Thursday, February 28, 2008

Friday Games






Manic Miner. Excellent recreation of the original ZX Spectrum classic. Speaking of which does anyone have any experience of ZX Spectrum emulators for their PC.

Free IQ Test. I got 143.

The Greatest Nintendo Games of All Times - Playable Directly In Your Browser!

Maze Frenzy

Mindscape

Atomz

Wpnfire

Ninja Balance (via)

Blocky 2

Ultimate Racing. Very good Flash racing game.

Twilight Photography Tips






4 Rules of Composition for Landscape Photography

Twilight Photography Tips

Winter Sports Photography Tips - Flash Compensation

The Mother of all Telephotos (via)

The Land List - An Ongoing Project in Cataloging Polaroid Cameras

Polaroid Closing Instant Film Factories

12 Tips for Improving Camera Phone Photos and 9 Pet Photography Tips.

Flickr - The Library of Congress Pilot Project

Adobe's Magic Lens Lets You Control Image Depth After the Shot

5 Ways to Create Beautiful Slideshows of your Digital Pictures (via)

1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook






1962 Fallout Shelter Handbook

Inside the world of war profiteers

Top Nine Insane Weapons Of War

One of Last 2 WWI Vets in US Dies

Troops struggle with 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants

For 50 Years, Nuclear Bomb Lost in Watery Grave

Google Earth Quiz Number One

Selected World War I Draft Registration Cards: Famous, Infamous, and Interesting (via)

Soldier's message in a bottle surfaces – 90 years later

The Wizard of War

Selected World War I Draft Registration Cards: Famous, Infamous, and Interesting (via)

Helicopter Crash






YouTube - Boeing 707 barrel roll

YouTube - Tilting German Ice Train

YouTube - Crane drops a Steam roller on car

YouTube - Drifting Tool. Some show off runs himself over whilst doing a burnout.

Aircraft Marshalling 12 Sqn way(via)

YouTube - Pyramid Car (via)

YouTube - Helicopter Crash. Fool.

Aviation - The Best and Worst

Lauren Cleri Destroys Her Husband on Moment of Truth






Lauren Cleri Destroys Her Husband on Moment of Truth. I know you rarely get to hear the full story but, wow, what a bitch. Stick with it for a few shocking questions and the conviction of what I believe to be her father on a question about whether she really is a good person.

Saudi men arrested for 'flirting'

Wife suspected of using wasps in hit on husband accepts plea deal

The Golden Age of Wife Selling

5 signs she’s into you (via)

7 Incredibly Specific Dating Sites (via)

If men really ruled the world

Top 15 Most Expensive Divorces of All Time

The Joy Of Sex(ism)

Ten Longest Bridges In World






Blue Building (via)

The Stump House

Tilted Japanese House

The frightening grid of Nezahualcoyotl

Family size three-seat privy listed

Handmade Home

The Amazing Nautilus Shell House

Hands down, the coolest skyscraper ever made

Ten Longest Bridges In World

17 Extreme Houseboats and Houseboat Designs: From Luxury Habitats to Humble Floating Homes

How I built my house for £4,000

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Life Without the Moon






Ulysses solar spacecraft freezing to death

Life Without the Moon

A map of all the debris and trash that is orbiting the earth

Solar Eclipse from the Moon

How a Lunar Eclipse Saved Columbus

NASA's Messenger Probe Shows Hundred-Mile Cliffs on Mercury

Have a happy day on Mars

5 Things I Didn’t Know about Poop






British Toilet Association - Campaigning for better public toilets for all

Restroom Sign (Train in Japan)

5 Things I Didn’t Know about Poop

For toilet museum, a final flush is avoided

American Sanitary Plumbing Museum

Finland's roadside toilets: now accessible only by SMS

Middle school issues 'ban' on intentional flatulence

Breach of urinal etiquette leads to assault

The 8 Worst Places to Defecate (via)

Urinals for shy men

Create virtual farts

Spongebob Rectal Thermometer (via)

The 15 Most Bizarre Animal Mating Rituals






Hairless Chimp (via)

CNN Video: Giant sea spider filmed

Mysterious Sea Creatures Found In Antarctic Waters

Largest clam known to man (via)

Pet dog hitches ride on ski-lift

Canine Blood Donor to Be Honored

Study finds cat ownership good for you

Two-faced cat

Fail Dogs

Happy Kitten

The woman who keeps 75 hibernating tortoises in her fridges

Armadillo Lizard's curious defensive posture. More pics here.

Sky turns black as thousands of starlings flock into Gretna Green

Baby bear in a sock

The 15 Most Bizarre Animal Mating Rituals

Endangered Cats of North America

Gray wolves in the Northern Rockies will be removed from the endangered species list

Two-faced cow

Owners give Prozac to depressed pets

Wild rattlesnake hunt filmed. I watched this show on TV last night.

A Glowworm Heaven

Some Photos

A small handful of the many, many new photos that I've added to my Photographs of Newcastle site in recent weeks.


Newcastle's High Level Bridge

Newcastle's High Level Bridge
High Level Bridge



South Shields Beach

South Shields Pier
South Shields Seafront



Swing Bridge  Swing Bridge
Swing Bridge



Central Library Construction
Central Library Construction