Showing posts with label cool stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cool stuff. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Css Puns



CSS puns and jokes that will make you laugh. Curated by Saijo George.
Super geeky but I love it

css puns

Thursday, November 07, 2013

What bad ass colour is Chuck Norris?



We all know that  Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice - and that Chuck Norris has destroyed the periodic table, because Chuck Norris only recognizes the element of surprise, but do you know what colour he is?

Well according to html the  bgcolor="chucknorris"  he is an awesome red.

Read more on Stack Overflow if you don't believe me

Friday, October 04, 2013

Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Hex Colour Tool



This is a really handy colour tool.

Add in your hex code and then set a percentage to darken or lighten and voila, you have a set of colours to use on your website

Hex Colour Tool

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Christmas Bauballs


What can be more festive than christmas baubles and these really are!  Ad agency Fallon have teamed up with Orchid, a charity fighting male cancer, and created these great christmas tree ornaments to raise money and awareness of the disease.

Available to buy from the 11 December from www.checkyourbauballs.com

Monday, November 19, 2012

Mini Me


the age of 3D printing is upon up and what better thing to make, than a replica of yourself.  Go to Japan and get yourself your own mini me.   Omote 3D have developed the the world’s first 3D printing booth.  Go to the booth at Tokyo’s Eye of Gyre from 24 November-14 January, step inside and instead of a phot get yourself a miniture plastic figure of yourself.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Well done team GB

I'm sad that the amazing London Olympics are now over but there is a neat little scrolling website made by "Never Bland" that highlights some of the fantastic achievements over the summer with some cute animations. Watch out for the Queen parachuting in and Jessica Ennis's 6 pack. Well done Team GB

Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Velodrome Vs The Chemical Brothers

The amazing Velodrome at the London 2012 Olympics has seen huge excitement, raw emotions and a mountain of medals for Team GB.

It also has an amazing video that plays before each session that comprises of Chemical Brothers music and fantastic tron inspired graphics.

Could track cycling be any more cooler?

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Death by Chocolate

After seeing this amazing feat of making a giant KitKat and in cadbury's dairy milk no less, I also then discovered pimpthatsnack.com. People I salute you

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Diamond Jubilee Illustrations

the Queen's Diamond Jubilee is almost upon us and there have been some beautiful illustrations that have been made. Here are a few good ones


Happy Jubilee Ma'am from Laughing Lion Design


Harry Draws Pictures


ITV1


M&S Biscuit Tin


Presat Truffles

Friday, April 27, 2012

Lego Art


Who doesn't love LEGO® ? Still always in the top 5 children toys after being created in the 1930's. Well Nathan Sawaya a New York-based artist obviously still does as he creates some beautiful art works from these little bricks. Sawaya’s art is currently touring North American museums in a show titled, The Art of the Brick. It’s the only exhibition focusing exclusively on LEGO as an art medium.

check out the website to see more of his wonderful art and find out more about the exhibition

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Airplane Toilet Self-Portraits

Artist Nina Katchadourian, on airplanes goes into the toilets and makes herself up using the tissues and then creates a rather cool and fuuny photo. She calls the series “Seat Assignment: Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style.”



See them here

Monday, April 02, 2012

Cat Scratching DJ Decks

This is genius. A cat scratching post that is in the shape of decks. How cool would you be if you saw you cat on this! My cat would then be a phat cat rather than just a fat cat!




Buy it here

Monday, December 19, 2011

Let it Snow

New Christmassy Easter Egg from Google. Type in Let it snow in google and watch little snow flakes fall down the screen. Eventually the whole screen gets covered in snow but don't worry, there is a quick defrost button where the search should be or just draw a pretty pattern with your mouse.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Crazy Wall Art



This is fantastic wall art by Dan Witz. Funny and a bit scary I love it!

Also comes as a goat and the tasmanian devil.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

What's your number



The world population is expected to reach 7 billion in the next few weeks and the BBC have developed this tool to find out where you fit into that. By filling out your date of birth you can see what number you were when born from people alive and from all time

7 billion people and you: What's your number?

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Draw a Stickman



A really simple and very cute site that interacts with you. As you draw your little stickman he finds challenges for you to help him along. Very creative and even better it is not done in flash but JS!

Draw a Stickman

Thursday, September 08, 2011

Very nice 3D carousel



The Slicebox carousel is really very lovely when viewed in chrome or safari, having lovely 3d effects and importantly working like a normal carousel when in other browsers.

Monday, July 25, 2011

World Map Wall Art

I love this world map wall art that you can buy from etsy



When you purchase it you get 6 digital files that you then go and print yourself.

View on Etsy