So your hungry… you have three items in your cupboard that seemly don’t go together… what do you do? Goto Snacksby!
This food site feeds you custom recipes based on what you have in your kitchen already! At least it tries its best, or gets you really close to being able to make something edible. You can even get it to give you a shopping list if you have a couple recipes that you want to make, and are about to go shopping.
Kinda brilliant really. Give it a shot.
There are so many people out there who do one of the following with their computer:
1) Go out and spend $50+ on a packaged version of antivirus (normally Norton or McAffee)
2) Go without anti-virus because they can’t be bothered to pay $50+ on security
OR
3) Just too damn lazy to install an anti-virus
For people in catagory 3 get off your lazy asses! And for the people in the first two catagories, listen up because i have some good news! You DON’T have to spend money on anti-virus. You can get anti-virus for FREE. It’s even GOOD anti-virus. Some may argue that its BETTER anti-virus than the packages you spend $50+ dollars on! So I am here to enlighten the masses (or at the very least the 3 people that actually read this blog) to a couple options for FREE anti-virus.
I found this fun website (actually Rachael did… thx Rach!) that lets you create a virtual you. This is what I made…. head on over to Meez to make your own virtual you!
Edit: Btw… the animation is more fun when your listening to the Gorillaz 
I bet that headline caught your attention. It actually WASN’T a ploy just to get you to read this post. I actually do have a link to a bouncing boob (sorry breasts) simulator! This is a really cool link on two fronts; 1) The obvious… bouncing boobs BUT 2) It’s also an amazing use of flash! The intro is really well done, and the fact that they figured out how to render 3D bouncing boobs is beyond me! And just to show you how much i care….. i’m going to put the link after the break! muhahahaha!
Okay this is just weird. But for some reason I’m just sitting here thinking, “Why didn’t I think of that?!”. Basically some dude named Kevin asks for suggestions on what he should wear for specific occasions (going to work, going shopping, going to the gym etc etc) and everyone gets to pick items from his wardrobe and he wears what people vote for. If i had more clothes I would TOTALLY be down with having people dress me
Arguably one of my absolute favorite illustrators. Jason Scott from AppleOptionShift is an Adobe Illustrator master! Go and check out the site, and let me know in the comments which one is your favorite. The bar fly with the pint of Guiness pictured above is by far my favorite!
(Full disclosure: This IS a shameless plug. Jason is actually my best friend. That being said, he is STILL a fantastic illustrator.)
(I’ve also added AppleOptionShift.org to my blogroll so this will hopefully encourage Jason to start UPDATING his website)
So Google has now put up a service to allow you to host a website on their own server. Sure, its neat, but the stock templates are, for the most part, quite hideous. Although it does look remarkably better than pretty much anything i’ve ever seen on Geocities.
Anyway to make your own page (you need a gmail account) go to Google Pages or take a gander at my BEAUTIFUL page here.
File this under: Way too much time on your hands. The website Jacktracker uses the Google Maps API to add waypoints to a map of L.A. to follow the goings on in the television show 24. At each waypoint they keep track of notes, geographic inconsistancies (such as “there’s now way to get from here to here in 3 mins like they do!), photo’s and body counts. Its all in good fun and if you are as addicted to 24 as I am, it should be a welcome addition to your bookmarks.
Okay, after viewing this photo essay i REALLY want to work for Google. I would also like to figure out why Google is the one huge corporation that seems to have a “best friend” type of feel to it. They’re not big and scary. They’re big and cuddly!
An incredibly interesting article posted over at the Washington Post details a story of a Chinese man who was a Senior Editor at a newspaper, who posted an attack on the Chinese Propeganda machine that promptly spread across the internet in a matter of hours.
The top editors of the China Youth Daily were meeting in a conference room last August when their cell phones started buzzing quietly with text messages. One after another, they discreetly read the notes. Then they traded nervous glances.
Colleagues were informing them that a senior editor in the room, Li Datong, had done something astonishing. Just before the meeting, Li had posted a blistering letter on the newspaper’s computer system attacking the Communist Party’s propaganda czars and a plan by the editor in chief to dock reporters’ pay if their stories upset party officials.
Extremely interesting read. Read the whole article here.
