Give Me A Job!!!!!!!!!!

Weezer On YouTube

Palandromic Evolution

Robot Conducts Human Orchestra

This is the Honda ASIMO robot tha everyone is all excited about because of its human-like physical capabilities (Granted it could probably crush a rock into sand). It conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for a kids music fund.

The only irony I find in this is that it's a Honda robot conducting in Detroit. Hmm.......

Cookie Monster vs. The InterWeb

Books OnDemand

Say hello to my little friend. His name is the Espresso Book Machine (EBM) and he's here to make a book for you. Talk about quality with quantity. All you have to do is upload your latest novel (graphic ones too if you choose so) into the program and boom, you'll have a library-quality book to give to your mother. Tell her to send her thank you card to OnDemandBooks.

The EBM lays out, prints, slices, dices, binds, folds, and finishes a book on the spot. Watch the video to learn more.

Real Tech, Faux Turn Table

From across the pond, our buddy Scott Hobbs and the ATTIGO TT have integrated the touch screen into a DJ/mixing set up. The visuals are cool, the interface appears to be easy to use, and mixing is based on sensors. Here's a video that helps to demonstrate it's potential:

Final Product // ATTIGO TT from Scott Hobbs on Vimeo.

My problem with this stuff is that it's cool, it's mixing things that I love (tech and music). However, aren't you getting away from the art of the scratch DJ? If you got skills, you can just get a cut that has the same beats you would find on an mp3 file. You just look cooler too when you use tables.

People have their preferences on how they execute their art, so I can't knock this, but I just don't want to see the demise of an art because of technology.

And Then There Was This Thing In The Sky....

http://view.break.com/505142 - Watch more free videos

This clip is from a speech by chess champion Gary Kasparov. I guess the guy who flew it got his point across.

Where Creative Meets Truth

Defying Gravity: Li Wei

Check out more of Li Wei's art. No lie, it's some of the most orginal work I've seen in a minute.

Mark Pesce On Twitter

Not A Foul

Optimus Primed With Junk

All you need is a little over $4K and boom, instant collectors item. Or massive pile of trash. Just make sure to wash all of the dump-goo off. Here's what else the guy did.

I Drive A Volvo

Stress-Relieving Flash Game

It's amazing, serene, and cures anxiety by collecting shapes whilst listening to classical piano. Not a bad way to go about it.

It's better than drinking.

What Happens After You Click A Link

So this is called reflow. It's the process by which your computer interprets and displays information from your internet browser. It's kind of like watching a 56k modem load a page from the 90s. Those were the days. Static, beeps, and bloops like your own R2-D2.

And I'm done with my dork for the day.

Oh, So That's How You Make A Logo

From a couple of guys down in Argentina, they break down a logo into its components, use math, and boom, internationally known brand image. Even writers can do it. With a calculator that is. Here are more.

Best Buy or Soul Train?

He Came, He Saw, He Danced

This Is War

A Rose For Lucy

Kick Ass Like Mark Twain

Or Samuel Clement. Whichever you prefer. Here are nine ways to kick ass like Mark Twain. Take that Chuck Norris and Jack from 24.

Thanks to positivityblog.com.

Meet Spectra: Your New Newspaper

This is MSNBC's new news reader. User-friendly, decent load rate, and nice color choice. Perhaps we'll see it on e-paper one day. Go here to get your news feed from a non-static reading platform. I like it.

Sea Dragon, Meet Your PhotoSynth

So this is a synthesis of Microsoft Sea Dragon and Photosynth. It combines technologies and makes the limits, simply put, disappear when it comes to image creation. Honestly, the only way to explain it is to watch the video



To further explain this, here is Photosynth.

Get acquainted with this stuff. We'll be using it some time soon.

No Means No Unless It Means Maybe

How to tell if a woman wants to have sex with you.

For many men, it is very hard to tell when a woman wants to have sex. It is in a man's best interest to know when a woman wants to have sex, so that they don’t look foolish and/or get tasered.

So here is how you can tell when a woman wants to have sex with you:

She says, “I want to have sex with you.”
This is the surest and easiest way to find out. It also usually means that if she’s giving in this easy, it is because no one else will have sex with her or she wants to make babies. Before you engage in the act of love with Lazy Eye Susan or Tranny Janice, put on a condom and check to make she is not sleepwalking.

Click here for more signs.

Tell Ma' To Internet Us Some Mason Jars

Whiskey Geeks Keep Moonshine Tradition Alive

By Renee Davidson 05.17.08 12:00 AM

Making moonshine has gone from a backwoods black art to a high-end hobby practiced by "whiskey geeks" with a taste for top-shelf hooch.

