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June 2006

Friday 30th

• Flying Motorcycle
  A cross between a motorcycle and an autogyro, check the video.
• Lighthouse Wave.
• SeaMonkey Suite can use Firefox extensions.
• Street Light
  I'm not sure if the builders were slack or inventive?
• Full nuclear weapons debate urged.
• Star Wars tattoos
  Suddenly i think there should be a law on what can be tattoo'd ;)
• Whisky woman is 'inspirational'.
• Every Parents Worst Nightmare
  2 children + 1 living room + 1 tin of paint = OMG!
• An A-Z Index of the Linux BASH command line.
• Really Bad Tattoos
  These really are bad tattoo's, it gets worse the further down the page you go.
• How To Bypass Internet Censorship.
• Street-Legal Jet Powered VW Beetle
  At the bottom of the page there's pictures of his wife's jet-powered scooter too...
• Trikke
  Like a 3 wheel scooter, that cambers.
• Speed-Reading Techniques.

Thursday 29th

• Royalty Free Stock Photography.
• Google are busily expanding as usual:
  Google Checkout
  Google Notebook.
• Unusual Pictures.
• Shuttle launch countdown begins.
• Picture quiz: CG or Real.
• Germany sets 'lax' carbon quotas.

Wednesday 28th

• Ladder Race.
• Stick It To 'Em
  'L.A. police turn to an adhesive GPS dart to lasso the getaway car'.
• Soft Drink F1 Car.
• Don't let stress make you stupid.
• Mini Dust Art
  Scott Wade's canvas for temporary paintings.
• MS fixes phone-home nagware.
• How to Make Real life stuff Anime style.
• Adobe releases Flash Player 9.
• Hi-tech firm's 200 jobs for city.

Tuesday 27th

• FrogPad Keyboard
  I've been on the look-out for a small keyboard for a while, but this one is seriously small!
• Is a good shaming worth a couch?.
• 300+ Free Full-length Cartoon Links.
• Todo.txt
  I've been following the progression of this To Do List idea (which just uses a simple .txt file and the command line) for a while on the excellent LifeHacker.com and i'm glad to see it's now got it's own place on the web.
• Knife Sharpening Tricks.
• Datel's Bluetooth headset unhooks your 360.
• Glyndwr group lose on battlefield.
• Imagination
  Flash, move your mouse cursor for a nice line effect.

Monday 26th

• DIY Projectors.
• Two clever ads.
• Free?
• How to Break Into a Password Protected Windows XP.
• Strait oil slick clean up begins.
• Lightning.
• BadTattoos.com.
• Ten tips for new Ubuntu users.
• Starlings, aka 'The Birds'
  Thousands of starlings all trying to land on the same tree, almost taking it down.
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee's Blog
  Who's he? He's only the guy that invented the world wide web...

Sunday 25th

• The rise and fall of the skyscraper.
• 3145 Miles Per Gallon.
• Hide Small Samples of MP3s in GIF Files.
• Destroy a Desktop.
• Coke Truck.

Saturday 24th

• Money thrown away is handed back.
• The Lizardman
  He's definately modified himself!
• Powers of Ten
  The video zooms out from a picnic basket in Chicago until the entire universe (more or less) is visible. And then they zoom all the way back down into the nucleus of an atom.
• Pictorial A-Z of Death
  'A is for Amy who fell down the stairs. B is for Basil assaulted by bears...'
• Inside the Linux boot process.
• The Size Of Our World
  A pictorial breakdown of the planets in our world, if you think Earth is a big place then check out Antares!!!
• Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design
  Although funny it's absolutely bang on the money.

Friday 23rd

• Snipshot.com
  'Edit pictures online'.
• Software Wars
  'A graphic map depicting the epic struggle of Free and Open Source Software against the Empire of Microsoft'.
• 55 Ways to have Fun with Google
  Free pdf version available.
• Pimp Bike.
• BOFH: Double whammy.
• Where the Heck is Matt?
  Matt dances his way around the world and has a video to prove it.
• Danger Linux.
• Art Illusions.
• Top 100 Network Security Tools.
• Substrate.

