Most Expensive Paper Money Ever Sold: Grand Watermelon
The Most Expensive Paper Money ever sold at auction was 2006 sale of a "Grand Watermelon" one thousand $1,000 bill, only one of two existing printed in 1890.
Grand Watermelon 1,000 dollar bill was sold for $2,225,000 dollars and became the most expensive paper money ever sold. It was sold from a private collector to another private collector.
Handerpants!Handerpants™ - Underpants for your hands! - Archie McPhee
Are you really naked under those gloves? For Pete's sake, put on some Handerpants! These 95% cotton, 5% spandex, fingerless gloves have the look and feel of men's briefs. Slip them on underneath your gloves for extra warmth and protection from chafing! Wear them on their own as a vaguely inappropriate fashion statement! Hundreds of uses! Fits most adult hands.
Post-it Note Stories
Stories illustrated on little yellow Post-It Notes in beautiful black Sharpie by Arthur Jones.
Woman changes name to Princess-Rainbow.com - UK, News - The Independent:
"A woman from Manchester has become the first person to change her name by Deed Poll to a web domain, according to the Legal Deed Service.
Twenty-four-year-old Claire Forshaw changed her name to Princess-Rainbow.com earlier this week. She had previously been put off changing her name by her boyfriend, 23-year-old Robert Morris, who had tried to dissuade her by claiming it would cost hundreds of pounds.
“I knew that if ever I got the chance I would change [my name] to a web domain, to hopefully become the first. My boyfriend has always told me it cost hundreds of pounds to do, so I just forgot about it,” she told press, adding:
“When I realised it actually cost as little as £10 my boyfriend said that Princess-Rainbow.com was ideal for me because I am mad on rainbows!”"
Film buffs community « filmaster.comFilmaster is a new social network for movie fans featuring personalized content and recommendations. And all that free as in beer and as in speech. Filmaster allows you to run your own movie blog in a great domain like you.filmaster.com, rate movies and talk about movies with people whose opinions you care about.
Filmaster is niche by design. We're not even thinking of competing with huge sites like IMDB or RottenTomatoes in terms of number of movies, trailers and pageviews. We're also not going against Flixter -- a MySpace for movies. We chose the hard way. We're creating a place for real movie freaks -- people for who film is not just entertainment. And we want to make Filmaster a place on the web to discuss good movies with people who know what they're talking about.
Search Pad (BETA)
Search Pad (BETA)
Search Pad is a note-taking application that automatically tracks and organizes sites you find on Yahoo! Search to help you complete important tasks such as buying a car or planning a trip. Find out more here.
SaveIE6: Help us save the best browser around
IE6 needs YOUR help
These days we are inundated with bloated web browsers that overcomplicate our lives. However, there is one eminent exception: IE6.
It has been around since 2001 and is still one of the most powerful and versatile browsers available.
Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis — Kickstarter: "What would the pioneers of jazz sound like on a Nintendo Entertainment System? Coltrane on a C-64? Mingus on Amiga? For years, I've wondered what 'chiptune jazz' would sound like, but there are only a tiny handful of jazz covers ever made."
Very Nearly Almost
verynearlyalmost.com is a great website that documents interesting and cool imagery of found and submitted street art.
http://verynearlyalmost.com/blog/
Documenting Street Art
Google Microsoft = Chrome?, by Federico Fieni aka FF2D on vi.sualize.us
This had never occurred to me before.
I believe it's also like a Pokemon ball and he has Tux the Linux penguin trapped inside to do his bidding.
Google has confirmed it is working on a desktop linux project called Goobuntu, but declined to supply further details, including what the project is for. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/
Google at work on desktop Linux
update:
Google only uses it on the premises
'It's awesome, but we're not going to be releasing it. Unless you work here it wouldn't work anyway. If you haven't tried ubuntu, you should, I have the regular one running on my laptop and it really is fantastic.'
Google Working on Desktop Linux"
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=14609148&sid=175746&tid=217
In a post on its company blog, Google said the operating system would initially be aimed at netbooks, the compact, low-cost computers that have turned the PC world on its head. It said the open-source software, called Chrome OS, would be available in the second half of next year.Google Unveils a PC Operating System - NYTimes.com
“Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS,” the blog post said. “We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the Web in a few seconds.”
Google has already developed an operating system for mobile phones, called Android. And several manufacturers of netbooks are also using that software.
Google has long promoted a vision of computing in which applications delivered over the Web play an increasingly central role, replacing software that runs on the desktop. In that world, applications run directly inside an Internet browser, rather than atop an operating system, the traditional software that controls most of the operations of a PC.
About licenses, photos and online mobs | holgr.com
Over the past day there’s been a little “crisis” going on over at FriendFeed. Let me introduce the contenders first:
* Kol Tregaskes, who liked a photo on DeviantArt which made it to his FriendFeed account (on June 19th!) via visualize.us
* “velonka”, the photographer of that photo and model in that photo who noticed the image on July 6th
* The picture on DeviantArt, originally marked as Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 LicenseNow, after a few weeks of no action at all, the photographer noticed the photo on FriendFeed and didn’t wait a second to rain down some foul language on Kol:VerothicA: WHY IS MY PHOTO HERE? are you fucvking retarded? remove it now! Its for Deviantart.com members ONLY you asshole!!!! – velonka
No, not some nice asking to take it down or – what my approach would have been – saying thanks for sharing. Full throttle from a stand still which shortly thereafter got her some flack from other commenters. And rightly so.
Only after various posts the lady apparently notices that her photo was posted as Creative Commons and removes that licensing. Of course, too little too late. Starting a conversation like she did, you are just asking for trouble. I’m wondering whether she is writing the people at Google, Microsoft and Yahoo letters in the same language because the photo is showing up there too.
A show about the articles of interest I find on the internet during the week and post at http://yourdaily.blogspot.com. At the end of the week I try to tell my son about these articles in this show.
Download:
yourdaily090705.mp3
yourdaily090705.ogg
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Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0
40 Free High Quality Hand-drawn Fonts | Graphics:
A bicycle love story. on Vimeo
A bicycle love story. from Grandchildren on Vimeo.
The film made in two days.
Lifehacker - Amplify Your Speakerphone with a Cereal Bowl - Clever Uses: "Sometimes the volume on your cellphone's speaker just isn't loud or clear enough. What can you do without a soldering iron or third-party add-on? Turn a breakfast utensil into a makeshift amplifier."
Indie Music Tech: Wax MP3: A New Project from Lucas Gonze:
"Lucas Gonze, creator of Webjay and the XSPF open audio playlist format has released his latest project, Wax MP3, a super fast and minimalist browser-based radio station for music on the open web."
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