straydog scraps: January 2010

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Weird, or just different? - Derek Sivers

(Ted)

Great insights.

Poor little Mars Spirit Rover

(xkcd)

The Mars Spirit Rover is currently stuck in a sand trap and will be in hibernation mode for the next 6 months to preserve it's electronics during the Mars winter.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Google Earth Guys

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Cute. A continuation from the Google Street View Guys.

Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News

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The BBC formula. Not as hard as it seems.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Michael Schumacher New Mercedes Benz SLS AMG Commercial

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It's hot, red, and has wings. It even has Schumi in it. But it is not a Ferrari.

(via)

Funny iPad Ad

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Definitely made before Apple's launch yesterday. LOL.

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The new Apple iPad First Hands On - Excellent piece from Gizmodo. I guess they left out the great to surf pron (pictures and movies) part out.

Why 'Avatar' is actually the 26th biggest movie - Based on ticket sales, not the box office.

On The Facebook Trap - Men, beware!

Busting an iPhone thief - The most elaborate way to get your iPhone back. Lesson learned on how technology can ~~assist~~ stalk our prey.

It's been a while since my last scraps and morsels.

iPhoning my way to retirement $.70 at a time by Eugene Lin

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Funny.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

On Social Media ROI: Socialnomics

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Social Media economics goodness.

Walmart-Clown-Commercial

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Finally, a clown that is actually funny!

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Funny Hand Ninja

EMBED-Asian Chick's Awesome Hand Ninja - Watch more free videos

Hilarious. The whole TKD white belt moves, including 2 butt scratch (not in the standard moves).

DikDik

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Entertaining and catchy. But a Turkish song sung in Dutch?

On Joyeye Lite - Lomo photography for Nokia Phones

Joyeye Lite is my continuing journey to into the world of Lomo and/or fun photography.

It's free to download from Nokia's Ovi site, although on Joyeye's site it's USD 4.99. So far everything seems to work on my Nokia E61i, although I have some problems trying to publish the images to the social networks. It does not work with videos taken from the mobile.

Some sample pictures taken from my E61i with Joyeye Lite. These are just a few of the effects that is supported by Joyeye Lite.

The Joyeye Lite is a cool photo extension for any Nokia mobile. That said, I will stick with my Harinezumi 2 for my fun photography, but keeping Joyeye as a backup for taking fun phone camera photos.

Joyeye Lite 1.0.2 features:
1. Makes your photo camera a LOMO camera to capture LOMO photos,including action sampler;
2. Applys LOMO effects on the photos in your photo album, e.g., E2C, Retro, White/Black, Mirror, Scanline, frames, etc.;
3. Shares LOMO photos to the most of popular social networks and Joyeye, e.g., Pixelpipe, Flickr, Facebook,etc.;
4. Writes your micro-blog, and sync it to Twitter;
5. Supports sharing task queue;
6. Shows the newest photos and comments in Joyeye mobile community.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Sex explained graphically by pens

(via 9GAG)

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Jeff & Erin's EPIC Wedding Trailer: Save the Date

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Wow. The highest quality wedding pre-view so far.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Prank Call Of The Week: Nigerian Man Gets Fresh Princed On Christian TV!

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Les Dangereux

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A Ninja Love Story. Cute animation.

Amazing Cheddar Commercial

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Seriously funny. And amazing.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

On Vulture Accident

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Makes you think whether windmills are really environmentally friendly?

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

A Unique Card Trick

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Telling a story with cards.

Monday, January 18, 2010

The Secret Life Of Chaos - Documentary

Surprisingly good.

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"Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are only now beginning to understand.

It turns out that chaos theory answers a question that mankind has asked for millennia - how did we get here?

In this documentary, Professor Jim Al-Khalili sets out to uncover one of the great mysteries of science - how does a universe that starts off as dust end up with intelligent life? How does order emerge from disorder?

It's a mindbending, counterintuitive and for many people a deeply troubling idea. But Professor Al-Khalili reveals the science behind much of beauty and structure in the natural world and discovers that far from it being magic or an act of God, it is in fact an intrinsic part of the laws of physics. Amazingly, it turns out that the mathematics of chaos can explain how and why the universe creates exquisite order and pattern.

The natural world is full of awe-inspiring examples of the way nature transforms simplicity into complexity. From trees to clouds to humans - after watching this film you'll never be able to look at the world in the same way again."

Coca-Cola "Happiness Machine"

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Bring the happiness machine my way, please.

Harinezumi 2 - My New Toy

Got this in Tokyo. This is essentially a digital lomo camera. I resisted getting a lomo camera due to my laziness to develop analogue photos. This baby not only takes photos, but also video and even in black and white. At 15,750 yen (173 USD, 240 SGD), they are not cheap for a 3 megapixel camera or a 640x480 video camera (with sound).

The convenience of digital is enough to justify the cost. Besides, converting a normal photo to lomo just isn't the same.

That said, it is interesting how a photography movement stems from a camera defect.