Thursday, May 15, 2008

Monday, March 31, 2008

What I found Cool Mar. 14 - Mar. 31

Best Article of the Post - Spitting recorded cords into its individual notes.

MOVIES
Best Video of the Post - The incredible Big Dog. The spoof is incredible as well... incredibly funny.

Light that detects the color beneath it and then displays it.
Voiceless phone calls.
Awareness test.
Siftables.
Floating globe.
Laser guided robot.
News vans drag racing.
R/C plane that can hover.
Ball thrower for a dog.
Latte Art Printing Machine.
Prank call played on Bob and Tom.
Obama delivers one of the best speeches on race in our country that I have seen in my life.
Two videos about gravity and the highest parachute jump ever.
Cows with holes in their sides... Oh my gosh.
The "do-it-yourself" counter culture.
Rice terraces.
Now this is a real food fight.
Shooting cars with machine guns.
Dean Kamen's water machine.
Small house seems large.
Top 10 Jackie Chan stunts.
1930s documentary on peas.
Musical table.
Lego robot solving a rubik's cube.
The most functional drunk I have ever seen.
Cool but fake commercial for Fifa Street.
Old video guessing at the clothes of the future.
Plasma Speaker 1.
Plasma Speaker 2.
Keyboard hand.

Be Kind Rewind's competition.
Tron Sweded.
Star Wars Sweded.
Die Hard Sweded.




ARTICLES/PRODUCTS/PICTURES/Stuff
Rap songs represented in charts.
Flickr group of the same other funny charts.
10 emerging technologies.
Not raining cats and dogs, but snowing whales...
Portraits of gun owners in their homes.
Congressman who can program assembly.
Birth announcements styled as movie posters.
Camera in a pill.
Taste of snow.
They will never find us here.
High res Chicago at night.
Six word reviews of the 763 SXSW songs.
London officials are not happy about the London Tube card getting hacked.
Highlight text on a webpage and send it to a friend.
Article about a man who wrote a book on human traffiking.
Documentary on a new epidemic of materialism - Affluenza.
3D visualization of malware programs.
Movable floors over pools.
Giant Dog, Little Kitty.
ASCII art drapery.
Entire town in pixel art.
6 signs you aren't Irish on St. Patrick's day. Other lists from the same website.
Indiana Jones in an animated gif.
Top 10 profiteers from the Iraq war.
Pretty funny radio show.
"10 times more efficient microchip".
Dictator Cats.
People are still fighting with bows and arrows.
Animal size comparison.
Where people placed colors.
Photosynthesis works differently in some things than previously thought.
Hamburger dress.
Entangled photons could provided secure/instant communication.
Blog I read every so often.
Data stored in three dimensions. Not the first time though.
Microchip "fan" with no moving parts.
Some pretty cool design stuffs.
Smart phone microscope attachment.
New technology in vintage style advertisements.
Laptop sleeves.
Awesome photo of a tree.
The .NET framework is huge.
Fruit and Veggie sculptures.
National Geographic malaria photos.
Photoshop contest to make famous art into robot art.
Closeup views of ziplock seals.
3D camera.
Just about the worst picture ever.
Map of humanity.
INSPECTD - addicting investment, graph reading, fun.
Super conductivity at room temperature. Too bad that is has to be insanely compressed and graphite will take over anyways.
Balanced bookshelf.
Pentagon's mechanical insects.
DJ mixed all of the popular songs from 2007 together in an attempt to show how uniform it all has become.
How a lock stitch sewing machine works.
Multiple monitors does help productivity but to an extent.
Guy selling his whole life. Friends somehow included.
Blu-Ray encryption broken.
Artificial muscle.
Baby monkey learning.
Attempting to distract a free throw shooter.
Pictures from a disposable camera left tied to a park bench. E-mag that put the camera there.
Pretty cool design blog.
Software tech blog.
Tall residential building in Russia.
Peep wars.
Wearable airbag for motocycle riders.
Odd inspirations for Sci-Fi entities.
BYOB-W. Bring your own big wheel. This looks so fun.
An attempt to put lasers on a chip to pass around information..
Water spouts.
Angry BBQ hates winter.
Funny graph.
Simpsons use classic art in some scenes.
Food product comparison between advertised and actual.
Stunning photograph. WARNING: If you don't like to see dead people don't click.
Blood types of the population.
Interior design photos.
Anatomical street art.
5 in one outdoor tree house/tent.
Great article that demonstrates that we are all people.
Guy "walking" his goat.
Darvaza, the burning gate.
67 celebrities that are Scientologists.
Pillow fight day.
Watch all South Park episodes.
Build a mix tape for your friends.
Architecture firm that builds secret passage ways.
Maps of the world according to how much each newspaper talks about that country.
Fresh your 10th grade biology knowledge by placing the parts of a cell correctly.
Rubik's cube proof cut down to 25 moves.
Heavily used keyboard.



