Articles in category 'Interesting(?) Stuff'

I don’t do a lot of freelance work, but I do some.
This article has some very good advice if you’re thinking of going down the freelance road.
10 Absolute “Nos!” for Freelancers  
The biggy for me is Number 3) Will you register and host my site? No. 
“You see, once the client thinks that you are responsible [...]

April 9, 2008, 2:54 pm o'clock

Well, it’s obvious really.

See? Makes perfect sense

April 9, 2008, 4:10 am o'clock

The Saltine Challenge 
Basically, eating 6 Saltines (a type of cracker) in 60 seconds. I haven’t tried this myself, and it seems to be one of those things where you say, “nah, it can’t be that hard can it?”. I’ll have to see what the equivalent of Saltines is over here, and give it a bash.
Purely [...]

April 8, 2008, 5:17 pm o'clock

This is a bloody good idea, actually, save some fuel and get the wind to help power your ship. The kite is apparently the size of a football field.
“The SkySails system consists of a towing kite with rope, a launch and recovery system and a control system for the whole operation. The control system acts [...]

April 8, 2008, 5:12 pm o'clock

I will be posting a few backlogged entries over the next few days.
I have a whole load of entries starred on Google Reader. It would be cool if when you starred an article it would ask for a comment, and then allow you to post that automatically to your blog. Not that I am terminally [...]

April 8, 2008, 4:32 pm o'clock

This is just too cute!
 
Via Ursi’s Blog 

April 8, 2008, 3:28 pm o'clock

Track flights in the airspace around Zurich at http://radar.zhaw.ch/radar.html, and track swiss trains around at http://www.swisstrains.ch/. There is a cool little trick on this one - click on a train, then click follow on the popup menu - it starts following the train around on a satellite map!

February 18, 2008, 7:31 pm o'clock

This is very funny. Please ensure milk -> nose -> monitor + keyboard interface is deactivated before viewing

February 15, 2008, 1:13 pm o'clock

Saw this today on the J-Walk Blog. This is really cool, and a nice song to boot. They also look like they are having so much fun!

December 13, 2007, 1:14 am o'clock

http://cjcphoto.com/can/

December 7, 2007, 6:01 pm o'clock