Bookmark of the day

Photos of the fist computers

2005-12-11T06:31:00.000-08:00

Secrets of ENIAC. Pretty photos of one of the first computers in the world - ENIAC. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was among the very first computers-some say it was the first, though there are competing claims. Built at Penn from 1942 to 1946, its work was the most prosaic imaginable: calculating missile ballistics and later helping with the design of the hydrogen bomb

Beautiful models - Photoshop magic

2005-12-09T16:03:00.000-08:00

Retouching Portfolio. An interesting portfolio of a specialist on retouching the photos. Mouse over the pictures to see how Photoshop makes a women magazine model from an ordinary woman.Below you'll find a series of my latest retouching projects. This portfolio includes some high-end fashion, editorial, advertising and high-profile celebrity work. I even included some archival restorations of my

Aerial propaganda leaflets

2005-12-08T10:01:00.000-08:00

Aerial propaganda leaflet database. Archive of propaganda leaflets spread over the enemy territory during the war conflicts starting from the World War I. Currently the database contains details of over 1,400 different Second World War Allied propaganda leaflets to Germany, as well as other groups of propaganda leaflets from WWII and other conflicts from WWI to the present day.

Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog'

2005-12-07T01:22:00.000-08:00

Something's going really wrong in Russia if squirells started eating dogs there. A "big" stray dog was nosing about the trees and barking at squirrels hiding in branches overhead when a number of them suddenly descended and attacked, reports say. "They literally gutted the dog," local journalist Anastasia Trubitsina told Komsomolskaya

Planet Size Comparison

2005-12-06T02:30:00.000-08:00

Planet Size Comparison. Funny flash site to visually compare the planet sizes.

Forty-one Anomalies of Water.

2005-12-05T07:02:00.000-08:00

Forty-one Anomalies of Water. A huge list of the most unique liquid on the Earth - water. If hadn't that many useful anomalies, life on our planet would hardly be possible. Water has unusually high melting point. Water has unusually high boiling point. Water has unusually high critical point.

The first newspaper in Scandinavia (1749) online.

2005-12-04T03:36:00.000-08:00

Newspaper Index proudly presents: The first newspaper in Scandinavia (1749) now online. Thу first Scandinavian newspaper has been scanned an put online.Yesterday I was holding newspaper history in my hands. The first omnibus newspaper ever published in Scandinavia from January 1749. The owner - a gentleman who had in it in his family’s possession since it was published - let me scan it on his

Gallery of images made by the computer

2005-12-03T11:35:00.000-08:00

Gallery of Computation. A gallery of images made by computer program. Nothing too special, but there are some nice looking samples.

Everything you wanted to see about the microworld

2005-12-01T11:27:00.000-08:00

Beltsville Electron Microscope Unit. Online collection of photos made by the electronic microscope - mainly crystalls and microbes. There are some color stereo photos - pure fantastics as for me. The Electron Microscope Unit provides collaborative assistance for BARC scientists to use high resolution imaging for their research programs. The Electron Microscope Unit is equipped with state of the

Best of Photojournalism 2005: Still Photography Winners.

2005-11-30T12:04:00.000-08:00

Best of Photojournalism 2005: Still Photography Winners. All the best in professional photojournalistics. Compete with the very best in still and television photojournalism, in picture editing, and Web editing. Now in its fourth year, the Best of Photojournalism is the world's leading digital photojournalism contest.

Gift Box Templates

2005-11-29T10:52:00.000-08:00

Box templates. Paper templates for making simple and impressive Christmas present boxes.Boxes can be used for holding special gifts, or they can be the gift! Try your hand at any of these unique box templates!

