A song I never would have heard...

...were it not for Sonic Youth playing the video when they programmed Rage many, many years ago.

Palace Music - Horses

Human Computation

Human Computation
Video of a talk by Luis von Ahn, inventor of the ESP Game, about how to get humans to do stuff that computers are rubbish at. I think this talk led to Google's Image Labeler game. [via email via James]

Web Industry Professionals Association

Web Industry Professionals Association
A new group for web professionals in Australia. Looks like it could be a good thing. [via email via the Web Standards Group]

Song I had stuck in my head all weekend

Joel Plaskett - True Patriot Love

The Sarah Jane Adventures

The Sarah Jane Adventures
Another Dr Who spin-off, this time for the kiddies (unlike Torchwood, which'll be all grown up and stuff)

Roos look to take leap forward

Roos look to take leap forward
Good article on Australian ice hockey from NHL.com [via HockeyPulse]

The 99p Challenge

The 99p Challenge
Something I've been listening to on the bus to and from work, archives of a quiz show with Simon Pegg, Armando Iannucci, Peter Serafinowicz, and other funny people.

Song That's Been Stuck In My Head All Day

Camera Obscura - Eighties Fan

5 Great Comedians Who've Lost It

5 Great Comedians Who've Lost It
A pretty obvious list, but I do agree with them all [via Digg]

Everything's Gone Green

Everything's Gone Green
Douglas Coupland's first screenplay, set in (where else?) Vancouver, is showing at the Toronto Internation Film Festival. Looks like it's got a good soundtrack too. Trailer and a short featurette on YouTube.

Frozen Cherry Trees

Frozen Cherry Trees
Photos of cherry trees covered in ice. [via del.icio.us]

Weird to think that freezing rain can either make for nice photos like these, or mindblowingly severe ice storms (more CBC news video clips) like in parts of Canada and the US in 1998. At least that disaster gave us a really fantastic song (The Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out))

Cool Things You Can Do On a Mac

Cool Things You Can Do On a Mac
I only knew about the screenshot thing, the others look useful and/or cool. [via TUAW]

Nice picture of the moon

Nice picture of the moon
1600x1200 picture of the moon, made up from a few different photos. [via Digg]

Four YouTube Videos

Sent via IM by James while I was procrastinating over my CIT assignment

Apple Commercial - HAL2000

Shynola pixar parody

Dermal Display

1975 commercial - Braniff Airways - The Supersonic Future

iColours

iColours
Neat way to change the glowy apple on the top of your PowerBook
(/iBook/MacBook/whatever).  [via del.icio.us]

Pony Up coming to Canberra!

Pony Up!
Supporting Starky at the ANU Bar September 20th. woo! [via leftand_leaving's last.fm journal]

Huge Pixel Art Piece

LOVEPIXEL
Massive pixel art city. Original here. [via Digg]

European logo design annual 2006

European logo design annual 2006
Award winning logos. Some nice designs in there. [via James via email]

Toronto Time Lapse

downtown strips
A nice series of photos of downtown Toronto. [via del.icio.us]

Punk-o-Matic

Punk-o-Matic - select music instruments and make your own punk music
Sounds almost exactly as bad as the well dodgy punk 'band' i was briefly in in high school. [via del.icio.us]