Beehive in a Jar
Bees making a hive in a glass jar. A time-lapse of this would have been awesome.
Sharper Google Earth Soon
A new high resolution satellite to be launched on Tuesday, will make Google Earth even sharper. WorldView I, the new satellite, will collect over 600, 000 sq km worth of data each day, compared to a current rate of one week. DigitalGlobe, the company behind this, has the largest commercial archive of satellite images, over 300 million sq km.
Layer Tennis
Layer Tennis, Coudal Partners’ twist on Photoshop tennis, starting September 28th. The first match will be between Shaun Inman and Kevin Cornell, and commentary by John Gruber.
Yawn! I feel it gets boring to see the same people over and over again.
Visualizing the holy books
Similar Diversity, a data visualization of the five holy texts of the world’s five prominent religions, based on text analysis. Looks cool, but since it’s based on translations of religions texts to English, probably not a very accurate representation.
Design Evolution
Evolution of logos of My Yahoo, Adobe Acrobat, and Apple since 1996
The Rissington Podcast: Pilot Episode
A new podcast from John Hicks and John Oxton, of Hicksdesign, where they will attempt to answer questions emailed to them, feature typefaces, jokes and geek/technology talks. In their own words they will be, “your expert panellists, agony aunts and general life-gurus”
Classic computer science puzzles
Even though coding horror feels that the only puzzle programmers need to solve is the customer’s problem, he makes a good point that some of the fundamental CS concepts can be summarized in puzzles and lists some of the classic CS puzzles.
Hidden bear in Toblerone logo
Like the arrow in FedEx logo, looks like Toblerone has a hidden bear in it’s logo.
Google to offer $30m for moon landing
Send a robot craft to the moon, take some pictures and other tasks successfully, to win $30m from Google’s prize pot. Take pictures of Apollo hardware and win more cash.
How to buy a car and not get screwed
Rob Gruhls presentation on how to buy a new car without getting screwed. My personal experience—have a lot of patience, and don’t sign anything till the end—both these tips and more are covered by Gruhl.
Father Of All Bombs
In response to the U.S. build MOAB (Mother Of All Bombs), Russia tests, a four times more powerful, world’s most powerful vacuum bomb. Here we go again, men and their “who has the biggest” syndrome!
iTunes Movie Rental
This fall Apple might launch a new iTunes 30-day movie rental service for $2.99.
The Greatest Prank Call
A telemarketer calls thinking it’s just another one of those calls they love to make, only this time he called the wrong number!
Styling File Inputs
JavaScript and CSS library from Shaun Inman for styling file upload input web form elements.
Bloxorz
Very addictive game where the aim is to get a box to fall through a square hole in the ground, while making using of switches, bridges, and teleportation to get around, all the while avoiding falling off the edge or through fragile bricks.