Keyboard Emergency Airbag

2005-11-28T14:42:00.000-08:00

Keyboard Emergency Airbag. As a usual airbag it should protect you from the external problems. To be concrete, it is supposed to protect your nerves, hit by a chat partner, fault computer hardware or an e-mail from an angry boss. Tania Fox made a Keyboard Emergency Airbag to help workers deal with abusive customers. If a caller gets nasty and the worker finds it increasingly difficult to being

Haunted paper toys

2005-11-27T01:43:00.000-08:00

Haunted Paper Toys. A website about paper toys, that you can glue yourself. All the toys are quite scarry and/or funny depending on how much you like skeletons and dead bodies. Here you'll find a variety of rather unusual paper toys, all free for you to print out and enjoy. The toys include a hearse playset, coffin gift boxes (with occupants), a little cemetery, several unusual board games, a

Old operating systems boot-up screens

2005-11-26T04:18:00.000-08:00

Bootup Screens. Collection of boot-up screens in old operating systems from ZX Spectrum to Windows 95. A Collection Of Old Computer Bootup Screens

New office slang

2005-11-25T06:49:00.000-08:00

OfficeSlang.com. Funny dictionary of the office slang. Adminisphere - The rarified organizational layers above the rank and file that makes decisions that are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant. Alpha Geek - The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. “I dunno, ask Rick. He’s our alpha geek.” Assmosis - The process by which some

Origami from the dollar notes

2005-11-24T04:45:00.000-08:00

Money Origami. Some people collect dosens of origami diagrams. Some try making money from origami. And only one person makes origami from the money. Folding paper money (or "money origami") is my one true creative output. My best original designs include spiders, eyeglasses, sailboats, and framed portraits. I got started in high school when I learned how to make a ring out of a dollar bill. I

Digital images for free

2005-11-23T05:26:00.000-08:00

NYPL Digital Gallery. New-York Public Library presents its Digital Images Gallery. Nice category system and good search engine make it an interesting resource for the free image seekers. NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical

Top ten CSS tricks

2005-11-22T11:11:00.000-08:00

Top ten CSS tricks from Trenton Moss:1. Block vs. Inline Level Elements2. Another Box Model Hack Alternative3. Minimum Width for a Page4. IE and Width and Height Issues5. Text-transform Command6. Disappearing Text or Images in IE?7. Invisible Text8. CSS Document for Handhelds9. 3-d Push Button Effect10. Same Navigation Code on Every PageSee full descriptions with examples at sitepoint

Funny optical illusion

2005-11-21T08:34:00.000-08:00

Mr Angry & Mrs Calm. Funny optical illusion. Look at the picture from the different distance. If you are near to this picture, Mr Angry is on the left and Mrs Calm is on the right. If you view it from a distance, they switch places!

Google Images Timeline

2005-11-20T03:23:00.000-08:00

Google Picture Timeline. What if you search Google Images for a year number like 1900 or 1967 and then gather all the returned pictured together? You'll get a surprisingly comprehensive image of the year Images selected from the first page of google image results for each year.

Casino Carpet Gallery

2005-11-18T12:43:00.000-08:00

Casino Carpet Gallery. One of the most amazing collections I've seen. Check this site out if you want to start a successful casino. Or if you just want to browse the good carpet gallery before buying one for the slipping room. This is it...the notorious casino carpet gallery: six pages of casino carpeting and nothing but.Casino carpet is known as an exercise in deliberate bad taste that somehow

Japanese Warning signs

2005-11-17T08:30:00.000-08:00

Japanese Warning Signs Japanese warning signs are very different than warning signs in other parts of the world, because they usually contain a visual and easy to understand reason why something is dangerous or not allowed.

Designer's toolbox

2005-11-16T12:06:00.000-08:00

Designer's Toolbox. A set of designer tools. Several useful utilities and a lot of guidelines. Notice the simplest CSS-generator I've ever seen. It is not for generating a web page template, but for generating a text style. With preview, of course. Design tools for creative professionals. Print resources, online guides, legal forms, and much more.

Free fonts for your site and PC

2005-11-15T08:43:00.000-08:00

Fontleech: The Free Font Blog. A blog about free fonts. A lot of links to free downloadable fonts.

Color photos of the World War 2

2005-11-14T03:36:00.000-08:00

World War 2 Pictures In Color . A well categorized set of photos of the World War 2. All in color