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About The Intornet
This app formats bits of text that are specified in a URL (anything before ".theintor.net") and modifies it based on whatever follows that URL (anything after ".theintor.net").
cool  urls 
may 2010 by mottram
Wow-e: Malthusian Fear Mongering Can Be Annoying | MetaFilter
Great story of Pixar folk generally being really cool.
cool  film  pixar 
july 2008 by mottram
FlickrBlog
Shitting fabulous geotagging features added to Flickr.
geowank  geotagging  geotags  flickr  cool 
august 2006 by mottram
The smart egg that shows you when it's boiled to perfection - Britain - Times Online
"A self-timing egg imbued with the powers of heat-sensitive invisible ink that turns black the minute that it is ready. All you need to do is decide whether you prefer your eggs soft, medium or hard-boiled, and buy accordingly."
eggs  timer  technology  cool  thermocromatic 
august 2006 by mottram
Beating Heart: Description Archives
A series of posts contextualizing heart-rate visualizations, GPS-maps, and personal journal entries... users are given a rare entrance into personal medical-grade statistics, stalker-level location tracking, and the private thoughts of the blogger.
visualisation  GPS  heatrate  cool  * 
july 2006 by mottram
MeFi Music | Community Weblog
A site for MetaFilter users to share their musical efforts.
metafilter  music  cool 
june 2006 by mottram
Meaning - Help - Basic troubleshooting
Very, very cool Series 60 app that lets you upload to Flickr from your 'phone, and adds contextual information (location, nearby Bluetooth devices, cell ID, etc.)
cool  applications  se60  n70  nokia  meaning 
february 2006 by mottram
No Garlic Please
By the lady behind We Make Money Not Art, and not dissimilar, but with more of a fashion/design focus.
design  art  fashion  culture  cool  weblogs 
january 2006 by mottram
Bloop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bloop is the name given to an underwater sound, first heard in 1997, that is occasionally heard by sonar equipment. The source of the sound remains unknown, but is thought to have originated somewhere around 50ºS; 100ºW.
cool  weird  info  unexplained 
september 2005 by mottram
YubNub - YubNub.org
"A (social) command line for the web."
search  web  tools  social  cool  ruby  rails  * 
september 2005 by mottram
Context Free
"...a small language for design grammars. These grammars are sets of non-deterministic rules to produce images. The images are surprisingly beautiful, often from very simple grammars."
cool  images  applications  osx  generator 
july 2005 by mottram
Social Fabric ~ Thesis 2005
"The Social Fabric is a representation of your social world, displayed as a single visual array on your mobile phone. It does not replace your address book or calendar but keeps you subtly informed about which relationships are prospering, which you have
cool  social  mobile  computing 
june 2005 by mottram
Champagne Chairs
Tiny little chairs, each made out of two champagne corks.
furniture  design  chairs  cool 
june 2005 by mottram
wonderfulgraffiti.com
"Wonderful Graffiti is extremely thin vinyl lettering with an adhesive backing for application on walls."
cool  decoration  graffiti  walls  wallpaper 
june 2005 by mottram
Agenda Inc. Live Feed - In Japan, Campbells offers "grow your own soup"
The seeds come in a tin that looks exactly the same as the red-and-white Campbell's can except the word "soup" is replaced by "seeds". Inside is a choice of seeds to grow miniature tomatoes, miniature pumpkins or green peas.
funny  soup  vegetables  cool 
june 2005 by mottram
Egg playing robotic drum machines
Yep, a robot that plays eggs. Wondrous.
audio  cool  funny  music  robots  sound 
december 2004 by mottram
Grand Illusions
Amazing optical illusion involving a wee dragon
cool  illusion  magic  optical 
november 2004 by mottram
Bass-Station
A boom box with a Wifi-enabled PC in it, designed to encourage localised collaborative information exchange. And playing tunes.
cool  networking  wifi 
september 2004 by mottram

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