Scanwiches

Scanwiches:

Scans of sandwiches for education and delight.

9/11 was nothing, according to new WWF ad

9/11 was nothing, according to new WWF ad: "

Just in time for the anniversary of 9/11 comes this tasteless, nightmarish print ad for the World Wildlife Fund, showing dozens of planes headed for lower Manhattan. See a larger version here. The copy reads: 'The tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11. The planet is brutally powerful. Respect it. Preserve it.' Unfortunately, respect is the main thing lacking here."

Disney buys Marvel in $4bn deal

BBC NEWS | Business | Disney to buy Marvel in $4bn deal: "'Disney is the perfect home for Marvel's fantastic library of characters given its proven ability to expand content creation and licensing businesses,' said Marvel chief executive Ike Perlmutter.
'This is an unparalleled opportunity for Marvel to build upon its vibrant brand and character properties by accessing Disney's tremendous global organization and infrastructure around the world,' he added."

Loch Ness Monster Seen on Google Earth?

Security guard Jason Cooke claims that he has found the Loch Ness Monster using the mapping software Google Earth.
The image of the Loch Ness on Google Earth shows a large unknown object with four legs.
Critics claim the object is simply a boat, however Loch Ness researchers plan to investigate the photos further.

Loch Ness Monster Google Earth

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Lasttweet.com - show your recent Twitter status inside Last.fm's sidebar

Lasttweet.com - show your recent Twitter status inside Last.fm's sidebar
A service that lets you post your recent twitter updates to your last.fm wall.
Just enter your username and paste the code it generates to your last.fm profile sidebar.

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Open Souce FriendFeed in the works

Create a free and open client and server for Friendfeed-like social networks, based of version 2 of the FriendFeed API and consisting of stream aggregation, asynchronus relationships, and serendipitous content discovery.

OpenFF
This would be an awesome thing especially if it were built with laconi.ca included like Evan states in the group post here http://ff.im/6TV2h

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FlipClips : Custom Flip Books made from Your Digital Video Clips

Preserve special moments with much more than just a photo! Turn your digital video clips into paper flipclips to carry with you, send and share!

Start by uploading a video under 30 seconds in length.
flipclips.com accepts most common digital video formats,
including MOV/QT, AVI, DV, MPEG4, MPEG2, Motion JPEG, and 3GPP.

FlipClips : Custom Flip Books made from Your Digital Video Clips!

I know it seems silly to say "Hey! I want my video I just recorded in book form." But what a cool idea!

Kidrobot DUNNY Custom Toys

Dunny is an action figure made of soft, smooth vinyl. Dunny was created to be customized in a broad variety of styles by diverse artists working in different mediums. We think Dunny is the world's greatest toy. Have fun collecting Dunny!

Kidrobot DUNNY
Thought this was a cool idea. The same toy, custom decorated by different artists to see what they come up with.

a cereal bowl made from a paper towel and half a Starbucks straw

www.jeffpalm.com:

"a cereal bowl made from a paper towel and half a Starbucks straw"

Perfect for snacking at your desk.

View the step by step instructions here.

http://www.jeffpalm.com/blog/archives/001927.html

Body Paint by Mehmet Akten

"Body Paint" Installation at "Clicks or Mortar", March 2009 from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

“Body Paint” by Mehmet Akten is an inter­ac­tive instal­la­tion and per­for­mance allow­ing users to paint on a vir­tual can­vas with their body, inter­pret­ing ges­tures and dance into evolv­ing compositions.Cus­tom soft­ware ana­lyzes live feed from infra-red cam­eras in real-time, and con­verts shape and motion into col­ors, drips and brush-strokes. The soft­ware was writ­ten in C++ using the open-source toolkit open­Frame­works and com­puter vision library openCV.

Body Paint by Mehmet Akten | flylyf

Create text-to-speech podcast from your blog

Turn readers into listeners, and transform your blog into a high quality, ad-supporting broadcast that can vastly expand your audience reach!

* Automatic podcast generation

* “Near-human” quality text-to-speech

* Listen Button feature deployed in next to no time for WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, BlogEngine.NET and Terapad platforms

* Detailed download statistics * Make money from embedded ads

Create text-to-speech (TTS) podcast from RSS feed for iPod, iPhone, MP3 player and mobile phone
Add your blog and it lets you create a podcast that reads each post from the site and adds an rss podcast feed to subscribe to.

I was able to do this with my personal blog but there was one post we had here at "Your Daily" of a video we posted that had a french word in the title and it said our blog wasn't in English. So it won't let us set it up.
Trying to fix that but a great idea. I really like it.

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KDE's new Plasma netbook interface shines in small places

The KDE netbook project is still in the early prototype stage and will not be ready for the upcoming KDE 4.3 release. Lead Plasma developer Aaron Seigo has listed it in the roadmap for KDE 4.4, which means it could be ready for users in January.

The prototype is an intriguing real-world demonstration of Plasma's versatility and the strength of KDE's architecture. It's also a good example of how creativity and innovation can move Linux beyond traditional desktop paradigms and make it shine in small spaces.

KDE's new Plasma netbook interface shines in small places - Ars Technica

I've been wondering when this was going to happen. I have been stuck using gnome on my netbook for too long. Although from the sound of it I still have a long wait ahead.

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Opentape - a free way to make and host your own web mixtape

What is it?
Opentape is a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web.

Upload songs (via web or FTP), reorder, rename, customize the style, and share what you like on other sites with an embeddable player.

Why?
Sharing your musical taste on the web should be fun and easy. We believe there is no reason it has to stop with the shutdown of a single site, so we've created a free tool to make this possible.

Opentape's creation and design are inspired by Muxtape's success and sleek interface. We were disappointed with its untimely shutdown and wanted the web mixtape movement to continue.

Opentape

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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.

Most Expensive Paper Money Ever Sold: Grand Watermelon

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Handerpants™ - Underpants for your hands!

Handerpants!
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.

Handerpants™ - Underpants for your hands! - Archie McPhee

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Post-it Note Stories

Stories illustrated on little yellow Post-It Notes in beautiful black Sharpie by Arthur Jones.

Post-it Note Stories

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Woman changes name to Princess-Rainbow.com

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.com

Filmaster 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.

Film buffs community « filmaster.com
An open source movie review community site with some great features and I like the interface style. Since my wife runs a theater I think this is something Dexter and I should probably get active on :)

You can follow it's creator Borys Musielakon identi.ca too.
http://identi.ca/michuk

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Google Notebook might be closed but Yahoo! Search Pad just opened.

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.

Search Pad (BETA)

I am/was a huge fan of Google Notebook. This seems to be the same concept without the browser plugin. It revolves mainly around bookmarking, which was what Google seemed to claim as the downfall of their version.

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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.

SaveIE6: Help us save the best browser around
Ok. I'll admit, at first I thought this site was for real. But then for the heck of it I tried to follow the download instructions. :)

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