On Her Morning Elegance

Link

The stop motion video performed entirely on the bed is awesome.

Arles, Provence

I thought I would not be blogging during vacation. But heck, thanks to technology and internet connection why one is staying, why not?

Here's Arles where I am currently at, Little Rome in Gaul.

Touch My Body - Karaoke Fail

Touch My Body (Tuts My Barreh) / Karaoke Fail (English subtitles)

Why do they even try?

French Language School Commercial

Link

One for the road... Blog again in Feb.

Blog is taking a break until early February

Road trip from Milan to Provence (France). Not blogging during this period.

On Gmapcatcher - An Offline Viewer Of Google Maps

Gmapcatcher is a Python scripts that allows you to cache Google Maps tiles in different zoom level that you can browse when your machine is offline.

It is supposed to be able to run for both Linux and Windows. I have gotten it working on my Asus Eee 900 on Linux but no such luck on Windows despite installing Python and whole lot more modules as directed by Gmapcatcher. On Linux it was just too easy (just need to install the subversion modle), as Python is already installed as a standard.

This will be perfect for a road trip, especially if you do not have a GPS enabled device and the relevant maps. You do have to do some work of loading in advance while online the areas and your desired zoom levels. This could take some time as preloading the maps are abo4 times slower with Python than on the Google Maps site. Not sure about the legality of this program, but then again this Python code is taken from Google's own code site.

I have already preloaded the maps for my next road trip and with the map data at only 64 Mb, it not too heavy too (highway maps down to level 4 and about 5 towns/cities down to level 2). Looks like I have to bring the Eee along, which is still way better than lugging a full blown notebook.

Note: Couldn't find a similar application for Nokia Phones, but Map Offline looks interesting for those of you carrying an iPhone.

Technorati Tags: google, maps, offline, linux, windows, iphone

Music Break - Coldplay - Life In Technicolor

(also available in HD)

On The Next White House Dog - American Idol Style

(via Miss Cellania)

Funny.

Obama's LinkedIn

Obama is one very well connected (internet) President.

Link(In)

On 650 Million Years Of Plate Tectonics In Just Over A Minute

null - Watch more free videos

Nice.

Obama lookalike in a Philippines Commercial

Link

He's actually from Indonesia. Also the ad is really trying to emphasize Arroyo's height (or lack of).

Air Force One - Cheddar Cheese Burger

Link

Hmmm.. Cheddar Cheese Burger.

Scraps And Morsels 20090121

• Geek eye test

• Inauguration: The White House Gets a Blog

  Very progressive.

• Best Free Documentaries: How To Make Better Decisions

  Best decision you'll ever make. :)

• Why Google Employees Quit

Why men find some women irresistable after binging

Beer glass - Mystery solved.

On Fries Covered Hot Dog

(via dlisted)

From South Korea. Somehow today I am in the mood for fried stuff.

Technorati Tags: fries, hot dog

On Chicken Fried Bacon

Chicken Fried Bacon

Yum!

Bring Your Kids To Work Day

Link

What a way to advertise for 'Bring Your Kids To Work Day'.

Matrix Cat

With a bunch of Agent Smith puppies.
Link

On Uses Of Google

That's about right.

Technorati Tags: google, uses, image

What punctuation mark are you?

You Are a Question Mark

You seek knowledge and insight in every form possible. You love learning. And while you know a lot, you don't act like a know it all. You're open to learning you're wrong. You ask a lot of questions, collect a lot of data, and always dig deep to find out more. You're naturally curious and inquisitive. You jump to ask a question when the opportunity arises. Your friends see you as interesting, insightful, and thought provoking. (But they're not always up for the intense inquisitions that you love!) You excel in: Higher education You get along best with: The Comma

What Punctuation Mark Are You?

On The Curious Case Of Forrest Gump

The Curious Case of Forrest Gump - watch more funny videos

(via Miss Cellania)

Sneaky...

On A Conversatin With Charlie Schick, Nokia

A Conversation with Charlie Schick, Nokia

Keynote:

"Cost of wireless connection needs to come down."

Scraps And Morsels 20090118

• YouTube - Going-Out-of-Business Sales Not Such a Bargain

  Sneaky.

• YouTube - The Animal Odd Couple

  A good story.

