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

USEFUL STUFF

• [Eco] It’s Not about Polar Bears Anymore
• [Nano] One small wall crawling step for a bottle of coke, one giant leap to Spiderman-like wall crawling
• [Future] Saving the World Through Game Design
• [Economy] Financial crisis simplified (a whiteboard presentation) (detailed info here)
• [Man-made] Robot suit for rent in Japan to help people walk
• [Astronomy] 50 Consumer Technologies Developed by NASA in the Last 50 Years

ENTERTAINMENT

• The Indonesian Mimic Octopus
• The Quietest Place on Earth – Orfield Labs
• MadTv – Kim Jong IL Crazy Parody
• Pictures Galore: 15 Epic Water and Ice Formations and Phenomena, 7 Spectacularly Skilled High-Speed Photographers, Fantastic Plastic: 20 Essential Works of LEGO Art
• The former President wants you to know exactly where he stands… (kind of old, but Clinton’s never looked more convincing:)
• Wacky human inventions from 1930’s (brilliant…ROFL’d through half of it)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to priorities. On the top of my list is to graduate before my birthday next year and I’ve already noticed my interest in the last two weeks or so (when I started) has noticeably shifted from all the things that interest me to only (well…mostly, but it’s a start!) those that I’ll be needing to graduate.

My topic, in case you’re interested: a sustainable zero-energy – or if possible even plus-energy (and notice how informational the article is) – residential area in a city (probably and preferably Ljubljana). Why? Because I strongly believe that starting the next industrial revolution is the only (for the time being, at least:)) way to successfully maintain and continue our lifestyles without any serious consequences; both to the abundance of options we have at our disposal as humans, as to, of course, mother nature.

…and someday who knows, you’ll might even quote me on this;)

Till then, I’ll leave you with another quote, a brand new one as a matter of fact…not exactly the bedtime story I had in mind last week:

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
- Richard Feynman

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(via: all the usual and unusual 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] Revealed: The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole (old but effing relevant nonetheless!!!)
• [IT] Why is almost half of Google in beta? & Google Patent Could Kill Off Cellphone Contracts
• [Nano] Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Breakthrough Could Mean Bye-Bye Steel
• [Health] TED Talks - James Nachtwey: Use my photographs to stop the worldwide XDR-TB epidemic (this year’s TED prize winner)
• [Astronomy] Where Do Satellites Go When They Die? (crazy stuff!)
• [Psychology] Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people

ENTERTAINMENT

• Show Me Your Genitals 2: E=MC Vagina (the sequel to that retarded yet somehow much needed song about female genitals:P)
• Man Uses Remote Desktop to Catch Laptop Thief, Watch Porn Remotely
• The Coolest Fruit On Earth (gollum wants the precious!)
• Stressed Plants Produce Aspirin-Like Substance
• Riding the Caspian Sea Monster (great stuff about ekranoplans…Exactly!)
• An Engineer’s Guide to Cats

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to recession.Thank FSM it’s only hitting the U.S. Oh wait…
Personally lovin’ it, cos:

• people thought they knew what was going wrong, but luckily nobody gave a fuck because they knew better. And boy were they right!
• everybody (except idiots) knows that 700,000,000,000 is a nice, strong, round number (…doh!) and the U.S. government knows why they had to pass the bill to get the cash. (from 6:40 on)
• 7 is also the number of years the U.S. has been out of the spotlight since their last great global contribution started, so it was about time they got back into the news. This time they really outdid themselves, put their heads together and brought something even more positive to the table. God bless America.
• recession is the easiest and cheapest dieting regime there is…by far!!!
• women are clueless when it comes to economics, so nobody ever cares what they have to say
• we finally get to have our very own modern up-to-date economic bedtime story of the 21st century. Nighty night, sleep tight, don’t let the recession bugs bite.

TO BE CONTINUED…? Naaah, this’ll be over before McCain becomes prez and Palin proves dinosaurs were put on Earth to test our faith to FSM. Santa’s gonna bring mighty nice gifts this Christmas, so I’d start spending bigtime if I were you!

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

USEFUL STUFF

• [Nano] Faster, Cheaper DNA Sequencing
• [Future] ‘Pre-crime’ detector shows promise (Minority Report, take two!)
• [Nature] An Arctic Sea “Foaming” with Methane: What Now? (the most disturbing thing I’ve read in a while!!! More here)
• [Man-made] Scientists Develop Plastic-Producing Bacteria
• [Astronomy] TED Talks – Peter Diamandis: Taking the next giant leap in space
• [Psychology] [Politics] Massively-Multiplayer Decepticon (yeah, and elephants can fly in mid-air air:P)

ENTERTAINMENT

• The Evolution of Mobile Phones 1985 – Today
• Record-Breaking Tower Tilts More Than Pisa
• Test your color IQ (I got an 8 out of a 100)
• The mating habits of the water shrew
• Rubik’s Mirror Blocks: The Cube Taken To New Dimensions of Trickiness
• The Great Dog Escape (you’ve gotta see it to believe it…and turn off the annoying music:P)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE

A small tribute to Google. As much as they’ve been receiving some bad PR lately, they’re my personal choice of email, calendar, news aggregator, homepage, freeware 3D modeling, and I better stop before I sound like a really bad salesperson!

