Just ran across this open source planetarium software. Pretty cool if you're interested in this sort of thing. It's actually nicely done and the visuals are great.
Don't know if this one has made the rounds before - I hadn't seen it - very inspiring. Couldn't find anything about it at snopes, so I'm assuming its for real. And at least the main subject didn't die at the end! I kept thinking, ah, here it comes, but it was just a nice little film all the way to the end.
There are dozens of websites for virtual memorials for loved ones who have passed. Some are simple, where you upload a picture or two and post them alongside a brief written history about the deceased person.
Others are much more sophisticated and allow video, music, links for donating to a charity in that person's name, a virtual guestbook for visitors to sign; and some, like CherishedLives.com even try to recreate the actual experience of visiting a cemetery, complete with a drive to the plot, tombstones that are depicted with real-time weather, even a gift shop for family and friends to buy virtual flowers to place on the grave, flowers that decompose and eventually disappear over a two week period.
But all serve the same purpose. They're a 21st century way of creating a memorial for absolutely anyone to see and be a part of whenever they'd like, wherever they happen to be.
“Unfortunately, as time goes one people go less and less to the cemeteries,” says Frank Pittelli of CherishedLives.com. “I've spoken to people who haven't been to their father's, mother's resting place for 10, 12 years. But this is something they can always keep with them and share with other people and just come when they want and relive the memories they want.”
Real world funeral homes are also offering online memorials, which they say not only help with remembering but also help with the whole healing process.
Dignity Memorial Providers, which has a network of 2,000 funeral homes and cemeteries, not only has its MEM website, Making Everlasting Memories for virtual memorials, but it even takes those memories back offline and creates photo books and DVDs for families.
“It won't replace the traditional morays of the funeral – people still come together – but now they’re coming together and they’re able to have those remembrances and share them with people,” says Kevin Mack of Thomas M. Quinn Funeral Home. “It's very medicinal for people to go through and at the same time it’s cathartic. It enables them to go through the memories and it allows them to be able to express their feelings about their loved one, whereas very possibly in the past that wasn't done.”
If you're interested in setting up a virtual memorial, there are some things to consider before choosing a site.
1. How simple is it for you to add photos and videos and whatever you'd like to make it the exact memorial you have in mind?
2. How much input does it allow visitors to have? Some allow just a message post, others let guests add their own photos.
3. Cost: How much will you spend to keep the memorial online year after year?
I stayed on a floor buffer longer than Ellen could stay in that chair. And no hand rails, either!
Sounds like the next company Christmas party would be a lot more lively if that was given away as a door prize! Three tequila shots, and if you can stay in the saddle for eight seconds and not hurl afterwards - you're a winner!
I'd like to see someone try to play piano spinning on that thing! :eek: :lipsealed:
That round pad Ellen is sitting on at the base of the chair spins in a wobbly circle back and forth. The motion is supposed to strengthen your abs and core muscles, but if you lift off your feet off the floor it will toss you sideways in a second.
Someone actually got a decent shot of Ellen in mid-flail - she tries to pour a glass of water from the picture in the background while being tossed about - its pretty funny.
I guess its called the Hawaii - or Luau chair - hips move in similar motions to the dance..
See if you can remember these from the 70's - we only had a B&W TV so I never got to see these shows in color...The sad part is that I remember ALL of them vividly.
http://www.tatuagemdaboa.com.br/
2. Wait for the lady to appear, then ..
3. WRITE YOUR FIRST NAME IN THE 1st LINE.
4. WRITE YOUR SURNAME in the 2nd LINE.
5. No need to write your e-mail address.
6. Press the VISUALIZAR bar.
Just ran across this open source planetarium software. Pretty cool if you're interested in this sort of thing. It's actually nicely done and the visuals are great.
http://www.stservicemovie.com/
Johnny the Bagger
doesn't work for me...but
http://media.myfoxtwincities.com/livestream/web_channel/index.htm
Don't kid yourself - its ALL potty humor.
Some of the sayings in the archive pages are a lot better than the cover page.
for kitch
I want to be the first person to have a degree is googlogy.
or maybe I should become a preacher of google
Our Google which art in cyberspace,
Hallowed be thy domain.
Thy search to come,
Thy results be done,
On my computer as it is in the WWW.
Give us this search our daily results.
Forgive us our spam, as those that have
spammed up against us.
