I’m a symphonic music kind of guy, and this is pretty amazing to me:
Be sure the read the group’s web site to read more about the group and their concerts. The best part? They serve fresh vegetable soup after every performance.
Category: Cool
Link Dump
Totally slammed, links piling up, so here are a bunch of random links that have been sitting in my to-do pile for a while:
- Want to pay off a credit card? Get a loan from the community at-large with Prosper (facinating idea!).
- Linux Media Center Edition (check out the screen shots).
- Roll your own software MP3 player with Foobar2000 (I’m going to replace WinAmp with this as I just want a bare-bones MP3 player).
- Making paper from elephant, moose, panda, and sheep crap.
- How a USB key helped find a lost child (my kids are going to start carrying USB key).
- Save space in your Firefox tab bar with Faviconize Tab.
- Great least of open-source apps for PC and Mac
- American Airlines thinks women can use a web site’s power search.
- A toy every kid should have.
- If you can’t create a contact form on your site but don’t want people to get your e-mail address, use this free service.
- Great tool for comparing and getting CSS code for screen type.
- Using any USB key with Vista’s ReadyBoost.
- Getting your site out of Google’s “supplemental index.” and into the primary index.
- The new AOL Beta Site looks a lot like Yahoo’s home page.
- And this one is for you, Jon: A Commodore Wordpess theme (download it here).
More useful links and discussion fodder tomorrow.
Irfanview Goes 4.0
This was one of my stupidly handy apps, and it’s now gone to version 4.0.
Amazing Yo-Yo Skills
This has to be one of the most impressive things I’ve seen in a while.
Good Vs. Evil Foosball Table
This thing is stupidly expensive (just a hair under $30,000 USD, depending on the exchange rate at the time), but really cool.
When it becomes good versus evil ~ which side of the foosball table are YOU on? On the team of Evil XI we have: Pot, Lucifer, Calgula, Ripper (as in Jack), Impaler (as in Vlad the), Hitler, Macbeth (as in Lady), Hyde, Klebb (as in Rosa), Amin, Catcher (as in the Child). Playing for Good XI we have: Claus (as in Santa), More (as in Sir Thomas), Moore (as in Bobby), Gordon (as in Flash), Robin (as in Christopher), God, Assisi, Jekyll, Poppins, Teresa, M.K. Gandhi.
Link via Kottke.
Addicting Flash Game For The Day
Simple concept — just bounce the indestructable tank into planes, collect the points. But it sure is fun.
Everybody Gripes About “Those Stupid Teenagers…”
But sometimes, there are some teens out there, like this local teen, who do really good things.
It was the biggest victory of Ben Watts’ young career, and he wanted to share it with a fellow Bend snowboarder who couldn’t be there with him.
After winning the overall freestyle title at the USA Snowboard Association Nationals last week at Northstar at Tahoe resort, the 13-year-old Watts was awarded a check for $500.
Watts then walked over to his coach, Hans Hibbard, and asked him to give the money to a fund for Tyler Eklund.
If you don’t know who Tyler Eklund is, read up here. But that was a really cool gesture by a good kid.
You’ve Got Five Minutes…
…can you do yourself in (fun little disturbing Flash game)?
Easy Peer-to-Peer Wireless Network
WiPeer is a simple little program that enables serverless peer-to-peer networks using wireless cards, and I could see this being really handy.
– You are visiting your friends and would like to transfer photos of a shared trip from your laptop to theirs. Wouldn’t it be great if you could share your files with them directly from one computer to the other?
– You are sitting in a boring lecture. You and your friends all have laptops, but your university has not installed an access point in the lecture room. Wouldn’t it be great if you could play a game of Chess or Reversi against them, or even gossip with them about yesterday’s football match?
– You are stuck in an airplane for a long flight and you are looking for something to do. If you could only play a game of Chinese checkers with other passengers…
– You have a home network, or even a small office network, and you’d like to share files among your computers without having to set up a dedicated server. There has to be a simple way of doing this.
What A Stupidly Clever Idea
Need a way to protect your bagel sandwich in your lunch bag? Use an old CD spindle (I’ll have to quit throwing these things away). Link via Geeologie.