A Welsh View

When Larry Met Sergey

Created By Online PhD

A very impressive interactive infographic that chronicles all of the major milestones in the company's history.

iPhone's Siri vs. A Human Assistant

With the iPhone 4S released today, the NY Times tries to find out if Siri, the virtual assistant, is better than a real assistant.

Cheese or Font?

Do you your fonts from your cheeses? Test your skills at Cheese or Font?

Video: Comparing every version of Internet Explorer

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The Colour Clock

"Representing time as a hexadecimal value". Very geeky.

Fb.com Cost Facebook $8.5m

The American Farm Bureau Federation has revealed that it sold the FB.com domain name to Facebook for $8.5m - 42 times the amount the company originally paid for Facebook.com ($200K). [via]

Video: The Chase Film from Intel

Many, many geeky references.

Alcowebizer

The Alcowebizer allows you to simulate what a website would look like if it had been designed by someone who was wasted.

Top 10 GMail Labs You Should Enable

If you are a Gmail user, you may or may not be aware of the cool 'labs' features that improve the mail app. Lifehacker lists 10 of the best. If you already know about them, it's still worth checking them out incase you have forgotten about some of them.

Video: Super There Will Be Blood

How a Super Nintendo version of the movie There Will Be Blood could look like. [via]

300,000 Largest Websites Visualised with Favicons

A website called Nmap.org has analysed the top million websites and produced this image. It shows the favicons of the websites with the largest representing the most popular websites. The smallest icons correspond to sites with approximately 0.0001% reach, and rescaled to 16×16 pixels. The largest icon belongs to Google, and it’s 11,936 x 11,936 pixels large.

You can view a large, zoomable version on the Nmap website. [via]

History of Search: A Timeline

A timeline of search featuring the big boys and some others from the early days of the Web.

Video: Painting on the N900

The Undersea Cable Network

Finally, an informative article from the Daily Mail. It's a detailed piece about the undersea cables that stretch between the UK and US.

Video: The Robot That Can Fetch Beer

Engineering start-up Willow Garage has hacked an open source robot to fetch beer from a fridge. Using a web interface, the engineers can select one of four different brands of beer and the robot will scoot over to the fridge, open the door and select the correct beer. It'll even open the beer for you! [Read more]

Convert Your Handwriting Into A Font

This free service from Pilot Pens allows you to convert your own handwriting into a font.

Live Train Map for the London Underground

An excellent Google Maps mashup that shows all trains on the London Underground network in approximately real time. Stations are in yellow and trains in red. You can click on each train to find out its number, the station it just left and approximately how long until it reaches the next station.

How Secure Is Your Password?

One password I use would take about 154 nonillion years for a desktop PC to crack. Reassuring.

World Cup 2010 Twitter replay

The Guardian is producing a visualisation of every World Cup game based on Twitter activity during the games.

Video: Woman Complains About Google Pacman Game

Woman calls tech support to complain about the Pacman Google logo game that featured on the Google home page a couple of weeks ago. [via]

Video: My Desk Is 8-BIT

This must have taken an age to make.

Stereomood - Music For Your Mood

Stereomood creates custom playlists depending on the mood you are in.

Test Your Facebook Privacy Settings.

With Facebook receiving a large amount of publicity surrounding how they handle your personal data, ReclaimPrivacy.org has produced a simple tool that will test your privacy settings.

Video: Google Logo Made from 884 4x6 Photos

Employees from Google’s offices in London create the Google logo using 884 individually printed 4x6 photographs. The camera took a shot every 7 seconds, so about 5.5 hours of work is compressed into 1:20. [via]

Search for Music on Google using Musgle

Musgle makes searching for music on Google much easier. Simply enter the artist or track and Musgle with format the search query to increase the chances of you finding music that you can download.

The Geocities-izer

The Geocities-izer sends websites back in time and makes them look as though they were built by a 13-year-old using the once 'popular' Geocities.

The Apple Field Guide

A handy guide that tells you the best times to use your Macbook, iPhone ior iPad.

Anatomy of a Tweet

A tweet is more than just 140 characters. This diagram shows what's behind each tweet.

Video: Cute Japanese Google Maps Advert

Wrangler Makes Excellent Use of Flash

This Wrangler website is an excellent example of how to use Flash.

The Oatmeal on Printers

"Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable"

Video: BBC Reporter Breaks 'Unbreakable' Phone AT CES

10 Things You Need To Stop Tweeting About

Courtesy of the very funny Oatmeal.

Creative Google Chrome Advert

A creative advert showing the features of the Google Chrome browser.

Which Places In the World Does Wikipedia Discuss Most?

Mark Graham has taken an article dump from Wikipedia (Aug 2009) and calculated the number of articles written about each country in the world. United States came out top with almost 90,000 articles and Anguilla was last with just 4 articles. What was interesting was the fact that Antarctica and even Middle Earth have more articles written about them than most African countries. [via]

Video: Stella Artois Augmented Reality iPhone App

Stella Artois has released an augmented reality app for the iPhone that helps you find pubs near you that sell the old wife beater. The app is currently only available in the US but will be released in the UK soon. [via]

iLingual iPhone App

Emirates has released an iPhone app that helps you 'speak' another language.

All you need to do is take a picture of your mouth, the app then uses the picture and animates it so that when you get the app to say the phrase needed you can hold your iPhone / iPod touch in front of your real face and let the phone do the talking for you.

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If Facebook Merged With MySpace

What Facebook would look like if it merged with MySpace

The iPhone App That Requires You To Use Your Tongue

Popular Search Engines in the 90’s: Then and Now

Back in the 90's, Google wasn't the only search engine on the block. This site has screenshots showing how long forgotten search engines such as Hotbot, Dogpile and InNfoseek appeared in the 90s and how they appear today.

Video: Illustrator Circa 1963

Impressive considering its age. [via]

Video: What Is A Browser?

Google Street View Hookers

I wonder what this woman does for a living? [via]

Ultimate BIOS Guide

MaximumPC has posted the ultimate BIOS guide which decrypts and explains every setting.

This Is What $10,001 in Quarters Looks Like

$10,001 in quarters will be awarded to arcade champ Steve Wiebe if he can set a new Donkey Kong high score (better than 1,050,200) at E3. The quarters were withdrawn by Stride Gum and you can view more photos at Wired.

Thief Busted After Posting MySpace Message

A man has been busted after he bragged on his MySpace page about stealing $4,000 from a bank.

Joseph Wade Northington, 27, of Roanoke, Va. wrote on his MySpace.com page, “One in the head $till ain’t dead!!!!!! On tha run for robbin a bank Love all of yall”.

Investigators tracked him down after a friend, Shawn Daniels, who served with him in the Army, identified him from surveillance photos

Northington faces a minimum of seven years and maximum of life in prison when he is sentenced.

(News video here)

Twitmatic - Real-Time Video Search For Twitter

Twitmatic is allows you to search, browse, rate, watch, and skip videos that have been linked to on Twitter. The interface allows you to watch the videos inline and has specific version just for watching videos of cats (Kittymatic) and puppies (Puppymatic).

Video: Google Street View Trike

How Google Street View solves the problem of pedestrianised streets. [via]

Incredible Aerial Virtual Tour of New York City

An amazing aerial virtual tour of New York City. I'm hoping the creators decide to do other cities.

Yooouuutuuube

Yooouuutuuube is a new way of viewing YouTube videos and rather than trying to explain the site, take a look at this example.