Yes, Nerds can make music … all they needs is some gadgets to get rappin’. Brett Domino and his crew are brilliant. Make sure to visit his website or his YouTube channel.
Uh, all this nerdy excitement and brilliance makes me giggle like a little girl!
Just go and watch the Battle For Milkquarious. If you are not killed by laughter, the sheer brilliance of it’s cheesiness will end your life or your sanity.
Enjoy!
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The Economist is one of the best magazines you can get your news, analysis and insights from. It’s the only piece of paper I have subscribed for years – and it’s worth every cent.
They also have great website with an excellent Audio- & Video section as well as podcasts (on iTunes as pictured above).
They have been slow to go digital – but now their offerings are simply brilliant. I especially love their topical Economist Debates, which focus on subject for several days with excellent essays and comments from smart experts and readers alike. Instead of the usual idiotic dribble those debates are often of the highest quality and quite provoking.
Finally WolframAlpha has been released and I am deeply impressed by it’s genius.
Most reviewers so far have been impressed or wondering what the hype is all about. Usually Alpha gets compared to Google, which is a big mistake.
Google is a basically a search engine – Alpha is a "computational knowledge engine". It’s not meant to find pictures of your favourite celebrity pr0n or lookup an address to buy Lederhosen in your town.
Alpha is like a smart research robot, it can compare and compute numbers in all shapes, sizes and forms.
With Google you can find the population size of Germany, France and Italy – but only Alpha can compare them for you, make a nice graph and sort them accordingly.
So that tagline "computational knowledge engine" has to be taken literally and seriously. If your question is not about computing or comparing anything then don’t use Alpha.
Most of us mere mortal don’t have any such questions for Alpha, but for researchers, students, engineers, journalists and doctors Alpha will be a Godsend. Look here for many excellent examples what Alpha can do.
Alpha is pretty young, so it doesn’t have data on everything so far –and we users are new to this great tool. I am sure it will be phenomenal as Wikipedia in it’s area.
I am a huge fan of good Infographics – or Infopr0n as I call it. The great Blog "The Toilet Paper" has recently posted an excellent series of visuals about American Tax Payer’s Dollars at work. I love that this series is not just a dumb series of figures, but it also makes you think and look closer. It also reflects perfectly that it takes the money of many (taxpayers) to make a country work.
Excellent work!
Each year big and small websites try to fool their readers on 1. April. How boring and predictable. Most of these jokes are not very funny either. So save your energy and stop that stupid herd behaviour.
It’s hard to say if they are simply amazing musician or gifted comedians? More comedy should be like that: gifted and able people performing intelligent act of humor – instead of flat jokes and silly sexual innuendo.
More? Official Site
I have tested many tools and websites that promised to stream TV perfectly. I think I finally found one that works: Livestream.
It’s cross platform, small, easy on your systems resources and delivers good quality. As usual with new contenders in the field the variety of GOOD channels is a bit weak. But I am very happy with the small number of news channel – which suit me perfectly (Al-Jazera, BBC World News, CNN and C-SPAN).
Since I download all other TV shows either via iTunes or Bittorrent I only need news (as it happens) anyway. Why wait till something I like is broadcast at a certain time – I want to control my video consumption and not follow the linear programming of a TV station.
So it’s highly recommended for news junkies.
Steven Hill has created an amazing collection of movie title screens, especially old school typographic ones.
And I am loving it!
If you are interested than bring A LOT OF TIME with you to explore all the great designs.
Thanks a lot Steven!
National Geographic offers a brilliant image gallery with many amazing shots. You can even download those images as wallpapers.
Highly recommended.
I’ll admit it: I watch war porn from time to time. It fulfills me with a strange excitement and disgust at the same time. It awakes a primitive "awesomeness" within my inner Neanderthal.
But there is another aspect to this: since mainstream media is so sanitized one doesn’t see the full horror of the action in the news. Plus many soldiers post their combat footage or photos on the net – so we all get to see what they do in our name.
I think Internet War Porn is a brutal but necessary way to confront western audiences with the realities of war – or the current madness in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also is a great channel for soldiers to tell us DIRECTLY their side of the story – without any filtering Defense Departments, politicians or media experts in between.
We need the truth more than ever in the age of political spin.
Yep, I finally joined the in crowd – again. I tried Twitter in the very beginning and didn’t like it so much – because it was an "empty universe". And I am still surprised that such a minimalist tool is such an success. It doesn’t do anything new – it’s a sort of public instant messaging and group chat. So nothing your AIM, Yahoo Messanger, ICQ, Skype and MSN are not doing already – but in a bit different way.
