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Little Urchins - underwater photography of children

quiet — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:57:36 -0800

Little Urchins is a small collection of photographs of babies underwater by Zena Holloway. Gallery 1. Gallery 2.

Sixty Second Airborne - radio commercials

quiet — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:29:24 -0800

Sixty Second Airborne makes excellent radio commercials. In particular, funny ones. Grab the samples here.

"love is blind"

quiet — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:10:41 -0800

Woogle creates image messages from Google Image search. Use some of your favourite phrases, but to start you off, "love is blind" [NSFW!]. Also, try Toogle for images made out of their search-terms. [via]

Open House London

quiet — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:17:07 -0800

Open House London takes place every September (17th & 18th in 2005). There are 604 buildings open this year, and you can search by borough, period (medieval anyone?) and even go to one where an architect or engineer will show you around. How about the Freemason's Hall, Lloyd's of London or the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street?

Rachel Stevens gets fruity

quiet — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:05:39 -0800

"keep your eyes on me and put one hand down your trousers" - Rachel Stevens really wants to help you keep healthy (flash, sound, may be NSFW)

Does anyone even use "cyber" anymore?

quiet — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 16:01:14 -0800

Cannes Cyber Lions Winners: Come Clean and Super Bonder Instant win the Grand Prix, but that's old news on the blue.

Whale Burgers

quiet — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:30:15 -0800

Minke whales, known as cockroaches of the sea are now available in burgers from Japanese fast-food chain Lucky Pierrot. This is somewhat controversial.

Learn Brit-Speak

quiet — Sat, 07 May 2005 04:47:39 -0800

Learn Brit-Speak British Airways wants to help Americans understand "Brit-Speak". Of course you've always wanted to know what pants, snog, squiz and lurgy mean, but as a marketing strategy? annoying flash interface, but all 72 items inside

The Red Piano

quiet — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:58:06 -0800

The Red Piano designed and directed by David LaChapelle featuring Elton John, now showing at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Some clips are burlesque (2mb qt), weird (1.5mb qt) or meaningless out of context(12.5mb qt), but this most beautiful dance sequence(20mb qt) makes it all worthwhile.

When a ball dreams, it dreams it's a frisbee

quiet — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 18:00:01 -0800

"Competitive play is encouraged, but never at the expense of respect between players, adherence to the rules, and the basic joy of play."
The overriding ideal behind Ultimate frisbee is Spirit of the Game where sportsmanship is valued above all else. Next week is the World Ultimate & Guts Championships in Turku, Finland where 23 countries compete, so now is a great time to (re-)learn to play. Besides being lots of fun for everyone, it might even improve your career prospects.