GAMES
Ruma Pipe.
World's Hardest Game.
Golf Game.
Shotgun spread shot based game.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

What I found Cool Feb. 20 - Mar. 13

Best Flickr album of the Post - Food and dolls


MOVIES
Best Video of the Post - Man plays insane songs on glass
Anti Gravity Treadmill.
Simpson panoramic.
Round abouts used as turn table.
Smart rubber.
Laser based camera can tell objects apart because of distance.
Prince Rupert drop.
Old RCA 1.
Old RCA 2.
Music with Windows sound effects.
Charlie bit me!
Mobile desktop.
Nissan Skyline GTR.
Alarm clock that would cause to to destroy it on the first morning.
Wind Turbine exploding in strong wind after the braking system fails.
First game for the Microsoft Surface.
Cheap way to protect an area with laser beams.
Prank application as a virus to place on a friend's computer.
Guy mods his Rock Band to take beat box throat input.
Traffic jams form because of people forcably going their own speed.
Original. Optimus.
Maglev Haptics.
4 babies laughing.
Air vortex cannon.
Waldo Ultimatum.
Comb over expert.
3D video.
Digital, physical clock.
Light that copies the color beneath it.



ARTICLES/PRODUCTS/PICTURES/Stuff
Pictures of a silkmoth throughout life.
An A4 size of paper cut out a little bit.
Dangerous hiking trail.
Pet bears.
Most dangerous airports to land in.
Web based image editing suite.
Design contest winner who "created" a weight powered light. Too bad it is completely bogus.
New technology involving superconductors could push electric cars to new limits.
Crazy realistic animated head.
Gesture controlled robot. The object recognition software seems to be the only important thing here.
MSDN action figures.
Milky Way is twice is wide as we thought.
Microsoft opening up binaries to the community.
Cool-running oscillators.
Stanford gives free tuition.... Why couldn't this have happened when I was going through school? I'm still pay off the loans.
10^122 is the number.
Really cool improv act in which people read their old journal entries when they were a child.
Great book shelf in a staircase.
Zo3 Concept.
Security features on a dollar bill.
Same website... more graphics.
Personalities of roads.
Sony sells portion of chip factory to Toshiba. Payment for dropping HD DVD so that the Blu-Ray player in PS3 will go further?
Some cool design things. I like "elastico" under the furniture section.
Recreations of Hitchcock films.
New idea for "falling prices". Interesting play off of people's motivation to get something that is limited before someone else.
100 Kirbys.
Believing can be seeing.
Twins not as close genetically as we thought.
14 greatest upcoming engineering challenges.
HD-DVD to Blu-Ray converting.
Block your face from surveillance cameras.
Commentary on what really happened.
Interesting little 2D physics game.Video. Make it web-based and then I will have a major distraction at work.
Weird science fair subjects.
Cooling down chips to bypass encryption protections.
Cell phone implant. Idea; but I'd rather not.
Movement map of 3 people and 1 cat over an hour.
List of one page websites.
Website to call your cell phone to be able to find it.
Projected building heights.
Geek Parenting. The video is funny because the kid doesn't find the expensive thing that the parents like even remotely interesting.
New group starting a project to build the worlds fastest computer, again.
New wireless chip that could change the way things are done in the appliances space.
