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Screen Dimensions Calculator
Calculates the width and height of a screen according to format and diagonal size.
tools  reference 
25 days ago
EYEZMAZE --FLASH GAME--
Small, beautifully surreal puzzle games. Click on objects to make them interact with each other... unexpected things happen. The aim is to "level up" all of them. It's difficult.
flash  games  puzzles 
29 days ago
PONGS
36 variants on Pong.
flash  games 
6 weeks ago
FRUSTRO typeface on the Behance Network
A face based on the Penrose triangle. Beautiful and brain-bending.
fonts  design  illusions 
9 weeks ago
Go Faster Stripe
Kevin Eldon, Simon Munnery, Simon Donald, Lee and Herring (including Fist of Fun!) and other excellent British comedians on DVD.
comedy  DVD 
9 weeks ago
PolarClock « pixelbreaker
Attractive circular clock/calendar secreensaver.
software  windows  screensavers  time 
9 weeks ago
Collectible Japanese Secret Trick Puzzle Box Himitsu Bako
Lovely, expensive, handmade wooden puzzle boxes of all sorts.
wood  toys  puzzles  boxes  cubes 
12 weeks ago
NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein
Tool to demonstrate the blast and radiation range of various sizes of nuclear weapon, by overlaying on Google Maps.
history  reference  weapons  war  nuclear  google_maps  maps 
february 2012
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
Lots of little puzzles involving grids, numbers, lines and so forth. "I wrote this collection because I thought there should be more small desktop toys available: little games you can pop up in a window and play for two or three minutes while you take a break from whatever else you were doing."
games  puzzles  software  Windows  mathematics 
february 2012
Benedikt Groß – Metrography – London Tube Map to large scale collective mental map
Project showing what London's map would look like if deformed to match the Tube "map" (diagram).
maps  London  subterranea  transport  Tube 
february 2012
The London Orchard Project
"The London Orchard Project is a fresh initiative promoting orchards and fruit trees in London. We are working with Londoners to plant and harvest apple, pear and plum trees all over the city, and help us all to rediscover the pleasure of eating home-grown fruit. Join us and take part in the fruit tree revolution."
maps  London  food 
february 2012
The Institute For Figuring
"The Institute For Figuring is an educational organization dedicated to enhancing the public understanding of figures and figuring techniques. From the physics of snowflakes and the hyperbolic geometry of sea slugs, to the mathematics of paper folding and graphical models of the human mind, the Institute takes as its purview a complex ecology of figuring.

"Our activities include lectures, publications and exhibitions."
art  design  mathematics  geometry  models  exhibitions  lectures  puzzles 
february 2012
Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the relevance of various court cases towards whether a reproduction of an artwork can be copyrighted or not.
copyright  law  United_Kingdom  USA 
february 2012
dexim - Visible Green Cable for iPad/iPhone/iPod
USB charging cable that lights up depending on charge level! COOL.
task:buy  gadgets 
february 2012
CSS3 Please! The Cross-Browser CSS3 Rule Generator
Lovely tool to generate CSS3 rules that work across all main browsers. Click to edit rules live on the page to apply to a demo element; as you change one browser-specific rule all the others will be updated too. Especially good for gross IE stuff.
CSS  development  web 
january 2012
Tonido - Run your own Personal Cloud
Access files on your home machine from anywhere.
software  windows  filesharing  storage 
january 2012
Chain Letter Evolution
A history of the evolution of chain letters over 200+ years, with a collection of over 600 examples.
history  memes  oldschool 
january 2012
Chain Letters
A collection of chain letters collected between 1980 and 1995, tracking their evolution.
memes  oldschool  typewriters  paper 
january 2012
STL Ocarina
Zelda-style ocarinas for sale! OMG WANT.
music  instruments  task:buy 
december 2011
Sending big files the easy way - WeTransfer
Shiny file sharing utility. Files up to 2GB in size, downloads available for two weeks for free users.
tools  filesharing 
december 2011
Second Hand Songs - Home
"Find out who performed the original version of a particular song, or who covered that song. Unlike many related sites, we try to be as complete as possible (not just performer and song title, but also songwriters and original media) and order the data in a reusable and maintainable way."
database  music  reference 
december 2011
OysterCalculator - Oyster Card Fare Calculator
"Fill in ALL the journeys you make in one day and OysterCalculator will work out your Pay-As-You-Go fare!" Really useful. Just WHY OH WHY COMIC SANS?!
travel  tools  London 
december 2011
Case Law Hall of Fame - Lowering the Bar
Some of the strangest legal cases on record in America.
law  humor  weird  America 
december 2011
ComicRack
CBZ/CBR reader application for Windows.
software  windows  free  comics 
november 2011
Let's meet and work – places to work in London
A useful map of places to have some coffee, use wireless and get stuff done in London.
maps  London  google_maps  coffee  wireless 
november 2011
Releases - Ghostly International
"Ghostly International is a record label that embodies music of electronic methods and humanistic aims."
music  electronica  ambient  record_labels 
november 2011
archaic horizon
"Archaic Horizon is a net label, formed in 2006 to promote independent musicians. We are not limited to any one genre but are focused on the experimental and eclectic, releasing those artists who are forward thinkers and advance music.

