Technology opinions and digital photography

  • Giant aquarium in Japan

    An enormous aquarium in Japan (Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium). YouTube link Think about it: Some divers dream of meeting a Whale Sharks. Here, you can meet four of them!

  • The best mobile phone display

    The best mobile phone display

    All phones are not born equal. Some people seem to believe that the iPhone has a marvelous touch panel. But is this pure marketing BS? Is it Apple fans going overboard? MOTO, a small company supporting the development of high-tech gadgets and products, has created a (rather simple) test to check the precision and comfort…

  • Find your free wallpapers with Google

    Find your free wallpapers with Google

    If you’re like most people, you’d like to have pretty wallpaper on your desktop background. You can always go to wallpaper web sites but most of them are choke-full of ads and they always provide the same usual set. How about getting new ones? Use Google. Now, Google is able to search images by size.…

  • Old jews telling jokes

    It looks a little like advertising a DVD, but I had some real fun listening to these: video link Go to the web site for more: Old jews telling jokes.

  • The day of all beards

    The day of all beards

    Beards, they are amazing, full of surprises, flowering with novelty. Do you want some evidence? You can join the competition for the beard holding the largest number of wooden toothpicks: If you feel a pinch, don’t accuse the beard! In order to stay on the competition field, there was this beard contest in Alaska in…

  • Coffee in space for New Year’s Day

    E.T.A. by JUNK from Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen on Vimeo. Vimeo HD link

  • Signs that you’re a bad programmer

    Inability to reason about code Poor understanding of the language’s programming model Deficient research skills / Chronically poor knowledge of the platform’s features Inability to comprehend pointers Difficulty seeing through recursion Inability to think in sets Lack of critical thinking Pinball Programming Unfamiliar with the principles of security Code is a mess Inability to determine…

  • 1.8 gigapixel camera, but for the Army only

    1.8 gigapixel camera, but for the Army only

    The guys at DARPA have developed a neat camera for ground surveillance of the battlefield: The ARGUS-IS (Autonomous Realtime Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance – Imaging System). This is a digital camera that can be strapped under a helicopter at a 15,000 feet altitude and provides an amazing view. Actually, not all the data (1.8 giga-pixels by…

  • This feline is well-adapted to technology

    Yes! This cat is driving a Roomba. YouTube link


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