Animated storm.
Breakup of Yugoslavia.
79 years of best picture.
I found this funny for some reason.
New interactive musical machine.
Neat idea to seem like you are walking in a pool.
"Invisible" people.
10 most unique insects.
Boy attempts to prove that goldfish have more than 3 seconds of memory.
Wood creations.
Hong Kong.
Social networks graphed around the world.
Fro-hat.
Evolution of video game characters.
Short term memory game that the monkey beats you at the majority of the time. Video of monkey beating you.
New faster compact flash.
Speaking of faster, better internet connections to Japan to come.
Musical paradoxes.
Stop smoking.
Google's captcha broken.
Earthquake wipes out etch-a-sketch artwork.
Grand Prismatic Spring.
Lights powered by magnetic field around power lines.
Salad alien.
Giant solar plant coming to Arizona.
3D room building tool.
20 little things that make being a parent easier.
Garfield cartoons minus Garfield.
Students holding a time traveler party in hopes that someone from the future will come visit because they have heard about the party.
DARPA building a modular expandable satellite system.
MIT going for fusion for "clean" energy.
Room ballpit.
World map in music.
Wal-Mart med centers?
All the water on earth in a sphere.
Really cool graph of movies and box office numbers.
Laser elevator.
Fail Dogs.
SPIDER!! Don't look if you don't like spiders.
Another map of the internet.
Credit card piggy bank idea.
Vista is cracked.
10 cool science videos. Kent's videos are great.
It would suck to die but it would also suck to live and die on paper.
Sterling engine on a processor.
Ray tracing on ultra mobile PCs.
Rising cost of solider armor.
Now Paris follows Craft Mag.
Etch-a-Sketch robot.
Pretty cool designs for new products.
10 curious pictures.
Balloon tank.
Wife's guide from 1955. Wow.
How to make roses out of maple leaves. I shouldn't post because I want to do this in the fall but I have no where else to store links.
Stylish blight.
Memory glasses.
Virus attacks and kills brain tumors?
Web tally on if people believe in God.
Staying religious, golden rule in multiple religions.
Cassette tie.
Gag gift from a guy to a guy.
Psychologist is coming close to beating mathematicians.
I'd never use these but for someone on a strict diet it could be good.
Ink through water.
Interstate maps simplified.
Try, Try again?
Political map as of 2005.
20 optical illusions.
Excel as a 3D rendering engine.
Difference between cost of liquids.
Original end of "I Am Legend". Warning: has spoliers.
Hangboard.
Up to date delegate counter.
Generate electricity every time you flush.
Hopefully White LEDs will become cheaper. As well as OLEDs.
Security camera can see objects through clothes.
7 universities offering free classes online.
33 Photoshop walk-throughs.
Who do you want to be today?
Improv musical at a foodcourt.
Star Wars painting from little Star Wars frames.
Easy to use dog collar.
Force feedback controller. Video o fit in action


GAMES
Grid 16. 16 minigames.
Kermix.
25 boxes. Find the numbers, letters, or symbols to test your vision and reaction.
Mad-Virus. Spread to all the blocks before you run out of turns.
Nanotube.
Follis

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

What I found Cool Feb. 2 - Feb. 19

Best Flickr album of the Post - Super Heroes and their alternative identities

MOVIES
Best Video of the Post - ALGORITHM MARCH!!!!

Father gets son to go to sleep by wearing a wig.
Possibly my favorite Superbowl Ad ever.
Best Superbowl Ad of 2008.
Second best Superbowl Ad from 2008.
How to grow a mustache.
Thriller dance on subway.
3D graffiti.
Frozen Grand Central Station.
Young Rodney Mullen doing flawless tricks at the drop of a hat.
Animated business card.
Dog doesn't realize that there is no glass in the door.
Victoria Falls Devil's Pool.
Big 6 gill shark.
Hang Drum.
'Smoke on the Water' in Japan.
Incredible Lens.
More versions of the algorithm march!
Slide stunts.
How to fold a shirt in Japan.
Janpanese people getting scared on TV.
Telsa Guitar Amp.
Cute hedgehog eating a carrot.
Pink Power Ranger dancing.
People actually playing quidditch.
Call center salesman going crazy.
How people from different regions count cash.




ARTICLES/PRODUCTS/PICTURES/Stuff
Life through the eyes of a solider.
A wicked awesome beat touch pad. I WANT.
Process to get faster speeds out of current flash memory.
Swarming algorithm used to improve photo quality in post processing.
12 or 13 people?
Butterflies.
Birdcage built from one 2x4.
Russian Fashion 1989.
Incarceration rates of countries. Russia is close. Well, kind of close.
Internet cables that run under sea.
Bacon Vodka?
Web2.0 company offices.
What happens when you blog. Server pings and such.
Mazda Furai.
360 image of A380 Airbus cockpit.
Swiss attempt to stop spread of HIV.
Skeletons of cartoon characters.
Photograph quality ball point pen drawings.
Supposed 'itch-free' PJs.
More about the perpetual motion machine.
Cool old valentine's day cards.
Police sketch of a robber with a helmet on.
Photoshop lighting trick used well.
Explanation of Photoshop work that is done in previous pictures.
More stolen images from Flickr.
Another 'How-to' website.
Ford Focus parts turned into an orchestra.
Great cooking blog.
Check for duplicate web pages.
Another public run news site.
A pill for autism?
Speed & Angels is a documentary about fighter pilots.
Create a ghost in a photo. The manual way.
What do you blame?
Evolutionary change compared with fossil layers.
Really funny picture taken by a hacker.
Recession around the nation.
Reflection of lightening.
Big lobster.
Giraffe and squirrel.
Vanity Fair photo shoots over the years.
Turning female bone marrow into sperm?
Water on a bug.
If internet ads said what they mean.
Well done flash website.
Stupid plot tricks.
Lego Nintendo games.
All of a room's furnishings in one box.
Fun ideas for kids to make animal's "super powers".
WWII posters.
Cool angled photo.
Pulp Fiction + Lego + Street Art.
Interesting new trend. Warning: strong language and new animation image at bottom with nudity.
$200 PC from scratch.
"Magic Tap".
Nintendo collage.
World's smallest body builder.
Pictures and Publishers are brought together.
How Americans spend their money.
Tattoos as a delivery form for medicine.
Oasis in a desert with a resort.
High quality limo. Well not really.
Venn and Euler.
Images of 200 calories of different foods.
High-res image of Paris at night.
Spoon made for food fights.
Lickable ads.
OLED blinds.
Interesting design studio.
Carbon capture system for hydrogen cars.
Friendly computer 'virus'.
Parrot Flower.
10 hybrid animals.
Ridable triceratops.
USB sheep light.
10 good and free audio applications to have installed.



GAMES
Sola Rola. Thanks Kara!
Very hard puzzle game.
Cannon game.
Bloxlorz.
Shift.

Friday, February 1, 2008

What I Found Cool Jan.16 - Feb. 1

Best Flickr album of the Post

MOVIES
Best Video of the Post - Microsoft 'Surface' Performed on a normal TV

The most uncomfortable workout ever. Almost the video of the day but I'm a nerd.
Wheelman.
Sounds of Jupiter.
Oscillating chemical colors.
Last week was the 'ball bearing sequencer'; this week it is bubble gum ball sequencer.
Engines are incredible. Make sure to listen to the whole video.
Robots dinosaurs in sync.
Watch all of Johhny Lee's Videos.
Apprently a new drug that I have never heard of.
Cloud.
Parrell parking.
Subwoofer effect on liquid.
Cop High on 911 call.
Rednecks + beer = dangerous jumps.
Giant robot elephant.
Candy painting.
Perfect parody video of the internet.