But it once again shows that excellent small tools always find their audience. Especially when they fulfill specific needs: in this case 24/7 exhibitionism, virtual omnipresence and peeping into other peoples lifes. Some people would call another step to the ever close global village – other would call it simply the inability to be alone and "disconnected" in our networked modern life.
Anyway …
Ultraorange on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ultraorange
But you can also see the recent twitter posts above.
The Big Picture Blog is simply AWESOME. Almost every posting is a complete stunner. Like this series of pictures shot from the space shuttle.
I love paper – and I love building stuff with paper. Cubeecraft has a great selection of paper models for your pleasure. This is highly recommended for anyone working in a cubicle or having kids. It’s a lot of fun.
You simply download the pattern and print it on a A4 / letter sized piece of paper. Grab your scissors and start the fun. Each model on the site is rated for it’s complexity to build. What a great service – thanks you Cubeecraft!
More? www.cubeecraft.com
Like the Eiffel Tower the Atomium was built only to last for one short exhibition in 1958. Now it’s one of Brussels signature buildings and a true icon of the 20th century.
Can’t wait for someone to build a DNAnium …
More? Atomium @ Wikipedia and check out their cool website too Atomium.be
All our computers waste huge amounts of energy by waiting for us humans to do something. Most so called CPU cycles are wasted for waiting for you to press a mouse button or open a new webpage.
LocalCooling is a gadget for WindowsXP users to reduce their energy usage – or at least configure their computers to shut down unused parts or completely. Hey, you can even calculate how many trees you have saved – and there is even a top ten list for your and your buddies to participate in a global energy saving contest.
Let’s all say it: awesome!
Or is it? Overall there is nothing new in here: all energy settings can be found in the aptly named Energy control panel. So it’s only a good remix of already existing.
So if you really want to save some energy, than open your Energy control panel and tell your machine to shutdown the monitor and hard drive after a few minutes idle time … and don’t download that LocalCooling application and don’t waste any more energy thinking about it.
What we REALLY need are computer components that act more energy conscious and use a lot less electricity. Intels newest mobile Core2 processors only know two speed settings: half and full speed. There should be more settings.
If this propaganda website from NATO is any indicator for the current state of affair for the North Atlantic Alliance than it is bad … very bad.
The website feels so 1999 and really stinks. Who made this? The 14 year old son of a Polish General? Sorry, I am so incredibly underwhelmed by this …
Watch for yourself: natochannel.tv
UN Data is one of these websites that look REALLY boring, but offer a HUGE amount of interesting data – at least for people who want to know more details.
These official numbers are certainly not perfect – I am pretty sure some governments feed the UN crappy data. But at least it’s a global repository for important facts about our planet, the current state of human affairs and our societies.
MSNBC has a nice feature highlighting the “debate” Paper vs Plastic. Pretty idiotic: let’s get rid of these stupid plastic bags. Paper is the way to go – or simply use a reusable bag made out of cotton …
Stage6.com has been killed. It was the best video site so far, because it over high-quality viewing (based on the great DIVX codec) and – let’s be honest – tons of excellent pirated stuff.
What attracted me was the fore mentioned quality and many great user groups full with documentaries and arty stuff. It’s all gone now. So I have to do some housekeeping and delete the video links on my blog as well.
Goodbye Stage6 – you will be missed.
PS: I am pretty sure all that stuff will come back on another site.
Shitsenders does exactly what the name says. They collect some nice poo, package it and send it to a friend of yours. You can choose between a variety of dung (cow, elephant or gorilla) – depending on your level of friendship and depth of message you want to send.
The price? About 20 to 30 US Dollars. The effect on the receiving end? Priceless …
*I will not mention your name – but thanks for sending in that shit*
You know that you hard drive will die some day and all the data on it will be lost. Maybe you loose your data by mistake, a system crash or virus? But day X is coming and you should be prepared!
This is a LONG rant – so skip this if you are not interested.
Do you like science? Do you like interesting experiments? Cool! Than go and visit Robert Krampf – who has a magnificent website up with many videos. Highly recommended for small and big science nerds …
A Day In The Life of Miss McDonald – just brilliant surreal consumerism combined with a dadaist performance!
This is one amazing collection of images. Bring a lot of time and dive into this incredible gallery.
