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Read Books by Email

If, like me, you spend more time reading emails than reading books, how about reading books by email? Daily Lit has a growing collection of classics that you can have sent to your email in daily chunks.
It’s very simple, just select a book you want to read then enter your email address. Make sure you’re […]

11 Tips To Avoid Hangovers

Alcohol, the bane of the drinking classes.
Here are 11 useful tips on how to avoid hangovers.

Before drinking, eat a full meal. A good meal slows down the absorbtion of alcohol and lets the body process the toxins. It also reduces the risk of puking!
Drink a glass of water to hydrate before the diuretic effect starts. […]

Cool Links of the Day

An excellent video showing the Universe to scale. Makes you feel very very insignificant!

An astronaut loses his camera in space while working on the International Space Station.
The most powerful automatic weapon in the world
Building instructions for every Lego set EVER
Dragonfly: The World’s First Winged Robot Video Demonstration

Cool Links of the Day

Full 3D video projection. A prototype of a 3D projector using 256 bits of string, very cool.
Asimov, the Honda robot, trips going up some steps, the poor guy
How to get out of quicksand, for your hiking trips around home I guess.
Final Fortress is a great flash game. defend your city from the invading […]

Awesome Flash Sniper Game

Tactical Assassin is a fun game. The soundtrack and little tricks required to complete missions really make it cool. Unfortunately it finishes too soon and you wish there was more missions. Can you beat 76% accuracy on your first attempt?

Ski-Gliding the Eiger

Man, this looks very cool. They fly more than they ski. Theres some stomach churning cliffs on the way down.

Wordpress Comments built with Yahoo UI

Jack Slocum has just created an incredible comment system for Wordpress. The demo lets you add comments to any block in the post just by clicking in the left margin.
Yellow tags show the number of comments for that block of text, just click the tag to view the comments.
What is really nice is that the […]

Play Pacman in Microsoft Excel

Pacman for MS-Excel is an amazing feat of VBA programming. As far as I can tell (I was never very good at Pacman), its a faithful rendition of the original arcade classic, written in Excel VBA, complete with sound and a demo mode.
Excel Space Invaders, also available at the same page, is another excellent conversion […]

Cool Links of the Day

Overclock your toothbrush! Just don’t shred your gums

A fantastic Honda Civic commercial with a choir doing the sounds effects.
Sling snotty slime around devious mazes.
A tutorial on how to make steel and glass icons in Photoshop. The results look very impressive.
Using ScummVM and DOSBox to play your favorite old classic games.
Howtoforge is a […]

11 Surprisingly Useful Household Tips

Some actually useful and quite surprising household tips from some program on Japanese TV the other night.

Make tangerines or oranges extra sweet by putting them in 40C water for 10mins before eating

Old jeans are great for cleaning scum from baths and stainless steel basins

If you’re trying to push a stalled car, don’t push from the […]