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

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• [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

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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

• [Nano] Faster, Cheaper DNA Sequencing
• [Future] ‘Pre-crime’ detector shows promise (Minority Report, take two!)
• [Nature] An Arctic Sea “Foaming” with Methane: What Now? (the most disturbing thing I’ve read in a while!!! More here)
• [Man-made] Scientists Develop Plastic-Producing Bacteria
• [Astronomy] TED Talks – Peter Diamandis: Taking the next giant leap in space
• [Psychology] [Politics] Massively-Multiplayer Decepticon (yeah, and elephants can fly in mid-air air:P)

ENTERTAINMENT

• The Evolution of Mobile Phones 1985 – Today
• Record-Breaking Tower Tilts More Than Pisa
• Test your color IQ (I got an 8 out of a 100)
• The mating habits of the water shrew
• Rubik’s Mirror Blocks: The Cube Taken To New Dimensions of Trickiness
• The Great Dog Escape (you’ve gotta see it to believe it…and turn off the annoying music:P)

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A small tribute to Google. As much as they’ve been receiving some bad PR lately, they’re my personal choice of email, calendar, news aggregator, homepage, freeware 3D modeling, and I better stop before I sound like a really bad salesperson!

Also, they’ve

• recently celebrated their 10′th birthday
• unveiled the open-source mobile OS Android, which will hopefully be a match to the iPhone’s V.I.P.-ish politics!!!
• launched Google Moderator, Project 10^100, an energy modeling plug-in for SketchUp, and are constantly improving and inventing
• begun lobbying to open up unused broadcast spectrum, which we’ll probably hear more of in the near future
• seriously started considering of deploying their supercomputers out to sea or finding alternatives to lower their costs
• and are pretty much in-our-face whenever we use the net. Free of charge!

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

USEFUL STUFF

• [Eco] Chicken Manure to power 90,000 Homes in the Netherlands!
• [Future] Automated Construction System To Change Face of Home-Building (mental note: it’s fun to be right:P)
• [Nature] [Astronomy] Bill Stone: Journey to the center of the Earth … and beyond! (from caves to cosmos or how this man’s favorite color is definitely black!)
• [Economy] [Politics] When the wind doesn’t blow (ups and downs of wind power)
• [Man-made] [Nature] Top 10 Amazing Physics Videos (physics galore…really fun stuff:))
• [Psychology] Banned Self Hypnosis Video (had to repeat it to get it and just ‘let go’…surprising and impressive)

ENTERTAINMENT

• The Faces Behind The Simpsons
• Gait may be associated with orgasmic ability (forget make-up, ladies! Learn to, khm, walk properly:))
• Rare banned Bush speech
• Insane Stretchable Skin Man
• 70 Amazing Houses from Around the World (great stuff with a lot of effort put into it)
• Racism in the Elevator

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to relevant issues (2) and quality journalism (2).

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

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] ‘Shake-up’ for internet proposed
• [IT] Google Faces Off With Compete, Alexa, Comscore, Quantcast (And Soon Firefox) (dunno about you but I’m kinda starting to feel the dark side here, and Google’s new, khm, innocent-looking little ‘g’ favicon is starting to look and feel more and more like a silly front for the master of world domination of online information that is , khm, well “G”oogle)
• [Eco] Greenhouse Gases: Where Do They Come From? (it’s just one picture, but I just couldn’t take my eyes off of it…)
• [Economy] Important info about energy saver light bulbs! (or the stupidity/cunningness of a newly passed energy bill in the USA…when China’s got you by the balls you can’t just say “I’m sorry”, can you now)
• [Sociology] [Psychology] The Top 10 TED Talks
• [Man-made] [Psychology] “It’ll never work!” (a list of some of humanity’s biggest invetions and a bigger and in some cases, surprising list of non-believers who were apparently full of sh*t)

ENTERTAINMENT

• The 5 Creepiest Advertising Techniques of the (Near) Future (these guys are usually a laughing riot, but why I put this in the “fun” section is honestly beyond me!!!)
• Shaq Uses Freestyle Rap To Rip On Kobe For Losing NBA Finals (these two idiots should get married already)
• Schwarzenegger vs. Stallone ( this is some heavy sh*t…I’m dead serious!:) )
  