• Spreadsheets serve as weapons of mass cost destruction.

  Spreadsheet is already 30 years old. Imagine that.

• YouTube - Wobble - the iBoob application for the iphone

  And people pay for this?

• Wangcaster - Boing Boing Gadgets

  Now this is guitar to play.

On the impotence of of proofreading

He's got a punk. :)

Bush's 8 years in 8 minutes - Keith Olbermann

End of the era most wants to forget.

Cheers To You - Hooray?

Life Fail

On The Axis of Awesome 4 Chords

A huge list of 4 chords hits sung by 2 guys.

Technorati Tags: 4 chords, hits, video, list

YouTube for the Wii and Playstation

(via google blogoscoped)

YouTube site that is specifically rendered for the Playstation or the Wii. Just point your device to this url (http://www.youtube.com/tv).

I don't have a Playstation, but on the Wii it is now cleaner and easier to navigate.

Ricardo Montalban - 1975 Chrysler Cordoba Ad

RIP.

Durex's Get it On! - Commercial

Brilliant and funny.

Link

American Beauty?

Link

The Cost Of Steve Job's Health Issue

(Source: Venture Beat)

So far, it's 6 billion!

On Masterpieces of the Prado Museum in Google Earth

A semi-virtual journey through the Prado from Google Earth. Not many masterpieces (14) on display, but it's a start. Here's a video on how they did it.

Technorati tags: prado, madrid, museum, google earth, masterpieces, virtual

Edward Hopper: BBC Imagine - The Mysterious Mr Hopper

Great BBC piece on Edward Hopper.

(via Best Free Documentaries)

On Why You Don't Play iPhone's Flick Bowling in Public

On If Movie Posters Were Honest

(Source: HolyTaco)

Africa In Perspective

Deadly accurate slight shot

From The Typewriter To The Bookstore: A Publishing Story

So much work just to publish a book.

Technorati tags: book, publishing, video

Scraps And Morsels 20090113

• Gundam-condoms

  Guns ineffective?

• From 'Barry' To 'Barack': Occidental College Video Has The Story

  Barack is definitely better than Barry.

• Admittedly 'off-beat' couple gets married at Taco Bell

  Cheapskate! kidding.

• A Brief History of Breast Implants

  Natural is best, but...

Carjackers - FAIL!

Clever ruse, dumb carjackers.

Link

On Super Mario's Costume Award

Really fun to watch, especially the reference to Obama in the middle of the video.

On Jumbo 747 Hostel In Sweden's Airport

(via Wired)

The hostel will be launched on January 15th. Was surprised that the plane started it's life as a Singapore Airlines plane.

The Crusades Crescent And The Cross - Documentary

Link

A poignant reminder that the current middle east situation has a past history that is just as bloody.

THE CRUSADES: CRESCENT & THE CROSS presents the epic battle between two Middle Age superpowers: the Christian Crusaders and the Muslims. Fought over two centuries, the conflict decided the fate of the Holy Land of the Middle East. Only a tiny strip of land, just a few hundred miles long, it contained the ultimate prize, the city of Jerusalem. The documentary is driven by the key personalities of the First, Second and Third Crusades, the popes, kings, sultans and knights who, in the name of God, ruthlessly fought for land and power. Experience the murder, treachery, and bloodshed of this legendary chapter of history throuth the eyes of key historical figures such as Richard the Lionheart and Saladin, King Louis VII and Nur al-Din. With breath-taking CGI-enhanced visuals, heart-pounding reenactments, and stunning footage from rarely-seen locations THE CRUSADES: CRESCENT & THE CROSS brings the first three Crusades alive for a new generation in conflict.

Technorati tags: documentary, crusades, history, middle east, christians, muslims

On The Invention Of Ideology

Click to get the full cartoon.

New Cadillac One For Obama

 

Bottle of the president's blood in case of an emergency transfusion? Wow.

Last Kampung (rural village) in Singapore

(via lancerlord)

From International Herald Tribune. It's is a surprise for me that there is still a kumpung here in Sinapore. There's even a video.

How A Coffee Joint Give Free Wifi And Advertise At The Same Time

(via adgoodness)

Link

Just change the wifi broadcast id to your ad message daily. Solutions most often do not require high tech implementation.

