Life: Cufflinks with a message

We did hesitate a bit putting this post up but then these cuff links are looking great on the right person (hey-hey).
Acorn Studios is selling these keyboard beauties for about USD 15. There are 10 different pairs to choose - from [Esc] & [Pause] to [Page Up] & [Page Down] plus custom orders. The [...]

Top 10 time waster games

When you’re done with MS Windows included games or other freebies or these “nasty” admins at work didn’t install them on your computer here are some suggestions of online games.
We did only include games you can play with little effort - for example by just using the mouse -and that run as Flash files. [...]

Future warning signs

Some warning signs to be seen in the future, part of a set created by Arenamontanus

via Neat O Rama

Learn (sailing, fishing, climbing) knots with online animations

All of us who had to learn some knots for sailing or climbing know that it often can take some time at the beginning to remember them.
Now you can have 75 different knots demonstrated to you 24h/day with Animated Knots. Knots are demonstrated with self running animations and step-by-step.
You will also find information [...]

Spell ransom notes with Flickr

Erik Kastner has created an online application that uses random Flickr images to spell ransom notes. While there are other services online to do such a thing the results from this are definitely the best so far.

Intended for developers (source code available) but you can still use it to create yourself some great images of [...]

Game on: Huge interactive computer game exhibition in London

From today you can explore the history and culture of computer games at the London Science Museum huge interactive computer game exhibition Game On. More then 120 classic and modern games - from the world’s first computer game of 1962 up to the latest of todays advanced computer games - will be shown and [...]

Weekend activity: Cloud spotting

With the weekend coming up we would like to suggest to you something different: Cloud watching or cloud spotting as its also called by UK based Pretor-Pinney who has founded the Cloud Appreciation Society. The society now has about 5000 members from 39 countries.

38 year old Oxford University graduate Pretor-Pinney who calls himself a [...]

Star Trek vs. Star War: Empire vs. Warp drive

As a nice add on to our recent Star Trek article below a mash-up movie of Star Wars and Star Trek. Who will win…
YouTube video: click on the image below to open.

Happy Birthday Winnie the Pooh

Today its exactly 80 years ago that A. A. Milne’s book on the fictional bear Winnie-the-Pooh was first published with illustrations by E. H. Shepard.
“Winnie-the-Pooh” was published by Methuen on October 14th, 1926, followed by “The House at Pooh Corner” (1928), and the poetry books “When We Were Very Young” and “Now We [...]

New Flight Simulator from Microsoft

The long awaited new version of Microsoft Flight Simulator will be hitting the stores next week. Microsoft Game Studios has further enhanced lots of the already exiting features of the previous version (Flight Simulator 2004).

Additional missions as well as new planes are include with many other new features. Microsoft has created a great Flash [...]