Good Times & Happy Days

Carrying on with the photography thing this morning, here’s 23 more photos to inspire to do wonderful things!

Here’s 40 photos which are truely inspiring. A lot like there was a fair amount of Photoshop involved, but then who doesn’t use Photoshop these days?

Here’s a cool interface some guys made in 2003 for drawing in 3d.

Le Twitter Hack Timeline
by Sean Percival

There’s an entire culture of travellers who sleep in airports around the world, then share their experiences online, rating different airports as to their quality for an overnight stay. There’s the great

“Even if you have the cash to spring on a hotel room in Singapore, I would recommend a night in the airport.”

and the shocking

“I was propositioned not once but twice by the same man asking me for casual sex, which was understandably a little frightening for a lone 20 year old woman wandering the airport at night”

about Paris CDG.

Here’s an awesome collection of artwork from the top 20 digital artists in Europe, with a bit of info about each of them as well.

As part of the 40th anniversary celebrations the original source code for the command module and lunar module have been released into Google code. Take a look here.

Funny story from Opera, the moral of which I guess is if you’re trying to sell hardware to a software company, make sure your hardware doesn’t outright reject their products!

1979 iPod

Kane Kramer certainly was way ahead of the times in 1979 when he patented the above device – flash memory based music player the size of a cigarette packet. Not only that, but he predicted music piracy and DRM. Read more here.

Here’s an interesting article about making web applications scaling. It highlights the fact that MySQL is generally the cause of most problems and what can be done allieviate these problems.