Category: Media
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Frugal Reader
Frugal Reader looks interesting. It basically connects you to a lot of people who’ve turned their book collections into a giant lending library. $1.84 or $2.26 for postage to ship one of you books seems kind of steep though. Sure, it’s less than the $10+ you pay for new paperbacks these days, but it seems…
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Manege Frei
I’m not sure what Manege Frei means. I assume it means something like sad bear in the circus or something like that. It’s a nice flash movie though.
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Sand Castles
I heard about a sand sculpture contest they were having down in Long Beach, so I drove down there to check it out. I was only out there for like an hour, but I got amazingly burnt. It turns out there is no atmosphere over Long Beach. The unfiltered solar radiation just drills down at…
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Bang Bang
You know, I usually pay very close attention to the lyrics in songs (at least when I can make them out). For some reason though, I never really noticed the lyrics to Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. At least I didn’t until I saw This Maxwell’s Silver Hammer Cartoon It’s kind of dark in a happy kind…
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Greg the Bunny
Holy crap, new episodes of Greg the Bunny are airing on IFC! I absolutely loved Greg the Bunny when fox was running it. Unfortunately, this preview clip Greg the Bunny Video does Las Vegas is amazingly unfunny. I hope the rest of the shows are better than this.
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Graffiti Art
I’d never heard of the graffiti artist, Banksy. I guess he’s English. The Guardian is caring some images from a recent trip to West Bank barrier in Israel/Palestine. It’s interesting stuff. I wish the images were bigger though.
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The F Number — Demystified
The F Number – Demystified : In any camera that allows you to have control over aperture, the aperture setting is done using what is referred to as F stops. […] Every newbie, faces some confusions with these F numbers. They don’t seem to follow a linear series like 1, 2, 3, 4 Notation keeps…
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Interesting Photos
Flickr Explore provides a window to some of the most interesting photos on Flickr on any given day or month. The interface hides a few things, and it took me a while to find the very, very obvious link to just how they determine a photo is interesting, but even with all of that, this…
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Bounce High My Little Rubber Brothers
Wow, that’s a lot of super balls!
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Jets Engaged
Kyle Winkelman has an animated short called SAM (WMV File) about a robot janitor who wants to fly rockets.