Sustainable hedonism
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 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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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…
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A small tribute to PBwiki. I’ve tried a couple of online wiki‘s, and this one’s price-performance (for personal use, cost-zero!) is by far the best I’ve seen and used thus far. The interface is incredibly slick and easy to use and is a big time-saver. They also put strong emphasis on back-up (which you can also manually download onto your pc) and guarantee that loss of data will not occur on their watch (how much that can be trusted is of course up to you). What’s also pretty sweet is the ability to invite guests and have them look only at a particular page of your wiki and not the whole thing (so personal info and to-do lists of celebrity hotties are safe from prying eyes). Other cool features: RSS (comes in handy if/when many users update pages), downloading pages as .pdf’s, interface flexibility…
My personal thought is that every single company (even a one-man band) MUST have a personal wiki (or anything that allows fluid and user-friendly knowledge-transfer that will be put to good use) to handle the abundance of info they deal with.
One of those things that simply make my life so much easier and better! Simply a must:) For more on IT that I think is really practical and useful, click here.
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Oh its at least a couple of years away (mildly put) from becoming mainstream, but the video after the jump gives a surprisingly detailed and thought-out idea of an efficient (again, mildly put) work environment and indisputably shows how technology can be an architect’s best friend. And an engineer’s, designers, you name it!
Hod do I know this? I just do…for I have been to the mountaintop:
On a lighter side, let’s look at it from a different, albeit still important perspective. A mirror of the not-so-distant future, if you willl…
Do you wanna be the I-have-a-serious-long-term-relationship-with-my-desktop-computer,-my-mouse-is-bigger-than-my-erect-penis-and-my-idea-of-exercise-is-opening-a-new-jar-of-mayonnaise bald fat fuck:
Or do you want to be the I’m-actually-psycho-but-still-take-care-of-myself-because-I-predominantly-do-my-work-standing-or-at-least-move-my-arms-and-upper-body-a-whole-lot wholesome, good looking guy like Tom Cruise:
I crossed the line with ‘wholesome’, but the question was rhetorical…or was it?
Further information on building Information modeling (BIM), especially the last paragraph of ‘BIM in the USA’.
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A small tribute to Diigo. Actually, a BIG-ASS one!!! The only downside is that I haven’t been using this since my first contact with the world wide web. Brings together the best of del.icio.us, social networking, Clipmarks, The Awesome Highlighter, etc, and is simply the best social bookmarking research tool I’ve come across.
One day’s usage and it’s become simply irreplaceable in my book. Hiiiighly recommended:)
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A small tribute to contemporary interior (and exterior) design (or Gizmodo:P)
Link: Click | Click | Click | Click | Click
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[IT] 15 best downloads of the year
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140721-page,3-c,utilities/article.html
[IT] ISO, the international organisation for standardisation take it up the ass from Microsoft
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/04/01/iso-irrelevance/
[IT] Windows XP 100 tips/tricks
http://www.scribd.com/doc/191328/Windows-Xp-100-Tips-Tricks
[Future] Tooth regeneration may replace drill and fill
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2008/04/tooth_regeneration
[Man-made] Potenco’s pull-cord power generator (I’d really want to have it integrated into my phone:))
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/video-the-lates.html
[Man-made] Clever WWF posters from around the world
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/03/wwf-posters-around-the-world.php
[Psychology] Suicide clubs lure 20 thousand Russian teenagers
http://english.pravda.ru/russia/history/104728-suicide_clubs-0
[Psychology] Good sexual intercourse lasts minutes not hours, therapists say
http://live.psu.edu/story/29833
[Psychology] Bruce Lee’s kinda deep thoughts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USlnfTGlhXc&feature=related
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1943 guide to hiring women (yeah, we’ve definitely come a long way with our coloured toothpastes and hydrogen bombs;))
http://i28.tinypic.com/2ih75hg.jpg
Sending too many sms messages means you have a mental disorder (can’t argue there!)
http://gizmodo.com/374175/sending-too-many-sms-messages-means-you-have-a-mental-disorder
Robin Williams to the rescue during technical difficulties on TED (this man is a comedy God)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7325278.stm
Another down-to-earth beer add
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35049/She-told-me-we-couldnt-afford-beer-anymore
Here’s what you get when you mix the soundtrack from Grease & Snoop Dogg (you better shape up, cos I need a man…Snoppe Daaawg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paEXCwUobhA&feature=related
Top 10 Jackie Chan stunts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI1AwZN4ZYg
I’m f…ing Obama (everybodys’ gettin’ their freak on)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skIlZflDs9Y
Another Tom Cruise scientology spoof (the guy really nails it down)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpoWoZnm4Bw&eurl=http://newteevee.com/2008/03/26/tom-cruise-spoofed-by-superhero-movie/
Wanna cry?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/91/It-seems-this-essay-was-written-while-the-guy-was-high-hilarious-#
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A small tribute to the coming days:)
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[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
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* 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
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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
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[IT] Yet another Web 2.0 app
http://www.backpackit.com/
[IT] VLC player vulnerable to remote hijack
http://torrentfreak.com/vlc-player-vulnerable-remote-hijack-080318/
[IT] How Yahoo lost its way
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8592114?nclick_check=1
[Nature] Overeater’s brain
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=631815221630122542&q=overeaters+brain&total=2&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
[Politics] Biohacking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biohacking
[Politics] Female circumcision
[Man-made] The lightbulb of the future
http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13568_22-192842.html
[Psychology] Faces of meth
http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/DrugIssue/MethResources/faces/index.html
[Psychology] TED Talks – Jill Bolte Taylor – My stroke of insight
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229
[Psychology] [Sociology] Cultural background reflected in seemingly unconscious actions
http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/03/cultural_background_reflected.php
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clothes of the future
http://www.doubleviking.com/videos/page0.html/8449.html
the 25 most disturbing sex toys
http://www.cracked.com/article_16032_25-most-disturbing-sex-toys.html
shockwave traffic jam recreated for the first time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suugn-p5C1M&eurl=http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=my
Frank Caliendo – Bush & Yoda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfOgoZz1mac&feature=related
100 funniest Web 20. words to say
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9112919597749004598&q=blummy&total=8&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=4
Yeah Right (skateboarding movie)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2137906947732406108
the most amazing impression of all time (for those who are familiar with Eddie Murphy’s comedic routines…WARNING – truly painfull to watch!!!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_IfBEcyNQA&feature=related
video of quadroped robot
http://gizmodo.com/368651/new-video-of-bigdog-quadruped-robot-is-so-stunning-its-spooky
cocaine cowboys (documentary)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7960550700465197754
mildly sleazy uses of facebook
http://xkcd.com/300/
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A small tribute to Paul Scofield (1922-2008), a truly brilliant actor who’s award-winning performance in “A man for all seasons” was so mesmerizing people said he could have done just that movie and still be remembered as a marvel worth every praise and respect…
R.I.P.
I hiiiiiighly recommend the movie, if you can find it:)
