YouTube link If you want to know more, you can even buy those horse legs.
Month: June 2009
Google finds future quitters
When you’re a company big on data crunching, when you have a file, you can’t help it: You must explore it and draw conclusions. This is what Google is doing with its Human Resource files. They use algorithms to identify more easily people ready for a promotion, for an additional review, or people on the…
Strong iPhone 3G-S sales
Steve Jobs is rejoicing: It seems that Apple already sold more than 1 million iPhone 3G-S (the new Apple mobile phone) in the first 5 days after its launch.
Fly like an eagle
…but I couldn’t fly. Jose Luis Ortiz has changed it all. He installed a small video camera on one of his royal eagles. Link to YouTube And now, you and me can fly, really fly. Breath-taking! Boarding a plane became so down-to-Earth. I now want to have wings, I want to fly like an eagle…
Doom, Quake, shoot-them-all for free
How many PC gamers started their career with video games as raw (according to today’s criteria) as Doom or even Quake. We may find their quality too low for our eyes, but they already demonstrated their main strength: the gamer found interesting adversaries and environments where you could not know what would happen behind the…
Don’t sleep at the tatoo parlour
Belgian Kimberley Vlaeminck, 18, went to a tattoo parlor and asked for 3 tattooed stars. But, she fell asleep and woke up with 56 black stars. In a sense, this is nice, but she seems pissed off. Update on 24-June: It appears that after some time and media pressure, Kimberley admitted that this was not…
Encounter with a wild cat in Kenya
I have been publishing some photos from my travel to Kenya last October, but it became apparent to me that I had forgotten to present the photos I took during a short encounter with a serval (Leptailurus serval, previously Felis serval, pronounced /ˈsɜrvəl/) which is a relatively large-size African wild cat. Amazingly beautiful, it is…
Iran
It seems that everything has already been said about the riots and protests that are currently observed following the presidential elections in Iran. Up to now, I felt unable to even comment about it. But I wanted to add my own little pebble to the building of putting light onto the events that are probably…