So I’ve updated WordPress to version 2.0.1 and it only felt appropriate to give the aging theme a makeover as well. I’m now using the popular K2 Beta theme from Michael Heilemann and Chris Davis. It’s not exactly what I want so there will hopefully be a load of updates in the coming weeks as I modify it to my tastes. But for now, if you have any comments please tell me what you think.
Monthly Archive for January, 2006
For those who are interested in web design and CSS layouts, you might find this article by Matthew Levine interesting. Take a look here.
Here are some google video clips of various bottle related escapades.Water Bottle Jet Pack
I saw them try this on Mythbusters and it didn’t seem to work. This video is probably a fake.
Water Bottle Jet Pack via Google Video of the Day: Water Bottle Rocket Pack: Funny Videos
Coke and Mentos
Who knew? … and more importantly, who had the time to think up these combinations? Probably the same people who end up blogging about pointless videos.
Diet Coke and Mentos reaction via Google Video of the Day: Mentos + Diet Coke = GUSHER: Funny Videos
Update: Here is another video of the same feat.
Dry Ice Bomb
Quite powerful for a bottle of Pespi. It’s surprising no one ended up with a few less fingers.
Dry Ice Bomb via Google Video of the Day: Dry Ice + Plastic Bottle =: Funny Videos
Update: These guys take the whole coke and mentos thing to the next level.
Scratch n Spin is a very amusing short video advert that combines footage of a DJ’s hands working on a set of turntables with footage of a streetscene; when he grabs a car and moves it around the roundabout, it is synched to the sound of the record from the original shot scratching back and forth. It’s intensely clever and laugh-out-loud delightful.
Without much introduction or fanfare, submitted here for your consideration are a dozen great building that emerged over the course of 2005. None of these projects are, admittedly, found outside Europe or North America, and none are designed by Lord Norman Foster or Frank Gehry, the foremost architectural minds of our day.
But I make no apologies. In their defense, these buildings are quite varied, both typologically (noted for convenience) as well as stylisticallyand thematically (omitted to spare you).
I can see my house! by dnorman at Flickr.com
Scientists have found a gene that may control whether or not someone is a risk taker. As this ScienCentral News video explains, the gene controls development of a specific part of your brain.
First the bike, then the Audi, now I’ve been shown a link to a chromed Mercedes Benz. Photoshop anyone?
Update: Forget that Photoshop comment. While the image is probably manipulated, the car seems to be real. Go here for more pictures.
Update 2: Can’t forget those BMWs.
You can’t get much more hypocritical then this.
What happens when an organization that is best known for inveighing against the unauthorized copying of movies gets caught doing exactly that? The Motion Picture Association of America was caught with its pants down, admitting to making unauthorized copies of the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated in advance of this week’s Sundance Film Festival. This Film Is Not Yet Rated looks at the motion picture ratings system created and run by the MPAA. Director Kirby Dick submitted the film for rating in November. After receiving the movie, the MPAA subsequently made copies without Dick’s permission. Dick had specifically requested in an e-mail that the MPAA not make copies of the movie. The MPAA responded by saying that “the confidentiality of your film is our first priority.”
Dick later learned that the MPAA made copies of the film to distribute them to its employees, despite the MPAA’s stance on unauthorized copying. Ah, there’s nothing like the smell of hypocrisy in the morning-apparently the prohibition against copying films without the copyright owner’s consent doesn’t apply to the MPAA. A lawyer for the MPAA justified the organization’s apparent hypocrisy by saying that Dick had invaded the privacy of some MPAA staffers, which justified the MPAA’s actions.
MPAA admits to unauthorized movie copying via tech.memeorandum.com
#8: Challenge the known and embrace the unknown.
One of the biggest mistakes you can make in life is to accept the known and resist the unknown. You should, in fact, do exactly the opposite: challenge the known and embrace the unknown.
Let me tell you a short story about ice. In the late 1800s there was a thriving ice industry in the Northeast. Companies would cut blocks of ice from frozen lakes and ponds and sell them around the world. The largest single shipment was 200 tons that was shipped to India. 100 tons got there unmelted, but this was enough to make a profit.
These ice harvesters, however, were put out of business by companies that invented mechanical ice makers. It was no longer necessary to cut and ship ice because companies could make it in any city during any season.
These ice makers, however, were put out of business by refrigerator companies. If it was convenient to make ice at a manufacturing plant, imagine how much better it was to make ice and create cold storage in everyone’s home.
You would think that the ice harvesters would see the advantages of ice making and adopt this technology. However, all they could think about was the known: better saws, better storage, better transportation.
Then you would think that the ice makers would see the advantages of refrigerators and adopt this technology. The truth is that the ice harvesters couldn’t embrace the unknown and jump their curve to the next curve.
Challenge the known and embrace the unknown, or you’ll be like the ice harvester and ice makers.
Check out this great “top ten hindsights” article from Guy Kawasaki. While his speech was originally directed towards university graduates, it’s probably a usefull read for everyone. I bet he is getting a lot of traffic for someone who has only been blogging for ten days.
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