Also, they’ve

• recently celebrated their 10′th birthday
• unveiled the open-source mobile OS Android, which will hopefully be a match to the iPhone’s V.I.P.-ish politics!!!
• launched Google Moderator, Project 10^100, an energy modeling plug-in for SketchUp, and are constantly improving and inventing
• begun lobbying to open up unused broadcast spectrum, which we’ll probably hear more of in the near future
• seriously started considering of deploying their supercomputers out to sea or finding alternatives to lower their costs
• and are pretty much in-our-face whenever we use the net. Free of charge!

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Prediction | More ‘rapping-about-science’ videos

Wanna learn-by-rap?

Thanks to this video a whole lot of people now know about the Large hadron collider (and if you pay close attention to the lyrics you even know what it does) and the whole is-the-world-coming-to-and-end affair’s gone so far that the LHC has practically become our bastard love child of some sort…Think of it this way: when the people at the LHC declared they have to close it down till spring 2009 due to equipment failure, everybody instantly spread the online word as if we were talking about the iPhone’s next widget or sth. When’s the last time you were this updated on your local particle physics facility?

Now comes this video, only this time the topic is astrobiology. Surprisingly cool, actually!

See a pattern?:)…

Sure the LHC videos’s got more than 3 million views due to huge publicity spawned by panic, and this video currently isn’t even near the 6 figure number, but it’s apparent that with presenting difficult topics in a fun and easy-to-understand way you can’t go wrong (yeah, somebody give me a Nobel prize right now!).

MY PREDICTION:

• before the LHC boom fades away we’ll see a couple more of these rapping-about-science videos (not that difficult a prediction really, but as far as I know I’m the first to make it:P)
  
• the “Astrobiology 2008″ video will become a mild hit, comparison to the LHC videos will be inevitable, as it will be with all future videos of this sort
• if enough memorable clever and fun educational videos are made, people will start talking about implementing similar methods into our school systems for better teaching/learning results (which hopefully will occur regardless of everything I’ve said so far!)

So whattcha waiting for? Got a freakishly mind-blowing thing to share with the world what we don’t already know about? Well, get movin’ and make a song out of it. As long as it’s got rhymes, we’ll love you for it:)

Then chop chop!…or rather, hip hop;)

(via: Astrobio.net)

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

USEFUL STUFF

• [Eco] Chicken Manure to power 90,000 Homes in the Netherlands!
• [Future] Automated Construction System To Change Face of Home-Building (mental note: it’s fun to be right:P)
• [Nature] [Astronomy] Bill Stone: Journey to the center of the Earth … and beyond! (from caves to cosmos or how this man’s favorite color is definitely black!)
• [Economy] [Politics] When the wind doesn’t blow (ups and downs of wind power)
• [Man-made] [Nature] Top 10 Amazing Physics Videos (physics galore…really fun stuff:))
• [Psychology] Banned Self Hypnosis Video (had to repeat it to get it and just ‘let go’…surprising and impressive)

ENTERTAINMENT

• The Faces Behind The Simpsons
• Gait may be associated with orgasmic ability (forget make-up, ladies! Learn to, khm, walk properly:))
• Rare banned Bush speech
• Insane Stretchable Skin Man
• 70 Amazing Houses from Around the World (great stuff with a lot of effort put into it)
• Racism in the Elevator

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to relevant issues (2) and quality journalism (2).

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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:

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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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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

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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] Amazing life motion capture
• [IT] Do large monitors make you more productive
• [IT] Twiddla
• [Eco] Scientists skeptical of global warming alarmism join forces
• [Future] Futurist Chris Anderson on new products (sounds boring, but it’s quite enlightening)
• [Politics] Que pasa in China
• [Economy] The hidden truth behind hotel drinking glasses
• [Astronomy] Birth of the universe

ENTERTAINMENT

• Seven of the deadliest delicacies: Come dine with death
• 15 most bizzare animal mating rituals
• On Photobucket, babies in diapers are seen as nudity
• The anatomy of an illusion — and what it tells us about the visual system
• Canadian Club nails its PR;)
• the number Pi challenge
• Arabic joke
• There will be bud (for those who’ve allready seen “There will be blood”)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to a dying 47-Year-Old Professor who Gives an Exuberant ‘Last Lecture‘ (this has generated quite the buzz, and rightfully so)

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