Just Do It  On The Internets

0 Ian Huntley Gets His Own Jacuzzi And A Gym In Jail

… it’s absolutely true because I read it in the Daily Mail.

From the always excellent Dan and Dan (several months ago but I forgot about it).

3 Cool Typography-Based Poster Art

Was sent this by my internet mate Posh Rick who has no internet website so I sadly can’t turn his name into a link.

It’s basically just a series of 60 typography-based posters which are pretty cool, and there’s not much more to be said.

Clicky Click.

2 Company Of Myself

Whilst reading EDGE just now I discovered this little gem, called Company Of Myself. It’s very short, very clever, and very beautiful in its genius. One room is guaranteed to frustrate you to oblivion, but stick with it.

The ending: well strange.

0 Super Stacker 2

Latest annoying/addictive flash game I’ve happened across is this little physics-based stacking thing. You get given a sequence of blocks, and have to drop them in order and make a stack with none falling off the bottom.

Note that when you first go to the site there’s some ad that’s meant to appear, although it wasn’t loading for me. Give it a few seconds of “nothing happening” and a little “skip ad” link will appear to click.

Some of the levels are fiendish as all hell.

There’s a timer on each stage so there might be high scores when you finish the whole thing, or something.

2 Google: The Criminal’s Friend

I was moseying around those “internets” things today, as one does, when I happened across the following little “motivational”, as they are known:

A kid pointing a gun at another kid! “Pretty amusing shocking”, I thought, and decided to check if it was actually real. Slapping the address into Google Maps and dropping down to Street View we find…

A-ha, looking pretty real! There’s the kid holding the “heat”, stood out in the road, and there’s the smaller one next to him, on the “sidewalk”. Ok so we click to the next step along and…

Hrm. We’ve jumped a step! The image in between, where the gun’s being pointed, has vanished!

Check it out for yourself.

What can we learn from this?

Clearly, there’s only one conclusion to be drawn. Google are trying to protect this young man by hiding the evidence of his crimes. They must have contacted him, come to an arrangement, and removed the photograph.

Quite why Google want to encourage gun crime I’m not sure, but what with this and their recent WiFi harvesting scandal, there’s clearly something big going on…

¬_¬

0 m00t: Online Anonymity

A nice video of m00t speaking about 4chan and anonymity online.

If you know who this is, it’s worth watching, if you don’t, it… probably still is. The guy’s part of internet history.

0 Brighton At 100mph

Fresh from my second failure at taking photos of liquids splashing, I decided to try my hand at something, while still experimental, definitely a little easier: strapping my camera to something in my car and doing long exposure night-driving shots!

I figured the passenger seat headrest would be a good bet, and bolted the 10-20 lens in place for wide angle loveliness. A length of CAT-5, wound suitably tight and wedged about the place, “secured” the SLR, and looked roughly as professional as this:

The remote trigger made up the final piece of the puzzle, and, whaddya know, it worked a bloody treat. Of the 105 photos I took, quite literally quite a few actually literally looked pretty awesome. There were a few duffers of course, but, overall, a resounding success.

Pretty much all of them are in le gallery.

0 Bright-on Pier

So I went down to the pier and took some shots of it with a real long exposure, to see what’d happen. If you’d like to see what happened too, click the image.

1 Music Production Made Easy

Quite some time ago this simple tune making app appeared on the iPhone. I had a play with it, and it was pretty rad.

Just now I found a browser version, done in Flash, and it too: pretty rad.

Andre Michelle’s Tone Matrix

The sweet thing with this one is you can copy and paste your created tunes around by right clicking the grid itself and clicking Copy/Paste.

For example, select this whole list of numbers and Copy them:

65800,65536,65536,256,66564,65536,66112,0, 65540,66560,66560,0,65666,65536,32800,0

Visit the link above, right click the grid, and hit Paste. Et voila, my amazing tune.

So if you make any nice melodies, right cick the grid, click Copy, and Paste the results in a comment or something.

Or don’t bother.

It’s up to you!

1 Warwood’s 2010 World Cup Tournament!

Every couple of years, spookily coinciding with the World Cup and/or European Championships, me old mucker Mikey W likes to hold a little football-based sweepstake, of a sort.

Anyone that wanted to take part would pay a small fee, predict what they thought the outcomes of all the matches in the particular tournament would be, and whoever had the most accurate predictions at the end would win the cashizzle.

Bonus!

This time around, Mikey W approached yours truly and asked him how hard it’d be to code an online version, to save emailing people back and forth all day long.

Yours truly, after advising him how to do it, decided to secretly code the site himself from scratch, cleverly avoiding telling Mikey W of his horrendous hourly rates. How he thinks he can get away with charging someone for something they didn’t ask for he’s not sure, but he’s letting the lawyers worry about that.

Anyway; the site is live and if you want to read more and/or take part and know either me or Mike personally (if you know me on internets that almost certainly counts too), head over there! Quick!