http://www.linkbizkits.com stuff worth linking to... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:11:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chris Garrett interview from Michael A. Stelzner on Vimeo. VIA http://www.linkbizkits.com/the-simple-rule-dont-be-an-idiot/ I wonder what category this guy fall in under...way too many people nexted him anyways. http://www.linkbizkits.com/chat-roulette-improv/ "...so why do most politicians, and economists think that the economy can grow for ever and ever and ever..." VIA http://www.linkbizkits.com/the-impossible-hamster/ a different sound track might not have been to bad of an idea. Amazing, other then that... VIA http://www.linkbizkits.com/video-editing-madness/ "Paris 26 Gigapixels is a stitching of 2346 single photos showing a very high-resolution panoramic view of the French capital (354159x75570 px). Dive into the image and visit Paris like never before!" No need for enhancement here. Wish I was there... http://www.linkbizkits.com/paris-in-26-gigapixels/ Heineken İtaly Activation from Kreatif360 on Vimeo. legendary indeed... http://www.linkbizkits.com/heineken-trap/ I wonder if there was anyone guarding the couches there telling people not to put their feet up. Did anyone let a full train pass while leaning back with a morning newspaper? Looks like a mighty comfy wait anyways... VIA http://www.linkbizkits.com/paris-metro-ikea-takeover/ ...and together, we are shaping the future of human kind. bbc.co.uk/superpower http://www.linkbizkits.com/we-are-the-people-of-the-internet/ You contact the site, Bradley picks up the phone and does what you don't dare doing yourself. Weird, really really weird, but I cannot resist posting it. VIA http://www.linkbizkits.com/bradley-calls-for-you/ Nice looking drawing tool built in JavaScript. You can choose between a multitude of different brushes, then, once you are happy store your image locally. Creative indeed... The introductory blog post The tool itself And it would, off course, not be complete without the complementary YouTube video: http://www.linkbizkits.com/javascripted-goodness-harmony/ My geeky heart just got a little warmer. Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust. http://www.linkbizkits.com/random-acts-of-kindness/ A few instructional videos on every-day chores and some not-so every day. The first one of I saw on The Daily What blog. A whole series of them can be found here. http://www.linkbizkits.com/doing-things-right/ cheesy at times, but the social media dorks have their anthem now... also check out I'm on a Mac http://www.linkbizkits.com/the-new-dork/ First there was the website that announced it, and now the funeral was actually held. I will totally send this to clients when they ask for an IE6 compliant site, telling them that they are using a dead(!) browser. Apparently Microsoft themselves sent flowers. VIA http://www.linkbizkits.com/rest-in-pieces/ Found at mikearauz.com who found them on the encyclopediadramatica.com. And this post confirms rule number 24. And I would like to add... 48. Everything you do, has already been done. http://www.linkbizkits.com/the-rules-of-the-internet/ Decided not to embed the video directly here, as the this video definitely needs to be seen on the site itself... And then there was salsa http://www.linkbizkits.com/tostitos-vimeo-takeover/ an animation for Pringle of Scotland by David Shrigley http://www.linkbizkits.com/the-thing-you-have-to-know-about-scotland/ Neat little web-application by the same crew that is behind the One Sentence Diary and the Twitter Counter GigaTweet, that is counting up to the 10 billion Tweet Mark. http://www.linkbizkits.com/whats-hot-and-whats-les/ After having listened to both part 1 and 2 of the The Virtual Revolution I looked further into the whole BBC offering on the topic. The microsite holds a variety of topics, stories and resources to learn more on where the web came from and where it is going. VIA http://www.linkbizkits.com/the-interweb-a-story-that-shapes-our-lives/ "Streetwise insurance adjuster Jimmy Burns has to dogde shifty clients, crooked lawyers, backstabbing co-workers and the russian mob as he tries to keep his job." The site of the day over at the FWA Nice interactive story to click your way through... autotopsy.ca http://www.linkbizkits.com/crash-and-burn-autotopsy/