Found this while getting food from the Krishnas (Hare Krishna):



Made me smile (:

Labels: keep out, smile, smiley

i love bike riding, gliding through the city. My Dad used to pop my on his handlebars when i was a kid, although a wee bit uncomfortable i did like it, i think i may have got my love for bike riding from this. i wish when i was even younger the Taga stroller/trike had been around.

That just seems like a lot of fun for a kid. (:

Labels: bike, bike riding

Nice video found on reddit:

Labels: baby squirrel

Found this nice story on reddit:

Random acts of kindness ... and not because the Bible tells you so

It's little things like this that make the world a better place.

Labels: Canada, free coffee, kindness

i installed a widget on my igoogle called "blogs of note", on a suggested blog called astropixie (things and stuff astronomy and life) i found this lovely video:



The singers are Sophie and Hannah (:

Labels: I Heart You Online, YouTube

i found this really nice site/service called postcard.fm.

Postcard.fm lets you create an audio postcards for free. You upload a picture then pick an audio file. You can upload your own or just use the search. i searched for "More than This" and it found it, just clicked the plus button and it was added, i don't know where they stream it from but it's cool, it worked fine. You then put in the address you want to send it to, click Preview, put in your e-mail address and click send. They don't get an e-mail with the pic and audio file attached, they get a very simpler text e-mail saying:

Hey! *your e-mail* has sent you an audio postcard. You can get it here: http://postcard.fm/77f0f2ap

You can see from the pic what the page looks like, it's a nice clean layout, i think it's a lovely service. i suppose this is my postcard to you (:

Labels: nice, postcard, Postcard.fm

Found this floating around the internet (:

i just found a lovely thing on MetaFilter called Postcrossing. You sign up, get an random address and mail a postcard to the address, you then get a postcard from some random person in the World, what a simple, cool idea. i love selfless acts designed to bring smiles (:

i just sent this nice postcard to someone in Finland.

i think is is called Postcrossing because it is based on BookCrossing, another lovely idea. You leave books you have read in public places for people to find and read. i did this anyway and was pleasantly surprised to find it had a worldwide following.

Labels: postcard, Postcrossing, share

found this on reddit today, posted by csdoubleyou and i thought i would use his text in the post as it says it all:


This man with autism, who was chosen to sing the national anthem, got a case of the giggles half way through. Listen to what the crowd does to support him.

beautiful (:

Labels: Disability Awareness, Fenway Park, Nationl Anthem

sometimes all we need is a smile:

smile :)

Labels: happy, smile

red-arrows-display-09.jpg Originally uploaded by Swansea Photographer.

found on reddit

Labels: Welsh Festival of the Air

johnie1 : 0 nice words

saw this on TeXtra:

Operation Photo Rescue

A place where you can volunteer you Photoshopping skills to restore peoples photos ruined by Hurricane Katrina (and other natural disasters). It is a small thing but i think nice.

Labels: Katrina, Photoshop

OK...

Team Wiggly


wiggly metro sign Posted by wigglymoo0oo0.

HEHE (:

Labels: happy, nice, wiggly

Surfing the net once i came across this stunning site:

Wild Thing Photography

Simply beautiful work by John Hyde of Whales, Eagles and other wild animals. Also landscapes and some lovely pictures of people (i love the Kayak pic below). Go and take a look, a site full of wonder (:


Humpback whale breaches - Copyright © 2007 John Hyde.


Steller Sea Lions rest on rookery at sunset - Copyright © 2007 John Hyde.


Kayaker admiring intense blues of glacier ice - Copyright © 2007 John Hyde.

Thanks John for the lovely seasonal greetings, hope you and your gang have a brilliant year (:

Lapses in Light Originally uploaded by ollie larkin.

Remember Google Spell (make messages with google images). Well i found a another brilliant one on reddit:

geoGreeting

This one uses building, land shapes and other things on Google Earth's satellite view to spell out messages, very clever. Even better it gives you a URL where you message can be seen.

london underground Originally uploaded by lomokev.
Speaking of the tube, i found this happy pic on flickr by lomokev, made me smile. Be sure to check out his other stuff... happy, quirky, funny and just plain ACE. Defiantly one of the best photographers on flickr.

That smile in the middle of all those faces is excellent. (:

i found a nice article on Londonist:

Interview: Liz Akers of Team Nice

Liz, one day on the way to work, on the bus saw a lady giving the driver a hard time. At the next stop the driver didn't stop for someone running for the bus. Seeing how bad feeling gets passed around she had the idea of "passing niceness around London" in the form of "nicetie token".

Once you get one (for doing something nice) you can go to Team Nice and join. When you see someone doing something nice, you give them the token. See, passing nice around. (:



Also in the article is a link to "I'm up for a chat on the tube", wear a badge on the tube/bus/train to indicate you are "up for a chat". i bet some nice friendships have come from that.

Found a lovely new Video Podcast on ScobleShow.com called:

Photoshop Online Video Podcast

In each episode Jan Kabili gives easy to follow lessons on Photoshop. Things like, how to make a black & white image from a color one (i thought that was easy), how to sharpen an image, good sepia tones. I loved 04 Neutral Density. If you own Photoshop then i recommend you subscribe to this, you won't be sorry.

The Vessel on which we travel:

   

   

reddit found, click pix for more.

Whanganui Bay, Lake Taupo, New Zealand - Copyright © 2006 Martin HillFound this beautiful sculpture on reddit

Martin Hill with his partner Philippa Jones visit wild places and sculpt/photograph beautiful natural objects. Check site for more stunning works (:

Tia found this lovely story:

Juan Mann, with his friend Christiana Christodoulou, in Sydney started giving out free hugs on the street. Returning from London he thought "everyone was miserable" so started the "Free Hugs Campaign". What an ACE way to cheer people up.

*update* i was asked to join "The Free Hugs Movement" on Youtube, it's a world wide phenomenon

A nice blog full of inspiring words.

Inspiring Quotes, Daily Inspirational Sayings, Motivating Quotes, Positive Words

Seems to be doing the same work as this blog, nice to see i'm not alone, LOL.

Beautiful pic of a Lagoon Nebula. Found on (the increasingly popular) reddit

Some stories to cheer you up:

Acts of kindness

These stories are always changing, so if you need a cheer up, just pop over there (:

i found this lovely blog:

print & pattern

It's a blog by a designer about patterns, how nice is that. She has a really good eye for nice patterns (some really cool retro ones).

found this pic online, made me laff :D

LOL, that's just plain nice init.

beautiful designed kayak:

found this funny site:

Google Spell

put a word in and this page will make that word out of Google images. i got this after putting in johnie:



silly fun (:

i like podcasts, i like laughing. One of the best places on the net to get those things is:

JET SET SHOW   (feed)

a video podcast made by Zadi and Steve (in a small Los Angeles living room), they have a very, very funny sense of humor and always have me rolling around laffin' (belly laffs are good for you). A ray of sunshine breaking through a dark sky. Go there, be happy... that's an order (:

i think it's time we had a kitten moment



i found this site by using a very nice firefox extension called

StumbleUpon

this extension is basicly a button you press to be taken to a random site in the net, you can pick from the subjects of the sites, it's nice (:
OK more kittens



Sometimes we all need a kitten moment.

Found this on reddit:

A tribuite to the "nice guys" of the world.

(:

Found this on Regnet's Canal, made me smile (:


i luv U Originally uploaded by Johnie.

Well we all got to go some day and look what i found on Boing Boing.



biodegradable hand woven willow coffins from a company called "The Somerset Willow Company" (how nice is that name). I also heard about "Woodland Burials" once. When you are buried instead of a gravestone, a tree is planted to mark your grave, eventually the graveyard becomes a woodland, very clever.

a silly google-map thingy that tells you where you'd end up if you drilled through the earth:

opposite tool

silly fun, i would end up in the "South Pacific Ocean" just SouthEast off, "New Zealand".
found on reddit

Labels: world

i was doing a search for "Hiroshima street cars" (for some reason) and in the image bit i found this page:
nice strange little pictures of life around Hiroshima (i think they lamps that are for sale or like shadow puppets).

  

OK these pictures are lovely, so i went to the First Page and found a load more (even some little anamated stories). Most of the text is in Japanese, some English, but don't let that put you off as the pix are funny anyway.

  

  

  

as far as a can tell the artist is "hamayu" (:

great news network is a news site that only has positive or good news (not as bad as it sounds). It is user driven, which means if you come across a good news story on another site, you can submit it here. Go check it out (:

Rainbow at Elam Bend
pix by Dan Bush





Found these nice pix on digg

i saw this beautiful clock on the beautiful Rocketboom today:

humanclock.com

i uploaded 9 o'clock:

21 Originally uploaded by Johnie.

the page refreshes every minute with a new photo of the time, soo nice (:

found this on digg:

  

Smiley face on Mars

found this on the nice reddit:

Five things likely to make you happier in the short term

(:

Amy of Amyville explains the "jamaica plain principle" in that you can not walk down the street without meeting someone ye know in "Jamaica Plains", very happy video:

jamaica plain principle

ERIKA made a sweater for a tree.

i like that (:

found this on Boing Boing

TURN YOUR HEAD

  

how ACE is that, you send in ya profile and they make a "three dimensional visage". Very clever.

What an amazing picture :D

yummy (:

i found a nice resource for your site/blog, it's from George Taylor McKnight who made Podbop (in the USA, put a band in and you will see if they are coming to ya town and you can listen to some of their songs, nice). Anyway he also do this:

Steal These Buttons

it's a depository for all those 80x15 buttons that we all use on our blogs, you can even submit your own. I submitted these:

- used for me London Video Podcast

- Coz (the 100% nice) Selina wanted one

so if ya need a 80x15 button check here as they may have the one you want or just design one and upload, a nice resource (:

OK i'v been having banner fun:



Nice init, but let me tell ya bout the smiley faces. First off i didn't do um, i just went on google and put in "smiley", looked on the image bit and found this pic:



as you can see it's the pic i used so later on i went back to the site so i could give credit for the picture. When i first went there i just right clicked on the pic and downloaded it, not even knowing what it was a picture of. When i went back i found it was a picture of Kippahs (the little caps that Jews wear). How nice are they. i always knew the Jews had a sense of humor but these are brilliant (: There are loads of other designs on the site.

Found this on the Blog Mad forum

UK number 1

just put ya birthday in and find out what was number 1 in the UK charts that day

mine was:
Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days

silly (:

Once you cheer one person’s whole day up, you have worth on the earth.