Searching for Tao, 7573 Kilometres from Home

May 10, 2007 21:38 +0000 | Money Nifty Links 0

Playing off the success of Where's George, Where's Willy is a $5 bill tracking system you can use to find where your money has travelled. In some cases, I saw bills that left Toronto and ended up in Sarnia, while some bills have ended up in Saskatoon. It's kinda neat.

To participate, take the nearest $5 bill, go to the site and put in it's serial number (three letters followed by a string of numbers along the bottom). If the site has a record of that bill, you can see where it's been and if it doesn't it'll create an entry for it so that others can do the same.

To help the process along, you can even write whereswilly.com on the bill.

May 03, 2007 05:01 +0000 | Nifty Links 2

omgwtfbbq. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: LOL Trek.

Thanks to Barclay for the link.

May 02, 2007 04:45 +0000 | Copyright Geek Stuff Nifty Links 1

Slashdot has the details:

Months after successful discovery of the HD-DVD processing key, an unprecedented campaign of censorship, in the form of DMCA takedown notices by the MPAA, has hit the Net. For example Spooky Action at a Distance was killed. More disturbingly, my story got Dugg twice, with the second wave hitting 15,500 votes, and today I found out it had simply disappeared from Digg. How long until the long arm of the MPAA gets to my own site (run in Ecuador) and the rest of them holding the processing key? How long will we let rampant censorship go on, in the name of economic interest?

Rudd-O, Slashdot, Tuesday May 01, @03:44PM.

More details on what this key is and what it's for can be found here.

Update

Digg has decided to do the right thing. Kudos to them for taking this step, and to the community for forcing them down that path.

May 01, 2007 15:22 +0000 | Nifty Links 0

Dieselsweeties is priceless today.

April 19, 2007 14:46 +0000 | Geek Stuff Nifty Links 6

Is it wrong that I identify with Dieselsweeties a little too much today?

April 13, 2007 21:30 +0000 | Nifty Links 0

Lenlow is a mashup/bootleg producer from Boston... that's about all I know. Well that and he's brilliant. Who else can mix "walk on the wild side" and John Lennon's "Imagine" and make it pretty?

If you have a minute, you should check out his mp3 shares of his work.

...did I mention that he also did a mashup of Kanye West and "Manah Manah"?

March 12, 2007 00:38 +0000 | Nifty Links 6

I know that I'm sadly lacking in interesting posts and I will catch up... but not right now. For now, I have a link sent to me from my friend Robin. I give you: Charlie the Unicorn.

March 06, 2007 21:51 +0000 | Nifty Links 2

If you have a few minutes and fancy a good laugh, I encourage you to check out The Worst Burglar Ever on YouTube. Funny, funny stuff.

February 12, 2007 19:10 +0000 | Nifty Links Society & Culture 6

Rami, a guy I know from the TPSC has gone through a lot of time and effort in setting up his new site illegalsigns.ca.

The most impressive component of the site is a Google map of Toronto checkered with little [illegal] icons representing every billboard in the city that exists without a permit or who's owners lied on the application to get it installed.

It's absolutely brilliant work and deserves high praise. I encourage everyone, not just Torontonians to check out Rami's hard work. Find the billboards near where you live and complain to your councillor's office.

February 12, 2007 16:08 +0000 | Nifty Links Society & Culture 0

I know that I've been posting a lot of this sort of thing, but a collection like this is hard to ignore. Thanks to Aileen, I give you a Super Mario Montage, courtesy of YouTube.