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Saturday, 15. November 2008
Thats My Face
ThatsMyFace offers free online facial analysis as well as FaceStatues, which are glass or plastic statuettes custom-made from your facial profile.How it Works : Take a frontal and profile photo of your face, upload it to our servers and within a few hours we'll generate your facial profile which includes:
- Your face at 20, 40 and 60 years old
Your face as an African, Indian, Asian or Caucasian
Your face as man or woman
Your caricature
Identify your facial asymmetries
Attractiveness rating
Compare yourself to others and find you look-alikes
Thats My Face - Home of Facial Analysis and FaceStatues
Bio-Bak
Bio-Bak is the design portfolio of Dutch flash designer Coen Grift. It's rad and unique at a time. His second version is now featured in 1000 megapixels and full of amusing and surprising ideas.
Birdphotos
I have been a birdwatcher for most of my life.My motives are limited to birds, and the few larger animals I meet on my way. All birds fascinate me, but I love the owls and hawks in particular. I see birdphotography as a way of documenting the birds life, more than an art-form. Therefore I strive with my photos, to show the birds behaviour and in particular I pursue action-photos.
Bird Photography by Helge Sørensen from Denmark.
Monday, 10. November 2008
Pearls of the Caribbean - Grenada
Today let's go on with the cruise! Here is Grenada!Part 1: Arrival at St. George's, March 13th 2008, 8am. Grenada is called the Spice Island of the Caribbean.
Part 2 (start around 02:48): Fort Frederick, perched atop Richmond Hill, offering an excellent view of the city and bays.
Part 3 (start around 04:19): Concord Waterfalls - a great place to stop off on the tour.
Part 4 (start around 05:19): Nutmeg Factory in Gouyave - you haven't done Grenada unless you've been to a nutmeg factory! You have just follow your nose!
Part 5 (start around 06:43): Plantation Helvellyn House, in the North near Sauteur. It is the setting which makes the place.
Part 6 (start around 08:22): River Antoine Estate - The oldest rum factory in Grenada.
Part 7 (start around 10:47): Grand Etang Lake, which fills the crater of one of the island's extinct volcanos (short).
Note: It's a 12 min HD video and a pretty large file (300MB+), it takes awhile to load! If the player stops, this could be because the server is overloaded, your Internet connection is slow, and/or overall Internet is slow. You may need to pause it and let the video load a bit more before watching it straight through.
Upcoming Video: Brabados
Previous Video: St. Vincent
Friday, 07. November 2008
Pearls of the Caribbean - St. Vincent
Here it comes! The next part of our cruise - St. Vincent. Enjoy!Part 1: Arrival at Kingstown, March 12th 2008, 8am. Situated on the southwest coast of the island, at the head of Kingstown Bay.
Part 2 (start around 02:28): Fort Charlotte - Built in 1806 by the English to protect the harbor from French invasion.
Part 3 (start around 03:55): St. Mary's Cathedral, or Cathedral of the Assumption, also one of St Vincent's primary attractions.
Part 4 (start around 05:04): The Botanical Gardens - Offer an attractive, alluring and peaceful retreat. It is believed to be the oldest such gardens in the Western Hemisphere.
Part 5 (start around 07:12): A refreshing bath at Villa's Lime beach (short) - The weather this day was very hot.
Part 6 (start around 08:14): Way back to town.
Part 7 (start around 09:31): The Kingstown fish market - will excite you with its range of kingfish, snapper and grouper.
Part 8 (start around 11:16): We left the pier at 7pm (short).
Note: It's a 11 min HD video and a pretty large file (300MB+), it takes awhile to load! If the player stops, this could be because the server is overloaded, your Internet connection is slow, and/or overall Internet is slow. You may need to pause it and let the video load a bit more before watching it straight through.
Upcoming Video: Grenada
Previous Video: Tobago
Rarindra Prakarsa Photography
Golden Moment
He lives in Jakarta, Indonesia.
He is a semipro photographer and has a very impressive portfolio.
All photos with beautiful lighting, nice composition, fantastic colors.
Superb!
Rarindra Prakarsa Photography
Lake Situ Gunung, West Java
CubeCraft
Cubeecraft papercraft toys are free to download.Each toy features interlocking tabs for construction - eliminating the need for tape, glue or other messy adhesives. To download click on the model you would like then save the template image. Each toy is designed to be printed on a standard piece of 8 1/2 X 11 A4 letter paper.
Simply print, cut and fold your model into a cute and fun paper toy.
CubeCraft
Energuy
Quebec’s Agence de l'efficacité énergétique found a clever way of showing us the importance of saving energy. They created a humourous interactive called Energuy. Drag him by the hand and click on stuff that will help save energy.
Wednesday, 05. November 2008
A Special Message ...
... from Rodger Schlickeisen: 2008 Election Wrap-Up.As a member of Defenders of Wildlife, I got this via E-Mail today:
"With the election of Barack Obama and Joe Biden should come the restoration of American environmental leadership. For the first time in nearly a decade, we can look to the future with a sense of hope that the enormous environmental challenges we face will begin to be addressed and that our air, land, water, and wildlife -- and the overall health of our planet -- will not be sacrificed to appease polluting industries and campaign contributors."
The election may be over, but there is much work to be done. For now, let’s celebrate this historic day and the hope it holds also for our wolves, polar bears and other wildlife.
Viva Obama !
And you did it!
Thank you, America. You made the right decision!
A victory for the United States and the entire World!
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Saturday, 01. November 2008
Pearls of the Caribbean - Tobago
Are you impatient for the next part of our cruise? Here it is: Tobago.Part 1: Arrival at Scarborough, March 11th 2008, 8am.
When Columbus discovered Tobago, he called it Bellaforma.
Part 2 (start around 01:50): Fort King George - On Mount St. George, a short drive up the hill from Scarborough, you get a beautiful view over the sea and the surrounding neighborhood.
Part 3 (start around 03:02): Along the way - Typical houses in the South.
Further, what will Tobago offer you? Of course: MUSIC!
Part 4 (start around 04:22): Along the way - Steeldrum, Calypso and Folklore
Part 5 (start around 08:53): Impressions of Scarborough. A place where you can watch the islanders. But there isn't much to see in Scarborough - the town itself is rather plain and boring. So let's go back to the ship ...
Part 6 (start around 09:51): Back on board for a cold beer (short)
You naturally expect the sister islands of Trinidad and Tobago are similar. In many way they are. In other ways they are worlds apart.
Note: It's a 11 min HD video and a pretty large file (300MB+), it takes awhile to load! If the player stops, this could be because the server is overloaded, your Internet connection is slow, and/or overall Internet is slow. You may need to pause it and let the video load a bit more before watching it straight through.
Upcoming Video: St. Vincent
Previous Video: Trinidad
Pixolu - Find what you Imagine
This search engine for images is different to all others. Once you search an image you can refine your search by once again making another search using that image as a key. And there is no end, you can keep drilling down unless you find a more accurate match. It uses Yahoo, Flickr and Google.Lets make it more clear: First search an image with a keyword (e.g Rose), then select the one you like. Now use that image to search again and get better results, you get roses which are similar to the image you selected.
Oh, and on clicking of the image you can find the details i.e. the exact url and size of the image.
Pixolu - Smart search engine for finding images.
A project by the FHTW - Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin - University of applied Sciences.
Ah - and don't miss their ImageSorter, an image browsing application, which allows an automatic sorting by color, date taken, name, or size.
Forvo: All the Words in the World - Pronounced!
Forvo is the place where you'll find words pronounced in their original languages. Ever wondered how a word is pronounced? Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. You can also help others recording your pronunciations in your own language.Example:
The word "Chuchichäschtli" is generally used to identifiy native Swiss German (dialect) speakers and to try members of the other national language communities (French-, Italian- and Romansh-speakers) or foreign nationals (especially Germans and Austrians). The word means "(small) kitchen cupboard" in diminutive-loving Swiss German dialect and contains three consecutive "ch" /x/ (as in the Scottish 'Loch') separated by vowels. The translation in standard German would be "Küchenkästlein".
Pronunciation in Schwyzerdütsch (Swiss German)
[ˈχʊχːiˌχæʃtli]
How do you say that?
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Evolving Tides
A short wildlife film showing the wildlife that can be found along the North Norfolk Coast during the winter.From Seals to migrating waders, salt marshes to shingle dunes, we are able to see many species and beautiful sights in this special part of Norfolk.
Produced by Peter Naylor
Music by Kye Rodriguez & Peter Fellows
I like the wave-like movement of those birds and the time lapse parts ...
Brian's Origami Page
As an artist, I am particularly drawn to Origami because it adds the extra challenge of folding from a square (and I like challenges, sometimes) and incorporates a lot of geometry, which was my more favored sector of mathematics.While I think there are a lot of cool money folds, I almost never fold money because 1) it's pretty dirty most of the time 2) I'm cheap and want to spend the money instead, and I doubt a cashier would happily accept a dollar fold and 3) money is small. I might be willing to fold a dollar bill, if dollars were a meter square.
Enjoy the Origami Page by Master Brian Chan.
See also his YouTube Channel with some nice tutorials.
