Sulkyblue's Blog

Links of the increasingly random timeperiod.

Pictures
Snow White and the Apple
Nice laptop paint job, looks beautiful on the white!

GO FORTH MY MINIONS!
I know someone who seems to have a pathalogical hate of my little ponies and this may be his worst nightmare!

AT-ATs: not just for xmas - a set on Flickr
Well photographed, hilarious shots of a family AT-AT


Videos
This just in: Kitteh licks (and licks) fennec fox - Cute Overload! :)
The fox doesn't look over happy, but then the strangle hold doesn't give him much choice

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Fiery Tokyo plane crash kills two
Terrifying video of a plane crash

JPEG compression 600 times over
A little sort of timelapse video showing what jpeg compression does to images


Interesting
BBC NEWS | Health | Sisters 'make people happy'
This is the best article ever!

9 Steps Towards Genuine & Effective Networking - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog
There's some really good tips in here for networking, ones that don't make me cringe and go "ew - networking!"

PRIZM Segments
An interesting way of dividing up the population of America into 66 segments. What interested me was how much humour and personality had been put into the definitions which include things like "Shotguns and Pickups", "Big Fish, Small Pond" and "Pools and Patios"

The myth of big salaries (it's all marketing)
A well thought out, insightful and challenging post from Seth Godin about how big salaries have been used as marketing and why they shouldn't be
Build a Rotating Shelf to Keep Canned Goods at Hand [DIY]
Genius idea for those that want to be compulsively well organised


Useful
Check Username Availability at Multiple Social Networking Sites
I'm not really sure how useful this tool is, but it's a nice one stop shop to check your username availability

Primitive Word Counter Analyzes Word and Phrase Frequency [Downloads]
This looks like a potentially useful tool to analyse word usage, I can think of a number of authors who would find it useful to guard against overuse of cliche!

Custom snow globes
It's not a great website and some of the examples are horribly tacky, but this is potentially a useful place if you're looking for the perfect gift

Search Google Images by Color [Google School]
hidden functionality to filter google image searches by colour.


Fun
Bioshock 2 to be sans subtitle, 'Sea of Dreams' was title of trailer
Hilarity follows as game developer fails to know what their own game is called

Mass Toad Killing in Australia
Who says the Australians don't know how to have fun!

Remixes of the paranoid London police "anti-terror"/suspect your neighbours posters
Funny but depressing alternatives to the ridiculously paranoia inducing posters that have started going up

Greg Rutter's Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet
I've not 'experienced' as many of these as I thought I would have and now I'm ashamed.

Doozers Get "Fraggle Rock" Spin-Off
The most put upon little creatures in history get their own spin off series! (Shame it's animation not puppetry)

GROW TOWER(GAME) (EYEZMAZE --FLASH GAME--)
New (not sure when) game of Grow, frustrating and beautiful puzzle game