I've been slow in posting up links to things I've found interesting, so as a result, I'm going to have to Bogart some links. The primary reason for this is that I've actually been busy with things that aren't computer related, and so when I've been at or near the internet, I've only looked at things without trying to add to the cacophony that is the interwebs.
Today, however, I will try and dish up some linkage.
Vinni Puh
You know that I normally, gladly, embed every YouTube link I can. The idea being that it allows me to have you watch something without the risk of you leaving my blog and never coming back. I've got some anxiety issues, as you can see. However, I have a few 'Tube links, and if I were to embed everything, it would take a while to scroll through them.
Here we have Vinni Puh. It is Soviet Russia's version of Winnie the Pooh, circa 1971. This is something that Russian kids grew up with, and it's very funny to me. It's funny not only because it's a very different take on the Winnie the Pooh story, but also because at the time these were made, Americans were being given the impression that the Russkies were brainwashing their children to fight and spy and that they had no souls or emotion.
I will embed Chapter 2, wherein Vinni Puh visits Rabbit and gets stuck in his whole. It's the only one I've found with subtitles so you can see what the text is like. For the most part, it's fairly accurate to the original books by A. A. Milne. The other 3 chapters are there for your watching as well, though, they are not sub'd, so good luck figuring out what's happening.
Chapter 2
Chapter 1 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4
Postcards from the future!
The blog Paleo-Future features things which used to be visions of a future that just never happened. A good case in point would be a series of postcards that were found, circa 1900, that depict the year 2000. It's interesting to look back and see what those morons at the beginning of the 20th century actually thought would happen. They're dumb because they're in the past and all of them died a long time ago.
Wireless EVERYTHING!!!
I was happy when I first picked up a wireless keyboard and mouse combo, it was, I though, the first a series of steps to make everything wireless. Of course, if you seen pictures of my desk now, you'll see I don't make much use of wireless products. I have a wireless router for my laptop, but my desktop is still dutifully tethered to the router. I find that, for the most part, wireless stuff just doesn't work as well as wired, but, that's changing bit by bit.
Now, moving another step closer to my idea of a happy reality, they have developed a more stable, solid, wireless power supply. The article at nature.com talks about and even shows a picture of a thing sheet of plastic that powers a light bulb, which is underwater in a fish bowl.
They are saying that it will be a while before we see these products hit the market, but, it's pretty intriguing none-the-less. I think the last time I saw 'wireless power transfer' it was a case the size of a small cabinet that was likely to give you cancer. This is a good step.
Webcams...
Apparently, people don't like the fact that webcams generally seem to stick out of your workspace like a sore thumb. They make them smaller and smaller, and in some cases, nearly hide them altogether, but still, the eye is there, watching you.
Apparently, OhGizmo.com found the "Bubble Head WebCam", which they think solves this problem.
I will leave the editorial to you.... but, feel free to take a look, and decide for yourself if this solves the problem of webcams that stick out too much in your workspace.
I will say they're cute... I want a Super-Man one.
The Best Page in the Universe
Maddox on Stock Photos. Many are points I've been noticing a lot more lately... especially the whole Norton thing...
Mini-DNA Replicator?
I'm not really all that sure what they are saying this thing does for sure, except that it will cost me about $10 to make, I can make it, runs on 2 "AA" batteries, and somewhere in all that mumbo jumbo is the word DNA.
Ask a Mexican!
The first two paragraphs of this Reuters article are hilarious, after that I stopped reading, but I'm sure it's good too...
What it's like to work at Google... in pictures.
This article on PhotoPumpkin.com shows, in photos, why my life sucks ass. I'm sure it shows that your life sucks ass too.
Buy a slice of π(pi)
Pi, 3.14159265358979etc..... is great, but one guy thought, "How can I make money using Pi?" Most scientists use Pi to get grants for things... it's a big number, it's scary, people give money for numbers that are big, at least that's my understanding. This guy, however, though that maybe people would like to buy a digit of Pi.
By my calculations, he's already made over $400 by selling each digit at the face value of said digit. As of right now, you can by '5' for $5.
Wish I'd thought of that.
Excuse me, is this a work of art?
"Excuse me, is this a work of art?" is an intervention in contemporary art museums. The project is a commentary about the confusion and sometimes the absurdity of conceptual art. The first stage of the project was made at the MoMA in New York in April 2007.
Spider Car?
Wish it was a little more spider like, but it's still pretty cool. Of course, if anyone ever questions my crackpot schemes again, I'll point out this guy and his $15,000 budget.
That's it for today...
You've reached the end of the internet.
No... wait, there's one more thing, you must visit the "Official Website of America"
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