Here's an awesome Flickr mashup. In fact, one of the best we've seen. It's called Bubblr, and it lets you create a comic strip using Flickr photos. It's built using Flash from the looks of it, but it's a very nice implementation that uses a minimal amount of controls.
Dave's Imaginary Sound Space: Web 2.0 Tools and Resources for Managing Social Bookmarks
Topic: Miscellaneous
5:34 pm EST, Mar 28, 2006
Managing and sharing our online bookmarks can sometimes be a laborious process especially considering the growing number of services we have to choose from. Social bookmarking provides a rich source of information for discovering interesting resources and trends. For example Hublog mp3blog TopList, Hype Machine mp3blogs Toplist and MoMB - Popular Betas (March 2006), all use the most popular bookmarking site del.licio.us. to factor list rankings.
Mentions some new tools being provided, such as emailing and bookmarking multiple sites from one link, and organizing resources into entire lists that can be shared and voted upon.
11Alive.com: Atlanta Entertainment - Isaac Hayes Quits 'South Park'
Topic: Miscellaneous
7:27 pm EST, Mar 13, 2006
NEW YORK (AP) -- Isaac Hayes has quit "South Park," where he voices Chef, saying he can no longer stomach its take on religion.
Hayes, who has played the ladies' man/school cook in the animated Comedy Central satire since 1997, said in a statement Monday that he feels a line has been crossed.
Too bad.... The creators make an interesting point at the of the article about why he's quitting, though.
Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Laotian Rodent Proves Living Fossil
Topic: Miscellaneous
1:55 am EST, Mar 12, 2006
When wandering through a hunter's market in Laos, Robert Timmins of the Wildlife Conservation Society happened upon a previously unknown rodent. Called kha-nyou by locals--or rock rat--the long-whiskered and furry-tailed rodent was reputed to favor certain limestone terrain. Western scientists named it Laonastes aenigmamus or stone-dwelling enigmatic mouse--partially because a live specimen has never been collected--and thought the rock rat represented a new family of mammals. But new research reported in today's Science proves that Laonastes actually represents a fossil come to life.
Pretty neat discovery, considering how scientists have thought the stone-dwelling mouse to be extinct for 11 million years! The article goes on to mention how such a discovery helps scientists determine the accuracy of knowledge that is derived by fossil records alone. Of course, it's not unreasonable to think that certain physical traits of the species might have changed over the course of 11 million years. Also, aren't we able to find the (11 million year old) fossil remains of any other creature that's not extinct -- such as a cat, bird, or dog -- for the purpose of refining our predictions based on fossil records?
Have you seen this guy's 3D sidewalk art? Well, it's 2D... but done in such a way that if viewed from a certain angle, the image will trick your eye into thinking that the object depicted is "on" the sidewalk.
Make sure you scroll down far enough to see what his artwork looks like if photographed from the "wrong" angle!
