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)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Mash-up makers move into the mainstream (Mashup – the philosophy of mixing the best of (at least) two worlds!…Ubiquity anyone?)
• [IT] Google Launches Audio Indexing (like effing finally! It’s still got a long way to go, tho)
• [Future] Can PRT, or Podcars, Replace the Automobile? (perhaps a Minority Report-ish trend coming our way)
• [Economy] A Conversation with Yvon Chouinard (this guy sure knows how to treat his employees)
• [Man-made] Getting Electricity From Outer Space
• [Psychology] Software spots the spin in political speeches (or how we all better learn to be truthful)

ENTERTAINMENT

• The Grinch: Human Slingshot For Snow and Surfboarding (W…T…F…)
• Zoom into Concrete (also zoom into other materials)
• In a Tangle of Young Lips, a New Sex Rebellion is Brewing in Chile
• Mini Rooftop NYC + HWKN (looks like a blast on a Friday night)
• The short – but eventful – life of Ike (hey, if it’s nature fucking with us it’s entertainment!)
• Drum and bass (as one comment says: buy this guy some drums!)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE

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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(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

• [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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(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] Enable Chrome’s Best Features in Firefox
• [Eco] Bike-Sharing Goes Global: 5 Programs You Should Know About
• [Economy] Negative Momentum: Newspaper Ad Revenues Gaining Downhill Speed (Even Online Is Declining)
• [Man-made] Spore (it’s finally out & I hope it lives-up to the hype it’s created in the last two years!)
• [Psychology] Stop Rationalizing and Make Hard Decisions: Learning from Dr. King (short and to the point)
• [Sociology] [Psychology] Why Young Men Delay Adulthood to Stay in “Guyland”

ENTERTAINMENT

• Microsoft Patents Page Up and Page Down
• Scientists get death threats from idiots over possible apocalypse
• Elephant cured of drug addiction (if this ain’t ROFL material, then I’m the Pope so help me FSM)
• Six Degrees of Separation Is Now Three
• Awww…crazy celebrities, drugs are for fridays and saturdays, weekdays it’s botox only!
• R.I.P. movie preview guy

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to conspiracy theories, big brothers, small print, corruption (yeah, this one seems more like a small-fish local matter, but it just might change a thing or two in EU’s policy on arms deals) and Eric Arthur Blair who saw through it all.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain! (Harvey Dent)*

*The best quote I could think of comes from a friggin movie I recently saw…something definitely ain’t right in this spinning dirt-ball we live on

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

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Photographs Enhance Video in Absolutely Unbelievable Ways (unbefuckinglievable!)
• [Eco] FreeGreen (or the Napster of green architecture!…and we know how that evolved!!!…a radical new business model that I think can’t be stopped)
• [Future] 10 Futuristic User Interfaces (comments & other links also worth checking)
• [Man-made] Traffic from Space Videos Blow Our Minds, Pants, and Socks
• [Psychology] Four Rules to Understand What Makes People Tick
• [Sociology] [Psychology] Top 5 Most Inspirational Videos on YouTube (already featured the first two, the other 3 are just as great. I’d also add this one;))

ENTERTAINMENT

• Watching mushrooms grow
• The Evolution of Men’s Style: 1933-2008
• Slow Motion Lightning Video is Mindblowing, Will Sell a Thousand Slo-Mo Cameras
• Awkward Rap
• Trailer – Comedian (if you digg stand-up comedy or presentation skills check the movie)
• Little Gordon

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to contemporary interior (and exterior) design (or Gizmodo:P)

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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] 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)

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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

• [Eco] Scientific breakthrough decomposes plastic bags in 3 months!
• [Eco] [Economy] Peak Everything: Eight Things We Are Running Out Of And Why
• [Future] 3 Ideas That Are Pushing the Edge of Science
• [Politics] 10 ways the Chinese Internet is different from yours
• [Economy] You Think NAFTA, CAFTA & the Economy is Bad Now? Wait… (worth seeing for the last minute alone)
• [Man-made] Beijing Capital International Airport

ENTERTAINMENT

• 100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library (WHAT!…no David Beckham autobiography??!?)
• Redneck vehicles
• The 6 Most Badass Stunts Ever Pulled in the Name of Science
• Sexy, Bold And Experimental Typography (for the hard-core designers)
• Gotcha! Hillary Clinton Rehearsing Hand Gestures! (a spot-on, in-a-nutshell Hillary Clinton)
• Don’s guns (cos renting a gun to kill that annoying angry neighbor shouldn’t be against the law!)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to people who don’t take themselves too seriously…;)

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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!)

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