"Archaic Horizon is an attempt to break conventions and bring new understanding to what experimental music can be. Our artists can be found worldwide, contributing the finest quality music free for download."
music  electronica  ambient  free  record_labels 
november 2011
Lindsay's Technical Books
"Exceptional technical books for experimenters, inventors, tinkerers,
mad scientists, and "Thomas-Edison-types." "
books  engineering 
november 2011
The Idiots' Guide to Highways Maintenance
Scads of technical information about highways maintenance in the UK with copious references to relevant standards documents, etc.
reference  roads  United_Kingdom 
november 2011
Sony glass tile prototype - YouTube
Experimental prototype system from Sony in 2007 of a cellular display with glass tiles each representing a content type that can be laid on it. Upon doing so, the square of display under the tile becomes a specific kind of interface that can be interacted with, such as a video player, possibly with a physical attachment to the glass tile. When several are laid down next to each other, content can be moved "between" them.

A very unusual and interesting idea. It's a shame it never took off at all.
virtual_and_real  computing  interfaces  gui  stillborn_technologies  type:video  YouTube 
november 2011
Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs on Vimeo
"We propose a method to realistically insert synthetic objects into existing photographs without requiring access to the scene or any additional scene measurements. With a single image and a small amount of annotation, our method creates a physical model of the scene that is suitable for realistically rendering synthetic objects with diffuse, specular, and even glowing materials while accounting for lighting interactions between the objects and the scene."
3d  graphics  photography  virtual_and_real  type:video  Vimeo 
november 2011
Augmenting Indoor Spaces Using Interactive Environment-aware Handheld Projectors - YouTube
"This video shows handheld projector systems have the potential to enable users to dynamically augment environments with digital graphics. In this research project we explore new parts of the design space for interacting using handheld projection in indoor spaces, in particular those that are 'aware' of the environment in which they are used."
virtual_and_real  type:video  YouTube 
november 2011
Tonematrix
"Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered step causes a force on the underlaying wave-map, which makes it more cute." In plain English, a grid of squares each of which plays a tone when activated by a pulse sweeping across the grid at a regular speed.
toys  sound  generative  music 
october 2011
Pulsate
Click to create circles that grow and shrink. When they hit other circles, music is made.
toys  music  generative 
october 2011
Vacation rentals, private rooms, sublets by the night - Accommodations on Airbnb
List your own home for people to vacation in, find people's homes for you to vacation in. Kind of like a Couchsurfing Pro.
travel 
october 2011
The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito - Page 1
A fault opens in the side of a mountain... in the fault, innumerable human-shaped holes. And each one seems to be shaped like a unique individual....
comics  manga  horror 
october 2011
Traffic Signs Manual
UK Government manual on the design and usage of road traffic signs.
signage  design  United_Kingdom  roads 
october 2011
The Design and Use of Directional Informatory Signs
UK Government specifications for road directional signs.
design  signage  United_Kingdom  roads 
october 2011
Two-Tone Optillusion Puzzles -
Magnetic 16-piece square puzzles with eye-watering lenticular images on them. <3
puzzles  illusions  lenticular  task:buy 
october 2011
Cleartones
Simple, minimalist ringtones.
sounds  telephony 
october 2011
www.mot.be | Museum of Old Techniques
A museum in Belgium of historic craft and artifice techniques.
museum  history  technology  tools  engineering 
october 2011
The Believer - Discover Kymaerica
Charles and Ray Eames' grandson is placing plaques around the world detailing the history of an alternate reality.
virtual_and_real  art  fictional  history 
october 2011
Index of sounds
Examples of vocal sounds humans can make.
linguistics  audio  phonetics  sounds 
october 2011
Peter Pawlowski's home page : Software : Boom
Easy-to-use Windows audio player based on foobar2000.
software  windows  free  audio 
october 2011
Adversity Adblock List
"blocks known web bugs, analytics and tracking"
privacy  from delicious
september 2011
Ghost Diagrams
"<br />
Ghost Diagrams is a program that takes sets of tiles and tries to find patterns into which they may be formed. The patterns it finds when given randomly chosen tiles are often surprising."
art  math  diagrams  generative  from delicious
september 2011
minecraft in real life | BEN PURDY
Real-life "Minecraft" block, projected from inside itself, that responds to being tapped. Very cool.
virtual_and_real  games  from delicious
september 2011
Welcome to RainwaterHOG
Flat-shaped plastic modular rainwater tank that can stand or lie flat.
water  green  sustainability  from delicious
september 2011
The NEW Oil Age Poster (Dec 2010)
"Colorful and authoritative, this poster traces the history of the Oil Age from its beginnings in the hills of western Pennsylvania to its rise as the engine of global industrial economies. Two hundred years of the Oil Age are depicted in the poster's main chart, which features a colorful year-by-year rendering of Colin Campbell's Depletion Model. Historical annotations as well as detailed data on production, trade and reserves make this poster a versatile tool for presenting the realities and implications of global oil production and its impending peak."
task:buy  data  visualization  oil  sustainability  charts  from delicious
september 2011
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