TWiRTftW: This Week in Random Tat from the Web
December 3, 2006 – 10:23 pm | by Benjamin WattA few things have caught my attention this week, so I thought I’d regurgitate them for you now, whether you want me to or not.
The first thing I wanted to point out kind of leads on from my post about Windows Vista, no not because this post ALSO lacks style or any kind of substance, but because it relates to the many different editions of Microsoft’s new pretty operating system. Microsoft clearly realised that it was all becoming a little too complicated, but rather than just, you know - release one version of Vista, they instead enlisted the help of some cartoon monsters. But of course! If you’ve a spare five minutes of your life that you don’t really mind never getting back, head on over to They Came for Windows Vista for the first two episodes of strangeness.
Moving on, I spotted over on Make that somebody came up with the comical idea of making their own huge Google Earth pin point icon and sticking it in their garden. Genius - the details of how they made it are here.
Whilst you’re in a Google Earth/Maps mood, you might also want to browse through the GoogleSightSeeing list of the top 10 naked people on Google Earth.
Just before I move away from Google Earth and Google Maps, Fredericiana, intern at Mozilla Corporation points out that the Firefox crop circle made over the Summer has made it onto the satellite imagery of both. You can see it for yourself on Google Maps, complete with nearby plane as featured in the rather cool video of the whole thing on Firefox Flicks.
Meanwhile BusinessWeek of all places has an article on the making of Lego, which is a good read. The Lego Group makes 15 billion Lego bits a year, and technically makes more rubber tyres than any other manufacturer in the world, they’re just significantly smaller obviously. Make sure you also look at the photos of the factory itself. I should say that Lego was pretty much my favourite thing to play with growing up, and the sight of so many Lego bricks in one place stil gets me excited. I don’t see any roof bits though in those photos, I never had enough of them to actually meet in the middle…
Catch me if you can Hosted on ZooomrThat’s pretty much it, except for the above random photo of my cat that I uploaded to Zooomr over the weekend. No animals were harmed in the making of this blog.