And lead us not into infected sites,
But deliver us from Trojans.
For thine search engine is the greatest,
and the power,
and the glory,
For search after search.
Amen
wouldn't be be cool if when you order food at a counter you just hit the "i'm feeling lucky button"
or
our license plates letters where repainted blue, red, yellow and green.
weird...
There are dozens of websites for virtual memorials for loved ones who have passed. Some are simple, where you upload a picture or two and post them alongside a brief written history about the deceased person.
Others are much more sophisticated and allow video, music, links for donating to a charity in that person's name, a virtual guestbook for visitors to sign; and some, like CherishedLives.com even try to recreate the actual experience of visiting a cemetery, complete with a drive to the plot, tombstones that are depicted with real-time weather, even a gift shop for family and friends to buy virtual flowers to place on the grave, flowers that decompose and eventually disappear over a two week period.
But all serve the same purpose. They're a 21st century way of creating a memorial for absolutely anyone to see and be a part of whenever they'd like, wherever they happen to be.
“Unfortunately, as time goes one people go less and less to the cemeteries,” says Frank Pittelli of CherishedLives.com. “I've spoken to people who haven't been to their father's, mother's resting place for 10, 12 years. But this is something they can always keep with them and share with other people and just come when they want and relive the memories they want.”
Real world funeral homes are also offering online memorials, which they say not only help with remembering but also help with the whole healing process.
Dignity Memorial Providers, which has a network of 2,000 funeral homes and cemeteries, not only has its MEM website, Making Everlasting Memories for virtual memorials, but it even takes those memories back offline and creates photo books and DVDs for families.
“It won't replace the traditional morays of the funeral – people still come together – but now they’re coming together and they’re able to have those remembrances and share them with people,” says Kevin Mack of Thomas M. Quinn Funeral Home. “It's very medicinal for people to go through and at the same time it’s cathartic. It enables them to go through the memories and it allows them to be able to express their feelings about their loved one, whereas very possibly in the past that wasn't done.”
If you're interested in setting up a virtual memorial, there are some things to consider before choosing a site.
1. How simple is it for you to add photos and videos and whatever you'd like to make it the exact memorial you have in mind?
2. How much input does it allow visitors to have? Some allow just a message post, others let guests add their own photos.
3. Cost: How much will you spend to keep the memorial online year after year?
Who is Googling You? Website LetÂ’s You Track Info on Search Sources
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEzfyz5qCfY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNTdo9JIRf4
It looks like a time for some IceHouse
look's like a flash mob is planned for today at MOA...
cool find kitch
To see the video use this address:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5VWZoKWBYXE
sand art..
I find it relaxing...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHiqVygN-w0
Sounds like the next company Christmas party would be a lot more lively if that was given away as a door prize! Three tequila shots, and if you can stay in the saddle for eight seconds and not hurl afterwards - you're a winner!
I'd like to see someone try to play piano spinning on that thing! :eek: :lipsealed:
what's the chair??
Someone actually got a decent shot of Ellen in mid-flail - she tries to pour a glass of water from the picture in the background while being tossed about - its pretty funny.
I guess its called the Hawaii - or Luau chair - hips move in similar motions to the dance..
Type your first name in the first line, your last name in the second line. Skip the email address line. Click on Visualizer.
that was fun
nice dolphin cm :wink:
I really liked the "previews" for Big Fat Brain, the Carnival one and the Horrible People -
how i found that site...
Enter your own funny caption to an American Greetings photo and possibly win $1000!
The nest is in West Virginia, so if its dark when you try this, try again tomorrow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R._Pufnstuf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Lost_%281974_TV_series%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_Woman_and_Dyna_Girl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderbug_%28TV_series%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bugaloos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_and_the_Sea_Monsters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidsville
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Saucer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Out_Space_Nuts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot_and_Wildboy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Shrinker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_and_Marty_Krofft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Krofft_Supershow
To help customers who have developed a fake Brooklyn accent as a result
of ordering The BRKLYN, Domino's created 1-877-UNACCENT -- a hotline that
will coach callers, teaching them how to speak normally once again. The
hotline, driven by voice recognition technology, will take consumers
through a range of lessons on how to say words correctly and lose their
fake Brooklyn accent.
If you notice a fake Brooklyn accent developing during this
time, you might want to give 1- 877-UNACCENT a call."