Archive | cool stuff

04 May 2011 ~ 14 Comments

The Janitor was right.

Apparently of all the people in the world who knew where Bin Laden was hiding, the Janitor from Scrubs was the only one who was right (along with the people who actually found him of course). This video has been all over the web today already and had been spread about on Twitter and Facebook. [...]

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27 April 2011 ~ 16 Comments

Easter Egg Art

I don’t always “get” art. Some of it is a bit too out there and weird for me to get what the artist was going for when they created the piece. I studied art at school, so I don’t feel I’m a total moron, but things like a giant spot on a page just go [...]

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18 April 2011 ~ 15 Comments

Cross-stitch is back in Vogue

Quite literally. Inge Jacobsen, a 24 year old student, has made some of the most amazing cross-stitching I’ve ever seen by stitching over the covers of Vogue magazine in perfect detail. The pieces took her about a month to make and look amazing. She actually puts lot of little holes in the cover of the [...]

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10 February 2011 ~ 5 Comments

Is craft the new cool?

Knitting may not seem very trendy, but all the cool kids are doing it.

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17 January 2011 ~ 6 Comments

Favicon Galleries

A nice little find for those of you who like design, and in particular favicons. Here’s my favourite sites so far: Favicon.co.uk The Favicon Gallery MpP Gallery Fineicons Favicon Gallery

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16 November 2010 ~ 5 Comments

iTunes finally get The Beatles’ albums

iTunes finally get The Beatles back-catalogue.

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05 November 2010 ~ 6 Comments

Remakes: Is nostalgia stifling our creative industries?

Remakes and reboots are all the rage in the film, game and television industries at the moment but are they stifling the output of creative new material?

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26 October 2010 ~ 4 Comments

Which dead celebrity earns the most?

Just in time for Halloween figures have been released to see who is making the most money from beyond the grave. Over the last year Michael Jackson’s estate brought in $275 million. This whopping figure is enough to put him in the top of the Forbe’s annual rich list for dead celebrities. Michael Jackson is [...]

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07 October 2010 ~ 132 Comments

Left 4 Dead release online comics

Left 4 Dead release online comics to promote the release of the new DLC.

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11 August 2009 ~ 3 Comments

Touchable Holography

Do you ever get the feeling that technology is running so quickly away from you that it’s impossible to catch up? I get that feeling almost daily, mostly due to my inability to understand even the most simple technological premise. Today, I read with goggle-eyed amazement that some boffins at the University of Tokyo, led [...]

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