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4 June 2005
4:01pm

Cats Pretending to be Fierce

Owners compete to show how ferocious their cats can look:

http://www.mycathatesyou.com.
 

2 June 2005
6:36pm

Animated Screen Savers

Here are some high quality animated screensavers with sound effects:

http://www.metaltear.com/Relax.html.
 

31 May 2005
10:23am

How to Destroy the Earth...

...completely!

A rigorously researched scientific study. Funny, too.

http://ned.ucam.org/~sdh31/misc/destroy.html.
 

29 May 2005
2:22pm

Historic Broadcasts

Four pages of links to audio clips of historic speeches by such as Neil Armstrong as he took his first step on the Moon and Thomas Edison on the development of electricity. There are many other figures, including King Edward VIII, Mae West, Neville Chamberlain, Albert Einstein, Patti Hearst, and JFK, as well as news reports and eye-witness accounts of major events.

http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive1.html
 

29 May 2005
2:12pm

Amazing Feats of Origami

Here is paper folding like you've never seen before, all created by Robert Lang.

http://www.langorigami.com.
 

29 May 2005
2:07pm

Bar Code Art

Here is a portrait gallery of cultural icons, including Oprah and Jesus, made up of bar codes.

http://www.barcodeart.com
 

26 May 2005
10:42am

Big Tobacco - In Their Own Words

Fair Enough, a sitcom spoof based on actual tobacco-industry documents, makes for chilling and compelling viewing:

http://www.fairenough.com/ .
 

25 May 2005
7:49am

Are You Good at Guessing People's Ages?

http://ageproject.specialsnowflake.com/.
 

20 May 2005
1:12pm

Sudoku

For the addicted:

http://www.sudoku.com/.
 

27 April 2005
9:52am

Guess-the-Google

Can you guess which search word was used to find the twenty images presented?

It's not as easy as you would expect.

http://www.weavedigital.com/guess-the-google/.
 

25 April 2005
6:29pm

Thirty-second Bunny Movies

Some Hollywood favourites re-enacted by animated Bunnies:

http://www.angryalien.com.
 

8 April 2005
4:17pm

Penny Builder

Okay, so you've found this great stash of pennies and you have an awful lot of time to waste...

http://www.fincher.org/Misc/Pennies/.