Silhouette Oracle

Silhouette Oracle is a website that was written by a colleague of mine. It's very basic but effective, as people surprisingly seem to base their lives on it.

You can pick between Yes/No, Tarot, Runes and I ching and ask any question. You will then get an answer back.

http://www.silhouetteoracles.com/

Whether the answer is the right one or the wrong one, that is up to you to decide.

Do you believe in oracles?

M

Cookie Clicker

I would like to introduce you to Cookie Clicker. This game has single handed brought down the productivity of companies all around the world. It is an OCD nightmare. It starts off small, but before you know, you've lost hours, days or even weeks.

http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

The point of the game is to click cookies. You can buy "add-ons", like grand mothers to help you produce cookies without clicking cookies yourself. The more you buy, the more expensive the items get. You reach a point where cookies and Grandmother run the world. It all sounds mundane, but believe me, it is hard to stop clicking, not to try and get all of the achievements. If you are an achievement addict, this is the game that will ruin your life.

Many websites and applications have been dedicated to Cookie Clicker. One application used is http://sourceforge.net/projects/hf-auto-clicker/, that clicks on your behalf. And the popular cheating website http://cookieclicker.wikia.com/wiki/Cheating.

Enjoy!
M

Stormtroopers 365

This is Stefan Le Du's  Stormtroopers 365, which was a play on the popular picture-a-day projects that usually involve photographers taking a self-portrait or other autobiographical picture each day for one year, like everyday Noah Kalina.

Stefan didn't take a picture of himself or his activities. Instead he created scenes with toy storm troopers and photographed their adventures.

The pictures include mocking titanic, playing games, getting caught in sticky situations, gathering food and even attending Darth Vader's baby class. To see the rest just check out his flickr page.

Do you like this as much as I do?

M

Youtube gets a Vuvuzela button

In honor of the Soccer World Cup YouTube decided to grace us with a dedicated Vuvuzela button! Oh yay...?

The football-shaped button sits in the lower right corner, and does precisely what you feared: it produces the dreadful vuvuzela sound.

I know a few soccer hooligans who would think this is great. I'm not too sure how I feel. What do you think?

M

May is Zombie Awareness Month

May is Zombie Awareness Month!

This is one of the great innitiatives of the Zombie Research Society. 

ZRS Members represent diverse backgrounds, interests, and theories, but are unified in their support of the Society's three foundational principles:
1) A zombie is a biologically definable, animated being occupying a human corpse.

2) The zombie pandemic is coming.  It's not a matter of if, but a matter of when.

3) Enthusiastic debate about zombies is essential to the survival of the human race.

This is a serious cause.  Supporters of Zombie Awareness Month wear a gray ribbon to signify the undead shadows that lurk behind our modern light of day.  From May 1 through May 31, concerned citizens take this small step to acknowledge the coming danger.

Order your Zombie Awareness Month gray ribbon button HERE!

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The million dollar home page

The Million Dollar home page is, well, exactly what it says.  This guy, Alex Tew, sold his home page at $1 per pixel and managed to make a million dollars.  With all of the pixels sold out, the home page is a rainbow of ads, ranging from you tube to yellow pages and a lot of sites I have never hear of.  It is quite entertaining to spot all of the mini ad icons hidden between the mesh of colour.

This was a brilliant idea. I wonder if he is going to make a million dollar about page too?

M

Nuke your home town

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a nuclear bomb goes off in your city? Would you survive and what would the impact radius be?

With Google's Maps framework and a bit of Javascript, you can see the outcome. Apparently I'm dead either way. Apparently most accidents happen within a 100km from your home...that is why I move a lot. :-P




Search Usage

Just enter the address of that boss, teacher, colleague or "loved" one.
If you can find it in Google Maps, you can nuke it.

* West 42 St, Manhattan, NY
* 48 Martin Place, Sydney
* Mount Everest



The list of weapons contains bombs of historical significance

* France: has a similar to "B61", also deployed by jet fighter.
* India, Pakistan: equivalent to "Fat Man". Probably larger.
* Iran, Syria: deny having a bomb. Yet. Smaller than "Little Boy".
* Israel: denies having a bomb. Ever. As big as "Joe-4".
* North Korea: go to Ground Zero II to see it
* South Africa: had "Little Boy", but renounced nuclear weapons.

Memory Test

How Good Is Your Memory?

This test will determine if you're getting enough sleep or if your mind has really lost it! The test consists of three parts:

You'll be shown 12 photos in the first part, You'll be shown another 12 photos in the second part, You'll be shown 48 photos in the third part and asked if you saw them in the first part, the second part - or never saw them at all.

When you have finished the third part, your results will be given to you.

Click Here to begin.

The Oatmeal - Tips for the weird

Have you ever wondered about topics like "The miserable truth about Santa Clause", "Why it is better to pretend you don't know anything about computers" or "8ways to prepare your pets for war"? These are important facts and matters of life which are kept in the dark!

The oatmeal is a site that discusses all of these and more. It has changed my life and put things back into perspective.

Here are a few more of my favourite topics.










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TypeNow - Nice Font Downloads

If you are into designs or you just like to be different and you want to type all of you documents in the airwolf or ghostbusters font, now you can. TypeNow is a cool website where you can download a big range of weird fonts.

Here are a few examples











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The Trailer Mash

The trailer Mash is a website totally devoted to collecting re-cut trailers and trailer mash-ups. Very very funny! We watched the horror version of the Mrs. Doubtfire, Ferris Bueller's Day off, lion king and many more. Had quite a laugh. The romantic comedy versions of the shining and Halloween was also funny.

