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

• [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 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 mails)

USEFUL STUFF
Scientists crack security system of millions of cars (now here’s a potential really shitty deal)
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2174801.0.scientists_crack_security_system_of_millions_of_cars.php
Do we use only 10% of our brains
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html
Viruses and malware to hit one million mark
http://gizmodo.com/376679/viruses-and-malware-to-hit-one-million-mark
Web 2.0 – Zemanta (a “made in Slovenia” web app for bloggers…dunno about the actual functionality tho)
http://www.zemanta.com/
Twitter explained in plain english (it’s pretty neat, but not that many people I know use it so far)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
Gold vs. dollar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6NfXk7Bvc8
Characteristics of a future society based on futurist predictions
http://vulcanis.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/characteristics-of-a-future-society-based-on-futurist-predictions/
Price of beer in 140 countries (yes, in BEST that’s considered “usefull” unless you want to get liched;)
http://www.pintprice.com/
Potatoes on the front line against poverty and hunger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9uuM2hB15g&eurl=http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=my
20% of scientists admit using brain-enhancing drugs (WTFFFFF???)
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/20-of-scientist.html
Pangea day (a global event bringing the world together thru film)
http://www.pangeaday.org/index.php

ENTERTAINMENT
7 weird superheros who wont ever hit the silver screen but should (OMFSM, Matter-Eater Lad, we need you!!!)
http://www.omglists.com/article/71933/7-weird-superheros-who-wont-ever-hit-the-silver-screen-but-should/
Falling while on stage (no.3 is effing hillarious)
http://www.letsgettight.com//blog/2008/4/3/falling-while-on-stage-still-funny.html
web 2.0 – Muxtape (listen to/create music playlists and pretend they’re mix tapes like your dad probably used to give your mom before he finally scored and made You)
http://muxtape.com/
The kitchen of the future (from 1967…the result is not quite there yet:P)
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/the-kitchen-of-the-future.php
A pretty cool musical instrument with an incredibly bad infomercial
http://gizmodo.com/376659/beamz-infomercial-is-most-stupid-promo-video-in-history
The human animal – Part 1 – The language of the body (an enlightening docu about the human species as the animal that we are)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3323021761394989726&q=the+human+animal&total=2811&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
My sister’s secret life as a pornstar (not even sure if this is a true story, but I found it a fascinating read on a rainy fucking day)
http://www.marieclaire.com/life/sex/advice/secret-life-porn-star
Patrick Ewing Jr dunks behind his back (when you gotta wait for the slow-motion replay to see what happened you know something was smooth)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovfwYrLNIw8
Kinetic typography (find this really cool, maybe could be used as a kind of “different approach” BEST promo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hw6G-MU4CU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuiKJ0rRTAo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7WQGrZUdb0&watch_response
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syf8olcM0z4
Fantastic Four (1994!) (this is the more retarded version)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4969485859549858917&q=fantastic+4+%281994%29&total=118&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
Laughing midget (it’s this kind of weird shit I’ll go to hell for
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4466649853103963825&q=midget+laughing&total=200&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to anything that doesn’t have a Youtube interface…and different designers:)…What they have going on is starting to remind me of this