Pics and Titbits

compared to a vehicle, required twice its weight in resources to produce, united nations university researchers found that a microchip required an amazing 630 times its weight to manufacturer. environmental impact and resource consumption of electronic devices are extremely high considering how fast technology becomes obsolete.

security hacker reveals the vulnerability of keys. using a single key, a metal file and a couple of uncut key blanks, he was able to file his way into an entire building.

gary kasparov, world number 1 ranked chess player is scheduled to play against deep junior. this time, the match is officially actioned by fide. kasparov previously lost to ibm’s deep blue, a controversial match where programmers were allowed to tweak the program specifically to defeat him only.

if you need whiteboard urgently, but without a real one in sight, don’t despair. imagination at work gives you one right on your computer screen.

commercial sense makes animals out of super heroes. its a bird, its a plane, its caped animal!

mischievious desktop icons fights.

perplexing square puzzle to kill your time.

if you’re out of fanciful ideas for your website, don’t despair. john ingrams boring page might inspire you to the opposite spectrum.

be careful about what you dispose together with your old pc or notebook computer. erased files are never literally gone from the surface of your hard disk. mit students unearthed credit card numbers, personal information, love letters and pornography from second-hand disks.

let the broken poem generator assist you with some good (and bad) phrases.

despite the simplicity of lego block character, they appear in many creative dioramas. the brick testament spreads the word of the bible, while lord of the ring and zorro were inspiration from books and movies. block death however, might not be so tasteful

lego is not missed in the scientific and technical field. an impressive legway was constructed to mimic the segway human transponder. many creative structures, including “impossible” ones were constructed. lego might even help you build a computer as well.

after much logistic delay, photojunkie’s holiday film exchange gallery of my exchange partner is finally online. see the warmth and joy of marina’s family during the festival of hari raya.

one of the biggest question we ask ourselves is “what should i do with my life?”. however, the answers are elusive, because we are blinded assumptions of money funding dreams, our problem-solving brains and beliefs of the environment surrounding us. have you ever heard your own calling?

here’s another photography project to keep you busy, project: shutterbug. take pictures of tourist taking pictures. highly amusing!

necessity is the mother of invention. getting stuck in a traffic jam can be boring for the driver. therefore, dimitri larmuseau created the webtalker to read web pages off the internet to the driver. when his wife suffered repetive stress problems, erik fitzpatrick converted a real typewriter into a keyboard, complete with slapping the carriage return feature.

happy new year!