Will’s Web Miscellany

Carl has written a google gears demo, the ‘Disk-space Reserver‘. As all this does is use up all your disk-space it would probably be a better idea just to read about it on his blog.

Javascript Vi, wrong!

This feature enables you to read your 2000 most recent items even when your computer is not connected to the internet.

Useful. I haven’t tried it out yet, but I should be inheriting an old Powerbook G4 in a couple of weeks and will definitely make use of it then (link to Google blog entry detailing the feature).

Microsoft Surface, very very cool.

lolcode:

IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE

Excellent (thanks Carl).

Shocking Pig Sty

This is about the state of my bedroom when I was 14.

Fun with Clouds

Pac Man’s Skeleton Found!

Chilli Ferret

Possibly cruel.

Movie spoiler T-shirt

Saved me a few hours anyway.

Nasal Vacuum Cleaner

The picture says it all.

Real life pirate hangouts

As recent as 2006, a group of grenade-launching pirates attacked two U.S. Navy warships 25 miles from the coast of Somalia. No sailors were injured, though three pirates were critically wounded when the U.S. Navy returned fire…

Pretty stupid…

Paper AT-AT

I want a real one.

Today is Towel Day

And if you don’t know why towels are significant then you don’t deserve to know!

Trashballs!

Trash, in a ball! And art apparently.

Toast Printer

Things to do with old corks

Cool video about working on electricity lines
Build a mini spud gun

Logic games

All good, especially Nurikabe.

Bookcase wallpaper

Atari joystick and the Mr T-shirt

Cool demonstration of a robotic arm

By Dean Kamen, video of the arm is at the end of the video…

Another funny Ruby on Rails/PHP video:

“It’s pizza and beer in a bottle,” Seefurth, a self-proclaimed beer nut, says.

No no no no no! What’s wrong with beer flavoured beer!

It is fairly old news and hasn’t been updated since March 1st, but I have to post about datastructures.info. I really love the visualisations, for instance from What are Hash Tables and how do they work?