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Psykopaint - Online photo painting tool

  Online fun for all the family!

By the way, I’m doing this using Windows Live Writer, and while I’m at work……don’t expect long posts, but it’s better than nothing (which is the alternative!)

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Psykopaint Beta 1 - Online photo painting tool

Fotopedia

New start up….a wikipedia for images. Not yet live but worth watching out for

Edit.....now up-and-running.....looks good!

Fotopedia

Barcelona 1908

Just a lovely video of the streets of Barcelona in 1908 with a nice backing track.....worth a click!!

Keeping the kids amused....

Just in case the weather isn't totally springlike.....

"Cool cartoons that will have you experimenting with food, light, sound, clothes, and a whole lot more!! Hundreds of cartoon experiments from cartoonist, broadcaster and engineer Tim Hunkin."

Link to Hunkin's Experiments

Think I might try this.....

Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day - More DIY How To Projects

Still here.....

wor::site has been disgracefully neglected recently....apologies....promise I'll try to do better! Coming up...Eat! NewcastleGateshead
"EAT! NewcastleGateshead 2nd May to 17th May 2009 - a festival which passionately advocates to all the pleasures of creating and sharing good food and drink in the North East." There's a downloadable programme of events here

Dive, dive, dive

Amadee Coral Reef New Caledonia in New Caledonia

Sooty and Sweep.....and Ronnie

Funny day, Sunday....now why did I suddenly start thinking about Sooty and Sweep? (on second thoughts, probably best not to dwell on that!) My personal favourite was Sweep....we had both hand puppets as kids but Sweep had the added bonus of a 'squeeker' (your thumb and little finger did the arms, leaving three free to make noises, great fun!) Anyway, found this on YouTube....confession, watched it more than once, but just don't tell, OK!

Nano journeys

"A virtual discovery journey into the worlds of micro- and nano-cosmos"....fascinating stuff!

Nanoreisen

Friday playtime

"rotate a set of blocks in the foreground to match the "hole" in the wall in the distance. Tap the [spacebar] to see if it fits through" via JayisGames

Play Through the Walls

Ouch....

How to set a dislocated hip.....but, please, don't do this at home (apparently nudity for both patient and doctor was mandatory) From the MacKinney Collection of Medieval Medical Images

Grab your passports.....

.....we're crossing the river. Well worth the ferry fare! (read click)

South Shields Daily photo

Gargoyle

" I should never have eaten that beetroot"

One of the lovely gargoyles on Sutherland Building, Northumbria University.....they make you glad to be alive!

Seahorse carrousel

Civic roundabout....the pointy-up bit of Newcastle Civic Centre, with double decker seahorses....but if you didn't have a pair of binoculars or a zoom lens you'd never have guessed! 

ScienceFest

REMINDER.....Newcastle ScienceFest is on the near horizon. Most of the events are free but you need to book tickets. Check out what's on here

BBC SciFi season

I'm a bit late with this one, the season's already started (but still available on "listen again", so I'm going to be dipping in over the weekend!) Loads of good stuff on Radios 3, 4 and 7, the season runs until 13th March

Link to programme details

View from a vice chancellors window

Went on a student site visit yesterday (more details and another picture on the BlipFoto journal) and this is the stunning view from the new vice chancellors office. It'll be lovely when it's finished....apparently!

The Social Whirl

Spotted in the local rag...click the image to biggify

What we wore.....mainly for the ladies!

Assuming you get past the presenter (rest easy, his lack-lustre presentation skills aren't omnipresent), you'll find a cornucopia of delights at the BBC Archive where they ...

" bring you this unusual collection of programmes which reveal what it took to be stylish through over 250 years of British history. Included here is the first colour series made by the BBC. Pre-dating colour TV by a decade, this is the first time it has been available to view as it was intended. It also features some surprising live models. Witness the gradual democratisation of fashion through the ages and see how clothes began to throw off the shackles of class from the 1960s onwards."

Facebook....what's that then?....Anne?

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible

For one reason or another wor::site has been sadly neglected recently, with not even a kitten playing with wool or a potters wheel to keep you amused (but, if you must, you can watch both here, together with another couple of classics). Rest assured, frivolities will be resumed asap!

Today's also ran...

....on the Blipfoto journal....light wasn't right, nor the angle, but I still like it. Magnet and Andrews Houses, Gallowgate. Built in the 1930's for the General Electric Company as company offices with shops on the ground floor. Made special by a series of terracotta panels depicting heroic scenes of (scantily-clad, iron-jawed) men working in the power industry. Click on the image for the bigger version.

Old census report

Trying out a new file storage website called Docuter, upload as many and as-big-as-you-like documents (200 file types currently supported) then embed them on a webpage/blog. The only file I had sitting on my desktop was the 1901 Northumberland Census Report (can't remember where I got it from, I really ought to keep better notes), so that's what you're getting!

What a combination!

The complete Beatles back catalogue on the ukulele....nah, just can't be beaten! Once a week, new track, guest artists, listen or download, background essay...apparently they should be finished in time for the next Olympics.

Add this blog to your favourites!

Then when you've mastered those sphinter muscles....

....can I suggest taking up the gentle art of wrestling....

Mr Liederman strikes again.....with a multitude of tips for fending off surprise attacks from burly muggers in "The Science of Wrestling" Get it while it's hot on Scribd (ie until someone tells me to remove it , I'm not sure it's out of copyright!)

Fitness is fun

Shake out those leotards, it's time to fight the flab!
Found at Schadenfreudian Therapy where there's a download link for the whole, fun-packed, sphincter-clenching LP.


But just in case you're not convinced, let's listen to the intro track...

Celebrating pedal-powered gas canisters

I'm going for the "no comment" option. Click the image to enlarge

Concrete evidence.....

....of what was seen as cutting edge in UK architecture the year I was born. Yours too for that matter.....probably. The complete archives of Concrete Quarterly from 1947 available for download here in pdf format

Further confessions of a font addict....

A couple of links for the similarly afflicted

Create a font using your own handwriting....assuming you have a printer and scanner available. Download the template, print it, fill in the characters you want to create, scan and upload...and a couple of minutes later your font is available to download and install....very nice....oh, and did I mention it's free?

Link to YourFonts

Now, how about using a bit less ink? Download and install this free font, use it as your default, and save on your printing bills. Added bonus, you're doing your bit for the planet!

"After Dutch holey cheese, there is now a Dutch font with holes as well"
Ecofont

Mind the gap

In brief, the tragic consequences of promiscuously holding hands with a dubious gent in first class after a night 'on the toon'....I'm sure there's a lesson to be learned there, so ladies consider yourselves warned! From the front cover of the Illustrated Police News, Saturday September 9th 1871.

Health and Fitness

Muscle Building

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Other Illustrations vintage

Found it!....."Muscle Building" by Mr Liederman (see post for Friday Jan 30th)....read at your peril!

Teetering......

Another one of those "physics games", balance the given bits on the pole....it only went to prove that I've got not one iota!

Play Perfect Balance

Going down!

Explore the oceans with Google Earth. Just launched (sorry!) a couple of days ago. You can...

• Dive beneath the surface and visit the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench
• Explore the ocean with top marine experts including National Geographic and BBC
• Learn about ocean observations, climate change, and endangered species
• Discover new places including surf, dive, and travel hot spots and shipwrecks

You'll need to download Google Earth v5 from here, but then forget the snorkel and flippers!

Play time....

Easy on the eye point-and-clickery
Play Treasure Box

Clever stuff

Get educated at Academic Earth

Looking up

A couple of free downloads for looking at the night sky.....if the clouds clear!

"Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go."

Download page

"The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X"

Celestia homepage

Documentaries online

Watch lots online here

Niche market listening

The History of the Common Cold Unit

34 interviews conducted between 1994 and 1997 by Dr David Tyrrell, recording the memories of those that worked at The Common Cold Unit at Salisbury from 1957 until its closure in 1990

....warned you it was niche listening!

Link

Cute stuff

.....just because it's time

Surfs up....

