This Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-09

bookmarks for funvill

• Darren Waterston | About the Artist DARREN WATERSTON was born in California in 1965 and received his BFA at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. He continued his training in Germany studying painting at the Academie der Kunst in Berlin and the Fachhochschule fur Kunst in Munster. Today, W Tagged as: [tag]art, painting, [/tag]
• NOTCOT Inc. NOTCOT is dedicated to: DESIGN, IMAGERY, CURATION... DESIGN. A love and admiration of well designed things. There is no reason for something today not to be aesthetically stunning. IMAGERY. We organize our design and features around enticing, well compose Tagged as: [tag]design, fun, toys, [/tag]
• SEOmoz | Why You Should Blog I got tagged with a blog meme about why I blog by Andy, but rather than simply ennumerate my personal reasons, I decided to go bigger and describe all the reasons, personal and professional, that should encourage you to start a blog (or continue to update Tagged as: [tag]blog, [/tag]
• Micro transmitters. It's pretty hard to believe that these generic micro transmitter (bug) circuits give such high quality reception on a standard FM radio. Fundamentally they are nothing more than high frequency oscillators with their frequency modulated by a microphone. Th Tagged as: [tag]diy, electronics, spy, [/tag]
• Boozhound Laboratories Vacuum tube Hi Fi, fullrange driver speakers, tube guitar amps, and general DIY-liciousness. Tagged as: [tag]diy, audio, electronics, guitar, tube, projects, [/tag]
• Riddles Forty Traditional Riddles Tagged as: [tag]Riddles, [/tag]
• Mobius Chess This chess board is on a Mobius strip. The length is infinite (and wraps) but the width is only four squares. There are no pieces on the hidden sides. Some of the pieces are hard to read: the White Queen is on top, the White King is on the left, and the B Tagged as: [tag]puzzles, games, chess, [/tag]
• Citizen Vancouver Victimized by vandals. Burglarized by one of Vancouver"s east enders. Report it online! Vancouver"s crime stopping goes web 2.0 - well it"s not NEW news cause it came out in 2004. But I never knew about till today: Tagged as: [tag]vancouver, crime, [/tag]
• Math Trek: Computing Photographic Forgeries, Science News Online, March 24, 2007 Hany Farid, a computer scientist at Dartmouth College, is bringing mathematics to the rescue. He has created mathematical tools to determine whether a digital photograph was altered after being taken. His methods work so well that the Associated Press now Tagged as: [tag]photography, photoshop, photos, [/tag]
• Eden: an evolutionary sonic ecosystem eden is an interactive, self-generating, artificial ecosystem. A cellular world is populated by collections of evolving virtual creatures. Creatures move about the environment, making and listening to sounds, foraging for food, encountering predators and Tagged as: [tag]AI, ecosystem, artificial, [/tag]
• SENSITIVE.FLOOR A interative video floor that can display any image, and the user can interact with. Tagged as: [tag]interactive, design, [/tag]
• Listamatic: one list, many options - Using CSS and a simple list to create radically different list options Can you take a simple list and use different Cascading Style Sheets to create radically different list options? The Listamatic shows the power of CSS when applied to one simple list. Tagged as: [tag]css, lists, webdesign, [/tag]
• tv-scope Using TV to display audio signals. Tagged as: [tag]Electronics, DIY, audio, TV, projects, [/tag]
• PodcastAlley.com -- The place to find Podcasts Podcast Alley is the podcast lovers portal. Featuring the best Podcast Directory and the Top 10 podcasts, as voted on by the listeners. Tagged as: [tag]Podcast, podcasts, mp3, downloads, feeds, blogs, [/tag]
• filehippo.com Update Client - filehippo.com The Update Checker will scan your computer for installed software, check the versions and then send this information to filehippo.com to see if there are any newer releases. These are then neatly displayed in your browser for you to download. Tagged as: [tag]software, freeware, tools, windows, utilities, free, [/tag]
• Hippo Update Checker (Windows) | ABlueStar I found this great program today on LifeHacker news feed called Hippo Update Checker. It scans your computer for your installed programs and checks there version against the version in Hippo"s database. if there is a newer releases to any of your progra Tagged as: [tag]utility, freeware, windows, [/tag]
• Let"s Be Brief - the six-word stories the Let"s Be Brief contest entries (sorry about the delay - when you work 40 hours a week, it"s tough to make everything else fit into the remaining 40 hours!) Up to now, visitors to the contest have only been able to view the six-word stories submitt Tagged as: [tag]writing, stories, [/tag]