- Adam and Eva
Getting nearly 4m views in 9 days, Alex Lyngaas is looking for a date for his single mother.
He filmed her for a year to make this video as a surprise. Eva, born in 1946 (she’s 69), living in Norway. She’s very active - she loves tennis, swimming, nature, skiing, yoga, art and beer and looks after her family.
Applicants are invited to apply by emailing icouldbeadam@gmail.com
Sean Garvin sent this one to us by Twitter - he taught himself how to make apps and last year launched the Mayo Football League App. I love this because it shows how a passion can become something useful, used by people to indulge their own passions and hobbies.
It’s the only app available in the country, Sean tells us, by a football organisation. It’s had over 1,000 downloads since release.
There are photo galleries, links, news, league reports from games taking place across Mayo. There’s an events guide which let people know of social outings, seminars, coaching courses etc. There’s Upcoming League & Cup Fixtures as well as League & Cup Results over the course of the season which is played during the summer months.
There’s a Club Directory which is a new section inserted recently which details every club in Mayo and provides key contact details from respective clubs to the user.
Finally there’s a Blog Section which more content from key people will be added soon. There's currently Blogs from Pete McDonnell, who hails from Killala, Co Mayo but is now based in the States, regarding his coaching and playing experiences.
The App is available for free on the App Store and on Google Play. During the course of the year the app will continue to develop and looking to add more creative content.
- 8^8 - could there be another you?
Have you ever wondered if there's someone out there who could be like a long-lost twin to you? Someone who inherently shares your outlook on life, your opinions on things that matter, perhaps even your sense of humour?
In other words, someone who is your soulmate?
We typically get acquainted with less than 1,000 people before we die. Statistically, it’s pretty impossible to meet the exact right person if you believe in such a thing.
8^8 is a project designed to find the one person among the world's online population whose tastes and sensibilities match yours exactly.
“The one person who understands you better than anyone else possibly could, because he/she is another version of you.”
8^8 is a multiple-choice test with 8 questions and 8 possible answers each. Take the 8^8 test and the likelihood of someone else answering in the exact same pattern as yourself is 1 in 16,777,216 (the result of 8^8 or 8x8x8x8x8x8x8x8).
If you were to meet and get to know a thousand new people every day - which of course isn't practically feasible - it would still take you more than 45 years to go through 16,777,216 people.
While 16 million visitors was an impossibly large number for an independent project like this to attain a few years ago, nowadays so many people have smartphones, tablets and/or easy access to computers that it is quite within the realm of possibility for 20 million people to discover 8^8.
The questions look like this:
or...
I love the disclaimer though:
Neither 8^8 nor the developers behind it will assume any responsibility for any consequences arising out of an introduction between matches.
One of the most beautiful and time consuming websites and apps I’ve seen in ages - it’s the equivalent of pressing the demo key on your Casio keyboard and miming along while the track plays - here you tap the screen (on iPhone or iPad) or your keyboard and you influence how the piece of music is being played.
You can speed it up or slow it down, you can change what’s being played and you can give yourself delusions of grandeur and talent.
One of the only apps that have ever made me want an iPad or iPhone…
What a time it is to be alive!
You can now send your friends - in the US only for the moment, but it’s on the way here - got pictures, using this an app that enables you to send your friends pictures of goats, purporting to be from the goats themselves, along with faintly disappointing goat puns.
For 79 US cent you can send six messages, or 14 messages from $1.19. For this you’ll get pictures of goats with messages like “Shit just goat serious”, “It’s gonna be a baaad day” and “Stand back, I goat this” and the advice to “Let it goat.”
People wont know where the messages are coming from unless you tell them. Don’t use it to harrass people - I'm not kidding!
No, no it’s not. Just wanted to throw one website that does exactly what it says in the URL out there...
The day Marty McFly arrives when he travels to the future is October 21 2015.
- The Slate 'Reincarnation Machine'
If you believe in Reincarnation, you might be interested in finding out who you may have been in a past life! Enter your date of birth and the site will tell you on who died in or around that date, who died when they were born and so on.
However, it is famous people - or at least people worthy of a Wikipedia page - so don’t go selling your house because you find your 3rd in line to the Italian throne or anything...
- Eduard von Winterstein (1871–1961) was an Austrian film actor who appeared in more than two hundred films during the silent and sound eras. He was also a noted theatre actor.
- Edwin Wilkins Field (12 October 1804 – 30 July 1871) was an English lawyer and painter who committed much of his life to law reform.
- Fra Angelico (born Guido di Pietro; c. 1395 – February 18, 1455) was an Early Italian Renaissance painter described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent."
- Saint Hildegard of Bingen, O. S. B. (German: Hildegard von Bingen; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis) (1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath.
You pick a year and the site starts playing some videos from (not necessarily encoded in) that year. You can also stipulate a variety of categories: Video Games, Television, Commercials, Current Events, Sports, Movies and Music to narrow your search.
The video collection includes clips dating back to 1860, although the oldest clip doesn't actually play a video, but features a single selection titled "The First Sound Ever Recorded" (1860).
From 1978 there were 326 videos, including Buzzcocks' “Ever Fallen in Love” (Live 1978), and 'Episode #1' of Fantastic Four.
- And finally...
Elephants are one of only three animals that can dance to music - the others are parrots and humans - and here’s a clip of Kelly and Viola, 44 and 45-year-old elephants that have lived together for most of their lives having a little dance to Bach on a violin.
