on a bench near Lake Burley-Griffin in Canberra. As a result of the initial press controversy, a retired Queensland cop was prompted to travel all the way to the national capital to attempt to cover their Majesties' nakedness with some T-shirts he'd brought with him. After scuffling with curatorial staff who had removed the garments, the old copper left, his point made, but later that night someone decapitated the statue of the Queen (because, of course, a statue of a naked monarch is significantly more offensive than a statue of a decapitated, naked monarch. Or maybe they were republicans**.) Art appreciation's a funny thing, innit?

Hmm, they also don't seem to have that loon who went after the Pieta with a chisel.

* if by caricatures of Mohamed, you mean deliberately offensive Islamic stereotypes cooked up as a publicity stunt by some bigoted hacks seeking to defame Muslim immigrants under the cover of Western "Enlightenment values".

** advocates of an Australian republic, not the American party of nutters and sociopaths.

5 Feb 2006

Pillow Fight Club
Rule 1. Tell everyone about Pillow Fight Club.
Rule 2. Tell everyone about Pillow Fight Club.
Rule 3. Turn up at the arranged Pillow Fight Club venue with pillow hidden in a bag.
Rule 4. At the exact given time pull out pillow and fight.
Rule 5. You cannot fight anyone without a pillow (unless they want it).
San Francisco pillow fight, Valentine's Day, apparently.

4 Feb 2006

For your reading pleasure:

The Dead Channel

2 Feb 2006


1 Feb 2006

The Pirate to English translator

Yarrh, it be doin' websites too.

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