Thursday 22nd

• Device Burns Fuel with Almost Zero Emissions.
• Is there anything more badass than riding a motorcycle with a chainsaw on your back?.
• BumpTop desktop emulates physical documents
  Windows desktop that treats the files like physical objects, watch the video.
• Wrong Garage To Crash.
• Town chaos as cash thrown in air.
• US confirms Heathrow hijack plot.
• Cai Guo-Qiang’s Explosive Artworks.
• Ball Toucher.
• CityPixel.com
  Re-creating the world 1 pixel at a time, kinda thing.
• Selfillumination.
• Dunkelgold
  Nice artwork and tutorials on how they were made.
• RadioFeeds.co.uk
  'UK Radio Stations broadcasting on the Internet'.
• Top 10 Web Developer Libraries.
• ColorCombos.com
  Type the colour code (in HEX) and search for combinations to match it.
• PenDriveLinux.com
  Tutorials on how to run various distributions of linux on a USB drive.
• Sub Machine
  Good puzzle walkaround game, find the four pieces of the plaque.

Wednesday 21st

• Dell laptop explodes at Japanese conference
  You really wouldn't want this to happen on your lap!!!
• Extreme Hang Gliding
  Whoever came up with this deserves a medal, looks soooo fun.
• The pitfalls of anabolic steroid abuse...
• Rejected Crayola crayons.
• Moscow light show
  Nice pictures of a light show in Moscow.
• New bicycle design eliminates chain, derailleur and sprocket.
• Someone Stop Him Please.
• Opera 9 is go.
• Tree Branch Bike.
• Linux kernel goes Niagara.
• Your First Firefox Extension.
• Now We Know What They Actually Look Like
  Celebs without make-up and airbrushing.
• Chilly chip shatters speed record
  World's fastest silicon-based microchip has been demonstrated by scientists in the US.
• Solstice Sun Beams Into Chamber.
• Vincent Stahl
  Desktop Backgrounds.
• Maze Frenzy
  Guide the dot through the maze.
• Mesiria
  Flash based RPG type game.
• Solar Chimney Power Plants.
• Security
  Sneak past the security devices.
• PicturesOfWalls.com.

Tuesday 20th

• 80's Music Videos
  Collection of 80's Music Video's.
• Firefox Cheat Sheet.
• Rare 'Rainbow' Spotted Over Idaho.
• Damn Birds
  Your a statue taking your revenge on poo'ing birds, quite addictive.
• Sony PS2 isn't a computer, says UK judge.
• Windows XP Boot Process.
• A 10-Year-Old that is already better at drums than you are.
• Work begins on Arctic seed vault.
• Prettier Accessible Forms.
• Some Cats Just Get Into Anything...

Monday 19th

• Chopper Drop.
• eBayer goes for bust in ashtray auction.
• Saving Gas Mileage
  Chav-tastic petrol-saving idea.
• How to build the best paper airplane in the world.
• Audi claim historic Le Mans win.

Sunday 18th

• Safety fears as Shuttle date set.

Saturday 17th

• Welsh shine for Queen's honours.
• US TV network to air game events.

Friday 16th

• Playstation 3 goes on sale for £550
  Sometime before Christmas...
• Yahoo Hack Day Today.
• Osbournes Baby Buggy.
• Knitted Ferrari.

Thursday 15th

• A lot of Pot!!!
• Mark Jenkin’s Embed
  People's reactions to a sculpture of a man embedded in a wall.
• Why Vista is late.
• USB drive hacking.
• Crocodile Sign.
• eBay Wiki.
• Extend Your Wi-Fi Range With Pringles….
• Capital is least 'car friendly'.
• Unique cloud formations.
• X Guy.
• International Human Powered Vehicle Association.
• Wade & his Recumbent bike
  'I took off for a six-month bicycle tour two years ago and never quite managed to go back home'.

Wednesday 14th

• Release of 53 lifers under fire
  OK, we all know that the UK is called the nanny-state but this is insane, life should mean life, people are unlikely to report crime if serious criminals are going to be free in no time at all!!!
• SurrealPlaces.com
  Surreal 3D digital art, some excellent images.
• Fossils.
• Dungeon Escape
  Cheesy but fun, click the hotspots to help the hero escape.
• WrightSpeed.com
  'Wrightspeed builds extreme performance electric supercars'.
• USB Teddy Bear.
• AnotherPosterForPeace.org
  I liked the 'got democracy' poster.
• Algal Blooms monitored from space
  News story about 'Harmful Algal Blooms monitored from space in Chile', check the pic.

Tuesday 13th

• Nearly-Live Planetary Desktop Backgrounds.
• Eye OS
  Mobile desktop operating system.
• Google Earth available for Linux
  Thanks to Visp_Bofh for alerting me to it.
• Sitepoint's The CSS Anthology
  CSS tips, tricks and hacks.
• Shadow Dressing.
• rendr 2
  Real time editing of css and markup.
• Stolen Sidekick
  An ongoing account of one guy trying to get a mobile phone returned from the thieves who took it, a good read.
• Truing Bicycle Wheels.
• Feelings in Cyberspace
  Quite literally floating around, give the applet time to load and click the particles..

