Aug 312009

The 20 wildest webcams – including Eiffel Interactive – Link.

Pictures of people with cookies on their shoulders. Link.

What can you do with lots of time on your hands and lots of Legos? Build a lego house. Link.

4 unusual ways to boost social security benefits. Link.

The long-lost formula for startup success. Link.

Crash course in relativity why E=MC2 -technical and scientific but aimed to be easy to understand – Link.

Here you can see one paper toy a day – Link.

Can electricity travel through air without wires? A recent TED Talk actually shows it in action.

The Museum of Animal Perspectives sticks cameras on the heads of animals and uploads the resulting videos to Flickr. Museum of Animal Perspectives.

Aug 302009

Crazy eBay mom – pictures – house filled with unopened packages purchased on eBay – interesting Link.

What’s my password? The top 500 worst passwords of all time – Link.

20 home office organizing tricks. Link.

6 simple steps towards making progress achieving a goal. Link.

Why groups fail to share information effectively – psychology Link.

Cordless mousevich with USB cheese stick (pic) – Link.

Turn your food into poop with a cloaca machine – a machine that simulates digestion – Link.

This ’sequencer’ is similar to yesterday’s posting (about drums) – lets you create interesting sounds. Link.

Are you working in a place where access to the web is tightly controlled by the IT and you dont like it? Read.

Aug 292009

NotPron – calls itself “hardest riddle on the planet” – think to crack – I couldnt get past two levels even with hints. Link.

How communication skills power your performance. Bring conversations to ground, use effective email subject lines, etc. Link.

Face Research – rate facial attractiveness, rate voices, etc. for research purposes. Looks like computer generated images. Link. What she sees in you – facial attractiveness explained. Penn State. Link.

Academic success, life success, business success – psychology of persuasion – looks like a huge content resource covering mind mapping, personality development. Link.

U.S. Army survival guide/manual – PDFs of how to survive in deserts, seas, tropical, cold weather, etc. Link.

300 million Americans head to the restroom many times a day, what can be done about America’s human waste. Link.

Pick Flickr photos that are based on a color you choose from a palette. Link.

Facebook’s cool offices – take a peek – Link -Offices of the top 6 social networks. – Link.

How to get on the reddit homepage – a sarcastic/humorous description with illustrations. Link.

Do you listen to music, surf the web and do something else on the computer at the same time? Multitasking may not be optimal for productivity. Link.

Aug 282009

Let’s be friends – pictures of animals – dog and moose, mouse and frog and so on. Link.

Learn Something everyday – it wouldnt be as interesting if they didnt have the illustrations 4 them. Link.

What is it like to eat at the canteen in Facebook headquarters? Bright pictures ahead, Link.

Monkey machine 2.1 – ingenious beat generator -click on squares to fill them up and the generated beat changes and you can even download the beat. Link.

What the World Believes – a site where you can vote and view results about questions like – is there life after death? have you seen a UFO? etc. Link.

5 habits to help you complete your project in record time. Sketching before starting, staying on top of information, etc. Link.

Crazy things people do with roller coasters – skating, biking, etc. with pictures. Link.

Aug 272009

Funny, I dont actually find anything funny in this video about the dance movements but the words, background images and street settings may be quite interesting. It feels good to be a banker – Youtube video. Link.

Interview questions (purportedly asked in Microsoft) – if anybody had asked these questions to Bill Gates before he could work for Microsoft, I am sure there would be no Microsoft today. Link.

Modded robotic floor vac drops white powder across carpet producing fancy designs and letterings. Link.

This guy was able to get a girl-slave (ten year old) for the equivalent of $50, or so he says. Link.

15 cool matchstick models. Link.

This site offers free textbooks, purportedly funded by in-textbook ads. Link.

A new way of visualizing movie box office earnings – displays trends in movies collections. Link.

Cardboard love – love quotes written on cardboard? – Link.

Tea bags that feature characters/personalities on them – choose from RoyalTea, Democratea and striptea categories. – Link.

61 euphemisms for masturbation – Link (this and the following links may trip your corporate firewall/internet security appliance and be logged; be forewarned)

I thought of rewriting this but felt much better reproducing it as-is: [NSFW]Baseball usually provides Americans with their first roundabout ways of talking about “Visiting Busch Stadium”… but what if you prefer golf? Or the Olympics? What if you’re Canadian? An academic? Or like plunderphonics? Can any phrase be turned into a euphemism for sex? Maybe; here are the canonical lists. I need another word for

So you’ve just been given your first programming assignment – Now what – tool chains, scoping problems etc. Link.

25 tips for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. Thinking time, business plan, delegation are some of the tips. Link.

Aug 262009

What is the most common cause of condoms that ‘break’? Durex tested returned condoms that came in with ‘broke during use’ complaints (with a pic of the machine that did the testing). Link.

The 13 funniest local news segments of all time (or so Huff Post thinks). – Link.

50 of the best personal development blogs. – Link.

Sleep (or how to hack your brain) . Link.

The American way of torture – with some pics – Link.

Aug 252009

Hacking a google interview – Google is known to ask tricky questions so it helps to be prepared. Link.

Visualizing wake up tweets from around the world (shows ‘Good morning’ tweets from all around the world, color coded and plotted onto a world map) – Link.

Useful tools section – highlight any portion of a web page – without needing to use a bookmarklet Link.

DeMotivate us – the best de-motivational posters. – Link.

$1000 worth of coffee – somebody photographs all coffees he is drinking and posts here. – Link.

Why StackOverflow sucks. – How you can manipulate s.o. rep points. – Link.

How to ace the Unicru personality test (psychometric test?) – Link. Wonder why they have all these time waster tests for low-paying jobs?

Webpages as graphs – a HTML DOM visualizer (interesting) – Link.

How to get your side project launched. - Link.

Aug 242009

Book rentals – in the same way you would rent movies, you can rent books – Link.

How does a woman feel when men look/ogle at breasts? – Link.

Aug 232009

A few tips on how you could use LinkedIn to get the job you want – by contacting recruiters and head hunters directly. – Link.

Rat Brain controls robot video – living tissue controls robotic movements. – Link.

Paul Graham writes an essay (Jul 09) about startup profitability coining the term ‘ramen profitability’ for the state of ‘profitability where revenues meet founders’ living expenses’. Link.

Project Implicit- Harvard project that measures attitudes – has been around for many years – this time they measure attitude about religions. Link.

You can get fined $2 million for sharing music, but you can get fined less for more damaging crimes. Link.

100 ways to live a better life – clean up your house, stop being judgmental, and so on. – Link. Estimated reading time: fifteen minutes.

Aug 222009

Asylum – The 12 weirdest hotel rooms from around the world. – Link.

MIT’s Personas is an interesting Flash web application – given a person’s first and last names, it scours information from the web and presents an interesting personality report. Link.

A Manifesto for slow communication – Life is fast, email is faster. May be we need to slow things down and stop to smell the roses? They havent used this phrase but a thought-provoking reading. Link.

Where do you rank in a global rich list? You may be richer than you think. – Link.

Egocentricity and self-publicity department: What if you could style your garage to make it look like you had a gold stash or a Jet?

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