Almost Exciting!

Wikipedia has this list of Latin phrases. (What don’t they have?)

It lists direct English translations of common phrases, such as “veni vidi vici” and “et cetera”. There’s also many that I’ve never heard… so if you’re looking to fill your brain with some potentially useless knowledge - here’s another good resource!

(link, to lifehacker)

Google can reorder search and news results from the last day, week, a few months, or entire year by adding a small string to the end of the search URL. Just add this string—

&as_qdr=d

—to the address bar and hit enter. You’ll get a custom drop-down box that lets you re-order results based on date.

Finally, a *Passively* Multiplayer Online Game!

PMOG transforms our web surfing into ongoing social play. With a Firefox plug-in, players can bomb each other, wage war over web sites, and lead other users on web missions.

There’s so much more, check it out.

I thought of something like this once, and I’m beating myself up for not implementing it.

Cool video of some awesome hand-drawn lettering. I haven’t looked into who did this or exactly what it’s about, but it was too neat to wait before posting …

Link to video.

How long is a piece of string?

Retail Me Not is a really great coupon codes site. Nice layout, easy to navigate and search, and the most up to date I’ve seen.

Mmm… pizza…

Monk’s reference to Freakies got me doing a little bit of research on an era, thankfully, before my time: the 1970’s.

I’m wondering what the heck they were putting in Bubblicious back then.

See this Youtube clip:

Awesome “space painting” in under a minute. Depending on how many “cool things” you’ve seen today, this could be jaw-dropping once you realize what’s going on: Link.

From the article:

Police in the western city of Duisburg [Berlin] found the 32-year-old man’s blackened remains by a set of cable cutters and pile of non-live cables he had already stolen.

Reuters has a clip, among other places.

Not sure if you’ve seen this before, but it’s relatively new to me: The Conference Bike, invented by Eric Staller.

Basically, it’s a tricycle where 7 (seven!) riders sit, all facing eachother, pedaling. One lucky person gets to steer the 400 pound “bike”.

On their site you can see videos of it in action - and Oh, how I want one!

There are also great money making oppurtunities, apparently. Which gives me an idea…