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

USEFUL STUFF

• [Eco] A green New Deal can tackle depression
• [Health] Scientists uncover new gene link to male pattern baldness
• [Health] TED Talks – Dr. Dean Ornish: Healing and other natural wonders
  
• [Economy] The End of Suburbia (worth a view, especially the last 5 minutes or so!)
• [Economy] ‘We need slaves to build monuments’ (Dubai is under a lot of fire lately, more here, here and here)
• [Man-made] Long Overdue GPS Upgrade Could Save Airlines $10 Billion a Year

ENTERTAINMENT

• The Indonesian Mimic Octopus
• The Sun (mesmerizing photography)
• Flesh Eating Mutant Fish Invades Nepal
• What Is The Sport Of Kiiking? (dedicated to my beloved Estonians)
• The Aquaduct Bicycle (brilliant idea!)
• Chinese deaf girls mystical dance (how the **** do you train deaf people anyways?)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to autumn.

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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 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

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