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Curta Mechanical Computer

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:11:50 +0000

http://snipurl.com/uqcsj

Precursor of the modern computer - this device is:

- Entirely mechanical, no electricity or batteries involved.
- Designed by Curt Herzstark in 1938 and perfected inside a concentration camp.
- Considered to be the most efficient portable calculator (until electronic calculators came in the 70s)
- Simply a thing of beauty, stunning piece of engineering art.

See also a Curta Simulator

Funny Names dot com

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:09:55 +0000

http://www.funnynames.com/

Featuring funny and weird names of people, places, things, bands, websites, businesses and more categories.

I particularly like the domain names section as I am always trying to think up interesting domain names to register but they always appear to be taken when I look them up.

there's a weird name for a website...unless, that is, you know a bit of Thai

iPhone - There's An App For That

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:35:46 +0000

http://snipurl.com/up29i

According to this Mac site there are currently 134,000 iPhone applications available from the Apple store and every 2 1/2 minutes another one is submitted.

More facts at above link.

Photoshopped Dollar Bills

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:02:20 +0000

http://u.nu/9f987

I believe it's illegal to deface legal tender but these aren't the real thing - just images.

Tumblr

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:16:25 +0000

http://www.tumblr.com/

If you want to start your own blog it doesn't get much simpler than this site.

Tilt-Shift Photography - A Tutorial

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:37:16 +0000

http://snipurl.com/umvu6

Yesterday's video clip was done using the tilt-shift method. This is a tutorial telling you how to use this method.

YouTube Picks #77 - The Sandpit

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:02:42 +0000

A day in the life of New York City, in miniature...

Brussels Navels 2001

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:37:45 +0000

http://users.swing.be/navels/nav20011.htm

Pierced or not, bellybuttons are what it's all about...

Rare Photos Of Famous People

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:11:57 +0000

http://u.nu/2p4v4

These are all people that you will have heard of, but have you seen these particular pictures of them before?

Madonna, Detroit 1976

Hobo Signs

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:31:59 +0000

http://snipurl.com/ukdh2

I believe that some tramps (hobos) leave little signals for each other - things like 'Easy Mark' or 'Work Available' and so on. This page has drawings of the various signs and their translations. I just hope that I never have to learn these myself.

Orisinal Games

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:46:25 +0000

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

Cute collection of online games - if you don't want to have to concentrate too hard these games may help you pass the time away.

Window To The Past

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:04:18 +0000

http://abduzeedo.com/looking-past

"One good way to look at the past and the present at the same time is to take a photo holding an old photo of the same location. It's amazing to see the past being held on top of the present and see that a lot of things remain the same."

CIA Tricks

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:19:16 +0000

http://u.nu/3tyi6

See some of the tricks of the spycraft trade as accomplished by the CIA during the Cold War.

YouTube Picks #76 - Kseniya Simonova's Amazing Sand Drawing

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:31:37 +0000

Celebrity Phone Book Carvings

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:27:41 +0000

http://snipurl.com/uheb1

"Alex Queral is a Philadelphian sculptor best known for using old phone books to carve their pages into celebrities faces.".

"The process takes at least a couple of weeks to complete."

"He begins by sketching the famous person’s face on a piece of paper and laying it over the phone book, after that he uses a razor blade, patiently carving away at the thousands of pages that lie within phone book to create the 3D portrait."

I'm not sure who this is, but he looks familiar