• What is obscene these days? (or how it’s OK to watch porn with midgets peeing on each other while stroking a donkey, but if they light a joint, well that’s (still) a no-no)
• Ten Million Pixel Comcast Display Wows Viewers With Un-throttled Ultra HD Video
• Realistic Hollywood Sex Scene

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
:”’(

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George Denis Patrick Carlin ( May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008 )

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The following is compiled from different people who could put in writing what I felt on that sad Monday morning much better that I could:

The world is just a little less intelligent this morning. The biggest spokesperson for common sense, the person who taught me the real value of truth, far beyond what my parents taught me, has passed away.
Mr. Carlin was the screaming voice telling me to question authority, informing me that everyone is full of shit and to not trust anyone, cause we can’t even trust ourselves.Thank you George, for all these years of making me think and laugh at the same time.
I guess all that I can say now is, “Adios, Motherfucker.”

Your death was untimely, and would still be untimely even if you would live to be 142, on life-support, in a vegetative state and with a limp dick. I never even realized it up until now, but you were one of the few living heroes I had. And now you’re gone. You’re still my hero, tho! Fuck Joe Pesci, I’m praying to George Carlin!!

…will try and skip Sundays;)

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

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] The Story Behind Google’s New Favicon
• [IT] Overview of Firefox 3
• [Future] Cisco Experimenting with an On-Stage Telepresence Experience (that I haven’t heard of this before is almost as mindboggling as the technology itself)
• [Economy] [Nature] Why bananas are a parable for our times (via Nina. You will be missed dearly ’till September!)
• [Man-made] [Nature] TED Talks – Mark Bittman: What’s wrong with what we eat (easily in my “Top 10″ TED Talks list)
• [Psychology] Humans can ‘see’ future (thought-provoking)

ENTERTAINMENT

• MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU (one word…RESTECPA!)
• Just cool pictures
• High times for medicinal marijuana
• Moog Unveils Badass Guitar with Infinite Sustain
• Building America’s Most Extreme New Roller Coaster
• What Happens When You Go Number 2 in Space? (if you’re on the romantic side, you might wanna skip this one)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
It’s exam time and most of us are in a rush. Lousy weather here in Ljubljana comes mighty handy for a change! I’ve been busy as fuck these last couple of days and most of my friends feel it too:-/…sorry guys, will make it up to you!

A small tribute to spending these exam days as wisely and productively as possible!

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

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] 2012: The Year The Internet Ends (a MUST-READ if you’re reading this!..it’s got so many Diggs it’s gotta be dug
• [Eco] Hydrogen Cars Won’t Make a Difference for 40 Years
• [Future] Built for Speed: Printing Buildings (love it when my phantasmagorias start springing to life, through me or somebody else…if I had enough cash laying around, this would be in my “top 5 investments” list 4 sure!!!…mark my words, this is the future!)
• [Future] Long-Promised, Voice Commands Are Finally Going Mainstream
• [Politics] TED Talks – Paul Collier: 4 ways to improve the lives of the “bottom billion” (not your typical moral lecture, this guy actually has experience galore and solid proposals)
• [Man-made] [Nature] Clive Thompson on How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth’s Ecology (sounds like bs, but is in fact quite the eye-opener)

ENTERTAINMENT

• Denmark hosts first “Masturbate-a-thon”
• Deluxe Apartments In The Sky
• Obscene Losses in the porn industry
• How Do They Do That? Nine Mind Blowing Flash Animations (yeah, some are old, most are annoying, but damn that no.8 is hella cool;)
• Modelogues (kind of like a taxi driver who crashes into a tree because he doesn’t know how to drive his fancy car…but I’d still tip the fucker:P)
• JCJC

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to this year’s summer movie blockbusters…let’s just hope they all don’t suck major donkey hairy ‘Bolls’ like “Indi 4: Klingon’s gonna piss in your skull”…(hmm, I should probably copyright this, before Lucas gets any more “bright” ideas)

Link: Click | Click

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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] 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

ENTERTAINMENT
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/

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
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:)