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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The Manchurian microchip or how China might be preparing to bring the western world to its knees…Chinese government gives “no comment”

Ok, so the Manchurian microchip thing got some leverage in the press (as expected) and the news is spreading like wildfire in California (sorry, bad example – my heart goes out to the forest vegetation and the animals!). So anyways, here‘s a BBC article (I didn’t Diigo because I pretty much already mentioned everything useful from the article) .

The epilogue of this mess awaits…

(via: BBC)

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The Manchurian microchip or how China might be preparing to bring the western world to its knees

The most interesting thing I’ve read this week so far…I don’t know what to make of it yet, but if it turns out to be just a product of imagination it would still be eerie enough to make an excellent summer blockbuster thriller.  An excerpt:

The myth: Chinese intelligence services have concealed a microchip in every computer everywhere, programmed to “call home” if and when activated.

The reality: It may actually be true.

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“It is there, deep inside your computer, if they decide to call it up,” the security chief of a multinational corporation told The Investigator. “It is capable of providing Chinese intelligence with everything stored on your system — on everyone’s system — from e- mail to documents. I call it Call Home Technology. It doesn’t mean to say they’re sucking data from everyone’s computer today, it means the Chinese think ahead — and they now have the potential to do it when it suits their purposes.

I’ll leave you with that, go here to read the full article and for the Diigoed version go here.

(via: Ignacio)

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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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(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] Revealed: The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole (old but effing relevant nonetheless!!!)
• [IT] Why is almost half of Google in beta? & Google Patent Could Kill Off Cellphone Contracts
• [Nano] Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Breakthrough Could Mean Bye-Bye Steel
• [Health] TED Talks - James Nachtwey: Use my photographs to stop the worldwide XDR-TB epidemic (this year’s TED prize winner)
• [Astronomy] Where Do Satellites Go When They Die? (crazy stuff!)
• [Psychology] Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people

ENTERTAINMENT

• Show Me Your Genitals 2: E=MC Vagina (the sequel to that retarded yet somehow much needed song about female genitals:P)
• Man Uses Remote Desktop to Catch Laptop Thief, Watch Porn Remotely
• The Coolest Fruit On Earth (gollum wants the precious!)
• Stressed Plants Produce Aspirin-Like Substance
• Riding the Caspian Sea Monster (great stuff about ekranoplans…Exactly!)
• An Engineer’s Guide to Cats

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to recession.Thank FSM it’s only hitting the U.S. Oh wait…
Personally lovin’ it, cos:

• people thought they knew what was going wrong, but luckily nobody gave a fuck because they knew better. And boy were they right!
• everybody (except idiots) knows that 700,000,000,000 is a nice, strong, round number (…doh!) and the U.S. government knows why they had to pass the bill to get the cash. (from 6:40 on)
• 7 is also the number of years the U.S. has been out of the spotlight since their last great global contribution started, so it was about time they got back into the news. This time they really outdid themselves, put their heads together and brought something even more positive to the table. God bless America.
• recession is the easiest and cheapest dieting regime there is…by far!!!
• women are clueless when it comes to economics, so nobody ever cares what they have to say
• we finally get to have our very own modern up-to-date economic bedtime story of the 21st century. Nighty night, sleep tight, don’t let the recession bugs bite.

TO BE CONTINUED…? Naaah, this’ll be over before McCain becomes prez and Palin proves dinosaurs were put on Earth to test our faith to FSM. Santa’s gonna bring mighty nice gifts this Christmas, so I’d start spending bigtime if I were you!

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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] Guess who’s got your passwords and emails stored on their servers…?
• [IT] Google Health: A Quick Hands-On Look
• [Nano] New Nanotech Products Hitting the Market at the Rate of 3-4 Per Week (in Your Mouth and On Your Face)
• [Economy] The Real Face of the European Union
• [Man-made] Burj Dubai Becomes World’s Tallest Man-Made Structure Today
• [Psychology] Brain rules for PowerPoint & Keynote presenters

ENTERTAINMENT

• Something to wear on mother’s day;)
• 10 Private Islands You Can’t Afford to Live On: Amazing, Exotic and Remote Luxury Retreats
• 40 Hours Of Illustrator, Time-Lapsed (for design freaks who can stand to listen to the background music)
• YouTomb: Where Videos Go to Die
• The Danish language & some more Danish language
• The 9 Most Devastating Insults From Around the World (so the Danish can feel a little better)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
Well, I’ve thus far managed to rip on mothers, my email provider (ooopsies), the Danish, and pretty much everybody else…so here’s a totally uninspired, totally random miniscule “tribute” to those who can sell their own shit and get away with it (…more than 5 times!!!?!?!)
I give you this a**hole….(disclaimer: watch the videos in order, FSM knows you can barely make sense of it anyway:P)

Link: Click | Click | Click

And please, even if you’ve never seen them, even if you’ve never heard of them…do your civic duty and friggin put the HerrBoll out of his misery!;)

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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] 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
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

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

USEFUL STUFF
[IT] Dropsend (lets you email large files…up to 1GB, a vast improvement over drop.io)
http://www.dropsend.com/
[IT] Web 2.0.’s Top 1000 list (hooray for weekends, I got sucked in for many a hours already…open with caution:P)
http://www.web20searchengine.com/web20/web-2.0-list.htm
[IT] Manage your online reputation (anybody got any experience with this?)
http://lifehacker.com/357460/manage-your-online-reputation
[IT] iPod Shuffle hack (!!!iPod Shuffle only!!! – so you don’t have to use iTunes but can drag’n'drop .mp3′s from your regular music folders…SWEET!)
http://shuffle-db.sourceforge.net/
[Man-made] Remove car dents quickly and cheaply (the second video is pretty sweet)
http://www.wisebread.com/remove-car-dents-quickly-and-cheaply
[Man-made] Water ball ripple sink
http://gizmodo.com/361600/water-ball-ripple-sink-makes-me-want-to-tinkle

ENTERTAINMENT
A brief history of ska
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AesId12OKsY
Watch The Nametag Guy on 20/20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT97RtBG_8I&eurl=http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=my
EU fines Microsoft record $1.4bn
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7266629.stm
Future water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzc-46h27Yg&feature=related
Moment Of Truth Special Lauren Cleri Ruins Marriage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzZWqYWhdQw&eurl=http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=my
You’re psycho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JAcdbKFygg&eurl=http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=my

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to David “Elsewhere” Bernal (restecpa to this super slick plastic man who’s carved out quite a dancing niche for himself!)

Link: Click