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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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)

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• [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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The future of designing buildings and other man-made structures

Oh its at least a couple of years away (mildly put) from becoming mainstream, but  the video after the jump gives a surprisingly detailed and thought-out idea of an efficient (again, mildly put) work environment and indisputably shows how technology can be an architect’s best friend. And an engineer’s, designers, you name it!

Hod do I know this? I just do…for I have been to the mountaintop:

On a lighter side, let’s look at it from a different, albeit still important perspective. A mirror of the not-so-distant future, if you willl…

Do you wanna be the I-have-a-serious-long-term-relationship-with-my-desktop-computer,-my-mouse-is-bigger-than-my-erect-penis-and-my-idea-of-exercise-is-opening-a-new-jar-of-mayonnaise bald fat fuck:

Or do you want to be the I’m-actually-psycho-but-still-take-care-of-myself-because-I-predominantly-do-my-work-standing-or-at-least-move-my-arms-and-upper-body-a-whole-lot wholesome, good looking guy like Tom Cruise:

I crossed the line with ‘wholesome’, but the question was rhetorical…or was it?

Further information on building Information modeling (BIM), especially the last paragraph of ‘BIM in the USA’.

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

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• [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)

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

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

• [IT] Mash-up makers move into the mainstream (Mashup – the philosophy of mixing the best of (at least) two worlds!…Ubiquity anyone?)
• [IT] Google Launches Audio Indexing (like effing finally! It’s still got a long way to go, tho)
• [Future] Can PRT, or Podcars, Replace the Automobile? (perhaps a Minority Report-ish trend coming our way)
• [Economy] A Conversation with Yvon Chouinard (this guy sure knows how to treat his employees)
• [Man-made] Getting Electricity From Outer Space
• [Psychology] Software spots the spin in political speeches (or how we all better learn to be truthful)

ENTERTAINMENT

• The Grinch: Human Slingshot For Snow and Surfboarding (W…T…F…)
• Zoom into Concrete (also zoom into other materials)
• In a Tangle of Young Lips, a New Sex Rebellion is Brewing in Chile
• Mini Rooftop NYC + HWKN (looks like a blast on a Friday night)
• The short – but eventful – life of Ike (hey, if it’s nature fucking with us it’s entertainment!)
• Drum and bass (as one comment says: buy this guy some drums!)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE

A small tribute to Diigo. Actually, a BIG-ASS one!!! The only downside is that I haven’t been using this since my first contact with the world wide web. Brings together the best of del.icio.us, social networking, Clipmarks, The Awesome Highlighter, etc, and is simply the best social bookmarking research tool I’ve come across.

One day’s usage and it’s become simply irreplaceable in my book. Hiiiighly recommended:)

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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

• [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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(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] Photographs Enhance Video in Absolutely Unbelievable Ways (unbefuckinglievable!)
• [Eco] FreeGreen (or the Napster of green architecture!…and we know how that evolved!!!…a radical new business model that I think can’t be stopped)
• [Future] 10 Futuristic User Interfaces (comments & other links also worth checking)
• [Man-made] Traffic from Space Videos Blow Our Minds, Pants, and Socks
• [Psychology] Four Rules to Understand What Makes People Tick
• [Sociology] [Psychology] Top 5 Most Inspirational Videos on YouTube (already featured the first two, the other 3 are just as great. I’d also add this one;))

ENTERTAINMENT

• Watching mushrooms grow
• The Evolution of Men’s Style: 1933-2008
• Slow Motion Lightning Video is Mindblowing, Will Sell a Thousand Slo-Mo Cameras
• Awkward Rap
• Trailer – Comedian (if you digg stand-up comedy or presentation skills check the movie)
• Little Gordon

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to contemporary interior (and exterior) design (or Gizmodo:P)

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