WoW and Cottage Industries

MySpace, eBay, Google, and Amazon are large enough to support a number of cottage industries and services on the Web. I think that Second Life is developing into one (right now it seems to be able to support individuals and consulting firms). With the launch of Shawn Fanning’s Rupture, a YASN (yet-another-social-network) for World Of Warcraft players, I realized that World of Warcraft is there as well (or at least that entrepreneurs want it to be).

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[Via O'Reilly Radar]

You cannot rely on JavaScript being available

I have a question for people who label themselves as JavaScript developers: Have you forgotten about, never heard of, or never cared about the terms progressive enhancement, graceful degradation, and Hijax? If the answer is yes, then please tell me why.

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[Via 456 BereaST]

HOW TO - Make a 3D paper snowflake

Wikihow shows you how to make this great 3D paper snowflake.

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[Via Make]

Extracting DNA kit & DNA projects

Shawn from the Society for Amateur Scientists sent out this deal on DNA kits for SAS members (you can still get them if you’re not a member).

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[Via Make]

Colorstrology

Qual a cor do seu signo?

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New Mac Ads: Holiday Gifts, Sales Pitches, and DAMN KIDS

The New Mac Ads are on Apple’s Website. One featuring the PC and Mac exchanging gifts (I won’t spoil the gifts).

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[Via Gizmodo]

115-Foot-Deep Pool Makes Diving For Pennies a Struggle

Think the 8-foot-deep pool in your parents’ backyard is the bee’s knees? The Nemo 33 pool in Brussels, Belgium is 115 feet deep, son. Created for training scuba divers, it’s the world’s deepest by what I would guess is a pretty fair margin. If you go, remember that it’s in Europe, so don’t forget to pack a banana hammock.

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[Via Gizmodo]

Light Up the Night With Lumigram, Ma’am

Good god, gals! Get a load of this getup. This little minitop lights up the night with fiber optics embedded into the fabric. You can also get handbags, decorations and even fiber optic hair using the technology, all from France at an unspecified price. Nice.

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[Via Gizmodo]

3-Way Hacking Ferry Bridge

The 3-Way footbridge called “Hacking Ferry” is virtually located at Lancashire on the UK and it was developed by Flint & Neill in cooperation with Wilkinson Eyre Architects. The freaky bridge design along the river will create the possibility for people in the Lancashire area to spend less time when going from one side to the other.

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[Via Urber Review]

Wide-Angle Lens Without Distortion, A Mirror

Anyone see that recent Hummer commercial that has a really weird shot of a Hummer grill driving through the desert? That’s wide-angle distortion. A South Korean researcher at Nanophotonics has invented a wide-angle lens without distortion and it only costs $100. How does it work? Instead of using high-end glass optics, the lens uses a stock lens (the black thing) that shoots a mirror (bottom thing) and translates the image to a pan-ready 180 degree image via software.

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[Via Gizmodo]