An interesting look at the McMansions of the religious world.

An assumption is made that if you’re serious about the web, you’re using Firefox. Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that lets you add bits of DHTML to any web page to make it behave better than it was originally designed. For example, you could insert competitors prices into Amazon listings or insert links to bittorrents into Netflix listings. Hundreds of existing scripts are provided for web-based mashup.

A neat trick you can do with your desktop background image. People match the wallpaper with what is behind their monitor to make the screen look invisible.

FedEx Furniture is furniture put together by empty FedEx Boxes, and held together by fedex packaging supplies. All of the furniture seen here is 100% functional.

Here is a movie of the unveiling of ASIMO from last year to go with the previous ASIMO entry. It looks like a robot from a 1960’s sci-fi movie, but knowing that thing is real just scares me.

For all you guitar players (or aspiring guitar players) out there. The ability to change out of standard tuning to any tuning you want is particularly useful. Be sure to press the ‘Strum’ button!

A couple of guys built their own tracking sentry gun that fires bb’s, so I figured it might be a good project for some of you. And if you’re psychotic, you can do it with a real gun! But rembember that would be very illegal and you’d probably kill your wife, who let’s face it, is the only person who’s ever loved you. You inhuman monster.

You’ll lose your job. Your significant other will leave you. Your children will starve. You will be entertained for the rest of your life. StumbleUpon adds a button to your web browser that when pressed, presents you with a random web page based upon your selected interests. When you’re bored with the page, just press the button again for more entertainment. And again and again and again and…

Avast, it’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, so grab some grog and learn to speak like one you bilge rat!

Easier than Outlook. Simpler than notepad. More useful than either. 37Signals Backpack is an outrageously cool and useful web application that you can post to, read and edit effortlessly. The basic service is free and probably useful enough for most people as-is. I can’t say enough good things about this tool and have only scratched the surface in my own usage.

“The controller for Nintendo’s upcoming Revolution home console system is a cordless remote-control-like device designed to be used with only one hand. Two small sensors placed near the TV and a chip inside the controller track its position and orientation, allowing the player to manipulate the action on screen by physically moving the controller itself.” continue reading… »

Have you ever wondered what a stack of one million pennies looks like? How about a trillion? Or maybe one quadrillion? Perhaps a quintillion? Did you even know there was such a number as one quintillion? I didn’t. This site is all sorts of useful.

Another optical illusion. Stare at the cross in the center of the circle and try not to move your eyes off of it. Eventually the outer circles should appear to fade or disappear entirely.

This is what a real robot looks like. The pioneering roboticist Hans Moravec first described the idea in the late 80’s. This abstract summarizes the concept, math and geometry of a “bush robot”. Such a robot could perform tricks like surgery without incisions, act like a lens, project holograms, and of course, embody a human mind with plenty of CPU & RAM left over to carry out its unimaginable posthuman agenda.

Is it me, or are humanoid robots just plain creepy? Here we see Honda’s ASIMO menacing a small child. She did nothing to deserve this treatment, and the thing can climb stairs! Why do engineers insist on designing them this way?

Newsmap is a Flash application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. Its objective is to demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media.

Far too much information about coffee & espresso machines.

Now officially available: the illusion that made baby jesus cry. Those bean-like things are moving so much I want to slap them, but they’re actually not moving at all. Seriously.

This thing can be used to “install” three dimensional sausages into real space, sort of. I have no idea what I would do with it but I want one so badly just the same.

Botox is the real life equivalent of the Photoshop smudge tool.