Sand Painting - Kseniya Simonova

Braquage Amateur

Partly Cloudy

great short film from pixar...



better quality here

Mad World

every time i want to re-see this video i spend hours searching for it, so here it is, it was about time :P




and still impress by the fact that the videoclip is entirely taken in just 1 shot...

Rocket Takeoff

this is soooo kickass!!!! \m/
the camera lens actually broke!!!!

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Txt Ninja

http://www.txtninja.com/

A tool to make text unsearchable (basically converting it into an image). Probably useful for emails and not start receiving tons of spam...

Multistage Water Rocket with Boosters

This is just so cool :D





and here's a website with tutorials on doing basic water rockets, boosters, multi-staging, ...

Firefox Tabs

To gain some space when having many tabs, and as GMail and Google Reader are always open, we can keep them as favicons instead of a full tab, and the favicons shows the number of unread emails.
We actually get something like this:

What has to be done is the following:
1- install better gmail 2
2- enable the favicon option to show unread messages
3- install better greader
4- enable the favicon to show the unread posts
5- install faviconize tab extension
6- install perma tabs extension



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Tech Support Cheat Sheet

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Perception

Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule.

4 minutes later:

The violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.

6 minutes:

A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.

10 minutes:

A 3-year old boy stopped but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. Every parent, without exception, forced their children to move on quickly.

45 minutes:

The musician played continuously. Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while. About 20 gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32.

1 hour:

He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before Joshua Bell sold out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.

This is a true story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people's priorities. The questions raised: in a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?

One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made... How many other things are we missing?


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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
-Winston Churchill

OK, this is epic :D

After homer blowing up the church with a rocket
Marge: This is the worst thing you've ever done!!!
Homer: You say this so much it lost its meaning...

Use a Different Color for the Root Shell Prompt

a small hack in linux to make the shell prompt appear in a different color.

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Send yourself a reminder email from Launchy

I already love Launchy, and here's more cool stuff that can be done with it. By combining a VB scrypt and launchy we can send an email directly from launchy.

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Looking into the past

full album here

Compressed air rocket

here

Beyonce & Justin Timberlake, Single Ladies Videoclip

a spoof of the Beyonce's Single Ladies videoclip with Justin Timberlake on saturday night live...


New Video Beyonce Timberlake - Funny home videos are a click away

1, 2, 3, soleil

Homsi jokes

واحد حمصي لحق حرامي فسبقه

في صحفي سأل حمصي : كم نسبة البطالة في حمص ؟
الحمصي : والله حمص كلها ابطال

leish el homseh byelbos sebbat azghar men 2yeiso?
ta bass yeshla7o yertei7

Microsoft Tag

Microsoft has started their own tagging thing. These tags are mainly a way to insert some information in a kind of square (text, URL, phone number, vCard, ...), and with an application on your cellphone you grab the square with your cam and it decodes the information and your phone does the appropriate task (if it's a URL it opens the browser and goes to it, if it's a vCard it saves the contact, if it's a number it calls it, if it's text it displays it, ...). I had tried before some other types of tags, but as you put more info in them they tend to get quiet big, so for vcards for example, it doesn't even fit anymore on a business card. While microsoft's stays quiet small and has some cool features like password protection and enabling them only for a certain period of time. Their tag manager is quiet nice too, it stores all the tags you previously created and yo ucan re-render the tags and all. I just hope they'll support some other image formats soon...

the application can be downloaded here
and to create tags, you can do it here

here's a tag example: