Random Links #3

Halloween Costume

The 8-Bit Low-Res Make-Up Is High-Res Clever

Halloween has come and gone this yea and the photos are up. This is definitely my favorite.

Low Resolution by Kindacarsick

Black Friday

It’s November and sooner that you’d like it will be Nov 27th: Black Friday. To help prepare, why not start looking through those sale ads now. Here are some links I’ve come across of leaked Black Friday Ads.

Kmart [pdf], Sears [pdf], Lowes, Old Navy [pdf], Harbor Freight [pdf], Toys R Us [pdf],

Office Max asked for there ad to be taken down, but there is a list of items and prices at Gizmodo.

via [bfads, TheBlackFriday.com, and Gizmodo]

Internet News

Internet Finally Getting Non-Latin Domain Names

The address bar at the top of your browser is filled with latin characters. Those who use the latin alphabet, we haven’t thought twice about this. But if you live in a country with a non-latin alphabet then you had to learn new characters to type in a web address. This is going to change soon, as ICANN (the group that decides on ip and addressing regulations) has decided to use native characters in the address.

If this doesn’t make sense, check out this video

Google Making search more musical

Google has partnered with MySpace (which just acquired iLike) and Lala to give you music results when you search for a song, band, or album title. The first results will have links to play the song. There will also be links to purchase the song/album directly through MySpace or Lala services. There will also be links to music discovery sites such as,  Pandora, imeem and Rhapsody.

I tried out the service on their demo site, before the release date, and it looked good. Though I am unable to get any of the same results on my searches today. The demo is down today, and I do not see the results in my regular google searches. I am not sure if I’m missing something or if the service isn’t fully released yet. ???

Google Onebox Fail

MySpace Adds Full Music Video Archives, Deep Artist Analytics

MySpace as a social site seems to continue dying but they are doing some interesting things. Their purchase of iLike seems to have worked out for them (see above post).

I’ve always wanted a video music player so that I can have a video playlist. If that feature is there I may actually use MySpace.

Web Games

Steakhouse or Gay Bar

A local rock radio station plays this game. You just guess if the name of an establishment is for a Steakhouse or a Gay Bar. Sounds simple but it’s amazingly difficult.

Internet Baby

Woman to Stream Her Child’s Birth Live on the Web

You can find just about anything you want on the web. Now you can watch a live birth. A truly amazing event, but live streaming it? Really? I guess it was just a matter of time…

Actually, this isn’t the first time.

Internet TV

BBC Planning To Launch Global iPlayer VOD Service

I am so excited about this. I watch almost all my shows online now and about 1/3 of those shows are from the BBC. It’s always been a pain to find the shows or wrestle with proxies to watch them. I can’t wait to watch the new season of Dr. Who.

Automobile Accesories

AIDA is the love child of your GPS Device and EVE (from Wal-E).

via [Gizmodo]

Arm Accesories

UIST’09: Enabling Always-Available Input with Muscle-Computer Interfaces

Look Ma’ no hands!

Improved arm mounted flame thrower

Hadouken!