The greatest cars in the world - Top Gear’s host loves the Ferrari F360 Modena, but ultimately votes for the McLaren F1 … wonder if he’d still agree today what with the Ferrari Enzo. I think you can judge a person’s passion for what they do by their ability to interest those with only casual interest in the topic. That said, this guy excels at describing the wonder of cars and sucking you into his wonderment (is that a word?).
Tiny planets from photographs - “All these pictures are 360° panoramas projected to look like small planets.”
The effect is quite impressive. Furthermore, the author provides some great resources, with tools by the names of autopano-sift, hugin, enblend, mathmap, and PTBlender. So, the post processing looks technically demanding, but the final result looks stunningly simplistic.
This link probably via kottke.
Inventing the smiley face - Way back in 1982.
An infomercial jam session - “Now, let’s learn how to play, a rockanrollrhythm …” This Creative representative really knows how to sell a product. Check it out … the fastest rock drum tutorial ever.
T-Shirt with Undo Joke - Yes, the command for undoing your last action on a computer is either ctrl-z, or in this case, apple(command)-z. I’ll take one in a medium, please. From Insanely Great Tees.
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Check out some of the impressive videos they have from the duo’s late show performances.
Holy moley … this giant honey bunch of oats was found in my cereal box. Years of eating these and I’d never seen anything like it, it tasted like almost pure sugar.
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