A pretty image collection featuring things being smashed, taken using high-speed photography. Me like to smash things good. Me like pretty pictures.

Gotta love open standards. Here’s a clock where the numbers you see for the clock are randomly pulled from images on Flickr, using Flash no less. Seriously, I’m old enough to remember when Flash was sorta stupid, now its all growed up!

The Prejudice Map was created by doing Google searches on what citizens of various countries are known for. For example, searching for “germans are known for *”, and compiling the most common results.

This is all sorts of useful.

I don’t understand Spanish so unfortunately I can’t tell you how these voodoo fishermen make the fish jump right into their boat. But an educated guess says it is either mental powers or the fact that they have the Top Gun anthem playing in the background.

…and just about everything else for that matter. I would have expected it to cost more. And be shinier.

Microsoft catches a lot of flak for the Blue Screen of Death, but as frequently noted throughout the BSoD documentation, most BSoDs are due to faulty third-party hardware drivers. Still, why not make the best of it and get a t-shirt or screensaver?

First person to buy me one of these gets a free t-shirt.

Go to futureme.org and write yourself an email to be delivered to you up to 30 years in the future. I already tried it and asked myself how LOST will end, or more specifically what happens if they don’t press the button and will Jack and Kate ever do it, but so far I have not heard back.

Once the image loads, hold down your mouse button and drag it up and down to zoom in and out of the image. And then watch as your mind is blown into a zillion tiny pieces by the raw power of the zoom quilt’s coolness. PS: after the link, pick the ‘Flash’ option.

The National Safety Council has put together a very useful document providing you with the odds that you will die from all manner of deadly incidents. For example, in your lifetime you have a one in 5,766 chance of dying from ’slipping, tripping, or stumbling’. Keep that in mind the next time you get up to go to the bathroom.

Well now that this secret has been exposed it shouldn’t take too long for a few ‘internet videos’ to appear with people trying this experiment themselves. Only they’ll probably have the bottle aimed at their face or maybe up their ass. That’s what you get when you mix science with the Internet.

The Virtual Air Guitar project, developed at the Helsinki University of Technology, adds genuine electric guitar sounds to the air guitar. Using a computer to monitor the hand movements of the ‘player’, it adds riffs and licks to match mid-air finger work. The player wears a pair of brightly coloured gloves, enabling computer vision software to keep track of their hands and detect different gestures.

Pandora is that friend you once had who knew everything about music and was always turning you on to new stuff. It is internet radio with a brain. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and it will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice.

Are you tired of wading through slow and incomprehensible menus, or “talking” with Betsy the animatronic operator, when phoning your favorite corporation? This page has a list of tricks to automatically get you in touch with a real human. Of course this real human is probably in Bangalore or Arkansas so you’ll still end up downing a bottle of Windex in a vain attempt to bring some clarity to your situation.

Mr. Tew, a 21-year-old student from England, created the home page milliondollarhomepage.com and divided the screen into 10,000 small squares of 100 pixels each. His plan was to sell the squares to advertisers at a price of $1 per pixel. He is currently $644,600 towards his goal.

I like to call it ‘The Wall of Spam’. But that’s probably because I’m jealous.

This site features an online facial recognition application that you can use to find that twin you were seperated from at birth. As a twist you can also find the closest match of your face to those of over 2,400 celebrities. I got matched to the guy you see on the left. That’s Brad Pitt, right?

An awsome picture of the new Airbus A380. That thing is a monster! But can anybody out there explain to me how something that enormous and made out of metal can fly over oceans yet I can’t stay airborn on my own for more than 1 second? Really, I’m quite serious. It’s frustrating.

Bad-ass shirt-folding techniques from the ninjas in asia. The shit works, I just tried it. Possibly brought to you from the same people who provided the helpful video on How To Not Look Asian.

The low-level workings of Google’s infamous page ranking system are finally explained.