Archive for the ‘ Awesome ’ Category
Don’t worry! You can also get this totally cool Pikachu car to drive around in…
You can then go home to your Pikachu house…
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The trouble with bringing lunch to work is that you end up at your desk all day, which kind of defeats the object of having a break. To reclaim the lunch hour I’ve been making the effort to geek out on random sites. There’s the old favourite io9, and a few recent discoveries. Including…
Tumblr
I checked out Tumblr ages ago, dismissed it as “a bit weird” and never went back. I’ve just discovered a whole host of “fuckyeah…..tumblr.com” blogs, which have opened up a whole world of awesomeness. Seriously, type in “fuckyeah[yourfavouritething].tumblr.com” into the address bar and marvel that a site exists for it! The best one so far is Star Trek based, but there are blogs for everything from celebrities to sewing, so get guessing at URLs!
It’s not all swearing on Tumblr. Look at this Little Thing is a blog all about the teeny tiny, and it’s super sweet and engaging.
Cats
There are loads of cat blogs, but for the sheer variety of pictures and captions, Funny Cat Pics is currently winning.
History
History is cool. A Blog About History is my new favourite history/archaeology blog with nice pictures and well-written content. It’s updated really often too so it’s great for history junkies.
Fashion
I used to read the Sartorialist, and that’s still good, but Advanced Style is my new winner in the fashion stakes. It’s a photo blog capturing super cool clothes worn by real life older people. I hope it inspires us all to be eccentric and colourful in our old age!
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It’s Friday, and all I can think about is the bacon sandwich I’m about to go and get. In the meantime, here are some amazing cat pictures:
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Imagine a farm with magical animals…not unicorns or tiny little dragons, but CatAnimals! Check out the CatHen that has no arms…
And the really creepy CatRabbit that looks like it can see into your soul…
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I like photo competitions – the photos are each person’s “best” work and you get to see what people consider to be super good photography. I’ve only ever entered one photo competition – the Telegraph’s photo of the week one that they publicise on Twitter. The theme was “the sun” so I entered a totally awesome photo taken in the Maldives about two weeks previously. It showed Frog doing some ninja skills, silhouetted beneath an immense yellow lowering sun, about half a mile out to sea on a huge sandbar. It was EPIC.
It didn’t win. The winning shot was…guess what…someone in his back garden “holding the sun between his thumb and forefinger”. Like we haven’t seen that before.
I’m not bitter.
Frog is now hosting a photo competition of his own, giving away 5 Pro copies of a nifty piece of software called HDR Darkroom. It’s worth $99 so if you’re an HDR fanatic you can save yourself a fair bit by winning 
You can comment on the competition page, share the competition on Twitter (go to the page and click retweet!) or enter up to three photos to the Flickr Group.
Good luck!
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This photo was posted on the Bralorne Pioneer Museum website. It shows the reopening of the South Fork Bridge after a flood in 1940. It also shows a man quite obviously from the future.
Forgetomori have done a post analysing the picture and similar time travel stories – the conclusion is basically that it the guy’s right arm doesn’t look real and he might be photoshopped in . I think he’s actually from – judging by those sunglasses – 1988.
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The Windows 7 snipping tool is quite possibly the best thing on my PC, and definitely my new favourite toy. No more do I have to press three different keys to do a screenshot, then open GIMP and mess about for ten minutes trying to cut the screenshot into something usable – or even worse, use Paint. The snipping tool lets you take a shot of anything on your screen with just a click-and-drag to select the desired area. You can then highlight things or write on the image inside the snipping tool, and save it out as a PNG.
This is a snip I took of Piggynap:
And then one I took of my desktop containing my snip of Piggynap:
And a snip of the Google image results for ‘cats’:
I always see cool or funny stuff that I want to put on Piggynap, but doing a screenshot was always a massive hassle. The snipping tool is going to help me fill my site with loads more crap!
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