For some dumb reason, my office considers me the "IT Guy" simply because I know a couple of ways to Photoshop heads on to bodies of Power Rangers. However, I do what I can and try to solve any problems that come my way. But let's be clear...I ain't an IT guy. Just a normal human.
If you're looking for an IT guyz, then get your motherboard down to SBSS(www.seemasol.com)
There aren’t many PSAs you’d be willing to upload onto the iPod, but this might be the first, brought to you courtesy of Australia for Metro Trains Melbourne.
The ad is via Australia for Metro Trains Melbourne.
The song, by Tangerine Kitty, can be purchased on iTunes or SoundCloud.
Black & White (In Colour)
Maybe YouTube user Eran Amir wanted to see if he could recreate that feeling in a video. To achieve it, he painted an entire room, himself included, in shades of gray. At the beginning, it looks like the video has simply been shot in black and white with no color correction. Then, as the video progresses, color slowly creeps back in until it sweeps over his grayish life in vivid glory.
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, pictured in the International Space Station on July 27, has now run a marathon and, most recently, a triathlon while in space. Photo: NASA
NASA requires its astronauts to exercise on space flights to fight off the debilitating effects of zero-gravity on the body's bone and muscle. But Sunita Williams, U.S. commander of the Expedition 33 crew at the International Space Station, took things to another level when she completed the first ever triathlon in space — running, biking, and even swimming to compete with Earth-based athletes 240 miles below in Southern California. A closer look at her stunning achievement:
What equipment did Williams use?
Since quarters are a bit cramped at the I.S.S., Williams used special exercise equipment to keep up with triathletes competing in the Nautica Malibu Triathlon in Southern California. For the half-mile "swimming" portion, Williams strapped into something called the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED), which uses weights to imitate water resistance while swimming through anti-gravity. For the 18-mile biking portion she used a stationary bike, and for the four-mile run she used a specially outfitted treadmill that strapped her in to keep her from floating off. (Watch a video below.)
How did she fare?
Pretty well. She completed the whole race with a respectable time of 1:48:33. "I'm happy to be done," said Williams as she crossed the finish line. "It wasn't easy and I'm sure everybody in California's very happy to be done too."
What kind of training did she do?
Williams, an "avid athlete," says Clara Moskowitz at Space.com, began training on solid pavement before she launched off to the space station on July 14. Once in space, she kept up with her training, competing in the seven-mile Falmouth Road Race in Massachusetts on Aug. 12. The triathlon, however, "wasn't her first orbital athletic achievement," says Moskowitz. In 2007, she ran the Boston marathon on a space treadmill, finishing with a time of 4:23:10.
Take a look:
Sources: CNN, Slate, Space.com,TheWeek
Volvo Trucks - The Ballerina Stunt
World record-holding highliner Faith Dickey battles to cross the line between two speeding trucks. Will she make it? Please like, share and comment! World premiere of the new Volvo FH Sept 5, live at www.volvotrucks.com/fh
The stunt was set up to show the precise handling of the new Volvo FH. Filmed on an unopened highway in Croatia in cooperation with Hollywood stunt director Peter Pedrero (James Bond, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean.) Directed by Academy Award nominee Henry Alex Rubin. Music by J. Ralph / The Rumor Mill.The world of IT might not be widely known for [checks dictionary of 'Yootspeak' for correct acronyms] – ahem – the LULZ, the ROFLs and the LMFAOs, but by Jingo, if it's a rare old wheeze you desire, then IT Support Helpdesks are where it's at.
You can always rely on the computer-illiterate man to come out with some damned fool things, once he's been thrown in at the shallow end of information technology.
All genuine questions, taken by bewildered IT Support Technicians throughout the land. What drives a person to ask such things? What was this person doing while technology was taking over the world? Are they a 'Charles Babbage', someone who's heard of computers and once shared a lift with a man whose second cousin owned a ZX81; or are they a 'Never Been Kissed', the type whose technological mindset exists somewhere between the fall of the Roman Empire and the arrival of the Black Death in Europe? For instance:
“Big problems usually have small solutions that are hugely leveraged”
It might not be the Taj Mahal but the sentiment is the same for Winston Howes, the English farmer who created this beautiful memorial for his wife.
