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] Some much needed improvements (Watch Seth Godin’s video below to get a better idea of what I mean)
• [Eco] Should They be Generation E?
• [Nature] When under attack, plants can signal microbial friends for help (amazing stuff)
  
• [Man-made] 3D Virtual Heart So Real Doctors’ Own Hearts Go Pitter Patter
• [Man-made] Seth Godin’s Tribes (great presentation on video…I really can’t describe in words how much I feel exactly, EXACTLY(!!!!!!!!!!!!!)  like Seth on this one:). Of all the futurists, he is easily the most pragmatic one!)
• [Sociology] [Psychology] Does the use of hand gestures slow language learning? (I drool over this type of empirical research data)

ENTERTAINMENT

• Not Photoshopped: Li Wei’s Astounding Action Art
• Dolls and Toys that Creep us Out
• That’s Worlds Highest Bungee Jump @ Helicopter @ 500m/1640ft
• Tuttuki Bako (after seeing the video…spechless!)
• When Robot Programmers get bored
• Improv Everywhere Creates Epic Balloon Battles Using MP3 Players (IE still rocks)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to PBwiki. I’ve tried a couple of online wiki’s, and this one’s price-performance (for personal use, cost-zero!) is by far the best I’ve seen and used thus far. The interface is incredibly slick and easy to use and is a big time-saver. They also put strong emphasis on back-up (which you can also manually download onto your pc) and guarantee that loss of data will not occur on their watch (how much that can be trusted is of course up to you). What’s also pretty sweet is the ability to invite guests and have them look only at a particular page of your wiki and not the whole thing (so personal info and to-do lists of celebrity hotties are safe from prying eyes). Other cool features: RSS (comes in handy if/when many users update pages), downloading pages as .pdf’s, interface flexibility…

My personal thought is that every single company (even a one-man band) MUST have a personal wiki (or anything that allows fluid and user-friendly knowledge-transfer that will be put to good use) to handle the abundance of info they deal with.

One of those things that simply make my life so much easier and better! Simply a must:) For more on IT that I think is really practical and useful, click here.

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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

• [IT] Enable Chrome’s Best Features in Firefox
• [Eco] Bike-Sharing Goes Global: 5 Programs You Should Know About
• [Economy] Negative Momentum: Newspaper Ad Revenues Gaining Downhill Speed (Even Online Is Declining)
• [Man-made] Spore (it’s finally out & I hope it lives-up to the hype it’s created in the last two years!)
• [Psychology] Stop Rationalizing and Make Hard Decisions: Learning from Dr. King (short and to the point)
• [Sociology] [Psychology] Why Young Men Delay Adulthood to Stay in “Guyland”

ENTERTAINMENT

• Microsoft Patents Page Up and Page Down
• Scientists get death threats from idiots over possible apocalypse
• Elephant cured of drug addiction (if this ain’t ROFL material, then I’m the Pope so help me FSM)
• Six Degrees of Separation Is Now Three
• Awww…crazy celebrities, drugs are for fridays and saturdays, weekdays it’s botox only!
• R.I.P. movie preview guy

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to conspiracy theories, big brothers, small print, corruption (yeah, this one seems more like a small-fish local matter, but it just might change a thing or two in EU’s policy on arms deals) and Eric Arthur Blair who saw through it all.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain! (Harvey Dent)*

*The best quote I could think of comes from a friggin movie I recently saw…something definitely ain’t right in this spinning dirt-ball we live on

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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)

Link: Click | Click | Click | Click | Click

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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] ‘Shake-up’ for internet proposed
• [IT] Google Faces Off With Compete, Alexa, Comscore, Quantcast (And Soon Firefox) (dunno about you but I’m kinda starting to feel the dark side here, and Google’s new, khm, innocent-looking little ‘g’ favicon is starting to look and feel more and more like a silly front for the master of world domination of online information that is , khm, well “G”oogle)
• [Eco] Greenhouse Gases: Where Do They Come From? (it’s just one picture, but I just couldn’t take my eyes off of it…)
• [Economy] Important info about energy saver light bulbs! (or the stupidity/cunningness of a newly passed energy bill in the USA…when China’s got you by the balls you can’t just say “I’m sorry”, can you now)
• [Sociology] [Psychology] The Top 10 TED Talks
• [Man-made] [Psychology] “It’ll never work!” (a list of some of humanity’s biggest invetions and a bigger and in some cases, surprising list of non-believers who were apparently full of sh*t)

