Todd sez, “The Super Mario Brothers theme has been played on a variety of different instruments around the world. Here’s a collection of 15 videos of people playing it on instruments as wide ranging as the ‘Er Hu,’ the ‘Balalaika’ and the totally awesome ‘Beat Boxing Flute.’”
[Via Boing Boing]
Wired’s Lisa Katayama (of Tokyomango fame) has a great story up today about Natsuko Sone, a tiny Japanese woman who works as a chef but has a sideline as a celebrity “food fighter” — she can eat 25 percent of her body-weight in one sitting, and routinely out-eats Sumo wrestlers.
[Via Boing Boing]
IPhotoMeasure is a program that can convert a photo of a building, room or other location into a series of high-accuracy measurements. You print out a sheet of known dimensions and put it in the frame of the photo and from that sheet, the program figures out the relative size of everything else in the shot.
[Via Boing Boing]
We’ve featured a couple of fishing gadgets in the past and with this latest one, the FishCam, I can’t decide whether it’s going to be a boon to fishing or just another absolutely wacky idea.
[Via Coolest Gadgets]
All the projects of the Design Interactions work in progress show occupied only one room. Yet i had to go the RCA 3 times to get only a rough idea of what was going on there*. Am i getting old or was the exhibition just too dense and engaging for one small brain?
[Via We make money not at]
Engenheiros da Universidade de San Diego, Estados Unidos, criaram uma câmera digital ultra-fina que poderá revolucionar a resolução das câmeras dos telefones celulares, dos sistemas de visão artificial montadas em óculos, além de várias outras aplicações hoje impraticáveis.
[Via Inovação Tecnológica]
Passeando pela internet, achei um script muito interessante para o GreaseMonkey. Este script possibilita que vejamos os filmes do You Tube pelo plugin que tivermos instalado no browser (no meu caso MPlayer). Com isso nos livramos do Flash e muitas vezes das suas falhas de sincronização de vídeo e áudio.
[Via Planeta Ubuntu]
It should be a simple question, but is likely to evoke a lot of different opinions and arguments, as each of the many available embedding techniques have their own pros and cons. In this article, I will look into the complexities and subtleties of embedding Flash content and examine the most popular embedding methods to see how good they really are.
[Via ALA]
You can open the door of a Mazda 3 with a tennis ball — just burn a small hole in the ball, line it up over the lock mechanism, then push it as hard as you can. The ball forces air into the locking mechanism, which causes it to spring open. See the video for more.
[Via Boing Boing]
When the Internet Explorer team fixed the CSS parser to no longer support used hacks they did that quite literally. They hacked the parser to no longer support two used hacks. Or something in that direction. Below a list of documents that you can load in Internet Explorer. You could use the Live DOM Viewer to run them.
[Via Anne Van Steren]
