Forget banner messages towed by planes or those annoying pop-up windows you get while surfing the net, now you can be bombarded with advertisments while sun-tanning.
What’s 42 feet tall and 150 feet long and has some visitors to Vancouver’s beaches shocked and annoyed?
It’s a huge billboard, featuring a Nike ad, being towed on a barge around English Bay and Burrard Inlet this summer.
The giant ad was made for Nike Canada. It floated around the Burrard Inlet today, featuring Markus Naslund pulling on tension bands. At least Vancouver can be first in the world for something.
The Vancouver Courier — Nike cutting into beach time via Rob Chartier — Contemplation…
While Napoleon Dynamite may have made these guys famous, they actually do exist. I have read they they grow to enormous sizes (ie much larger then normal lions/tigers) because a certain growth-promoting gene is not repressed.
National Geographic News Photo Gallery: “Dynamite” Pictures of Ligers
Check the wikipedia entry for more info … or if you don’t know what a Liger is.
Update: You can also check out these pictures (via digg) as well.
Continue reading ‘National Geographic Liger Pictures’
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Sean 5 years ago in
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Here is a video clip and step by step instructions showing how to fold a t-shirt in 2 seconds. Every clothing store employee should go to:
fold-your-shirt.com via digg.com
The creation of one element from it’s opposite. This guy details how to start a fire from an ice lens. Once you’ve got that fire started, you might not have to much of the lens left.
Now, here’s the beauty of an ice sphere: you can rotate the lens as much as you want. If the sphere were perfect in shape, then any rotation would have no effect. Given that these hand-made spheres are not perfect, we can rotate the sphere and look for the sharpest focus or dot. It is surprising how what I thought was a pretty good sphere worked extremely well in certain orientations and poorly in others.
Given the ease of construction and the flexibility in use, I am quite convinced that an ice sphere is an excellent candidate — if not the best — for an ice lens.
Fire From Ice by Rob Bicevskis via Digg
Dan Steingart has written a PHP script that will pull your tags from Flickr and arrange them in a tag cloud for inclusion on your site. There are a number of parameters you can tweak including min and max font sizes, sort order, color, and username by applying arguments to the URL.
Similar to the tag clouds mentioned ealier, check out this php file which adds a cloud of your Flickr tags to the site.
cloudTagFlickr via Download Squad
CG has come a long way…
Capturing realistic quality in 3D images is a true art that takes a lot of time and effort.
Tech Manifesto » 3D Photorealism via Digg
… a really long way.
Fiat Lux — The Movie via Digg
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Sean 5 years ago in
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Check out this Big Beer Ad.
Track visitors to your website using Google Maps
How it works…
1) Register your website using the form below. It is free and we don’t collect any personal information — not even an email address.
2) Copy and paste a single line of JavaScript to your website. It is easy and doesn’t change the way your website works or looks.
3) You will be given your own URL that lets you track the visitors to your website using Google Maps.
See the site at:
gVisit.com — Track visitors to your website using Google Maps via Digg
Here are some good shots of the recent space shuttle launch.
Discovery Launch Photos via Digg
Chaos erupted this morning at the Richmond International Raceway as thousands of people stampeded through the gates in a rush to buy used iBook laptop computers for $50 each.
I want a laptop too, but that is just crazy. Those iBooks were four years old; thats a really long time in technological terms. Maybe good design is timeless.
TimesDispatch.com | iBook sale erupts in chaos, stampede via Boing Boing
NBC12 News | Mob scene, several hurt in rush for cheap laptops via Digg
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