Peaksite
it's a bit like being forced to watch my home videos
by dave gardner
by dave gardner
» Sign Up Forms Must Die
I couldn’t agree more
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How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?
» ClassNamer
Can‘t think of a good class name?
Canadian Autumn
This is amazing. A wireless video cam on a remote control plane that is connected to a set of video goggles.
Dubbing Down by Grace Barbe
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I asked a younger child “how much is 15 and 15” and she quickly answered, “I think it’s 30.” I asked how she figured that out so fast and she replied, “Well, everyone knows that 16 and 16 is 32, and then I subtracted the extra 1‘s.”
Prince Rupert’s Drop
The Prince Rupert’s Drop is a classic demonstration of the great strength of glass in compression. From the Corning Museum of Glass.
via Boing Boing
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Have you got strong arms, a love of fish and your own spoon? Then get your name down for this one. The Saxon oarsman – also known as a ‘thole-sitter’ – needs to be keen to see the known world, not scared of water and, more importantly, not scared of Vikings.
Selling My Ideas by The Kitchen Cooks
» HTML Color Code Combination tool
A very useful tool for coming up with colour combinations. Enter a base colour, and it will generate various schemes of analogous and complimentary colours.
It‘s all written in JavaScript too.
» Food Fight by Stefan Naelman
Food Fight is an abridged history of war, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.
Blade Runner
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Deckard:
She‘s a replicant, isn‘t she?
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Tyrell:
I‘m impressed. How many questions does it usually take to spot them?
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Deckard:
I don‘t get it Tyrell.
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Tyrell:
How many questions?
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Deckard:
Twenty, thirty, cross-referenced.
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Tyrell:
It took more than a hundred for Rachael, didn‘t it?
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Deckard:
She doesn‘t know.
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Tyrell:
She‘s beginning to suspect, I think.
- Deckard: Suspect? How can it not know what it is?
» WorldWide Telescope
Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft’s Curtis Wong give an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft’s new WorldWide Telescope — a technology that combines feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the world and the heavens, and weaves them together holistically to build a comprehensive view of our universe.