Doc Ott’s Life Hack Blog

I like cool quotes, usually just for my email signature files. I have also thought about putting up a ‘quote of the moment’ section on my main webpage next to my ‘cool word of the moment’. This is a great sources of quotes, indexed and searchable.
ThinkExist.com Quotations.

Sometime you need to get some information, but you can only get it by giving up an email address. In many cases you know that teh email will get sold making your spam intake spike. I used to use throw-away addresses from yahoo for such things, but these disposable ones are even easier.
A bunch […]

This is damn funny. A re-worked preview of the movie The Shining with Jack Nicholson. They use clip from the movie just like any other preview, but this one makes it look fun for the whole family.
The Shining a family film

Ok, this is seriously trippy. The idea is that you liesten to sounds (obscure frequencies) that resonate with your inner brain. The sounds mean nothing to your conscience self, but your sub-conscience listens and responds.
Hack Your Brain with an iPod - Forever Geek
The software is free for a month and includes basic sounds (for […]

This is a great little clip (15 min) about how the guys from Top Gear (a cool british car show) try to ‘kill’ a toyota pickup truck and fail. They even put it on top of a apartment complex that is then imploded.

Top Gear - Killing a Toyota Hilux

Portableapps.com is a nice site wth cool applications that run straight off your thumb drive (or iPod) but this list is much longer giving links to all different kinds of apps that are small enough to be installed on something other than your hard drive.
List of portable applications - on Wikipedia

Over at Manybooks.net you can download lots of open source books, including many ‘classics’ You can download them in iPod (as notes) format which is kindof cool.

YouOS is a javascript based online OS is the alpha statge. It looks liek a true playground for javascript programmers. I used to be one a long long time ago.
I played around with it for a little while. Could be fun.

This might be a cool place for find little pieces to stick into your own videos. I like the 5-4-3 countdown from the old ‘films’
EyeSpot

So I have recently begun moving my teaching screencasts to google video, but downloading them is a little bit of a stretch, especially to those who are not real net savvy.
Along comes Keepvid which makes life easy. You drop in the URL of the film you want to download and it gives you a link […]