I recently stumbled across a rather cool website called Peoples Archive. It has tons of short videos with “the world’s greatest thinkers, creators, and achievers.” While some …
The Archives: Cool Stuff
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Whoa, Facebook’s had chat since April 6 and I somehow didn’t find out until tonight? :) Actually, I don’t think they rolled it out to me until sometime …
3. Free rice
Today we’ve got two cool websites my friend Emily showed me:
FreeRice is an ingenious way to turn a game into something actually …
I’m on Skype now, as “benjamin.crowder”. I tried it a couple years ago but didn’t know a single person using it (I admittedly didn’t look very hard :)), …
There’s a new camcorder on the block. As written about in David Pogue’s New York Times review (thanks to 37signals for the link), enter the Flip:
The …
From Ars Technica, rumor has it that Apple may soon be letting consumers download unlimited songs from iTunes with the purchase of an iPod or iPhone:
A report by the …
A few cool things I’ve come across lately:
1. Melodyne’s Direct Note Access, a short video demonstrating their new technology that lets you edit the individual notes of a chord …
Alas, the Internet connection at our apartment was down when I got home late last night, so my daily posting stride has been tripped up. :P (Not that it …
I’m in love.
No, not a girl. It’s Beanstalk: hosted Subversion. This is so cool.
For the non-geeky among you, Subversion is one of the more popular version control …
Tor is giving away free ebooks (thanks to Slashdot via James):
Tor Books is launching a new site and running a campaign in which they are giving away e-books (free …
From the LDS Newsroom via NorthTemple: A flash mob of teenagers wore Sunday dress to school on Monday in honor of President Hinckley.
Preparing for school on Monday morning …
12. Head to head
Wow. This is awesome. Like, mind-bogglingly cool. It’s Johnny Lee’s hack for the Wii that uses the remote’s infrared camera to do head tracking (thanks to …
The Library of Congress is now on Flickr. (Thanks to NorthTemple.com for the heads-up.)
I came across A.viary not too long ago, and I just have to say that if it ends up done well, dang, it’s going to be sweet. Image …
For the bookworms and bibliophiles among you, ChristianAudio’s free audiobook download of the month for January is Milton’s Paradise Lost. Nine hours of a British voice (Nadia …
Google Maps now lets you fix your house on the map. Brilliant idea, really — crowdsource for better accuracy. Besides, people care about where they live, more …
