eye of science

Photos of the micro-cosmos. eye of science (click here)

You're lucky

Here's a conscience-bashing couple of links.

The Miniature Earth (click here)

Global Rich List (click here)

Earthquake animation

An animation showing how the tsunamis radiated away from the epicentre. animation.gif (click here)

b3ta does a christmas classic

You must hear/see 'Banned Aid' by the most fabulous b3tans.

Banned Aid (click here)

Banned Aid: Idea by Rob Manuel - Words and singing by Rob Manuel & Lucy Reese, Song produced by DogHorse - Animation directed by Eclectech - Contributions via the B3ta board. [for B3ta.com](NSFW = Not Safe For Work)

Super dooper.

Finalists in an Arts project about copyright

Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain have released the shortlist for their Moving Image Contest. click here for the movies

"The contest asked entrants to create short films demonstrating some of the tensions between art and intellectual property law, and the intellectual property issues artists face, focusing on either music or documentary film." Short, but informative little movies.

Rant about the future of torrents

Mark Pesce rants about the future of Bit Torrent in this article. He argues that Hollywood's MPAA are digging their own grave by closing the server-based torrent sites like Suprnova and Torrent Bits. He explains that banning these sites is a direct challenge for coders to create a better P2P solution. (Banning P2P file sharing didn't work before, it just made the technology better.) He says it's only a matter of time before some smart geek makes a file sharing system that doesn't need a torrent tracker site on a server. Click here for the article (on Susan Mernit's Blog)

Personally I'd rather buy movies on dvd and use bit torrent to watch the latest tv shows or other stuff that I can't find in the shops here. In fact, Bit Torrent seems particularly suited to catching the latest tv shows. Movies? Nah. Can't be bothered.

Scared of Santa photo gallery

Some great pics of kids being scared by Santa. photo gallery (click here)

Perpetual Ocean Gallery

I've been looking for a new desktop image and remembered that I'd found some choice ones from this site. Lovely. They don't get in the way of your desktop clutter (if any). They're also rather calming. Truly great work. w00t

The best of the lot? beautiful (click here)

The whole site? Perpetual Ocean Gallery (click here)

Enjoy.

The world's tallest (virtual) building

It's a virtual building. It's very tall. click here for tall-ness

Gamer buys $26,500 virtual land

A 22-year-old gamer has spent $26,500 (£13,700) on an island that exists only in a computer role-playing game. BBC NEWS (click here) WTF?

Industrial Artistry

Two short animations set to music. The first is about change. The second is about the cycle of life and rebirth. Simple and nice. Industrial Artistry (click here) You'll need the latest Flash player. Once you get to the page, click the squares (top left).

GTA SA comes out on top

The Guardian Newspaper did a survey to find the most popular console game. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas won. GTA SA winner (click here)

I can't play mine until after Chrimbo :-(

Jimmy Page (Minor planet number 44016)

They've named a planet after Jimmy Page. Woo. (44016) Jimmy Page (the planet)

Jimmy Page is in a 4.30-year elliptical orbit around the sun ranging in distance from 332.5 million km (at perihelion, closest point to the sun) to 458.9 million km (at aphelion, furthest point from the sun).

another link

Compy 386?? Very yes!

What the....? Very yes. It's the bestest StrongBad ever. Quote: "It's getting eaten by some 'Linux' or something....!!!! Virus = very yes...." Compy 386??

Where's my compy, computer genius man?

7 Nation Army by kids

Sheer genius. Click here for Audio

Firefox on ABC news

Here's a vid clip that should help persuade you to ditch Internet Explorer for Firefox... if you haven't done so already. ABC News (click here)