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

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] CNN’s telepresence debut (see how it works here, see what’s been done before CNN here)
• [Health] First complete cancer genome sequenced
• [Politics] What Happens when Countries Go Bankrupt?
• [Economy] 100,000 Chinese Factories Closing: Orders Off; Regulations Up
  
• [Man-made] Brain-only Computer Interfaces Becoming Reality (can’t wait till it gets mainstream)
• [Psychology] Think graphic design doesn’t matter? (an important point)

ENTERTAINMENT

• 9 of the Most Bizarre Animal Defense Mechanisms
• The Top Ten Reasons iTunes Sucks (bless you, Scott Gilbertson!)
• Unruly Children To Be Punished With ‘Innovative’ Foot Massages (too WTF not to post here)
• Russian Basso Profondo: The Lowest Voices (unearthly)
• A Flood collapses road in a few minutes
• TIME’s Best Inventions of 2008 (worth checking out for the diversity of inventions alone)
  

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to true pressure. It comes with added bonus sometimes…

My congrats to the man, but I refuse to make a big deal out of it. Hearing and reading about people who say they couldn’t believe a non-caucasian person would ever become president of a western nation makes me feel friggin shocked above all. Then sad…because for a split second I realize how right all these people actually were. Then happy…because we were all proven wrong. Then sad again…because its almost 2009 and we’re all applauding something that’s way over due…

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

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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

• [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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Video | Faen!

Wanna know why the Norwegian word for FUCK is so cool? After this video you will most likely die a happy person, because your questions will all be answered!

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

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] The awesome highlighter (one ot the beter Web 2.0 apps around, does exactly what the name implies)
• [Eco] New Precast Concrete Sucks CO2 Out of the Air (perhaps the future of constructing with concrete. Further links: Click)
• [Health] The Truth About Plastic (puts things in a much needed perspective)
• [Future] Your DNA’s in the post
• [Nature] Male biological clock ‘ticks too’
• [Man-made] [Nature] Alert map (slow load, but perhaps the most comprehensive source of alarming events going on around the world)

ENTERTAINMENT

• Cosmo’s 20 Favorite Sex Tips Ever (won’t speak on anybody else’s behalf, but 2, 4, 8, 9, 15 sound mighty hot to me:))
• 5 Incredible Works of Insane Architectural Genius: Wooden Skyscrapers to Recycled Wonderlands
Music using ONLY sounds from Windows XP and 98!
• Laughter: the secret of love
• 5 Tiny Mistakes That Led To Huge Catastrophes
• The Soup: iPhone 3G (let’s face it people, this needed to be made!)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
China, bitch! The land of paper, kung-fu, excellent dental care and those weird dumpling-looking thingies.

Links: Click | Click | 劉琵琶

Oh. Did I mention they scare the shit out of me and at the same time seem like an unavoidable playground for the future. “China…so you don’t have to!”

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