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Well, it does mention a CEO having a Claim Adjuster at his disposal.

Re: Cool things

Thu, 13 April 2006 12:21

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Marduk wrote on Thu, 13 April 2006 03:30

Well, it does mention a CEO having a Claim Adjuster at his disposal.

As opposed to the Claim Adjuster having a CoH at his disposal? Laughing

And if that wasn't good enough, the concept of leveraging gaming environments to improve business performance is just awesome. Cool

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So many Stars, so few Missiles!

In space no one can hear you scheme! Deal

Shifty

Mon, 17 April 2006 13:31

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http://www.goshifty.com/index2.htm
P2P/chat on local network, or directly to individual computers.
Great when paired with Hamachi http://www.hamachi.cc/

Also, http://www.foldershare.com
lets you easily sync folders between computers.

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The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Fri, 21 April 2006 07:36

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The Cathedral and the Bazaar
by Eric Steven Raymond

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

Open source vs closed source, or Is play is the most economically efficient mode of creative work? Nod

A classic! Cool

So many Stars, so few Missiles!

In space no one can hear you scheme! Deal

Mosaic

Fri, 21 April 2006 09:25

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Make a mosaic from a photo.

http://homepage.mac.com/knarf/MacOSaiX/

MAC only! Very Happy

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Re: Cool things

Wed, 24 May 2006 11:10

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Here's another cool free game.
http://www.plasmapong.com/

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Re: Cool things

Mon, 29 May 2006 11:39

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Funny!
http://www.sickflash.com/desktop_icon_wars.html

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Re: Cool things

Mon, 05 June 2006 11:06

http://www.levitated.net/notes/AOC/flash/springMass/springMa ss.swf

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Hakuna Matata

Re: Cool things

Wed, 28 June 2006 17:56

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https://www.irexshop.com/product_info.php/cPath/22/products_ id/28?osCsid=1d9660f23d47412a211e01e52fe9d68a

This is a secure page, for some reason the best summary of the device is in their store. It is an e-ink based reader/writing pad, and it looks like it will be the best of the breed for a while.

Re: Cool things

Tue, 01 August 2006 13:47

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Looks like the reader mentioned above is going to stay way too pricey for awhile. Still 649 Euros for it's public release.

In the meantime, check out The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny - a flash music video, basically.

www.ultimateshowdown.org

Re: Cool things

Thu, 12 October 2006 12:12

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Many interesting things at http://www.castlemolds.com, particularly in the Design Derby section. One especially twisted entry is a 3D model of an M. C. Escher lithograph - http://www.voidgamers.com/click/HirstArts/HADD7/b.100.r.2204 2.html/ABAROTH-Ascend1small.jpg. (Note the endless stairs.)

Re: Cool things

Tue, 17 October 2006 03:09

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Marduk wrote on Fri, 13 October 2006 02:12

Are there any images of that 3d model from other angles? I'm curious know what it 'really' looks like.

EDIT: answered my own question: http://www.voidgamers.com/channel/HirstArts/HADD7/b.356.r.38 6.html

V cool. A well deserving winner of his competition. With an idea and execution lke that, it can't really have mattered what the other competitors put forward.

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Re: Cool things

Tue, 17 October 2006 12:44

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Dogthinkers wrote on Tue, 17 October 2006 03:09

V cool. A well deserving winner of his competition. With an idea and execution lke that, it can't really have mattered what the other competitors put forward.

True. Though I do also like this PC case http://www.voidgamers.com/click/HirstArts/HADD3/b.96.r.2693. html/CWAUGH-2_Main.JPG from the third derby, and this http://www.voidgamers.com/click/HirstArts/HADD6/b.100.r.1656 7.html/THE_MOMH-IMG_2113e.jpg chessboard from the sixth derby. Note that the board is 'floating' on the 'water'. I'd think it would look really good with a blue LED center bottom to add a nice glow.

A gun case, the command deck of an Imperial Star Destroyer and everything in between... some very strange things people have put together with this stuff.

Edit: another interesting site, http://www.nathanbrickartist.com/, that of the master builder at LegoLand.

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http://www.games4work.com/games/swf/supercoolpic.swf

Re: Cool things

Thu, 26 October 2006 08:44

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PWNED!

Mon, 13 November 2006 05:11

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http://futuremark.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23914

One of the best things I've seen online in ages! Laughing

Re: PWNED!

Mon, 13 November 2006 22:26

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Yes! That was hilarious!

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human powered search engine

Mon, 11 December 2006 20:51

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Assisted 'research' isn't that new - google and yahoo have both, but I think this may be the first 'live' one, and free to boot.

http://www.chacha.com

Just go to the website, put in some search terms and click 'search with guide'. It starts up a chat session with one of their 'guides' . I gave it two attempts with the search terms "live comedy sydney thursday" (a search that gives a ton of irrelevant results.)

The first guide appeared to give up on me (just stopped responding to messages.) The second guide was actually better than me at searching (and I reckon I'm pretty good.) She also said apparently the system is still a bit dodgy (in beta) so maybe the first guide just had technical problems.

Well worth a play with, just for the novelty if nothing else.

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Re: human powered search engine

Wed, 20 December 2006 00:42

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This is so simple it's not surprising nobody thought of it as a possibility before - moving and raising the blocks for stonehenge could have been the work of only a few people. This guy's website has more, and there is a video available for purchase that I'm told is worth it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0

Re: Cool things

Wed, 18 April 2007 18:31

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http://media-convert.com/

Free online media converter. Handles almost every format I've ever heard of and then some. Documents/text, archives, movies, sounds, images, even ringtones.

Re: Cool things

Mon, 21 May 2007 01:42

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self-referential aptitude test (with a unique solution)

...and no. I don't have a solution. Laughing

Re: Cool things

Thu, 24 May 2007 11:56

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You MUST use headphones for this....

http://david-heron.me.uk/blog/2007/04/08/virtual-barbershop

Hakuna Matata

Re: Cool things

Fri, 08 June 2007 00:48

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Pretty funny piece of animation
http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__ Animation_by_alanbecker.swf

Re: Cool things

Tue, 03 July 2007 09:53

http://a.parsons.edu/~joseph/k2/gameoflife/

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Re: Cool things

Mon, 09 July 2007 09:45

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http://www.openmoko.com/

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Re: Cool things

Wed, 26 September 2007 02:08

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Not technically a 'cool' thing, but it amused me...

If you have Excel 2007.... 850x77.1

Some bug regarding multiplicitive results that result in precisely 2^16 - 1 ...