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Archive for the 'Neat' Category

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Maecenas

Maecenas has many photos of Ancient Greece and Rome. The Pompeii section is amazing.

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

On This Very Spot

The website On This Very Spot gives you some ideas of places to visit, if pop culture is your thing.

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Switzerland

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a new (if not for amateurs yet) app that lets you test your ISP for torrent and VOIP throttling: Switzerland Network Testing Tool.

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Logos de Olimpíadas

This collection of logos from the Olympic Games is pretty neat. It goes all the way back to 1896.

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Strange Maps

Strange Maps is one of those sites that might have been posted here before, I honestly can’t remember. It’s easier to just repost sometimes than to bother looking something up, right? Anyways, their latest post, Niam Niam: the Cannibal Map of the World provides the quality reading I’ve come to love.

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

thisissand.com

Kill some time making sandy things over at thisissand.com. Very cool.

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Sneakers

A Few Different Ways To Tie Your Sneakers.

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

FontStruct

FontStruct lets you build your own fonts and download many others for free. Neat!

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Desktopography

I’m one of those who constantly change my desktop wallpaper for some unknown reason, and Desktopography is one of the recent places I’ve been frequenting.

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Grills

Hurry, there might still be time to get one from this list of 10 Awesome Grills You Can Buy For The Ultimate Memorial Day BBQ. Cooking cow meat inside of a cow? Brilliant.

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

YouTomb

I always find it interesting to see who cares enough to complain about YouTube violations. While you can’t watch the actual clips, YouTomb is keeping track.

Friday, May 16th, 2008

1,024 Cheerleaders

1,024 Cheerleaders takes an image you provide and shows you what it might look like if that many people made the picture out of signs. I used Mark Corrigan from the Channel 4 series Peep Show (among other things). If you dislike the site, at the very least go track down Peep Show, it’s unbelievably funny.

Monday, May 12th, 2008

SomethingStore.com

I can’t vouch for the Something Store because I’ve never ordered from them, but the idea is tempting for some reason.

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Boston Roller Derby League

Now watching: The Dames: The Story of the Boston Roller Derby League. Such a great sport.

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Instant Rimshot

I need to have the Instant Rimshot always ready. I can’t wait to annoy my co-workers tomorrow.

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Doctor Zoidberg

For art and Futurama lovers: Art: An Expressionist Portrait of Doctor Zoidberg.

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Young Me, Now Me

Bloggers submit their photos showing Young Me / Now Me. Same poses, some years between.

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Fold-Ins, Past and Present

See Mad Magazine Fold-Ins from 1960 to now using Flash. Good work NYT!

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Abandoned Stations

Take a tour of abandoned subways stations in New York.

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Life and Death Masks

I was on vacation for a bit, but I am back and ready to post. I think.

The Laurence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks is a great place to browse if the images of death masks are what you seek.