Video On Living In Antartica

Shivering just by at it.

Scraps And Morsels 20090111

• Fail - Dog Training

• Small Japanese House

  With maximum space efficiency. Even a parking for the family car without any pillars blocking.

• YouTube - Ensuring the Future of Food

  A Japanese Sims-liked illustration on food production in the global environment.

• The Coolest Test Pattern Ever - Miss Cellania

  Cool video of TV Test Pattern.

On U.S. States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDP

Click for larger image.

Cell-Mate - A Dumb Mobile Handsfree Accessory?

Again not a parody but an actual product you can buy. It's basically a giant headband that attaches your mobile phone to your head. Think about the heat (and the radiation!) on your face with prolong use of the cell-mate.

If can afford the mobile phones shown in the ad, don't be a cheapskate and get a proper bluetooth handsfree accessory.

Technorati tags: cell-mate, handsfree, mobile, accessory, weird, bad, design

Engage the tractor beam!

On Microsoft Songsmith Ad

This clip is not a parody but a real product from Microsoft Research. Scary stuff. You've been warned.

Technorati tags: microsoft, songsmith, weird, ad, video

Scraps And Morsels 20090108

• YouTube - Who is tictac Micha?

  An original street act using tictac.

• Google’s Street View Takes A Byte Out Of Crime

• Porn Bailout: Larry Flynt, Joe Francis Seeking Government Money

  Only in America.

• iLastSupper

  funny.

On McDonald's is your only hope

Will this make the student work harder on their exams? I think not...

Cloud Computing in Plain English

Is this the new software order?

Tags: cloud, computing, virtualization, plain, english

Laundry Day

Funny clip from 4th year art student.

Tags: clip, laundry, day, art, student

On Windows: List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft

Huge list.

(via Lifehacker)

On Historical Tweets

You should know that Twitter started only in 2006, but that did not stop Historical Tweets from putting fictitious tweets into important historical figures.

Technorati tags: funny, twitter, tweets, fictitious, historical

XKCD on Steve Jobs

Classic.

Scraps And Morsels 20090107

• YouTube - Virgin Atlantic 25 years

  Cool 80s style video.

• YouTube - The George Bush You Forgot

  This is not George Bush.

• Stupid People - Miss Cellania

  You wonder sometimes...

• LiveLeak.com - Concorde Descend And Landing Cockpit View.

• Fake brands shopping centre set to open in China - pictures - mirror.co.uk

  KLC, Buckstars, Adidos, Farrari... totally incredible.

Validation - A short film

A heart warming story. Also check out the other story by Hugh.

Technorati tags: short, film

What Font Are You?

Duh...

Link

Technorati tags: font, quiz

Heineken's Walk In Closet - Ad

Over the top in hilarity.

Link

Technorati tags: funny, beer, heineken, ad, video

Scraps And Morsels 20090106

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

• The Amazing Flying Men - CollegeHumor video

  More ways to kill yourself.

• Op-Ed Contributors - The End of the Financial World as We Know It - NYTimes.com

  Best explanation on the continuing financial crisis.

• Dwindling In Unbelief: How many has God killed? (revised complete list and estimated total)

  That's just in the Old Testament alone.

• Who The Hell Writes Wikipedia, Anyway?

  ...Almost every time I saw a substantive edit, I found the user who had contributed it was not an active user of the site. They generally had made less than 50 edits (typically around 10), usually on related pages. Most never even bothered to create an account

  .

On Death To All Juice

(via Jean's blog)

Juice, get it?

On American Freedom

Wait. Do you smoke the freedom, or drink it?

BBC - An Islamic History of Europe

(via Best Free Documentaries)

Excellent documentary. On when emirs and caliphs dominated Spain and Sicily and Islamic scholarship swept into the major cities of Europe.

Scraps And Morsels 20090102

• Top 50 movie special effects shots - Den of Geek

  Bloody big list and video clips of the special effects.

• Rumor: Microsoft to lay off 17% of staff on January 15, 2009

  That's 15,000 staff. Ouch. Let's hope it's just a rumor.

• What’s My Pass? » The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time

  Is your password in the list?

• Best Free Documentaries: Blood Diamonds Documentary

  Where the movie is based.