Monday 12th

• How to Mask Your IP and Use Country Restricted Services.
• That's a lot of industry going on.
• Leak Monitor
  Firefox extension to monitor for memory leaks in extensions, content and chrome.
• DVLA alert.
• Goodbye eBay, here comes GBuy.

Saturday 10th

• Colour Castle
  Very nice optical colour illusion, read the info and try it.
• How to Extend the Life of Your Car.
• Ghostzilla
  Invisible browser that sits inside your applications, sneaky browser for work :)
• 20 things everyone needs to know.
• Gallery of Hair Tradgedy.
• Amazingly Long Hair.
• Cash problems delay surgery unit.
• Imagery
  Picture interface for Google Images.
• Chat Creator.

Friday 9th

• Michaelangelo's David.
• Google releases browser sync for Firefox.
• The Fastest R&D Lab On the Planet
  Includes a video of a Moto GP motorbike lap around Laguna Seca.
• I Don't Think My Neighbor Likes Me.
• M$ opens up Vista testing.

Thursday 8th

• Lamborghini Police Car.
• How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu.
• Microsoft admits XP phones home every day.
• The Monkey Chow Diaries
  This guy is eating nothing but Monkey Chow for the entire week.
• Flawless Man-Made Diamonds.

Wednesday 7th

• Improve performance in Ubuntu.
• Getting your site sorted for IE 7.
• Panorama Explorer
  Panoramic pictures from around the world.
• How to Remember Amazing Amounts of Information.
• City traffic 'worse than London'
  Cardiff communters spend more time stationary than those in London, although they cover more miles per hour.
• Ant World Cup.

Monday 5th

• The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments
  'What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints?'
• Firefox Tutorials:
  How to Write FireFox Extensions
  Firefox Toolbar Tutorial.
• Oops, There Goes The House!.
• The PS3 seems to be taking a kickin' today with, PS3 hardware slow and broken and The PS3 GPU is not fast enough yet.
• Top 10 Coolest BBQ Grills
  There's some serious cookability here, a hemi powered bbq, and the #1 is larger and nicer than my kitchen!
• 'Ubuntu' - Explained by Nelson Mandela.
• The Office Supplies Trebuchet
  Step by step guide on making your own trebuchet from paperclips and the like.
• 360 rumor roundup: peripheral madness.
• Heavy Load.

Sunday 4th

• It's been a wonderfully sunny day, even I left the house!!! I find it amazing that you can spend all day in the sun and very little time driving, yet still get a drivers tan, doh!

Saturday 3rd

• Microsoft calms Xbox games fears.
• Cannabis 'reduces surgery pain'.
• Speeder
  Watch how fast the van goes past, then how fast he catches up to it :)
• v10 Drift
  Nutter in a BMW.
• Pepsi Girl
  Pepsi and Mentos with a twist.
• 25 Face Balls in 32 Seconds.
• SidewaysBike
  Curious sideways bikes...
• Big Eye in the Sky
  360 degree panoramic images taken from a helicopter.
• Bullet going through a Lemon and Discharge of a Shotgun.
• Unschooling
  Interesting reading on how to teach a child without sending them to school, sounds like every kids dream ;)
• Mars Humanoid Skull?
  Does this image show a hman skull on the surface of Mars
• Robert Newmans History of Oil
  Very interesting information about the US, Iraq and the global oil shortage that cometh! Link contributed by VispBofh. Whilst i'm in an enquiring mind kinda mood, checkout another video called Pentagon Strike which suggests that it wasn't an aeroplane that struck the Pentagon.

Friday 2nd

• M.C. Escher in Lego.
• I want a Firefox Extension to ....
• Top 10 Strangest Custom Gaming Systems.
• Automatix 6.1 available for Dapper and Breezy.
• Firefox 1.5.0.4 Released.
• Mad Max in Iraq.
• Be a Customer Service Ninja.
• BOFH: Union 'negotiations'.
• Mobile phone roaming fees slashed.
• Police 101 crime line is launched.

Thursday 1st

• How Stuff IS Made.
• Wrecked Exotics
  For all us jealous petrol-heads :)
• Card Toss
  Throw cards into a hat, not easy.
• Photo Enhancement 101
  Photoshop image enhancement tutorial.
• Cosmotions
  'Time-Lapse photo animations of the real cosmos'.
• Google Fan
  Nice collection of Google links.
• The Unofficial Web Applications List.
• Conference Bike
  How fun would this be if you were all under the influence of alcohol!!!
• Do It Now
  Time management info.