Monday, January 31, 2011

Nautilus House

More pics...

Joss Stone respects file sharing

Nice way of looking at it, if only more artists did so.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

The difference between F1 and GT3

Race lap time:
F1 - 1:49
GT3 - 2:23
F1 make Gt3 looks like a girl sport

Friday, January 28, 2011

Scissor Lift DUI

Apparently it is fake, still funny though :)

A few more Steve videos.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Egyptian Riot Compilation

These are some powerful images, much respect for these people protesting while facing such a repressive regime.

Also read this post about a journalist and many others being apprehended, brutally beaten up and tortured.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Watch it Shred: The Monster

Actual shredding starts at 1:00

More videos.

I shouldn't have to deal with this shit

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Footbal ninjas

Thursday, January 20, 2011

It. Is. Glorious!

Not my invention btw! Just found it on the interwebz. Cannot use blogger-upload because of my little misunderstanding with google-checkout. Sorry Annom... But this one just couldn't wait!

Ben Goldacre on the placebo and nocebo effect

Placebo and nocebo @ wiki.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Planet Utrecht

Dekus' post reminded me of something I did with this panorama a long time ago. I wasn't satisfied with the result, but will post it anyway since it is Rainbow city! Too bad there is no rainbow in the picture...

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Steve Hughes Standup

Also has a nice bit on the gayness of being straight.

Über panorama

Monday, January 17, 2011

Jim Jeffries on heaven and hell

Quite an extreme and angry atheist, but fucking funny too.

A cure for hipsters

Loyalty

"A dog, "Leao", sits for a second consecutive day, next to the grave of her owner, Cristina Maria Cesario Santana, who died in the week's catastrophic landslides in Brazil, at the cemetery in Teresopolis, near Rio de Janiero, on Jan. 15. Brazilians braced for more rain Saturday, fearing further landslides after walls of muddy water tore through towns and claimed some 550 lives in the country's worst flood disaster on record."

Saturday, January 15, 2011

The Scrollwheel

Relevant Reddit thread.

Friday, January 14, 2011

IBM super computer Watson beats Jeopardy players

This is quite a big step. Watson understand natural language questions and uses a range of algorithms to give sensible answers. Not to long from now Watson will be the world champion. More @ Engadget

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Awesome LED Cube

Too bad it's only a DIY project and not for sale.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Super PSTW Action RPG

The game is worth playing if only for the epic dramatic reading of a comment review here.

ALL HAIL THE DARK LORD INGLIP!

To get you up to speed:
Click here for a summery
He rests on the 8th day and there will be a festive day as well!

Monday, January 10, 2011

Epic Prank?

Water samples taken by government officials now conclusively reveal that the culprit of the water's unusual colour was fluorescein, a tracing product used primarily to uncover rainwater leads in environmental simulations and diagnose numerous medical conditions. Thankfully the chemical is non-toxic.

[...]

The Daily Brew reports that, according to Langford Mayor Stew Young, only a small amount of the chemical is necessary to change the colour of a river. "It's a non-polluting chemical that's really bright green. It's probably some idiots with a bit of knowledge," he said.

More...
Totally beats our idea of throwing milk powder in the Vollenhove lake.

Every year a similar substance is legitimately used to color the Chicago River green for Saint Patrick's day. The first time they used 100lbs of chemical and turned the river green for a week. Now they use 40 lbs of a different and more benign chemical and the river only stays green for half a day. Read the whole story here.

a World of Snow

Sunday, January 09, 2011

NASA's silly sci-fi film list - 2012 the most flawed

"At a conference held at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, NASA experts have voted 2012 the most scientifically flawed and absurd science fiction film ever made.
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NASA’s Donald Yeomans, who headed the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission, called the film an "exceptional and extraordinary" example of bad science in Hollywood movies. He pointed out that neutrino particles cannot interact with physical substances, and there is no possible way neutrinos carried to Earth by solar flares as depicted could cook the planet’s core and cause hurricanes or earthquakes or produce tsunamis big enough to overwhelm Mount Everest as shown in the film."

Saturday, January 08, 2011

Tank Catapult

The Anti-Social Network

Friday, January 07, 2011

Rechtse Hobby

Had to kill some time in Rotterdam due to yet another railway disruption, this caught my attention,

Design cigaret

Design from bureau Ernest Perera
This cigarette i want to cary always with me, for when a nice girls ask for a cigarette (so i can cough in here face)

Thursday, January 06, 2011

Carnegie Mellon about how games will influence the future

How games will influence the future. The start is boring old stuff. After 20 min he got some nice thoughts.

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

www.crisis.nl

So we have a chemical fire in Moerdijk and actually "need" the national emergency website. It's down.

For fuck's sake.... n00bs.

Alien Autopsy!

Seeing Things

"But you gotta stop and think about it … to really get the pleasure about the complexity; the inconceivable nature of nature." – Richard Feynman

Monday, January 03, 2011

List of Companies by Revenue

#201 - Ahold.

Almost #4 mr Wiggles :)
21 retailers are larger than Ahold.
Wal-Mart has 2 million employees, Ahold 200 thousand.

ING the largest financial fucktards in the world.

Sunday, January 02, 2011

Best sports interview ever

Brendan Venter has been warned not to repeat his bizarre post-match television interview based on the comedy sketch in the film Mike Bassett: England Manager.

Saturday, January 01, 2011

The Music Scene

One of the most intensely psychedelic videos I've seen.

Official music video for Blockhead's 'The Music Scene' animated by Anthony Francisco Schepperd.