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

How to make a book shelf from the books

2005-11-13T03:32:00.000-08:00

This Into That. If you don't really like reading or have a huge load of boring books, you can always make them serve more interesting books. This Into That offers functional art furniture, primarily book shelves on any theme. Each is made by Jim Rosenau at his studio in Berkeley, California. No books that could change the course of world events are harmed in the production.

Free domain names

2005-11-12T01:06:00.000-08:00

Search for free domain names by keywords.Domain hunter is a must have tool for every web master and seo specialist. Every time I think about creating a new site, I have a lot of headache because of the need to invent cool, keyword oriented domain name, that nobody had taken yet.Domain hunter passes the keywords you enter to the Overture Keyword Selector tool and then checks the domains, that are

500 hours in MSPaint

2005-11-11T06:43:00.000-08:00

Powerdraw. It turns out, that after 500 hours of work in Microsoft Paint it is possible to draw a photo quality picture. a drawing that i used mspaint to draw with alittle photophop bluring, it is more than 500 hours work on that one no template eyes worklittle story about this drawing it was a fews years ago that picture was on a calender i found it out very niceso i decided to draw it but i

50 Things to do with a House Brick

2005-11-10T11:37:00.000-08:00

50 Things to do with a House Brick. 50 ways for entertain yourself if you've found a house brick. Though, it's amazing that building a house is not listed :)4. Office automation tool (leave propped against “Enter” key. Go to lunch.)5. Mobile phone placeholder (use to mock people who don’t have the latest model)...30. Extra long-lasting salt lick for gullible cattle.31. Latest idea for a novelty

Free online image editors

2005-11-08T11:42:00.000-08:00

Couple of free online photo editors. They are not as great as CreatingOnline editor, but since it is down for about a week already, I thought it would be useful to mention other tools also.GifWorks is a good for situations when you need to fix your website's icon or create a new one as soon as possible. It is not as comfortable as Photoshop, but you can use 3D-effects, flips, crops, buttonizing,

Free color palette tools online

2005-11-06T12:31:00.000-08:00

Color Palette Tools. A set of links to the online color palette tools. Quick and effective. All of these tools work slightly differently, but are based on the same principle: fiddle around until you find an attractive group of colors. I use all of them at various times, and if I'm not having luck with one tool, I move on to the next.

CSS template constructors for free

2005-11-06T03:25:00.000-08:00

Style Templates. A good, small and comprehensive, set of links to the site templates collections. Here you can find ready to use templates, CSS tutorials and even template constructors. Any Order ColumnsBigColumnsBig John Bergeviny Bergevin of Position Is Everything proudly present the holy grail for web designers: multiple column layouts where you can present the columns in any order using

Ancient postcards

2005-11-05T06:40:00.000-08:00

Postcards from the Attic. Postcards from the beginning of the 20th century. Nicely structured categories will let you find a picture for any specific occasion. Oh, yeah, you can also send any card to a friend."This project was prompted by my father giving me several hundred postcards sent between 1900 and 1910 by members of my family."

Russian Propaganda Posters

2005-11-02T14:19:00.000-08:00

Propaganda Posters. An impressive collaction of the propaganda posters from USSR, Cuba, Poland, etc.

The View from Everest

2005-11-02T14:12:00.000-08:00

The View from Everest. On NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day there are a lot of impressive photos. One of the unique things is the huge panoramic photo from the tallest mountain on the Earth. What would it be like to stand atop the tallest mountain on Earth? To see a full panoramic vista from there, scroll right. Visible are snow peaked mountains near and far, tremendous cliffs, distant plateaus

Google Search Tips 2005

2005-11-02T10:06:00.000-08:00

Google Search Tips 2005. Fresh set of search tips for Google. Use it if you know the "site:" keyword and if you want to discover some more tricks. Here are some search syntax basics and advanced tricks for Google.com. You might know most of these, but if you spot a new one, it may come in handy in future searches.

Taking Professional Looking Photos with a ususal digital camera

2005-11-01T05:28:00.000-08:00

Taking Professional Looking Photos Without a Professional. A nice guide on taking "almost professional" photos. When taking your own photos, you want lots of light - but not direct light. Direct light will cause harsh shadows, which you don’t want. DO NOT USE A FLASH! Flashes wash out colors and details – and even the entire photo if you are taking close up shots. Professional looking product

How much of a geek are you?

2005-10-31T12:46:00.000-08:00

How much of a geek are you? from BBC News test. If you are reading this blog, you will probably get 10 of 10 :) A recent survey suggested that hi-tech jargon is proving tricky for many people to understand. Find out how technically smart you are with our quiz that tests how much you really know about the world of the web and computers.

Myths of the world

2005-10-30T09:50:00.000-08:00

Encyclopedia Mythica. Rich encyclopedia of myths, tails and beliefs.

The Interactive Mona Lisa

2005-10-29T08:13:00.000-07:00

The Interactive Mona Lisa. You can play with the Mona Lisa online. You can see her disappointed, disgusted, merry, etc. Whatever you like.

Color photos of the First World War

2005-10-28T04:37:00.000-07:00

Marsch in den Abgrund. Several color photos of the First World War times.

ImplosionWorld.com

2005-10-27T11:08:00.000-07:00

ImplosionWorld.com. Site devoted to various kinds oа industrial exposions. There you can find impressive photos of buildings at the moment of blowdown. Welcome to the explosive demolition industry’s worldwide source for news and information on building implosions, blowdowns and all other types of structural blasting projects.

