Flickr: The Urban Geometry Pool

Today’s Really Cool Thing: The Urban Geometry Pool at Flickr. This group is for photographers who have a keen eye for, and an interest in, the underlying geometric composition of our urban environment.
If you like photographs that emphasize the underlying geometry of an urban environment, or if you just enjoy looking at abstract shapes [...]

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The Atlanta Tornado – Images on Flickr

Well, a tornado coming through one’s home town is definitely not a Really Cool Thing, but having a resource like Flickr deliver fantastic images of current events like this definitely is.
Thanks to Flickr, you can see really good photos of the tornado damage in Atlanta, as well as at least one picture of the tornado [...]

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Zamzar – Free online file conversion

Today’s Really Cool Thing — the  Zamzar – Free online file conversion web site. At this site, you can upload a file — or point to the URL of any file on the Internet — and have Zamzar convert it to one of MANY different file formats, and then e-mail you the result.
You can convert [...]

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Balloon Invasion, A Free Online Game

Today’s Really Cool Thing is the free online game called Balloon Invasion, from the good people over at Kongregate.com. If you’ve enjoyed games like Desktop Tower Defense, you will probably find Balloon Invasion equally addictive.
The game’s deceptively simple premise involves defending your territory against waves of bomb-dropping balloons. You initially have few weapons at your [...]

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