ARTICLES/PRODUCTS/STUFF


Really cool way to display 80 million images.

Stick Figures in Peril Flickr Pool.

Picture of a corner but make sure to check the comments.

Great photo series.

Leaf photo that looks almost too soft.

Pacman cupcakes.

Light writing/graffiti is not new but writing something bot getting any ghost is hard.

Mystical landscape image that is a part of three great sets.

IF I HAD A 'FLICKR POOL OF THE POST' THIS WOULD EASILY BE IT.

I really like this photo idea.

'Telepathic' is too strong a word but we are learning that the smallest pieces of life are quite good at adaptation and recognizing others.

World's weirdest creatures.

Find a dry side bench.

The new Slap Bracelet.

Fuel from CO2?

Insane story and video! Tiger attack.

A calender in time line form.

Travel forever and live rent free.

iPhone app key leaked.

Hamburger in a can...

Top 10 quotations from Stephen Hawking.

Building with much patio space.

I like toast.

Custom Super Mario levels.

Data visualization in many forms.

Speakers putting out a candle.

Find the price that other people bought things.

Do not put EcoDiscs into your Mac.

Tilt & Shift lens from Nikon.

Geek shirts for couple.

Crazy looking car. Almost like Batman.

Rail guns are here. Well at least in the navy.

TV Etch-a-Sketch.

One Quintillion Pennies.

Inside out stuffed animals.

New Solar Power.

Traffic Jam.

Funny and fun web application Hair Mixer.

Bubble Gum Blondes. Art with chewed bubblegum.

Post it note prank.

Contact lens with circuits.

Insane rubber band gun.

Interesting website with graphics about seemingly random things.

Unique or ugly?

Spy Fly.

Reverse memory loss. Maybe.

Couchsurfing.

Contents of the Bible displayed visually.

General locations of US church bodies.

I want these pillows.

Hilarious guide to babysitting [images].

Interesting occurrence where girl has taken on a donor's immune system.

Geek girlfriend dress. Charge my laptop!

Cool ads. Oxymoron, I know.

Rocking bed.

find the truth on that urban legend.

Some Higgs may be already measured just not found.

This is how flash should always be used.

Speaking of great flash applications... learn about your brain.

LOI (Laughing on the inside movement).

More evidence that nanotubes are awesome.

Darkest material ever created.

Hybrids. Not the cars, the species.

Lifespan extension by 800 years? Lobsters can do it.

Odd uses for ordinary objects.

This girl won creative contests this year but throwing herself at guys. Literally.

Lego Brick 50 year History.

Fiber Optic Lamp.

I like the idea of giving someone a gift that gives them a choice. Would you read the story or keep the bottle?

"Secret Museum".

Photo group for HDR photos only.

One company's warning labels.

Objects in asphalt.

DIY photography setups.

Miniskirts of 60s and 70s.

Fuel cell phone.


GAMES
Untangle.
Cubiz.
Paint Wars.
Planet Cruncher.
XNumber Puzzle.
3D logic.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

What I found Cool Jan. 6 - Jan. 15

Best Flickr album of the Post

MOVIES
Best Video of the Post - Ultra light planes

If you haven't seen the herd of ducks, there you go.
Some say this is a little too big but I like it. Too small makes me feel like a grown up playing with a child's toy and causes me guilt for not 'growing up'.
You suck at Photoshop #1.
You suck at Photoshop #2.
Simple color sorter using a Lego set.
Great camera for the adventurer.
Ball Bearing beat machine.
Beer bottle opened with a chainsaw.
Cow drinking own milk. The picture AND sound creeps me out.


ARTICLES/PRODUCTS/STUFF

So, I wanted to wait after CES and the macworld keynote to write this and neither produced much. Except for this prank and the firestorm that followed.

Well designed faucet of my future house.

Funny wedding cake topper.

