Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] The Story Behind Google’s New Favicon
• [IT] Overview of Firefox 3
• [Future] Cisco Experimenting with an On-Stage Telepresence Experience (that I haven’t heard of this before is almost as mindboggling as the technology itself)
• [Economy] [Nature] Why bananas are a parable for our times (via Nina. You will be missed dearly ’till September!)
• [Man-made] [Nature] TED Talks – Mark Bittman: What’s wrong with what we eat (easily in my “Top 10″ TED Talks list)
• [Psychology] Humans can ’see’ future (thought-provoking)

ENTERTAINMENT

• MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU (one word…RESTECPA!)
• Just cool pictures
• High times for medicinal marijuana
• Moog Unveils Badass Guitar with Infinite Sustain
• Building America’s Most Extreme New Roller Coaster
• What Happens When You Go Number 2 in Space? (if you’re on the romantic side, you might wanna skip this one)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
It’s exam time and most of us are in a rush. Lousy weather here in Ljubljana comes mighty handy for a change! I’ve been busy as fuck these last couple of days and most of my friends feel it too:-/…sorry guys, will make it up to you!

A small tribute to spending these exam days as wisely and productively as possible!

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(via: all the usual blogs and sites that I’ve got in Google Reader)

Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] 2012: The Year The Internet Ends (a MUST-READ if you’re reading this!..it’s got so many Diggs it’s gotta be dug
• [Eco] Hydrogen Cars Won’t Make a Difference for 40 Years
• [Future] Built for Speed: Printing Buildings (love it when my phantasmagorias start springing to life, through me or somebody else…if I had enough cash laying around, this would be in my “top 5 investments” list 4 sure!!!…mark my words, this is the future!)
• [Future] Long-Promised, Voice Commands Are Finally Going Mainstream
• [Politics] TED Talks – Paul Collier: 4 ways to improve the lives of the “bottom billion” (not your typical moral lecture, this guy actually has experience galore and solid proposals)
• [Man-made] [Nature] Clive Thompson on How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth’s Ecology (sounds like bs, but is in fact quite the eye-opener)

ENTERTAINMENT

• Denmark hosts first “Masturbate-a-thon”
• Deluxe Apartments In The Sky
• Obscene Losses in the porn industry
• How Do They Do That? Nine Mind Blowing Flash Animations (yeah, some are old, most are annoying, but damn that no.8 is hella cool;)
• Modelogues (kind of like a taxi driver who crashes into a tree because he doesn’t know how to drive his fancy car…but I’d still tip the fucker:P)
• JCJC

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to this year’s summer movie blockbusters…let’s just hope they all don’t suck major donkey hairy ‘Bolls’ like “Indi 4: Klingon’s gonna piss in your skull”…(hmm, I should probably copyright this, before Lucas gets any more “bright” ideas)

Link: Click | Click

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(via: all the usual blogs and sites that I’ve got in Google Reader)

Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [Eco] Scientific breakthrough decomposes plastic bags in 3 months!
• [Eco] [Economy] Peak Everything: Eight Things We Are Running Out Of And Why
• [Future] 3 Ideas That Are Pushing the Edge of Science
• [Politics] 10 ways the Chinese Internet is different from yours
• [Economy] You Think NAFTA, CAFTA & the Economy is Bad Now? Wait… (worth seeing for the last minute alone)
• [Man-made] Beijing Capital International Airport

ENTERTAINMENT

• 100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library (WHAT!…no David Beckham autobiography??!?)
• Redneck vehicles
• The 6 Most Badass Stunts Ever Pulled in the Name of Science
• Sexy, Bold And Experimental Typography (for the hard-core designers)
• Gotcha! Hillary Clinton Rehearsing Hand Gestures! (a spot-on, in-a-nutshell Hillary Clinton)
• Don’s guns (cos renting a gun to kill that annoying angry neighbor shouldn’t be against the law!)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to people who don’t take themselves too seriously…;)

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(via: all the usual blogs and sites that I’ve got in Google Reader)

Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Guess who’s got your passwords and emails stored on their servers…?
• [IT] Google Health: A Quick Hands-On Look
• [Nano] New Nanotech Products Hitting the Market at the Rate of 3-4 Per Week (in Your Mouth and On Your Face)
• [Economy] The Real Face of the European Union
• [Man-made] Burj Dubai Becomes World’s Tallest Man-Made Structure Today
• [Psychology] Brain rules for PowerPoint & Keynote presenters

ENTERTAINMENT

• Something to wear on mother’s day;)
• 10 Private Islands You Can’t Afford to Live On: Amazing, Exotic and Remote Luxury Retreats
• 40 Hours Of Illustrator, Time-Lapsed (for design freaks who can stand to listen to the background music)
• YouTomb: Where Videos Go to Die
• The Danish language & some more Danish language
• The 9 Most Devastating Insults From Around the World (so the Danish can feel a little better)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
Well, I’ve thus far managed to rip on mothers, my email provider (ooopsies), the Danish, and pretty much everybody else…so here’s a totally uninspired, totally random miniscule “tribute” to those who can sell their own shit and get away with it (…more than 5 times!!!?!?!)
I give you this a**hole….(disclaimer: watch the videos in order, FSM knows you can barely make sense of it anyway:P)

Link: Click | Click | Click

And please, even if you’ve never seen them, even if you’ve never heard of them…do your civic duty and friggin put the HerrBoll out of his misery!;)

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(via: all the usual blogs and sites that I’ve got in Google Reader)

Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Facebook’s Big Facelift
• [Future] Futurist Thomas Frey on “Radical Transparency” (+ working video)
• [Future] Sapphire fluid (colorless, odourless, electrically nonconductive, ecofriendly…and it stops fires like a mofo!)
• [Nature] The Orgasmic Mind: The Neurological Roots of Sexual Pleasure
• [Astronomy] Youngest galactic supernova (not aliens) found
• [Psychology] Famous failures

ENTERTAINMENT

• Apparently Pedophilia is Considered Hilarious in Europe
• Latin motos, phrases, sayings, quotes…(guess what “Me transmitte sursum, caledoni!” means)
• Here’s a guy with a bright political future!
• Why Women Gladly Date Ugly Men (And Probably Even Prefer Them)
• Tokyo bycicle parking tower
• Slow motion hih FPS compilation

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A big BIG BIGGG tirbute to health and dignity:

Link: Click | Click

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(via: all the usual blogs and sites that I’ve got in Google Reader)

Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate mails)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] 50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing (a shitload of the best Firefox extensions all on one page)
• [IT] 5 Best Online File Sharing Services
• [Future] Imagining the tech world in 2050
• [Nature] The 75 Skills Every Man Should Master (period.)
• [Economy] All of Inflation’s Little Parts (an in-depth look into the spending habbits of americans)
• [Sociology] [Psychology] Pangea Day TODAY! (I’ve already mentioned this a while ago, but I just have a hunch it might be more than just a “one-hit wonder”…today from 18:00-22:00 GMT)

ENTERTAINMENT

• Women Who Love Porn: An Asylum Investigation (a rare, but appreciated breed)
• Create perfect ice spheres for perfect cocktails (I wanna have one sooo badly)
• The largest insects on planet Earth
• Guys backflip into jeans
• Amazing geological oddities
• Dolphin gets prosthetic tail (so there’s still hope for Michael Jackson’s nose)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to those warm rays of sunlight that already feel like the summer is here:)

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(via: all the usual blogs and sites that I’ve got in Google Reader)

Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Sick of IKEA? Design Your Own Stuff, And Get Rich While You’re At It
• [IT] America’s Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves
• [Eco] Earth is losing dirt at an alarming rate
• [Eco] [Economy] Deconstruction Grows in Popularity, Spawns New Businesses
• [Economy] Agflation: The real costs of rising food prices
• [Psychology] Larry Page on how to change the world

ENTERTAINMENT

• Men and their mothers. What’s it all about?
• A Collection Of Some Of The Most Shocking PSA’s Of All Time
• 7 (More!) Underground Wonders of the World: From Seed Vaults to Amazing Military Strongholds
• Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection
• Supersize sea monsters
• Gadget-Filled $2 Billion Home Makes Bill Gates’ House Look Like a Shack

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to Albert Hoffman (1906 – 2008), the guy who accidentally discovered the halucinogen drug that is LSD.

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(via: all the usual blogs and sites that I’ve got in Google Reader)

Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate mails)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Is keyword search about to hit its breaking point
• [IT] 9 Outrageously Handy Websites Everyone Should Try (a couple of them have already been mentioned here on @junk, but the others are also interesting)
• [Nano] Nanoparticles Help Gauze Stop Gushing Wounds
• [Nature] The complete works of Charles Darwin (haven’t gone through it yet, but it sounds hella cool)
• [Psychology] The way to a man’s heart? Through his left ear (from now on I’ll only be kissing cute girls on their left cheek;)
• [Astronomy] [Psychology] Does the Earth’s magnetic field cause suicides?

ENTERTAINMENT

• LSD vs Alcohol VS tree
• Interesting Google search results
• Astrologers fail to predict proof they are wrong (there goes my hobby;))
• The Making of 5 Modern Marvels of Engineering: Construction Truths Behind Contemporary Wonder
• Sexy Lady Offers to Harvest Virginity of Net Neutrality-Supporting Nerds (NSFW)
• Guinness World Records-Werewolf Syndrome (Hypertrichosis)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
To days spent without computers and TV:)

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(via: all the usual blogs and sites that I’ve got in Google Reader)

Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Incredble Firefox keyboard shortcuts which you probably don’t know about
• [Eco] Breathing Earth – some interesting “real-time” statistics about our planet
• [Eco] RecycleBank – the recycle program that pays you back, heading to Europe
• [Nano] An excellent in-depth read about the actual current state of nanotechnology for both pro-nano and the nay-sayers
• [Physics] New atom smasher could fill gaps in scientific knowledge – or open a black hole
• [Economy] World Bank tackles food emergency
• [Psycohlogy] The future of telling lies
• [Astronomy] The Moon and the Magnetotail
• [Astronomy] First high definition moon map released
• [Buzzword of the week] THE KANZIUS MACHINE…haven’t heard of it yet? You probably will:)…(My prediction is a make or break scenario: (unless something goes terribly terribly wrong) this will be a huuuge, if not the turning point in the public’s eye to widely start accepting nanotech not as a threat, but as the unprecedented potential it was always intended to be)

ENTERTAINMENT

• WTF: “Mr Berlusconi’s new government will be Italy’s 62nd since World War II” (a random quote form an article)
• Worst rap battle ever
• Coway megasonic cleaning device – If it’s too loud you’re too dirty (I see great potential in thee)
• 10 scenes of brutal violence guaranteed to make you laugh
• History’s 7 most astounding sexual resumes
• Robin’s big date
• Fast folding bikes (it would be really cool if they started manufacturing backpack bikes or sth)
• Google Earth 4.3
• Watch restricted Youtube videos (that somebody had to even write this makes me sick to my stomach)
• Zegna sport solar-JTK (a cool-looking, electricity-giving jacket…we’ve come a long way since picking cotton)
• Trippy tricks (just follow the instructions and you’ll experience the trippy result…imo look through the window:))

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to the human spirit

Link: Click | Click

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(via: all the usual blogs and sites that I’ve got in Google Reader)

Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate mails)

USEFUL STUFF
Scientists crack security system of millions of cars (now here’s a potential really shitty deal)
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2174801.0.scientists_crack_security_system_of_millions_of_cars.php
Do we use only 10% of our brains
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html
Viruses and malware to hit one million mark
http://gizmodo.com/376679/viruses-and-malware-to-hit-one-million-mark
Web 2.0 – Zemanta (a “made in Slovenia” web app for bloggers…dunno about the actual functionality tho)
http://www.zemanta.com/
Twitter explained in plain english (it’s pretty neat, but not that many people I know use it so far)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
Gold vs. dollar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6NfXk7Bvc8
Characteristics of a future society based on futurist predictions
http://vulcanis.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/characteristics-of-a-future-society-based-on-futurist-predictions/
Price of beer in 140 countries (yes, in BEST that’s considered “usefull” unless you want to get liched;)
http://www.pintprice.com/
Potatoes on the front line against poverty and hunger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9uuM2hB15g&eurl=http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=my
20% of scientists admit using brain-enhancing drugs (WTFFFFF???)
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/20-of-scientist.html
Pangea day (a global event bringing the world together thru film)
http://www.pangeaday.org/index.php

ENTERTAINMENT
7 weird superheros who wont ever hit the silver screen but should (OMFSM, Matter-Eater Lad, we need you!!!)
http://www.omglists.com/article/71933/7-weird-superheros-who-wont-ever-hit-the-silver-screen-but-should/
Falling while on stage (no.3 is effing hillarious)
http://www.letsgettight.com//blog/2008/4/3/falling-while-on-stage-still-funny.html
web 2.0 – Muxtape (listen to/create music playlists and pretend they’re mix tapes like your dad probably used to give your mom before he finally scored and made You)
http://muxtape.com/
The kitchen of the future (from 1967…the result is not quite there yet:P)
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/the-kitchen-of-the-future.php
A pretty cool musical instrument with an incredibly bad infomercial
http://gizmodo.com/376659/beamz-infomercial-is-most-stupid-promo-video-in-history
The human animal – Part 1 – The language of the body (an enlightening docu about the human species as the animal that we are)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3323021761394989726&q=the+human+animal&total=2811&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
My sister’s secret life as a pornstar (not even sure if this is a true story, but I found it a fascinating read on a rainy fucking day)
http://www.marieclaire.com/life/sex/advice/secret-life-porn-star
Patrick Ewing Jr dunks behind his back (when you gotta wait for the slow-motion replay to see what happened you know something was smooth)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovfwYrLNIw8
Kinetic typography (find this really cool, maybe could be used as a kind of “different approach” BEST promo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hw6G-MU4CU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuiKJ0rRTAo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7WQGrZUdb0&watch_response
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syf8olcM0z4
Fantastic Four (1994!) (this is the more retarded version)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4969485859549858917&q=fantastic+4+%281994%29&total=118&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
Laughing midget (it’s this kind of weird shit I’ll go to hell for
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4466649853103963825&q=midget+laughing&total=200&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to anything that doesn’t have a Youtube interface…and different designers:)…What they have going on is starting to remind me of this