Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Organic HTML

Organic HTML is a site which let’s you input a URL in an input and you get to see an organic plant grow, it’s very weird and nobody knows how it really works, maybe I should get in contact with the creator of it and see if he’s willing to shred any light on how it works. Organic HTML Site

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One free minute of anonymous public speech

One Free Minute is a mobile sculpture designed to allow for instances of anonymous public speech. When you call the cellphone inside One Free Minute, you get connected for exactly a minute to a 200 watt amplifier and speaker. The speech produced by the speaker can be heard clearly more than 150 feet away from the sculpture. You also get

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20 years today the Titanic wreck was captured on film.

Did you know that it’s now been 20 years today since the first Pictures of the Titanic were released, here’s an archived article from the BBC Website about it: 1985: Titanic wreck captured on film The first pictures of the wreck of the Titanic have been released 73 years after the liner sank with the loss of 1,500 lives. The

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Ballmer Throws A Chair At “F*ing Google”

A reliable source has passed along a legal document in the ongoing lawsuit between Google and Microsoft over Google’s hiring of Kai-Fu Lee. The document is the “Declaration of Mark Lucovsky” in the case. Lucovsky was a distinguished engineer at Microsoft who defected to Google in November of 2004. His statement makes for some pretty interesting reading, to say the

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Dig a hole to the other side of the earth.

Have you ever wondered where you would end up if you dug a whole straight down through the middle of the earth to the other side? If like me you have and your curios to know what’s on the other side if you dug a big hole straight down then here’s an application that uses Google Maps to show you

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Hurricane smashes into New Orleans

Looks like Hurricane Katrina is hitting New Orleans bad, here’s an article from the BBC. Hurricane Katrina is pummelling New Orleans with howling gusts and blinding rain, after sweeping ashore over the southern Louisiana coast. The storm has knocked out power and submerged part of the low-lying city in up to 6ft (2m) of rising water. Katrina has torn part