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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:

Dreams Interpretation

http://www.dreamcrowd.com/

you basically just write a description of your dream and it will get some keywords from it and give you the dream interpretation of these words.

Analog "data" meter

It's a DIY to attach an analog meter to a computer and display some data about the air fetched from a website. It would be cooler (and should be easy) to adapt it to display other info like CPU utilization, RAM, bandwidth, ...


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VGA to USB power

ok, this could be useful... it converts the vga port of a laptop into a usb power port...


Instructables

Let me Google that for you...

http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/

it's a site for when someone asks you a question he could have simply googled himself, it's quiet fun. It will give a step by step explanation for the person on how to do the search himself :P
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What's red and smells like paint?

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red paint....
paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, so funny :D

Tilt Photography effect in photoshop

the effect is quiet cool, it's as if the thing was a miniature model...



http://www.tiltshiftphotography.net/photoshop-tutorial.php

Dolphins help the helpless

http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/index.php?p=73

that's a quiet cool and interesting episode of Myth Busters checking if sharks are really afraid of dolphins.
And japanese eat those poor dolphins...

Vector Magic

http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/

This seems pretty nice and useful. It lets you convert an image into a vector image, and by doing that, you can zoom as much into it without affecting quality or getting pixelised effect.

Antidote for workaholics

Filter Heart

That looks pretty nice...

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Make me a sandwich

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Did You Know How Insignificant the Earth Really Is in the Universe?

- If we were alone in the Universe, it would be a terrible waste of space

By: Lucian Dorneanu, Science Editor


Nothing really proves how insignificant our planet is in the sea of stars and dust that makes up the known Universe, than the famous "Pale Blue Dot" photograph of the Earth, taken by Voyager 1, then located four billion miles away.

This picture shows Earth as a dot suspended in a beam of sunlight, situated against the backdrop of the Solar System. The saddest thing is that voyager was only its vantage point on the edge of the solar system.

If you're already depressed by now, I leave you with a quote from astronomer Carl Sagan, who wrote a book inspired by the photo:

"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you know, everyone you love, everyone you've ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines. Every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."



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