ASCII art

ASCII art is something that I never got into but always fascinated me… now I found this “ASCII art” from 1934 created on a typewriter:

Wikipedia definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art)
ASCII art is a graphic design technique that utilizes computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined [...]

Lego

Lego is part of pop culture and people go crazy about it… or they just have too much time. Check out these videos:
Matrix:

Michael Jackson’s Thriller:

8-bit homecomputer chip-sound tribute:

D-Day (CG animated):

Lego photo [...]

The James-Bond-like car remote control with an iPhone

Here the original Nokia James Bond car remote control for his BMW in “Tomorrow never dies”:

Now possible with an iPhone! Nice

Terminator

The new Terminator Salvation movie is now playing (I think here in Europe we need to wait for a few more days) and I spotted these funny videos – great!

Check out the following site as well – upload your photo and make a Terminator of you – [...]

Amazon keyword fail

Enter “pc vernetzen” (meaning”connect your pc”) at amazon.de – now look – isn’t this proving that paid keywords are evil? … but maybe this is some kind of “not deleted” easter egg? Or some evil intern put this online? Who knows… maybe even the Product Manger for keyword search at Amazon doesn’t know… [...]

Happy Easter!

Photo by doc18

Alpine Legend

YODEL HARD!

http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/a/alpinelegend/

Stupid box thing

Sony releases new stupid piece of shit that doesn’t fucking work – ROFL

The longest “To:” email list ever

Today I got an email with 1365 people on the “To” list. The longest list ever! Never heard about mailing-lists?
I’m uploading only a low-res version of the screenshot so don’t even try to read the names on it.

Yodel bears & Yahoo search

“In the city of Trondheim, Norway, a group of 40 dedicated search engineers work day and night to develop one of our core technology platforms” … and they got company!
Source: http://ycorpblog.com/2009/02/17/yodel-bears/
Yahoo! search engineers are doing a great job btw! Check this out:
“Last month we reported a potentially important change in search-market share trends: After years [...]