Unlike their bootlegging predecessors, who cooked up big batches of white lightning and distributed the illegal booze out of the backs of cars, today's moonshiners focus on quality rather than quantity.

Read more of the Wired.com article here.

Google.avi

Adam Neat. On Graffiti

One Day....

Let Hope Guide Us

Where Is The Banjo?

In case you're travelling, this might be helpful. Take time. Take notes. And you might want to take TP. When you're in a place you can't pronounce and you're about to break the seal, you'll thank me for this.

The Hang Drum

I saw one of these when I was in Barcelona. This guy is a little better than the street performer.

What Can You Do In Two Minutes?

Samsung made "10 Optical Illusions." Your turn.

Coming To A Window Near You

We've all seen the interactive digital billboards out today. It's pretty cool stuff. Usually it's based around a camera that senses where your at and initiates its program based on that information. Well, a scientific organization, CAVI, has developed a new type of sensor that allows part of the window to be transparent depending on the location of the viewer. They're testing it with Salling, a Danish software company. (Go Danes!)

Watch here for a more detailed explanation*:


*- This thing is still in prototype mode, hence the blue screen. If anything, it's good for a hoot.

Here's the original article.

Nice Cerebral

From here.

Daddy, When I Grow Up, I Want To Be An Android

I found this while scrolling around one of the tech blogs I keep an eye on. It's a list of current and patent-pending biotechnologies that will change every one's life. That means you who is reading this. What's crazy about it is the limb regeneration bit. It's like I, Robot meets Predator. I went there.

And I quote from technut:

"1. Self-assembling Nanofibers Heal Spinal Cord - No more quadriplegics in the future.2. Gene Sequencing for the Masses - A personal genome scan for everybody. This will make you aware of what’s going on in your body. It will probably motivate people to live healthier lives.
3. Scientists discover “master gene” for blood vessel growth in tumors - Another great step towards a cure for cancer.
4. Genetic Future: The human genome is old news. Next stop: the human proteome - After mapping our genome, we’d also like to map the proteome. This will tell us everything about all the proteines we have in our bodies.
5. Human Protein May Offer Novel Target For Blocking HIV Infection: Successful In Lab - A step towards curing HIV and Aids.
6. Human trials to begin on ‘diabetes cure’ after terminally ill mice are returned to health - Progress towards the noble goal of curing diabetes.
7. Mad Science: Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood - Rejuvenation. Need I say more? Death to aging!8. Whole genome sequencing costs continue to fall: $300 million in 2003, $1 million 2007, $60,000 now, $5000 by year end - Personal genomes are about to get cheap! It’s close… just like solar power, now that I think of it.
9. Regeneration Initiative enables nerve cells on a computer chip to heal and regrow damaged nerves - Nerve regeneration. Useful if you want to cure paralysis.
10. Researchers create heart and blood cells from reprogrammed skin cells - New cells? Sign me up, buddy! When my body starts wearing out, I want new cells so I can live on for decades longer!
11. Science 2.0 — Is Open Access Science the Future? - Will science go open source? Why not… some software is open source, and look at what it has produced: Linux, one of the most stable OS’es ever to grace the planet. Imagine the results that a worldwide science project could possibly yield.
12. Scientists successfully awaken sleeping stem cells - Good, more regeneration for me!
13. Mini Stem-Cell Labs - More stem cells… (I never get enough of’em!)
14. Gene therapy experiments improve vision in nearly blind - Curing blindness with gene therapy. And keep in mind that this is just the beginning. Don’t believe me? Check back here in 10 years to see if I was right.
15. Troops’ body parts may be regrown - Great, now I won’t have to fear losing a precious, currently irreplaceable body part anymore. I’ll sleep better knowing that my arms and legs are no longer scarce commodities."

Now I don't feel so bad about my late night face-stuffing sessions or the fact I'm going to have arthritis in both shoulders before I'm 30. Hopefully by then, I'll be able to pay with my cell phone.

Here's the link to the article.

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Why Go To The Diner?

Did Ya Hear The One...

From here.

Animation Graffiti

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Honesty Is The Best Policy

From here.

Yes

From here.

The Weight Of The World

From here.

Oldie, But A Goodie

Goooooaaaaaaalllllll!!!!

This is a new spot from 72 and Sunny for Nike. Guy Ritchie directed it and featuring some of the hottest stars today like Rooney, Wenger, Gallas, and Ronaldo.