WordPress for iPhone

Just testing out the iPhone wordpress client. Very nice. Congratulations to the community.

Office Guns

This site is absolutely hilarious!

A site dedicated to creating projectile weapons from common office stationery. Outstanding! Hours of fun for the whole family (office family that is). My favourite is the Super Maul with Laser Sight.

You have to check this site out. Nearly had me in hysterics!

Link: OfficeGuns-Guns Advanced – Super Maul

Handwriting Tips

I was trolling around the “blog-osphere” today and came across TabletPCBlogs, a site that provides free blogs to people writing about tablet pc’s. One of the blogs on the site had a link to this article by Dyas Lawson about improving your handwriting.

A very interesting article that explains the differences in writing styles – finger-writing and hand-writing. As he points out most people taught to write after about 1955 are finger-writers, ie they draw the letters using only their fingers. This results in a cramped, untidy writing style (eg mine!). To obtain elegant, flowing hand-writing, you actually need to utilise your whole arm and shoulder in the action and not really use your fingers at all. Bit of a revelation that was. But it makes sense when you think about it a bit.

I think I’m going to go and practice my handwriting for a while now

Link: Tips for improving your handwriting

POVCOMP 2004: Results

For those of you that don’t know, there is an annual competition called POVComp. It’s an art competition centred around the Persistence of Vision ray tracing software (POV-Ray). POV-Ray is an open-source ray tracer that’s been around for a long time now. It basically set the ray-tracing standard for a while there.

Some of the stuff these artists have come up with is just truly astounding. Photo-realistic renderings that you just wouldn’t believe were possible. I was stunned looking at the winning entries. You should check out “The Kitchen” (2nd place) and “Office” (Hall of Fame). They are just amazing!

I played around with POV-Ray for a while when I was younger. Just long enough to realise I didn’t have an artistic bone in my body

Link: POVCOMP 2004: Results

Music thing: TINY MUSIC MAKERS: Pt 3: The THX Sound

Very cool article about how the THX sound came to be created told by the creator of the sound itself.

[ Via Music thing ]

APOD: 2005 May 28 – Himalayan Horizon From Space

How cool is this!!!!

A picture of the Himalayan mountain range taken with a 35mm camera from space! Awesome picture.

[ Via Astronomy Picture of the Day ]

Hooray!!! Remove those damn tabs in MSN Messenger

Nic Wise has posted a way to finally get rid of the sodding tabs down the side in MSN Messenger. Hooray!

You go to Tools|Options|Security and check "This is a shared computer so don't display my tabs".

Simple to do, but it's a strange option . Who cares, they're gone!

Link: The Chicken Coop – And in other news….