Video | Alphabet soup

“A Canadian filmaker travels to the north Pacific Ocean to discover a world of unknown plastic pollution.” Well, that’s what the video says at least, truth be told this videos’ message is much more important because this concrete issue has been so neglected till recently. There’s actually a shitload of waste, floating and sinking in the middle of the Pacific, and cleaning it up is nothing short of impossible. Had no idea that plasti dissolves so fast (due mainly to the sun and the salt in the water), had no idea that abundantly eating fish is, in a way, also eating my own trash. Length | 12: 49

Links: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: “Out of Sight, Out of Mind” | Great Pacific Garbage Patch (W) | Ship pollution (W)

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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)

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

• [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

• [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] Sick of IKEA? Design Your Own Stuff, And Get Rich While You’re At It
• [IT] America’s Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves
• [Eco] Earth is losing dirt at an alarming rate
• [Eco] [Economy] Deconstruction Grows in Popularity, Spawns New Businesses
• [Economy] Agflation: The real costs of rising food prices
• [Psychology] Larry Page on how to change the world

ENTERTAINMENT

• Men and their mothers. What’s it all about?
• A Collection Of Some Of The Most Shocking PSA’s Of All Time
• 7 (More!) Underground Wonders of the World: From Seed Vaults to Amazing Military Strongholds
• Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection
• Supersize sea monsters
• Gadget-Filled $2 Billion Home Makes Bill Gates’ House Look Like a Shack

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to Albert Hoffman (1906 – 2008), the guy who accidentally discovered the halucinogen drug that is LSD.

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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)

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

USEFUL STUFF
[IT] Web 2.0 – Adobe Photoshop online…(haha, it’s not quite comparable to the real desktop thing, and yet somehow I boldly predict an 80% reduction of .exe files in the next 10 years)
http://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html
[IT] All marketeers are liars – Seth Godin speaks at Google…(yet another “boring” lecture, see it if you dig Google and how they’ve benefited from what this man had to say about their company)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6909078385965257294&q=seth+godin
[Eco] Sun’s rays to roast Earth as poles flip…(now here’s a global warming theorie I’d more than want to hear something more about!)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/10/science.research
[Future] Futurist Ray Kurzweil pulls out all the stops (and pills) to live to witness the singularity
http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/16-04/ff_kurzweil
[Nature] Do animals have souls
http://www.wie.org/j32/animal-souls.asp

ENTERTAINMENT
* Elephant paints self portrait…(I’m officially speechless till 2009!…especially considering that I got this link literally seconds after I opened up the one about animal’s souls…freakish coincidence…don’t think so;P)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LHoyB81LnE
Slow motion slap
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1808604
Energy wasting day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6nAYIrxCiQ&eurl=http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=my
Redheads have more sex than blondes or brunettes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=400779&in_page_id=1770
Dead whale + dynamite = bad idea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFwxH3PPWiU&NR=1
Laughing fit TV bloopers…(sweet stuff:))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOv1UMDqBD4

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
I had unexpected problems with Firefox this wednesday, and all my “junk” bookmarks from my last email up to wednesday sadly vanished into thin virtual air…but at the moment I couldn’t care less!

It’s not often I post stuff on junk that I’ll be pursuing in my life (read – my career interests), because frankly, nobody can really sum it up:P…not even me!
Well, today I discovered that I can actually describe myself with one word…I’m a technogaianist. Aaaah, that felt good:)

A huge tribute to sustainable living…this article has so many profound thoughts and quotes I’ll honeslty do it injustice if I urge you to read it:
http://www.wie.org/j38/bright-green.asp?page=1