Nafurai » Blog Drive-bys http://blog.nafurai.com Build your own internet Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:11:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 BDB6: How to survive a writers’ block http://blog.nafurai.com/2007/08/bdb6-how-to-survive-a-writers-block/ http://blog.nafurai.com/2007/08/bdb6-how-to-survive-a-writers-block/#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:10:12 +0000 maurizio http://blog.nafurai.com/2007/08/bdb6-how-to-survive-a-writers-block/ Today I have no idea on what to write so I’ll take out my Blog Drive Bys.

The first goes to BlogDriveBys, my Blogger experiment. I tend to put a lot of movies there but it’s not a rule. I suggest you to go and see the “Funny Terrorist” video..

Next site I suggest you fellow bloggers to visit is the Pingdoom Tools. This tool allow you to see how fast is your site and where are bottlenecks. I tried with Paula’s blog and I suggest Paula to remove some stuff from it because it’s too slow. Actually I knew that before, but I wanted to have some hard fact to show her :-)

Last site is Kiva.org. Kiva act as a connection between us and companies that lends money to the poor. Do you know those small companies that lends money in 3rd world countries (and not only there) ? The usually lends what for us is (almost) pocket change, just to help people to get a better life.
They even have banners that you can add to your pages like this one:

The process is simple; you give Kiva the money, they’ll give to the entrepreneur and you’ll get monthly report about them.
Right now you don’t get interest on the money you loan, but they are planning to do it in the future. I don’t think most of the people are really concerned about that anyway..
If you are making a lot of money with your blog, consider lending some of it. You’ll get back some good story to tell on your blog!

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]]> http://blog.nafurai.com/2007/08/bdb6-how-to-survive-a-writers-block/feed/ 2 BDB6: Pink Dolphins,Cargo ships and God http://blog.nafurai.com/2007/07/bdb6-pink-dolphinscargo-ships-and-god/ http://blog.nafurai.com/2007/07/bdb6-pink-dolphinscargo-ships-and-god/#comments Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:15:12 +0000 maurizio http://blog.nafurai.com/2007/07/bdb6-pink-dolphinscargo-ships-and-god/ I’ll start with the pink dolphin for all you girls
Pink Dolphin

The second site is a site with interesting content but very bad html.
Cargo Law is a site that shows and explain some accidents happened to Cargo ships. Sometimes it’s too technical for me, but I find it fascinating at least just for the photos.
The site is 8 year old like their graphic..

It wouldn’t be a Blog Drive Bys without a YouTube video.
This time is a comedy about the life at God’s offices. I hope you’ll enjoy it.

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Portable Bubble Wrap Toy. Everyone loves to pop plastic bubbles. Now you can do it wherever you are without taking all the plastic with you!

The next movie is a funny spoof of Star Trek called Steam Trek.

Again another Video (who said Youtube was a bad purchase from Google? Mr. Cuban-the-owner-of-another-video-company? :)
This one is difficult to describe; it’s just a textual representation of a scene of Pulp Fiction. The coolness of this video is the way the author represented sounds and atmospheres just by using different font sizes and text alignment.
Please note that it contains inappropriate language for young people :-)

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Let’s start with the
Top 100 List of Free Games (free as in beer). I played at least 5 of them…I should probably stop blogging to try them all..

Now again a list of videos.
The first is very nice lipsync made by the guys at Connected Ventures:

Lip Dub – Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo

Next one is a video of a hack made by a Czech Hacker on a TV. He gained access to the internal network and changed the images transmitted by the network in the morning. I don’t know all the story, but I think he changed that kind of “screensaver” transmission they have in the morning. Take a look:

That’s enough for now. I don’t want to fill my homepage with too many videos, otherwise you can’t read my other delightful articles.

New word of the day: delightful. I so wanted to use it..I’m not even sure I used it in the proper way :-)

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