Results tagged “Website of the Week”
*Science, technology and nature notes
Name the body's largest organ and many would cite the liver, the brain or maybe the heart. But, truth is, the skin is king.
The Wellcome Institute has just opened a free - and occasionally ghoulish - exhibition on our outer coating - what we've thought about it, what we've done to it and how the crueller excesses of nature have distorted it.
When a Florida woman spotted the face of the Virgin Mary on her cheese sandwich, she made £15,000 by selling it on eBay.
But while religious sightings inevitably lead to pilgrimages and headlines, it’s hard to see people getting excited about spotting the image of a duck in their bucket of chicken wings.
Apart from this lot.
This Peanut Looks Like a Duck is a website that collects pictures of things that look like ducks from around the world, including rust-spots, chicken finger batter and lemons. Praise be.
I got strange looks when I lived in Hastings for ordering sandwiches stuffed with tuna, bacon and lettuce.
But that’s nothing compared to the stomach-churning horrors on show at wildrecipes.com, which showcases “the weirdest food people actually eat�.
Delia-dodgers can scribble down cooking ideas such as Cheddar Coffee, Rootworm Beetle Dip and Pig’s Face and Cabbage, while the truly disturbed can sample the Spam Shake, a glutinous mix of spam, anchovies, mustard and tomato juice.
The 21st century is the age of the computer.
Anyone caught doing anything that doesn’t involve a screen or a caps lock button will be taken out and beaten with an ergonomic keyboard.
So it’s inevitable that the ancient art of doodling has eloped to the web.
The Doodle Notebook allows you to create wonders using a simple paint program, and upload them for a chance to win £1,000 of books.
Kudos go to top timewaster Emily Hamilton, who’s already clocked 1095 minutes on the site when she’s meant to be working.
This game shouldn’t really be fun. After all, it’s almost entirely based on typing, which is something you really only do when you’re trapped at your desk. But add the word “racer� and paste a little car at the top, and all the ingredients are there to make you love the keyboard again.
Typeracer is a touch-typing speed tester which allows to you to challenge yourself or random opponents to a screen-scorching race to the finish.
But if you’re more used to poking the keys with one finger, you may be reduced to crawling like that cautious motorist who held you up on the A13.
‘Knuckleheads’ could be about the people who dreamed up rail privatisation. Or Game 39 in the Premiership.
But a website called ‘knuckletattoos’ is probably not about cute cats. Or South American pottery.
Yes, it does exactly what it says – knuckles, or upper fingers at any rate, covered with a variety of fetching designs.
My favourite has to be the one with ‘knuckles’. Maybe he has ‘forehead’ as a tattoo on his, erm, forehead?
You think the Jubilee line is bad? Well, all right, it is. Bloody awful at times.
But when you see this clip you will thank your lucky stars Canary Wharf station only has those pointless yellow lines on the platform.
Somewhere in the Far East a loaded train doesn’t mean waiting for the next one. Oh no. You are pushed into the carriage by a team of officials until your face is pressed up against the glass.
Worse than sardines.
Canvas? Been there, done that.
A wall like Banksy? Bit difficult maybe.
A skull? Similar to Damien Hirts, but a tad expensive with all those diamonds.
No. What you arty types really want, deep down, is to decorate an old bowling ball.
Amazingly for our Timewaster feature, this includes some extremely tasteful designs intended to decorate your garden.
Trucks ‘spill’ things from time to time. It’s a fact of life and something every one of us will encounter at some point on the motorway.
But timber shifting or scaffolding poles littering the road are one thing – alligators, M&Ms and whale guts take it to a whole different level.
This site brings you pics and descriptions from a wide range of truck spills.
Not quite sure I’d have wanted to be there when a Tomahawk missile was involved.
These days kids get to go everywhere on holiday.
Florida, Turkey, Australia – they’re all just round the corner, really. If a lad or lass hasn’t been on at least two flights a year by the time they are eight they must be living in the dark ages.
But there was a more innocent time. One of ice creams and donkey rides on Scarborough beach, trying to ignore the storm clouds overhead and fish and chips for the fourth day in a row.
And mini-golf.
This oh-so-simple game will bring the memories flooding back.
It is so simple it is perfect for hungover mornings. Until you get to hole 14 – that’ll test your powers of recovery.
Some of our timewaster websites are ideal for a quick 10-minute ‘break’, while others are perfect for those lunchtimes when you can put your feet up for a while.
Others – like this footy game – are more for those lunchtimes that happen to extend into the afternoon BUT you can’t hide in the pub.
I love Garfield cartoons.
Or I did, until the later ones became rather unfunny.
But up to then they were pure joy – three picture boxes providing a bellyful of laughs as Garfield outwitted his rather slow master.
With that in mind, I find this website slightly disturbing.
WHY do you need a complicated timewaster game?
It’s to fill your brain for a little while, not to complete a masters degree in astrophysics.
So why not try this?
IF you fancy yourself as a low-budget film-maker but your budget is really rather on the low side then this website could help.
http://www.indymogul.com/backyard-fx/episodes
Ever dreamed of racing through London, ignoring the congestion charge, bendy buses and roadworks?
Now you can. Or, in fact, anywhere in the world covered by Google Maps.
This ingenious game uses real-life aerial maps to create road races.
They are fairly short in duration but finding new places to race in will prove highly addictive. Must stop – I’m off to Sydney now.
This is brilliant. Highly addictive. But very difficult to explain.
When you first enter this site nothing happens. Just give it a few seconds, though, and suddenly you are creating a Jackson Pollock masterpiece.
Lines of bright colour varying from wide to narrow shoot out as you move the cursor about, or if you click on one spot a ‘splat’ will appear.
Mesmerising.
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