M

Messquoted

Our network at work is down today, so bored as I am, my friend Juan was so kind as to send me this link. Messquoted

It is on the entertaining side of the Internet. Some of the clever quotes that I've found are:

• Give a man a match and he'll be warm for a minute; set him on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

• Who's General Failure & why is he reading my disk?

• What do you call a psychic midget that escaped from prison? A small medium at large.

• Tornado rips through cemetery, hundreds dead.

• Faith may move mountains but it was the whip that built the pyramids.

• Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

• coffee just isn't my cup of tea

• Studies have shown that 1 in every 49.5 people is an amputee.

• 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a carton. Coincidence? I think not!

• If a schizophrenic person threatens to commit suicide is it a hostage situation?

M

Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a musical tragicomedy series of you tube videos. It tells the story of Dr. Horrible, an aspiring evil genius, trying to get into the league of supervillians; Captain Hammer, his nemesis; and Penny, their mutual love interest.

The lead roll is done by Neil Patrick Harris, better known for his roll as Barney in HIMYM.

This short film has won tons of awards. My general opinion is that I hate musicals, but I watched all of these episodes and I was surprisingly amused. Bad ending though, but catchy tunes, good humour and a good script in general.

I added the trailer, but you can catch all of the videos on you tube. I checked the official website, but apparently the embedded video uses hulu, which can only be streamed within the USA. Lame!

Google Dashboard: What information is stored?

Google has millions of servers world wide storing nothing but information. You as an individual have an internet trace, a few bread crumbs of information you leave behind every time you search and access information. Not to jump to any conspiracy theories but in a world of information and related information technologies, the one with the most information is also the one with the most power, and Google has petabytes worth of it :)

Well if you ever wondered what information they store about you, go manage your account and click on the dashboard setting. It will give you a summary of information that is stored and acquired for you.

Have a go at managing your account here :)

https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount

Xobni - Outlook plug-in for managing mails

Xobni is an outlook plug-in that saves you time in searching for conversations, attachments, contact information and emails. Even though outlook has searching capability, Xobni makes it that much easier. You don't even have to change screens and it is very quick.

Xobni also shows you the statistics of your outlook contacts. Like what time of day they send you mails, who replies the quickest, who mails you more frequently and how many mails have been sent from and to that contact.

You can use Xobni to fine out to which social networks your contacts belong to, like facebook, twitter, linked in etc. It shows you which contacts are in the same network, by grouping them.

These are just a few of the function that Xobni has. I like this tool, it saves me a lot of time, making management of my mail a lot easier. When I'm tired of seeing it, I just minimize it into the sidebar.

Try it out. Download it here


M

Return My Pants - Tracking your stuff

ReturnMyPants is a free service that tracks things that you lend out to others and that you borrow from others. This is quite handy, because I'm one of those people who doesn't know where on earth my stuff are. I've found my belongings in my friends rooms years later and I also have random stuff that I don't know who to give back to.

This might be the solution to a few things. Now just to remember to make a note of the things I lend out. :-P
M

icloud – 3gig free online cloud computer

Having an icloud account is like having an online virtual PC that opens in your web browser.  Just imagine the convenience.  If you don’t have a ftp site, no worry.  You can just upload to your icloud and share the files to whom ever, where ever they are.  If you don’t have a flash drive and you need to save a file and use it somewhere else, no problem.  You get 3gb for free and if you pay you can get up to 80gb. 

icloud looks and works like a normal desktop.  You have your own background, folders, IMs and mail application. 

There are a few cons to icloud.  It might start using up cap if you start using it actively, which might be a problem for South African users that don’t have uncapped internet. Secondly it uses up a bit of memory to render.  And lastly it only runs in Firefox and IE. 

Check out the tutorial video to get a better idea.

Check out their homepage

 

M

Windows Live Writer – Offline posting

Windows Live Writer is a windows tool that you can use to post on your blog.  The layout of the tool is, to my opinion, better than the one blogger uses, but mostly because it resembles the office look and feel. It captures the layout of your blog and then uses it for preview purposes.  The best feature for me is the ability to write posts offline and then save them as drafts.

You have a lot more options when it comes to inserting objects like pictures, tables, maps(you can add maps!?), hyperlinks, videos etc. For example, on the pictures you can now watermark, tilt, make it sepia and add borders like rounded corners, photo paper, drop shadow and even reflections. 

If this is not enough you can always add a plug-in or five.  Check what we’ve done with the “Polaroid Picture” plug-in.  Pretty awesome stuff. 

 

If you are one of those crazy people that has more then one blog, it’s fine.  You can add them all, even your windows live space and SharePoint blogs. 

This is just to mention a few of the things I like about this tool, and I haven’t even started to push it’s boundaries.  I would strongly suggest this app to any blogger.  It feels like Christmas! :-)

Download Windows Live Writer here. 

M

EveryStockPhoto

Everystockphoto searches free stock photos from many different online sources, including Flickr, stock.xchng, morgueFile and FreeRange. When you search for a term, Everystockphoto returns the results in a series of easy-to-navigate thumbnails with specific licensing agreements. A must view especially when you want something more than what google can deliver. Check it out here: everystockphoto.com

Wired`s 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs

I stumbled across this article about the 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs, and I must admit there are some silly things.
Like for example:

6 Shark-fetus teeth. A few shark species have live births (instead of laying eggs). The Jaws juniors grow teeth in the womb. The first sibling or two to mature sometimes eat their siblings in utero. Mmm ... siblings

Well here is the link check it for yourself :)
10 Worst Evolutionary Designs