asTWISTED byDave: How Evil Are You?
::: Thursday, February 23, 2006 :::

How evil are you?
Linkfest: My answer above was no surprise at all...- GALLERY: Beautiful China [Link] The pictures get better the farther you scroll.
- VIDEO: 24 Seconds [Link] A spoof of 24 using Simpsons, Family Guy and Futurama clips.
- Extend Firefox Contest Finalists [Link] This is a contest held to award the best and brightest extension developers in the Firefox community. The contest asked entrants to create Firefox Extensions that are innovative, useful, and integrate with today's Web services.
- VIDEO: Rube Goldberg Machine [Link] I love these things.
- 11 steps to a better brain [Link] It doesn't matter how brainy you are or how much education you've had - you can still improve and expand your mind. Boosting your mental faculties doesn't have to mean studying hard or becoming a reclusive book worm. There are lots of tricks, techniques and habits, as well as changes to your lifestyle, diet and behaviour that can help you flex your grey matter and get the best out of your brain cells. And here are 11 of them.
- Dave Barry .Com [Link] My favourite columnist has his own website, check out what he's up to these days.
- VIDEOS: Flowline & Megalodon [Link] CG water and whales... WOW!
- Scream TV [Link] The channel website. Love it.
- The Art of Linkbaiting [Link] Ever found it hard to get other bloggers to link to a new blog? Sure you have, it's not easy sometimes. Even established blogs need to expand their traffic and influence on a regular basis, and linkbaiting is one way to do it.
- How to make Garfield funny....remove his thought balloons [Link] It's like reading new comic strips, hahah.
- Torrent sites [Link] Oh SNAP!
- Letterfu [Link] Letter-writing without envelopes, cutting or glue.
- JAVASCRIPT: Image Cross Fader [Link] There is also a link to updated code.
- GALLERY: Can you grow cress in a keyboard? [Link] Yes!
- SHELL EXTENSION CITY [Link] Geekstuff, I know. Screw you, this is MY blog.
- NEWS: Calculating Dogs [Link] It seems dogs know calculus.
- The End of Scratched CDs [Link] One of the most frustrating things about CDs and DVDs is that one bad scratch can render them worthless. Now a Denver startup called Scratch-Less Disc is marketing a version that can be clawed at, dropped--even smeared with peanut butter--and still play like new.
- FLASH: Blair Snail [Link] Kind of gross, but what the hey, here you go!
- General Carbuncle [Link] James R Ford is a multi-media artist currently based in London, England. For this project, initiated in 2003, he aims to transform a second-hand Ford Capri into the General Lee, from Dukes of Hazzard, by covering it in little toy cars in the appropriate colours (mainly red and orange).
- b3ta Image: durham uni shower policy [Link] EEEWWWWW!!!
- GALLERY: Flying Pig [Link] OMFG, they shot that pig out of a cannon!
- Technologist Manifesto..., or Things Everyone in IT Should Know [Link] The best business solution is not always the best technology solution. The burden is on you, the technologist, to make the best system the business will use. There are two basic types of processes in business: physical and logical. Physical requires the proximity of two or more objects which must interact; like someone to load a crate onto a barge. Logical means it can be done anywhere with an acceptable network connection. The only point of IT is to improve physical operations by providing efficiencies and reducing logical operations by providing automation.
- Top 10 Web Moments of 2005 [Link] Why not?
- Nong.com [Link] Create and share your own social web apps! This is a fine example of Web 2.0.
- textorizer [Link] Textorize a picture using text strings. The images can be jpeg, png, gif, or xpm file less than 128K in length.