Sponge Project Blog

Boeing raygunship fires first blasts in ground testing. Basically a giant frickin’ laser built into a military grade aircraft to shoot missiles down and generally wreck havoc with enemy forces.

I particularly like the comment saying it’s: a ray-cannon for everyday tasks! What everyday tasks could you use a ray-gun for? Cleaning you teeth? Getting rid of teenagers from the local bus stop?

Really neat idea by Chris Coyier and Richard Felix, that crashes together a weather API (Yahoo’s I think) with Flickr, to give you a weather check for your location and a nice photo!

Try your location. Link via That Standards Guy.

The Man in Blue experiments yet again, by this time with cubes!

Cubescape is a strangely addictive isometric pixel picture game/toy/art tool/application. I say strangely addictive, because you feel compelled to complete yet another image with cube-perfect positioning. I can see this becoming a problem.

Anyway this is an excellent piece of work that yet again shows how the web can be harnessed for almost anything these days.

Stumbled across an interesting concept the other day called net-guide, which is basically an accessible search engine that in turn lists and promotes accessible websites in its results.

The idea is good, but I’m not sure it’s implemented right. For example doing a search on sponge project, returns this site at the top result as you would expect. However searching for “sponge project” returns a completely random website that’s got nothing to do with sponges or projects, let alone Sponge Project, which in turn gives a 404 error!

Still, let’s hope they can iron out these glitches and produce a really top-notch product, because this could be great.

As JackP rightly states:

If everyone followed this pledge, there would be no financial benefit to anyone sending spam and so we’d get an awful lot less…And just as importantly, buying anything from any of the spammers continues to fund their spamming activities

So I’m going to second this call to arms for the Sophos’ pledge against spam by joining in:

I, Rob Mason, do solemnly promise to you, my fellow internet users, that I will do my bit to fight the problem of spam, resist the temptation of weight loss adverts, fake Rolex watches, pump-and-dump stock market scams, and ways to increase the size of my body parts. And so henceforth, I make this pledge. To not click on links in unsolicited mail and never buy goods advertised via spam.

Incidentally, the most bizarre thing about this announcement is that during a survey they conducted …11% of respondents admitted having purchased an item advertised via spam! Good god why?

Image and pledge courtesy of Sophos.

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