Took the long way round home after doing a bit of weekend shopping in Whitley Bay.....good thing I had a couple of heavy bags as ballast or I'd have been blown along to the lighthouse. Worth the temporary pain though!

PS...picture of the progress on the Spanish City dome on the blipfoto journal

Online Etch-a-Sketch

I never was much good at it, maybe you can do better!

Online Etch-a-Sketch

A message for the 7 stone weakling

I was searching for vintage advertising images to use on a poster today when I came across this gem at Google Books (part of their Popular Mechanics archive).... though to be honest I was spoilt for choice, Mr Liederman seems to have invested in multiple full page spreads in every issue during the 20's at least.....it was a close call between this one or one of him sporting a leopard skin off'the-shoulder leotard and strange sandals. Click on the image to read his fantastic over-the-top sales pitch.

Upmarket shopping trip

Here we have Sarah doing a bit of quality shopping at Tynemouth Station Market this afternoon. But by 2.00pm some of the stallholders were already starting to pack up for the day. The weather, the time of year....or the recession, who knows? But I got some bargains, an old necklace (with a metal chain that will probably give me a flare-up of excema on the back of my neck...but hey it was only a pound), a WD & HO Wills cigarette card album for £4 ("The Sea-Shore", 1938, a complete set authentically speckled with age...or nicotine!) and a truly ugly vase (I was sorry for the stallholder, he looked half frozen)

Spin the black circle

Looks hard....as you can see from the screen grab I didn't try for long, maybe tonight!

Play Spin the Black Circle

Lots to look at

The National Film Board of Canada has launched a video archive.... "From entertaining shorts and cartoons, to deeply moving or disturbing documentaries - they're all there for free, with more being added every week."

Link to the "Explore all films" page

New addiction.....

I signed up for a free Photo Journal at blipfoto.com last week.....very simple rules, you can only upload one photo a day and, most importantly, it has to be taken that day. I've managed 6 consecutive entries so far (gasp!) so I thought I'd post a link to keep me on track.

Meanwhile, at the coast..

Zen audio loops

Create your own blend of soothing zen audio loops to work to......very relaxing.
Zendesk FM3 Buddha Machine Wall

Curved horizon

I took the (slightly) longer, scenic way round to the newsagents this morning....this view out to sea overlooking the Table Rocks. Is it my imagination or can you see the curvature of the earth in this shot? (Guaranteed no jiggerypokery/photoshopery....the camera is permanently set to "Auto" because I know no better!)

The Star Wars trilogy in less than 4 minutes....

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

....and she does a pretty good job!

Build a squid

Saturday morning, and a perfect opportunity for some quality timewasting.....

Build your very own animated squid....... just because you can.

Another search-for-and-play-music thingy

I'm quite impressed with this one: type either a song title or artist in the search box, click the button and voila, it just works

Try Fizy

Sumo Paint

My steam-driven kitchen table laptop doesn't cut the mustard when it comes to running high-end graphics editing programmes like PhotoShop, I've been using the free to download package PhotoFiltre for all my day-to-day basic cropping and editing needs for ages (and to be honest, most of the time it does everything I want) But sometimes I want just that little bit more. Enter Sumo Paint, a free online image editor that packs a substantial punch and runs in your browser.....I think I'm a convert!

Link to SumoPaint 

The Sky at Night

Just been watching a daytime, probably repeat, episode of "The Sky at Night" (it's Saturday, I was washing dishes at the same time, and anyway I'm allowed, OK?), hadn't realised there was a programme archive here

Bottle tops

Beer cap matching game (age restrictions apply....not)

Play Beer Caps

Give the Stays to Grandmother

One of many surreal illustrations included in "A Picture Book for Little Children" (published circa 1812) available for download from the Internet Archive....or view the flipbook online here

Don't look down!

Truly scary Japanese suspension bridge.

From RGB to a picture

Click here for a clever Flash animation illustrating how those old cathode ray tubes worked. (Stand well back for the full effect!)

Doorstep view

The sky at 8.00am this morning when I was letting the cat out and bringing the milk in.....nice!