Here’s a great little video which has a Sales Guy vs. a web dude. I love how he’s playing Halo throughout it all anyway. Oh, and the way the icons are on the desktop is priceless.
This is a very nice, fun, interesting, and overall destructive little interactive flash Meteor Impact Calculator.
I’ve spent the better part of an hour making various sizes, and speeds, and angles, and types of rock to see what happens, and, so far in all of them, I am dead. Oh well, the world’s gonna end anyway, at least I’ll have a front row seat!
Here’s an example i went through:
3300m wide, 27 degree angle, 30km/s, rock hitting rock.
That’s a decent sized crater, 770meters deep, and a 9 on the Richter scale, not bad i’d say.
Deeper then The Empire State Building though, that’s tough.
I’d wager that I probably wouldn’t have survived, i mean, I’m mostly covered in 3rd degree burns and whatnot. Oh well, at least it only happens ever 18 million years or so.
…you may start your landing.
Whoever this is officially has the greatest wireless network name ever. The only thing I ask of you is if you are out there, send us an email. Because we want a picture of it with no encryption for just a second so we can say “The shield is down!”
Oh, and this was also while waiting in line at the Apple Store in SoHo Wedensday night.
A sequal to the original Best Stumble pictures, these are better, and wronger. Again, most of these come from ImageChan, which I already knew was a wrong place, but now i know for sure just how messed up it is. And also again, a disturbing amount involve Hitler humor…
The whole list is after the click this time, because there are just a few really, really wrong ones now…
June 06, 1944, D-Day, In case you all forgot, today was the day we turned the tides of WWII. Ah what a much needed invasion that was. It makes me want to watch Saving Private Ryan now.
So, I like to take pictures, lots of them. Up until December, I had just kept them either as digital files on my computer, or as the original 4×6 printed versions (I still use a 35mm SLR, I’m old school). However, in December, I had one of my pictures enlarged, printed out, and framed as a gift, and I don’t know why it surprised me, but it was a beautiful photograph.
So now that I’m home from school, I’ve decided that I want to get anywhere between 3 and 5 of my photos enlarged (like 8″x10″) and framed and hang them on my wall. The only trouble now is I don’t know which photos I like (I like them all). And which sizes I should make them, and so on. This is where you come in.
So, after the click, take a look at the photos I have chosen, and choose the ones you like best, and fill out the form at the end (it’s a Google Docs poll).
I’m sorry in advance for the photo names, I never got around to giving them proper names.
And yes, I took all of these photos myself.
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This new Weezer video for their song Pork and Beans is pretty damn awesome. It’s basically a complication hailing (almost) all the great internet memes (LOLcats, and Chuck Norris are no where to be seen). The song itself is alright, I’m not a Weezer fan, but needless to say, the video is awesome,
I’ve had a bad week or so, not many thing have gone right, and those that have were small. In short, I’m pissed off. So, to honor that week, I’ve decided show you 4 steps needed to piss someone off. Just like convincing someone that you are crazy, pissing someone off is kind of easy, and, it will probably be a multiple lister.
After the click are my ways:
Erik Nordenankar had a dream, to create the biggest drawing the world had ever seen, literally, the world. To do that, he didn’t set out to find the biggest sheet of paper, no, he actually went small, briefcase small. You see, his canvas was the earth itself, and his brush was a GPS enabled briefcase.
Using a custom designed briefcase with GPS tracking software in it, he gave DHL specific instructions on where to go, and after 55 days, he had all the data he needed. The portrait itself is massive, over 40,000 X 40,000 kilometers, in scale, and due to the technique used, the drawing is one complete brush stroke. However, the only true way to see it is to shrink it down and put it on a map, or globe. It is a pretty interesting, and ingenious idea.
For his next project, I think he should get a few of them traveling around the globe, for some more interesting designs.
Here’s a video of the making of it (basically just a following of the case)
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The only questions I have for him is cost, it must have been through the roof!
Ahh, the magic of CGI, green screens, and copy & paste! Despite all that, this D-Day invasion was done with only 3 people, and it really does look like it was a few hundred, unlike the few thousand that Saving Private Ryan looked like.
{Joblo}
