All posts with 'Internet' tag
Forbidden Palace or Google Censorship
The newly built four-stories high palace in the suburbs of Moscow was wiped out from the face of the Earth… Well, not the actual Earth but Google Earth. Apparently, the forbidden palace owner and Russian natural gas and oil monopoly Gazprom CEO Aleksey Miller has enough power and money to convince Google to censor one […]
Read More..>>Attractive Decay of Plane Graveyards
It’s weird but a lot of people find decaying handmade artifacts attractive. And it’s easy to understand why. All that abandoned buildings, rusting machinery and mossy ruins are hiding their mysteries. Every one of them has a long story behind, deep under the layers of dust of times past.
Fortunately, there are a lot of places […]
Playing World of Warcraft on Asus eeePC
A guy from the Ultramobilegeek.com running World Of Warcraft heavy MMORPG game on his Asus eeePC 701 ultra mobile notebook (which is often called mininote for its modest size and weight). Of cause the eeePC he’s got for it is not the cheapest one. This is 4G model with 2Gb RAM. Also he have used […]
Read More..>>What’s your first shot with the new camera?
Most of the digital cameras have similar internal file naming pattern. something like this: DSC#####.JPG. So it’s easy to figure out that the file named DSC00001.JPG is the very first shot taken with a new camera.
A lot of people are uploading their photos online without any postprocessing, they aren’t renaming the files most of the […]
Linux cheat sheet
FOSSwire have published a really handy one page PDF with the list of most useful (on a day by day basis) linux console commands. Just download it, print it out and pin it up onto your wall to get it right in your eyesight. Excellent solution for Ubuntu or SUSE Linux newcomers and recent switchers.
Read More..>>Google cushions
Wanna sleep with Google? Than you’ll like it.
Designer Elodie Blanchard has some Google inspired cushions for you. Each of them has Top 10 searches printed on - for the year 2006 (Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, podcasting…), 2005 (Janet Jackson, Hurricane Katrina, Tsunami…) and 2003 (Britney Spears, Harry Potter, Shakira..)
Edition 2003 is really limited - just […]
Boy found $90G in eBay parcel
While Japanese dump workers waiting for their $55 Grands in gold the 16 years old boy from Norfolk, UK found $90 Grands in the box with PlayStation 2 gaming console he has ordered on eBay.
Two games in the parcel package were missing but I doubt the boy was really upset because instead of games there […]
Google: Yahoo Smartass
Yahoo - the second largest search engine (after Google) and the second player on the internet advertising market (after Google once more) - have launched new and innovative contextual ads system named SmartAds.
Probably, Google don’t like the new competitor for its AdSense program. If you’ll try to search at google.com for Yahoo’s SmartAds, Google’s spell […]
Fake Name Generator
Have you ever tried to think out a fake name for yourself? Looking around for something to feed your imagination. Calling yourself Richie Asher because of Donald Trump show on TV and the Marlboro cigarette in the ash-tray, pretending that you are from Oakland because of the tree outside the window?
This is not needed anymore. […]
Drawing with HTML tables
A guy from Japan drawing Anime-style pictures in his own very special way… using HTML table tags. Assigning different colors to a horde of <td> tags he’s got the final drawing appeared in the web browser. This short video demonstrates the whole process of this heavy and laborious work. This is really astonishing.
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