Tuesday, February 28
The Superbrowser — Yesterday I decided to undertake an experiment. My favourite browser, Firefox, allows its users to add extensions. Currently 1148 extensions are available at Mozilla update. I decided to install 100 of the most popular extensions at the same time, trying to avoid those that duplicated others functionality.
Wednesday, February 15
It's time for car crash porn... that's right... car crashes!
P.S. I have to find out who sings this song.
Update: Juliet, Avalon
Monday, February 13
Say hello to Pleo. The robotic dinosaur, created by Furby inventor Caleb Chung, walks around on four legs, senses its surroundings, interacts with people, shows emotion, and learns from its experiences. Pleo has a whopping 8 processors, 14 motors and 38 sensors. Ugobe, Chung's company, describes the tiny dino the best: "Pleo is equipped with senses for sight, sound, and touch. He learns as he explores his environment. He will exhibit genuine reactions to sensory stimuli. Every Pleo begins life with certain tendencies but, interaction with his environment has subtle effects on his behavior. Every Pleo eventually exhibits a unique personality. Pleo is capable of expression. He can feel joy and sorrow, anger and annoyance."
Tuesday, February 7
Video Bomb
What is it:
Videobomb combines aspects of the news site digg.com and the bookmarking site del.icio.us to make a democratic playground for video. People can submit videos and vote ("bomb") their favorites onto the front page. Your favorites go to your own personal channel, that your friends can watch in players like DTV or iTunes.
What I found on it:
The Avalanches "Frontier Psychiatrist"
What I think of it:
It works, it's quick and I found a video, that I didn't even know existed, to a song I love.
P.S. Thanks Much Music, keep up the awesome job?
Friday, February 3
What I've been listen too in the past months... some good stuff :)
http://www.last.fm/user/alexjuno/
Wednesday, February 1
100 years before Photoshop, they managed to falsify pictures, with some brilliant concepts. Wecome to The Museum of Hoaxes.
Baby Adolf
The picture on the left was widely printed in newspapers throughout the 1930s. It was represented as being a snapshot of Adolf Hitler as a baby. Sometime in 1937 Mrs. Harriet Downs, of Westport, Conn., noticed the image in a magazine and recognized it as an altered baby photo of her own son, John May Warren. The original, unretouched picture is shown on the right. It is not known how the hoaxer obtained the original picture.
Whopper Hopper
Giant grasshoppers were popular subjects for tall-tale postcards, particularly in the Great Plains during the 1930s where grasshoppers were a common pest. This scene was captured by an unknown photographer near Mitchell, South Dakota. Three men struggle to subdue "the largest grasshopper in existence."
Shark Attack
The dramatic image on the top made its way around the internet in 2001. It did not depict an actual event. The shark had simply been pasted into the bottom shot of a hovering U.S. Air Force helicopter.
Touristguy
Millions of people shared this image through e-mail soon after the events of September 11, 2001. Some accompanying text explained that the photo had been recovered from a camera found in the rubble of the World Trade Center. Apparently a tourist had taken this shot moments before the first hijacked plane hit the building. But, not surprisingly, the picture was fake. Read more about it here.