A devoted farmer painstakingly planted a tribute to his late wife, Janet, using 6,000 oak trees to etch out a giant heart in the middle of his field in South Gloucestershire, England. Howes, 70, and a gardener spent weeks planning and setting out each oak after his wife died suddenly 15 years ago. He planted the fledgling trees across a six-acre field after carefully marking out a heart shape in one half of the grass, with the heart pointing in the direction of her childhood home. The stunning crop was captured in its full beauty after a balloonist sailed over the farmhouse and photographed the field from the air.
When his wife Janet died fifteen years ago, Howes carefully planted 6,000 oak trees in the shape of a heart, the end of which points to her childhood home, and that labor of love has now grown into her own sacred grove of sorts in South Gloucestershire, England.
The proliferation of relatively cheap motion sensors in recent years, combined with development tools such as Microsoft's Kinect SDK, means that augmented reality (AR) hacks are really starting to take off. As if to showcase just what's possible with current consumer AR tech, a Japanese YouTube user has produced a video of a virtual date with computerized J-pop star Hatsune Miku.
Using Asus's Xtion Pro sensor, "alsionesvx" takes Miku to a park, demonstrating her position in the real world by having her stand behind a tree. He even interacts with her, moving her tie and hitting her on the top of the head, with pre-programmed results. It's only towards the end of the video that the less wholesome potential of this technology comes into focus — future users might not be so restrained, particularly without a YouTube audience.
This house in Dalat, Vietnam, is officially called Hang Nga Guesthouse. However all locals refer to this unconventional building as “Crazy house”. Crazy house’s architect is Hang Nga, a woman whose father was the President of Vietnam back in 1980s. The building’s overall design resembles a giant tree, incorporating sculptured design elements representing natural forms such as animals, mushrooms, spider webs and caves.
Today marks 100 years since the R.M.S. Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, taking the lives of over 1,500 souls with her in those icy waters. And over the last year or so, the commercial side of the enterprise has been heating up at an amazing pace.
The Titanic has always had an allure about it - an amazing feat of engineering that was brought down on its maiden voyage, tales of heroism and chivalry (women and children first), class struggles and unforeseen safety needs. Indeed, it now stands as one of the greatest lessons of all time of man's hubris in the face of nature, and will forever remind us that we need to plan for the worst possible contingencies despite our confidence in our own technological advances.Naturally, the 100th anniversary brings about its own special observance from longtime admirers as well as those who may have just discovered the story. The Wall Street Journal tallied some of those events and products ("Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Titanic Business 100 Years Later"), such as viewings of A Night to Remember, memorial celebrations in significant locations like Belfast, Southampton and Cherbourg, a Titanic fragrance from salvaged samples of essences carried by a perfume maker who traveled on the ship, recreations of the meals, and much more.But one of the more creative acknowledgments of the anniversary has to be from The History Press, a British publishing company that started the @TitanicRealTime Twitter account to chronicle the progress of the ship as if sent from aboard the ship itself. The tweets began exactly a month before and have picked up pace on the last day of the ship's voyage on April 14-15.Each of the tweets is hashtagged with the appropriate person or category of people aboard from which it would have come. For example, crew members, officers, engineers, the captain, first class passengers, Thomas Andrew (the ship's builder), the bandleader, passengers in the lifeboats, the Carpathia (the ship that rescued the survivors) and more all have their own hashtags. And as the events unfold, we're able to witness the observations firsthand - sometimes very eerily.Here are some representative tweets from the account (which has over 400 in total):
A chilling and haunting reminder of what happened that fateful night. It's amazing to think of all of the engineering advances that went into what was then the largest moving object in the world. There are a number of things that went wrong on that voyage that led to the death of so many - the way the instructions to port round the iceberg, the reversal of the engines, the safety regulations that didn't keep up with the advances in the ship's size, the speed with which the ship sank, etc. But just in terms of the advance of communication, the Marconi wireless that they had on board seems so primitive compared to what we have at our fingertips with smartphones every day now. Think of how different the outcome might have been with better communication tools!
