May 2007

Dumb Little Man shares a list of Solid Sites that Provide DIY and How-To Videos.

Need to do some quick image touch-up? Check out this comparison of several online image editors and choose the one that fits your needs best.

As great as Gmail is, it can be even better once you have learned 20 Ways to Use Gmail Filters.

The dread disease metalosis maligna infects surgical implants — artifical hips, surgical screws used to mend bone, and the like — and slowly turns its victims into grotesque agglomerations of steel and flesh, as depicted in this documentary. Thank God it's a fictional disease…
 

Even the much-maligned voodoo doll sometimes can't go on, and feels the need to end it all. Alas, the poor inept family of dolls in Viva Voodoo! are truly "too dumb to die".

I don't know squat about World of Warcraft, as my sons will attest… but I laughed myself sick at this video cross-reference between WoW dance moves and their real-world inspirations…
 

Jason Thomas shows us how to apply the Japanese philosophy of kaizen to improving our personal workflows: "To apply [Getting Things Done] in a Kaizen way, you might choose a few related ideas from GTD that will help you immediately in areas where you need the most work. Then you'd implement one tactic every week for a month."

I've been thinking that it's about time I gave this blog a facelift. Perhaps one of the 20 WordPress Themes That Don't Disappoint will be the new coat of paint.

Mashable provides capsule reviews of several services that allow you to send files larger than 500MB.

GMail has doubled its maximum attachment size to 20 MB. Huzzah!

Why couldn't I have found this list of 10 simple ways to save yourself from messing up your life twenty years ago?

Reminder to all Douglas Adams fans: Next Friday, May 25, is Towel Day:

"A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value — you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough."

Rodney McKay's Brain Processes (Average Moment): This is only going to be funny to other Stargate: Atlantis geeks. The rest of you: Move along folks, nothing to see here…

You know, I've never really considered working for the Federal government, but I could see myself building a very nice career in the Department Of Evil.

From Germany, Michael Bach brings us an impressive collection of Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena.