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

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Metacafe Bets Its Future On The Power Of Wikis (here’s to hoping YouTube follows)
• [Eco] [Economy] Green New Deal (atm quite the buzzword)
• [Nano] I Bet You’ve Never Seen Water Bounce Before (nuff said)
• [Health] Less-Invasive Brain Interfaces
• [Politics] Food Security in Japan (well-made & the last 30 secs are LOL funny)
• [Man-made] TED Talks Luca Turin: The science of scent (great stuff!)

ENTERTAINMENT

• Snoop Dogg on Martha Stewart (shizzle on the ridicculizl)
• Older people have more black and white dreams
• Amazing Story of a Man Who Survived Being Buried 40 Days
• Dubai and the UAE
• Police dash cam of Meteor over Edmonton, Canada (just like in the movies)
• Shrimp Vs Octopus

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to chilling the fuck out.

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

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The Manchurian microchip or how China might be preparing to bring the western world to its knees…Chinese government gives “no comment”

Ok, so the Manchurian microchip thing got some leverage in the press (as expected) and the news is spreading like wildfire in California (sorry, bad example – my heart goes out to the forest vegetation and the animals!). So anyways, here’s a BBC article (I didn’t Diigo because I pretty much already mentioned everything useful from the article) .

The epilogue of this mess awaits…

(via: BBC)

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The Manchurian microchip or how China might be preparing to bring the western world to its knees

The most interesting thing I’ve read this week so far…I don’t know what to make of it yet, but if it turns out to be just a product of imagination it would still be eerie enough to make an excellent summer blockbuster thriller.  An excerpt:

The myth: Chinese intelligence services have concealed a microchip in every computer everywhere, programmed to “call home” if and when activated.

The reality: It may actually be true.

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“It is there, deep inside your computer, if they decide to call it up,” the security chief of a multinational corporation told The Investigator. “It is capable of providing Chinese intelligence with everything stored on your system — on everyone’s system — from e- mail to documents. I call it Call Home Technology. It doesn’t mean to say they’re sucking data from everyone’s computer today, it means the Chinese think ahead — and they now have the potential to do it when it suits their purposes.

I’ll leave you with that, go here to read the full article and for the Diigoed version go here.

(via: Ignacio)

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

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] 3D Display Offers Glimpse of Future Media (other ideas on where the future is headed here)
• [IT] BeatMyPrice Finds Deals, Integrates RetailMeNot
• [Future] Top 10 forecasts for 2009 and beyond
• [Politics] Barack Obama Can’t Save The World Alone (I think it needs to be said, the hype is still growing)
• [Man-made] Six Real Gadgets Minority Report Predicted Correctly
• [Man-made] AirGlass: Today’s little bit of wow

ENTERTAINMENT

• Scenes from Antarctica
• The Incredible Shrinking Peanut Butter Jar
• US Air Force Abandoned Nuclear Bomb in Greenland
• “Star Wars” – an a cappella tribute to John Williams
• Big Buck Bunny
• On S’Embrasse?

WEEKLY TRIBUTE

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Architecture | Construction Awards

I can’t tell if some of the images are photoshopped or not, but it’s still LOL funny:)

More here.

(via: Breda)

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

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] CNN’s telepresence debut (see how it works here, see what’s been done before CNN here)
• [Health] First complete cancer genome sequenced
• [Politics] What Happens when Countries Go Bankrupt?
• [Economy] 100,000 Chinese Factories Closing: Orders Off; Regulations Up
  
• [Man-made] Brain-only Computer Interfaces Becoming Reality (can’t wait till it gets mainstream)
• [Psychology] Think graphic design doesn’t matter? (an important point)

ENTERTAINMENT

• 9 of the Most Bizarre Animal Defense Mechanisms
• The Top Ten Reasons iTunes Sucks (bless you, Scott Gilbertson!)
• Unruly Children To Be Punished With ‘Innovative’ Foot Massages (too WTF not to post here)
• Russian Basso Profondo: The Lowest Voices (unearthly)
• A Flood collapses road in a few minutes
• TIME’s Best Inventions of 2008 (worth checking out for the diversity of inventions alone)
  

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to true pressure. It comes with added bonus sometimes…

My congrats to the man, but I refuse to make a big deal out of it. Hearing and reading about people who say they couldn’t believe a non-caucasian person would ever become president of a western nation makes me feel friggin shocked above all. Then sad…because for a split second I realize how right all these people actually were. Then happy…because we were all proven wrong. Then sad again…because its almost 2009 and we’re all applauding something that’s way over due…

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Video | Trailer – Carbon Nation

A documentary that apparently plays on a kind of reverse psychology card and instead of emphasizing the bad focuses on what to do to make it good. Release date unknown for the moment (or I just couldn’t find it), but will definitely give it a view when it comes out. They’ve managed to get some influential individuals for interviews,  which hopefully means this isn’t yet another example of generic film-making.  Just not sure if the title holds up to the premise of the documentary – since they mention how the subject matter affects the whole planet I’d probably go with something a bit more grand scheme-ish than ‘nation’, but that’s just me being anal about petty details again:)

Trailer here.

(via: Treehugger)

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

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Internet Altering the Way Our Brains Work
• [IT] Get the Green Web 3.0 Experience on Truevert (or how ‘green’ is raising the bar with semantic web)
• [Future] Police will use new device to take fingerprints in street
• [Nature] Bacteria Cause Old Buildings To Feel Off-color (a must-read for anybody in the construction business)
• [Politics] Atlas of hidden water may avert future conflict
• [Man-made] [Nature] How biometrics could change security (see the video)

ENTERTAINMENT

• F-f-freaks @ adg conference
• High Performance Fighter Uniform Can Stop Bleeding In 20 Seconds
• What Do We Have Here? TWINS? (lol celeb pics)
• 52 Epic Natural Wonders of the World
• Red Enhances Men’s Attraction To Women?…
• Obama and McCain – Dance Off!

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to perfect timing, or in my case chance & coincidence…pour me another one of those ‘CC’s, please:)

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