Maybe I am blind but I have seen nothing but praise for companies that go open-source. But this is the first hardware I have seen go open-source. YouTube TV top browsing is already one application done by a '3rd party'.

Hopefully one day we will learn how to convert waste back into a more widely used energy source. The energy itself never ceases to exist, it just takes another form.

Filling in nature's gaps.

Any Futurama fan will appriciate the Bender Brewer.

Technology is art.

The issue with stunningly informative graphics is that they rarely site their sources.

This lawsuit won't actually work but just think if it did... no more Comcast.

48% of medicines prescribed are placebos. Anyone have a percentage of those given placebos that get better?

GPS and Bluetooth capable SD cards? MicroSD cars???.

LEDs are being put in everything, even glass. I wouldn't mind this in my kitchen if it is bright enough.

The following 'claim' seems unfounded but a new 007 game by Rare would complete my decade.

Neat idea wrapped in a good sales pitch.

Eletornic bubble wrap to pop.

Live action Simpsons opening.

Great gift idea for the teddy bear loving person.

Lighting that I like but not for that much money.

Small and very efficient solar engine.

Screw the $100 laptop, go for $75!.

Insane ride and capture.

You can't argue with George Contanza.

Perfectly done set of sculptures created with old weapons.

Open source 3D models of trees.

I'm not holding my breath to see a Peltier cooler shrunk down and put strategically on a chip but it would be cool.

Assuming rapport is a technique I have been using without realizing it for a while.

Mortal Combat for election season.

Sony seems to start format wars every day.

Flat Pack furniture.

Not sure if I previously linked the 8-bit tie but even if I did, it is worth the double link.

Comparison of GB per dollar for hardrives on NewEgg.

Find out how much juice that machine is really pulling.

Mac is the new Braun.

Saturday, January 5, 2008

What I found Cool Dec. 27 2007 - Jan. 5 2008

Best Flickr album of the Post I know it isn't flickr, but it was much too good to not et the best of the week.

MOVIES
Best Video of the Post

Ghost in a jar.
Baby hiccups.
What song is this?
Long multi threading talk for the nerds.
Zero G balloon pop.
Incredible bird.
Drag racer losing in a funny way.
Wall of apertures.
Plankton shown 500X size in an aquarium.


ARTICLES/PRODUCTS/STUFF

Largest diamond in the galaxy. That has been found so far...

Guy puts nearly everything in friend's apartment in tin foil..

Life of an orange.

paintings of optical illusions.

Why you would want to setup you computer to crash on a key command is past me. The ability to do it though is priceless.

How the meter has changed.

Fun game like every other 'Worms' copy cat.

Pretty good internet image editor.

A chuck of paint layers stacked onto of each other.

Yet another optical illusion. Added because of the person that is pictured.

One of the first taste tests of gum I have seen recently.

Wired's top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2007.

A few very weird Microsoft Windows easter eggs. Or bugs.

Exploding flowers prettier than static ones?

Funny sign and reason for the sign being there.

10 humanitarian needs that went or are still going with little press coverage.

Very funny picture. For me?

Evolution of Mario. And him with his power ups.

A blonde. Poor girl.

Pictures of the moon from earth.

Very detailed list of energy consumption.

Dark energy is again on the chopping block.

Metal, form, magnetic, memory.

Waterproof anything. Even your cell phone.

Cool. If they really happened that is.

Olso on New Years.

Cost of long life.

Vote of Times' 50 best websites of 2007.

Dogs look like their owners. Or owners look like their dogs?

I guess there are too many bunnies and they are trying to kill themselves off in crazy and imaginative ways.

Where the carbon goes.

Japanese are serious about solar.

25 skills to know.

A funny question to ask a friend to finish.

Smart and fun game for a quick play.

100 things the BBC didn't know last year.

Interesting idea. Anyone else see faces in print 68? Maybe I'm just crazy.

Good list of some links from 2007.

Hope you all had a 2007 full of fun and growth. Keep reading, I'm positive there will be a few things to link in 2008.