Posts Categorized: General

Google Image Labeler

OK, pretend you’re Google now. How do you go about getting unsuspecting users to do your bidding and label images for the Google Image Search? Make an addictive game out of it. This game sucked me in for longer than it should have. The basic idea is you’re paired up with some other unsuspecting Google… Read more »

Super Smash Flash

Ever wish you could pit your favorite old-school video games characters against each other? Ever wondered what it would be like if the Metroid man woman were in a battle to the death with Mario, or what would happen if Sonic the Hedgehog were to fight Link from Zelda? Well, wonder now more… Super Smash… Read more »

Google Flight Simulator

Just like you could drive a racecar through New York, You can now fly an airplane over several cities around the word. Googles, the Google Maps Flight Sim is a little Flash app that puts you in a little green and yellow plane where you can fly all over Google Maps satellite pictures of the… Read more »

SingShot Karaoke Online

Have you ever dreamed of signing karaoke with the entire internet? Well guess what, your dreams have come true with the beta release of SingShot. Plug in your computer mic, fire up your browser and in a slick flash interface you can hear other people’s renditions of (somewhat) popular songs, or sing your own. You… Read more »

Last.fm Operation Depth Charge

Last.fm, which I blogged about a while back has launched an updated version of their site (code named Operation Depth Charge). They’ve added some cool new features and totally overhauled their player. I use Last.fm all the time (mainly for listening to internet radio at work) and love the new features. If you’ve not checked… Read more »

1,500 Music Videos From the 80’s

Back when MTV used to play actual music videos this site has 1500 videos from the 80’s. I just spent way too long digging through this site. How many of these do you remember?

World Largest Web Page

This page is 9 quadrillion (yes, that’s a real number!) pixels by 9 quadrillion pixels. At 77 pixels per inch, the page is 1.844 billion miles per side…. BIG! This ginormous page was put together to show just how big the universe is. P.S. It only displays correctly in Firefox.

Google Checkout

On Thursday, Google released their long-rumored Checkout service. This new service allows shoppers with a Google Checkout account to pay for merchandise at a long list of retailers. This isn’t quite the PayPal killer (at least at this time) that it was rumored to be. It’s more of a shopping cart system that can be… Read more »

Twinkie Cookbook

For the 50th anniversary of the Twinkie last year, Hostess released a cookbook full of recipes using Twinkies. It includes some weird stuff like a Twinkie Burrito and Twinkie Lasagna (some of the recipes are available here). I think Perfetti Van Melle (the brilliant company behind Mentos) need to get their act together and make… Read more »

iPods More Popular Than Beer

I think the title of this one says it all. A survey was done of undergraduate college students and 73% responded that iPods were more “in” than beer. It is the second time that beer has been unseated as #1 in the annual survey. The last time beer lost was in 1997 when it lost… Read more »

Another Special Date/Time

This year has brought another special date and time. It is now 6:06:06 on 6/6/06 Happy 6-6-6-6-6-6 day!

Computer Part Mona Lisa

Is that a half-smile? Nope, it’s just some sticks of of RAM and a PCI card. The Computer part Mona Lisa is titled: Technology Smiling, and is on display at a tech exhibit in Beijing.

Wikimapia

Taking the customization of Wikipedia and the mapping ability of Google Maps, the new Wikimapia lets anyone anywhere put location specific information on a map of the world. Similar to just about any wiki, information can be tagged and edited by anyone visiting the site. To add something to the wikimap, just zoom to the… Read more »