Mister Leping Zha you are a genius!!!
Do you suck at organizing yourself and completing tasks? Here is a very simple tool to give you some easy to use goal tracking: Joe’s Goals. You can even share specific goals with friends or family – so you loved ones know how much you suck or succeeded in getting rid of some of your bad habits.
Pimp my FireFox! I love this hilarious skin for my favorite browser. Make sure to also visit it’s official website www.pimpzilla.nl.
Scott Johnson has created this great series of the 56 Geek types. it’s just brilliant and such a homage on modern day geeky lifestyle.
So here are all 56 geeks – check out which subculture you belong too – I have listed mine above (as much as I can find myself in there).
What is seriously missing is: porn geek, websurf geek, google geek, notebook geek, blog geek, art geek, green geek, nature geek and office geek.
Forget about buying stupid plastic robots to make your kids happy. All you need is this website, some paper and a printer. Paper Robots has a great selection of robots and plans to make them yourself.
I think this qualifies for a nerdy: Awesome!
Today we celebrate Santa Claus in Germany. Are your ready for some Xmas trash and share the happy feelings?
Yes?!
Then download this movie here. Either you’ll laugh a lot or you’ll cry all night …
I find most fashion and advertising photography pretty boring, predictable and soulless.
But in the case of Maestro Thierry le Gouès it’s different. Sure he does all the stylish shots in the right poses with all these hot models. But he has that extra special bit soul and excitement left.
His work ranges from spiritual fashion porn to almost graphical erotica (like the above pictures Soul series).
A photofest to celebrate all our women’s yoni (Wikipedia as usual):
The word yoni is the Sanskrit word for the ‘female reproductive organ’. Translated directly into English, it could mean vulva or vagina. It also has a wider meaning in religious and spiritual contexts, where its meaning is ‘creativity’. The yoni is also considered to be symbolic of Shakti or other goddesses of a similar nature.
Yoni is perhaps the most misused and misunderstood word from the ancient Indo-Aryanic language, Sanskrit. The word yoni was originally used more often in a spiritual sense rather than as a term to describe female genitalia.
How about some Yoni worshipping?
I am in paradise! The good people at covers.fwis.com offer a huge collection of book covers. An excellent resource for designers and people looking for eye candy.
What a great gift! Queen gives you a free song – and wants you to donate some money to fight AIDS. Now that’s what I call a great deal!
From the official website:
It has not been that closely a guarded secret that Queen and Paul Rodgers have been in the recording studio for their first sessions together following their successful world tour of 2005/2006. Indeed, both Paul and Brian have been quoted on their websites as being "quietly excited" about the music that has been produced from this creative union.
Spurred on by their commitments as Ambassadors to Nelson Mandela’s 46664 HIV AIDS global campaign, on which the spotlight will fall December 1 with a World Aids Day awareness and fundraising concert in Johannesburg, South Africa, Brian, Roger and Paul have announced they have rushed to finish a track specially written for 46664 by Roger and have it available as a free download in time for this coming Saturday’s benefit concert.
The track, Roger’s "Say It’s Not True", originally came to light for the launch of the 46664 campaign back in November 2003. Roger wrote the song as a gift to Nelson Mandela (or ‘Madiba’, as he is fondly known), and performed it live for him for the first time with Brian and Dave Stewart at the inaugural 46664 concert in Cape Town that month. The song carries the message that HIV AIDS is something that can affect any one of us.
I like the song. But I also like the whole idea.
Thanks to Zichi for sending me this link.
Ragnar has a sharp eye for amazing moments! Visit his fascinating gallery for a shot trip to some harsher places and of our globe like the Faeroe Island or Siberia. Wow!
Today it’s easy to find some erotic or pornographic photography on the net. Almost all photographers have some ‘hot shots’ in their collections. Bob Carlos Clarke also has a wide range of topics, but his erotic shots are often spiced up with dark humor and even criticism. Go watch his breath taking slide show here – and judge for yourself. Too bad this great master is already dead.
Whoever Gubin is he made of Jade – whoever she is – some pretty sensual shots. Although pmates.com is a pretty sleazy site, but sometimes some great and artistic shots can be found. A good way to get my heart started in the morning …
All a guy needs: some gold, a fast transport system, a shelter and a hot bride at his side. Once again the great Dita van Teese in an exciting pixelation of an old theme. Too bad I dunno the photographer behind this great shot!
Official Site: DitasDomain.org