ENTERTAINMENT

• The 5 Creepiest Advertising Techniques of the (Near) Future (these guys are usually a laughing riot, but why I put this in the “fun” section is honestly beyond me!!!)
• Shaq Uses Freestyle Rap To Rip On Kobe For Losing NBA Finals (these two idiots should get married already)
• Schwarzenegger vs. Stallone ( this is some heavy sh*t…I’m dead serious!:) )
  
• What is obscene these days? (or how it’s OK to watch porn with midgets peeing on each other while stroking a donkey, but if they light a joint, well that’s (still) a no-no)
• Ten Million Pixel Comcast Display Wows Viewers With Un-throttled Ultra HD Video
• Realistic Hollywood Sex Scene

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
:”’(

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George Denis Patrick Carlin ( May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008 )

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The following is compiled from different people who could put in writing what I felt on that sad Monday morning much better that I could:

The world is just a little less intelligent this morning. The biggest spokesperson for common sense, the person who taught me the real value of truth, far beyond what my parents taught me, has passed away.
Mr. Carlin was the screaming voice telling me to question authority, informing me that everyone is full of shit and to not trust anyone, cause we can’t even trust ourselves.Thank you George, for all these years of making me think and laugh at the same time.
I guess all that I can say now is, “Adios, Motherfucker.”

Your death was untimely, and would still be untimely even if you would live to be 142, on life-support, in a vegetative state and with a limp dick. I never even realized it up until now, but you were one of the few living heroes I had. And now you’re gone. You’re still my hero, tho! Fuck Joe Pesci, I’m praying to George Carlin!!

…will try and skip Sundays;)

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

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] 50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing (a shitload of the best Firefox extensions all on one page)
• [IT] 5 Best Online File Sharing Services
• [Future] Imagining the tech world in 2050
• [Nature] The 75 Skills Every Man Should Master (period.)
• [Economy] All of Inflation’s Little Parts (an in-depth look into the spending habbits of americans)
• [Sociology] [Psychology] Pangea Day TODAY! (I’ve already mentioned this a while ago, but I just have a hunch it might be more than just a “one-hit wonder”…today from 18:00-22:00 GMT)

ENTERTAINMENT

• Women Who Love Porn: An Asylum Investigation (a rare, but appreciated breed)
• Create perfect ice spheres for perfect cocktails (I wanna have one sooo badly)
• The largest insects on planet Earth
• Guys backflip into jeans
• Amazing geological oddities
• Dolphin gets prosthetic tail (so there’s still hope for Michael Jackson’s nose)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to those warm rays of sunlight that already feel like the summer is here:)

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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] Yet another Web 2.0 app
http://www.backpackit.com/
[IT] VLC player vulnerable to remote hijack
http://torrentfreak.com/vlc-player-vulnerable-remote-hijack-080318/
[IT] How Yahoo lost its way
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8592114?nclick_check=1
[Nature] Overeater’s brain
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=631815221630122542&q=overeaters+brain&total=2&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
[Politics] Biohacking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biohacking
[Politics] Female circumcision
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSQPDd1B2g&eurl=http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=my
[Man-made] The lightbulb of the future
http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13568_22-192842.html
[Psychology] Faces of meth
http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/DrugIssue/MethResources/faces/index.html
[Psychology] TED Talks – Jill Bolte Taylor – My stroke of insight
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229
[Psychology] [Sociology] Cultural background reflected in seemingly unconscious actions
http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/03/cultural_background_reflected.php

ENTERTAINMENT
clothes of the future
http://www.doubleviking.com/videos/page0.html/8449.html
the 25 most disturbing sex toys
http://www.cracked.com/article_16032_25-most-disturbing-sex-toys.html
shockwave traffic jam recreated for the first time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suugn-p5C1M&eurl=http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=my
Frank Caliendo – Bush & Yoda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfOgoZz1mac&feature=related
100 funniest Web 20. words to say
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9112919597749004598&q=blummy&total=8&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=4
Yeah Right (skateboarding movie)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2137906947732406108
the most amazing impression of all time (for those who are familiar with Eddie Murphy’s comedic routines…WARNING – truly painfull to watch!!!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_IfBEcyNQA&feature=related
video of quadroped robot
http://gizmodo.com/368651/new-video-of-bigdog-quadruped-robot-is-so-stunning-its-spooky
cocaine cowboys (documentary)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7960550700465197754
mildly sleazy uses of facebook
http://xkcd.com/300/

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to Paul Scofield (1922-2008), a truly brilliant actor who’s award-winning performance in “A man for all seasons” was so mesmerizing people said he could have done just that movie and still be remembered as a marvel worth every praise and respect…
R.I.P.

I hiiiiiighly recommend the movie, if you can find it:)