Can't find on Google

2005-10-26T06:40:00.000-07:00

CantFindOnGoogle.com. If you can't find something on Google, it should be either out of Internet or you search for it in a wrong way. Well, nowadays everything is on the web, isn't it? :) Amazingly there is a community of people who honestly confess, that they can't use the search engines. Most of the time, you punch what you want to know into Google, and you instantly get what you're looking for

My Top Ten CSS Tricks

2005-10-25T07:56:00.000-07:00

My Top Ten CSS Tricks. CSS can be complex, and as each new browser version is released, you may well find yourself struggling to keep up with the latest tips and hacks. But those tips and hacks will save your sanity! Here, I've put together the ten tips that I find most helpful, to save you the hassle of scrounging around the Web for solutions when time is tight.

The Generator Blog

2005-10-24T06:42:00.000-07:00

The Generator Blog. Blog of various online generators. Here you can find links for banner generator (see this post image), random food generator, random medical term generator and so on. Here you will find over 400 generators. Some are just silly, others are stupid, but I'm sure quite a lot can be useful to you.

The Photoblogs.org Top 100

2005-10-23T09:06:00.000-07:00

The Photoblogs.org Top 100. One hundred of the best photoblogs. These are the top 100 registered photoblogs. Rankings are derived from the favorites lists of our users. In case of a tie, older sites are ranked higher.

Microsoft Crash Gallery

2005-10-22T01:51:00.000-07:00

1999/02/23. Nice effect on the buttons thereMicrosoft Crash Gallery. Gallery of errors in the Microsoft programs. It is especially funny to see some old good crashes that you cannot see on Windows 2000 today. This page is for showing screenshots and photos of software screwing up, with specific (but not exclusive) focus on Microsoft software. It used to be mostly outright crashes, but now more

Take a photo without a camera

2005-10-21T14:45:00.000-07:00

Fixr.org. You might have experienced it: sometimes you something really fantastic on the street, but your camera is at home or ran out of juice. There is a solution: send the full description of the situation and Fixr.org guys will do everything they can to make a photo of the scene. If you want to post those perfect shots you couldn't take, here's the solution: just submit a detailled

Todo lists on AJAX

2005-10-20T08:26:00.000-07:00

Tudu Lists. Online service for the todo lists. Source codes are open and free - you can contribute to the development. The best feature is sharing of your todo's with the other people.

CNet's Top 10 worst products

2005-10-19T06:02:00.000-07:00

Top 10 worst products. Following the tradition of publishing the list of the top 10 consumer products of the decade, Cnet.com published the list of worst products for the same period of time. I must confess that I haven't heard about half of the items, but you can still have fun recalling about Furby and Windows ME

The Web Word Processor

2005-10-18T09:18:00.000-07:00

The Web Word Processor. Online word processor. Of course, made on AJAX. If the tendency continues, soon you won't need any offline application. Nothing to download -- your browser is all you need. Collaborate just by entering people's e-mail addresses. Publish on the web or post to your blog with a click.

Top 100 Forgotten Gadgets: The Readers' Revenge

2005-10-17T06:34:00.000-07:00

Top 100 Forgotten Gadgets: The Readers' Revenge. Mobilemagazine.com published the readers' version of the best gadgets of all times. There are amazing things worth lookining at. We had no idea when we published the "100 Greatest Gadgets of All Time" in March that people would have such strong opinions about it. Immediately after the issue hit newsstands, a delicious blend of loving praise and

YoshidaTatsuya's Photographs of Stones

2005-10-16T03:20:00.000-07:00

YoshidaTatsuya's Photographs of Stones. Web-site of the Japanese photographer YoshidaTatsuya, that takes photographs of stones, including architectural monuments. On the site pages you can find photos from all over the world.

Origami: Diagrams

2005-10-15T11:31:00.000-07:00

Update: Some people make origami from the bank notes. Yes, from the US dollars.Origami: Diagrams. Giant collection of origami instructions in PDF. Now you know what you can do during long winter nights.

Search for a bomb blast!

2005-10-14T05:14:00.000-07:00

I am sure, that everybody've heard cat's meow or dog's barking. What about camel or musket shot? Have a look at the FindSounds search engine. Just type what sound you would like to find and get a *.wav file. Welcome to FindSounds.com, a free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples.

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

2005-10-13T01:04:00.000-07:00

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security. An amazing article that should be of interest for the network administrators. Pay attention to the "The Minor Dumbs" section - it is the funniest part of the text. There's lots of innovation going on in security - we're inundated with a steady stream of new stuff and it all sounds like it works just great. Every couple of months I'm invited to a new

100 most often mispelled misspelled words in English

2005-10-12T06:43:00.000-07:00

100 most often mispelled misspelled words in English. A hundred of english words, that are most commonly misspelled. Lately I've head a look at a couple of English speaking teenager blogs. You know, some of them could add all the words they use to the list. Including prepositions.Dr. Language has provided a one-stop cure for all your spelling ills. Here are the 100 words most often misspelled ('

Top 10 scientific photos. BBC version

2005-10-11T11:53:00.000-07:00

Visions of Science. A tiny shrimp fearlessly enters the mouth of a fish to clean its teeth. Fish value this service as the shrimp removes and eats harmful parasites. (©Jim Greenfield)

Online photo editor. For free

2005-10-10T11:10:00.000-07:00

Online photo editor. Quite powerful online photo editor, capable of resizing, cropping, adding text comments, correcting colors, etc. Useful tool for the vacation season, if you need to publish you super cool photos from the Turkish internet cafe.With this free online photo editor / free online image editor, you can now edit photos online or any JPG, GIF, or PNG image file with no image editing