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“Necessity is the mother of invention. The father is unknown.” Luckily, there’s such a thing called “patent pending”. Otherwise, we’ll be flooded with silly patents like “Retractable Table Top for a Toilet” and “Penile Volumetric Measuring Device”. Patently Silly is a site that archives real patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for… Read More »
Got this from a colleague today. It’s a visual representation of the 200 most successful websites on the World Wide Web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective, and displayed in the manner of the London Underground map.A clickable online version can be found here. Noticed that one “line” on the map is dedicated… Read More »
Based on the premise that a black screen uses less energy than a white one, Blackle – a customised Google search engine – claims to save energy simply “because the screen is predominantly black”. The idea for the site was born from a 2007 blog post titled “Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year”,… Read More »
Let me visualise how your website looks like… Okay, I kid you not. This visualisation thingy isn’t just empty talk. At “Websites as Graphs“, you can type in the URL of your favourite website and a little java applet will spawn a host of coloured dots representing the site’s various tags and links. This is… Read More »
Ever wondered how the mouse cursor on your computer monitor works? Through the use of a high-tech screen magnifying lens, this hitherto mysterious mechanism now becomes apparent. To find out, just visit https://www.1-click.jp/, and once the page has loaded, move your cursor to the center of the screen where a circle appears. For instant enlightenment,… Read More »