Photosynth - Unbelievable

Wow. It looks like Microsoft have some serious surprises coming up. Photosynth is one of them. By means of some dude's (although we're sure he's been outsourced from a foreign planet) absolutely brilliant research, Photosynth stitches together public domain photo's to build 3D models of real life places. The results are incredible and only a real demonstration can do the software justice. Check out the TED video here

20 bananas. Definitely.

A Walk Inside the Creation Museum

I found this interesting link on my Digg RSS feed. There has been a lot of talk about the Creation Museum going on in all sorts of places on the 'net. Some are fiercely against it - there was quite a stir to protest against it. On the other hand its backed extensively by the Young Earth Creationists, especially by AnswersInGenesis.org - who I am not very fond of at all.

Whatever your stance, here is a walkthrough the unfinished museum. Take a look around and make up your own mind. I find it quite fascinating, even if it does use a bit of a "we're right and you're hopelessly wrong" tactic in its teaching.

The link again if you missed it:
http://studentweb.eku.edu/zachary_lynn/museum/index.html

How it should have ended ...

I've got to thank the crazy for this one. The guys from How it should have ended just seem to have the same sense of humour that we do. They've taken all of the best movies (and Borat) and changed the endings, just like the title says. For honesty like that I'm going to have to add an extra banana.

My favourite has to be the Superman ending. Maybe that's because I'm a big Batman fan from back in the day.

This one is a 9 banana-er for sure.

Erik Mongrain

Every now and then you find a guitarist that is pretty damn fancy pants. Erik Mongrain will make your jaw drop. I was stumbling around the web the other night and before I was stopped by drop dead boring animation, I discovered this fantastic musician.

Check out his two videos on Google Video:

Airtap
Percusienfa

10 fancy pants bananas.

Wii have a problem

Nothing really special about this site, it just gave me a good laugh. Check it out here. Its a site solely dedicated to the injuries incurred to household furniture at the hands if butterfingered, over enthusiastic Wii players.

For those who don't know, Wii is Nintendo's latest game console running in competition to Sony's Playstation 3 and Microsoft's XBox 360. The console comes with a remote that you can swing around to control your player. Wiihaveaproblem is a collection of what happens when the remote flies OUT OF CONTROL and the strap breaks. Its very funny.

Wikipedia's Entry on the Fine-Tuned Universe

I actually found this whilst reading about the atheist Anthony Flew. It explains the idea that life in our universe would not be possible if the constants (such as our distance from the sun) that govern it were changed slightly. If one of these were tweaked by even the tiniest amount it would be utter chaos. Well, more like utter nothing, but utter chaos sounds cooler.

As with most controversial topics, I prefer reading the Wikipedia entry over a specific Christian view, mainly because you get to see both sides' views. This isn't always true however. The entries on Wikipedia are written by the public and are subject to the bias of the writer. Keep this in mind whenever you're researching something there.

Be warned that this may not be everyone's chocolate moose, or even their chocolate yak, especially if the word universe sends you to slumberland. If you're like me however, this one is right up your milky way. I'd give it 8 bananas.

www.stumbleupon.com

StumbleUpon.com is a crime. Sites like that just shouldn't be allowed on the web. Its really just a site that you plug in your interests and it sends you to a random page that it thinks you would like. Before you know it you have been caught up in a hopeless cycle of finding cool sites. Its definitely worth getting the toolbar, but if you do, then don't expect to get any work done. You can spend hours just clicking the Stumble button.

Brabys maps and Shell Geostar

Ever been looking for directions? Here are two fantastic sites worth having a look at:

www.brabysmaps.co.za/brabys/directions.asp

and

www.shellgeostar.co.za

Both give you step by step directions to your destination with distances. Braby's gives you the speed limit as well. It also provides you with the option to change your route, but I couldn't for the life of me get it right. That feature would have been nice because both sites sent me down some extra roads. For example, for my trip down to Plett it sent me off and on the main highway a couple of times.

Either way the maps did end at the right place, and they even started pretty much from my house.The distance and time feature is also really handy for calculating long trips.

Updated: Found a lot more bugs with these sites. Still quite handy though (especially if you're trying to clock up kilometers on your car allowance :D) for generating maps to functions and emailing them.

Lately I have found Google Maps quite handy. I used it to find my way out to the last church camp out past Magaliesburg, and it was great. The roads were all there - well until we got to the dirt road, but I had no pie-my-eye dreams of seeing that so it was fine.

Knocked it down a notch as promised. Got you're spice weasel? BAM!