Monday, June 30, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Kenneth, what is the frequency?
Maximum Headroom
The home of interactive designer Paul Neave, neave.com makes for an entertaining timewaster or a suitable office screensaver substitute. It's a planetarium, retro game arcade, teevee channel surfer, 3D scribbler, and more. Try the Dandelion as a screensaver substitute.
Neave.com
Kenneth, what is the frequency?
Maximum Headroom
The home of interactive designer Paul Neave, neave.com makes for an entertaining timewaster or a suitable office screensaver substitute. It's a planetarium, retro game arcade, teevee channel surfer, 3D scribbler, and more. Try the Dandelion as a screensaver substitute.
Neave.com
Kenneth, what is the frequency?
Monday, June 16, 2008
Tarzan, Jane, Boy, and Cheeta
What's your theory, Darwin?
Cheeta turned 76 this year, making him the oldest living chimpanzee according to Guinness World Records. Star of eight or more Tarzan films he has become a painter in retirement. At Go Cheeta you can find his pictures, paintings, bio, and videos; along with links to his obligatory blog and myspace page. There's also a petition you can sign online for his seventh attempt to secure a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The caninecentric Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has stars for Rin Tin Tin and Lassie, but they never played opposite President Ronald Reagan. Personally, my vote goes to Lancelot Link. You can also choose you own favorite real or imagined primate at Mr Monkey's Index of Famous Monkeys or Famous Monkeys Through History.
Go Cheeta
Lancelot Link - The Reluctant Robot
Mr Monkey's Index of Famous Monkeys
Famous Monkeys Through History
What's your theory, Darwin?
Cheeta turned 76 this year, making him the oldest living chimpanzee according to Guinness World Records. Star of eight or more Tarzan films he has become a painter in retirement. At Go Cheeta you can find his pictures, paintings, bio, and videos; along with links to his obligatory blog and myspace page. There's also a petition you can sign online for his seventh attempt to secure a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The caninecentric Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has stars for Rin Tin Tin and Lassie, but they never played opposite President Ronald Reagan. Personally, my vote goes to Lancelot Link. You can also choose you own favorite real or imagined primate at Mr Monkey's Index of Famous Monkeys or Famous Monkeys Through History.
Go Cheeta
Lancelot Link - The Reluctant Robot
Mr Monkey's Index of Famous Monkeys
Famous Monkeys Through History
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
This is your brain on cell phone!
Making Cellphone Popcorn (without butter)
They're viral on the internet this week. Aim the antennas of three or four cellphones at a handful of popcorn and when you ring the phones the kernels pop. There's already Japanese, French, and American versions to name but a few. There's also inconclusive "proving the negative" versions where the kernels don't pop. Now Snopes has already added it as a footnote to it's article about last year's cook an egg with cellphones hoax, but I was unable (so far) to find any credible explanations for how the trick is done. Unfortunately for cellphone manufacturers the New York Times ran a piece last week about the ongoing debate over the health effects of cellphone use.
Japanese video
French video
American video
Snopes: Oeuf the Wall
New York Times: Experts Revive Debate Over Cellphones and Cancer
Making Cellphone Popcorn (without butter)
They're viral on the internet this week. Aim the antennas of three or four cellphones at a handful of popcorn and when you ring the phones the kernels pop. There's already Japanese, French, and American versions to name but a few. There's also inconclusive "proving the negative" versions where the kernels don't pop. Now Snopes has already added it as a footnote to it's article about last year's cook an egg with cellphones hoax, but I was unable (so far) to find any credible explanations for how the trick is done. Unfortunately for cellphone manufacturers the New York Times ran a piece last week about the ongoing debate over the health effects of cellphone use.
Japanese video
French video
American video
Snopes: Oeuf the Wall
New York Times: Experts Revive Debate Over Cellphones and Cancer
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Yomega's yo-yo clutch explained
National Yo-Yo Day
June 6 is National Yo-Yo Day! Or more precisely it's the birthday of Donald F. Duncan, Sr., who popularized the yo-yo in the US (he also founded the Good Humor ice cream company and invented the parking meter). You could celebrate by visiting the SpinningTop & Yo-Yo Museum in Burlington, Wisconsin where "The Top Lady", Judith Schulz hosts a collection of thousands of tops, return tops (yo-yos), trompos, trottoles, gyroscopes, spinners, rattlebacks, wizzers, diablos, toupies, kreisels, komas, logic puzzles, gizmos, and more. While you're there, just around the corner is the Burlington UFO and Paranormal Museum and Research Center with Gift Shoppe and Sci Fi Cafe. For more (or all) things yo-yo online check out Lee's Yo-Yo Page. By the way, in 1968, Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman was cited for contempt of Congress for, amongst other acts, "walking the dog" with a yo-yo during a session of the House Subcommittee on Un-American Activities.
SpinningTop & Yo-Yo Museum
Burlington UFO and Paranormal Center with Gift Shoppe and Sci Fi Cafe
Lee's Yo-Yo Page
National Yo-Yo Day
June 6 is National Yo-Yo Day! Or more precisely it's the birthday of Donald F. Duncan, Sr., who popularized the yo-yo in the US (he also founded the Good Humor ice cream company and invented the parking meter). You could celebrate by visiting the SpinningTop & Yo-Yo Museum in Burlington, Wisconsin where "The Top Lady", Judith Schulz hosts a collection of thousands of tops, return tops (yo-yos), trompos, trottoles, gyroscopes, spinners, rattlebacks, wizzers, diablos, toupies, kreisels, komas, logic puzzles, gizmos, and more. While you're there, just around the corner is the Burlington UFO and Paranormal Museum and Research Center with Gift Shoppe and Sci Fi Cafe. For more (or all) things yo-yo online check out Lee's Yo-Yo Page. By the way, in 1968, Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman was cited for contempt of Congress for, amongst other acts, "walking the dog" with a yo-yo during a session of the House Subcommittee on Un-American Activities.
SpinningTop & Yo-Yo Museum
Burlington UFO and Paranormal Center with Gift Shoppe and Sci Fi Cafe
Lee's Yo-Yo Page