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…

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

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