The Real Lance Brown

This a pretty amazing waterfall/fountain that apparently was made in Japan. Impressive!

Online humor site Cracked.com has compiled a series of quite funny simulated Google searches:

If Google Search Results Had a Sense of Humor

Enjoy!

Light Stalking has featured a bunch of online image editors that sound really promising: 5 Of The Best Free Online Tools for Quick Photo Editing.

Do you have a preferred online image editor that you use?

This short film by Reggie Schickel explains, in a most creative fashion, how the book Atlas Shrugged impacted his views and changed his life. The film won the Atlas Shrugged Video Contest held by the Ayn Rand Institute, and it’s easy to see why it won. It’s super-inventive, really well-stated, inspirational, and real.

With the release of Part 1 of the Atlas Shrugged movie set for April 15th, fans of the book finally have something “new” from Ayn Rand to be excited about. In the meantime, fans and non-fans alike can groove on this cool video by Reggie.

If you’ve been waiting for something to push you over the edge to finally read (or to re-read) this legendary novel, here you go:

(I wrote about how Atlas Shrugged inspired me a few years ago, when the movie project was showing a lot of promise.)

Into old-school real-time strategy games? Electronic Arts is now offering the first 3 Command & Conquer games as free downloads: Command & Conquer Classic. Have fun!

Remember the giant-sized piano keys that Tom Hanks jumped around on in Big? Of course you do; you were just mentioning it the other day, remember? Anyway, aM laboratory’s Tone Matrix gizmo is way freakin’ cooler than that. Trying to describe it would suck all the art and wonder out of it, and still wouldn’t make it clear anyway, so just check it out. It takes about two clicks to understand how it works (and a potential afternoon to lose yourself in it).

I don’t think there’s an official objective to this visually intense flash graphic, but I was able to make the swirling seem to stop twice, briefly. Then my eyes started watering and I worried about giving myself a headache. It was fun*!

Swirling Cat Vortex Thingy

*pending me not actually getting a headache

Aside from these being really gorgeous super-wide images, the existence of this collection makes me feel less relatively geeky for having a three-monitor setup.

121 Amazing Triple Monitor Wallpapers To Spice Up Your Desktop | instantShift

I’m just getting a handle on non-animated stick-like cartoon art (for my webcomic The Little Things), but that doesn’t keep me from being enticed by the idea of making animated cartoons too…

13 Fast And Furious Stick Figure Animations And Tutorials @SmashingApps.

Block Posters – Create large wall posters from any image for free!

This is similar to the iffily-named Rasterbater tool that I posted about here some time ago.

Blinkx

“6 million hours of video content. Search it all.”

Viral Video Chart

“The world’s most talked about videos…currently tracking YouTube, MySpace and Google Video”

Channelchooser :: pick click play internet TV-channels

This is pretty neat: While My Guitar Gently Weeps

This is pretty wild.

“Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.”
For example:

Land Area
Total Population
Total Births
Total Children
Total Elderly
Population Year 1
Population Year 1500
Population Year 2300
Population Year 2300
Refugee Destination
Refugee Origin

and so on

Worldmapper: The world as you’ve never seen it before

Google free proxy!

A tip on how to use Google translation as a proxy server, to view web sites that have been blocked by censor services.

Here’s the Cliff’s Notes version:

You just need to type the following URL:

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.forbiddensite.com

Neato tool. Just check out the gallery of photos that people have taken of their printed-out posters if you don’t believe me.

Plus, it’s free, as is the standalone version.

The Rasterbator

Rasterbator standalone version.

V. Cool.

GorillaMask.net: Interactive Buddy

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