Category Archives: Links

Icon war

Icon war is a great animation, a war at the Windows desktop.

More lightbulb jokes

If you can handle more lightbulb jokes, check out Quickies about LightBulbs. There are many cool versions.

Going from New York to London

At Google Maps you can enter two cities and then click on Get Directions. Entering New York and London gives an interesting result. The answer says “3,938 mi (about 29 days 10 hours)” but there is a nice twist to it. There is a detailed description with 62 different steps. Number 23 is really nice, [...]

Hot Dog Vendor

I have a joke about The Buddhist Hotdog Vendor. Over at Funny Jokes I found another story about the hot dog business titled Hot Dog Vendor.

Place The State

Place The State is an online game where you shall put the states in USA in their correct places.

Pavement drawings

Julian Beever shows some amazing pavement drawings. Take a closer look at his threedimensional drawings like this Coke bottle!

Juggling

The Internet Juggling Database (IJDb) is an online resource centre for juggling and other circus arts. I found it while searching for ways to learn to Juggle 3 Balls.
Another site about juggling is Juggling is a Snap.

Animated Knots

Animated Knots by Grog is a fascinating site. There are several sections with knots for climbing, fishing, boating, household, decorative and more. The knots are shown with animated pictures. You can watch them fast, slow or step by step.

Paper plane

Origami is one concept for folding paper, paper planes are another. Wikipedia is a good starting point. They mention that it is also called aerogami, that sounds a lot fancier. Alex’s paper airplanes is a good place to find designs.

Origami

I got some origami paper for Christmas so I need to learn more about it and of course practice some. Wikipedia has useful information and at Origami is a gallery and also diagrams for models, from simple to complex ones.