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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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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(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

• [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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(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] 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 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)