Green Power

Green Power – From Netorama

Ripple

Click an add and do some good. Ripple sets it up that the advertisers pay on a per view basis and the profits go to good causes.

TED.com

Technology Entertainment and Design = TED

Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers

I expect this site to consume my life for a while, so expect to see all kinds of video links from this site.

Strandbeest

Machines that are powered by wind and will blow your mind.

ZeFrank on Waves

He has a nack for putting into words ideas I wish I where cool enough to have

ZeFrank – Baseline

No inside jokes, just some good views.

I am really going to try and take this to heart. I have been beating my self up for beating my self up, getting depressed about being depressed, getting anxious of being anxious, and being happy about being happy. That last one doesn’t seem so bad, but it seems odd. I want to avoid stacking emotions and feel what’s there to be felt. Ride the highs that are meant to be high, and simply accept that yes, some things suck, but I should be upset about being sad that something suck. These are the evil middlemen

I am also trying to be more creative, so expect some lots more photos, a few doodles, a youtubeish video or two, and maybe even a short story coming up. But don’t get your hopes to high until Winter break.

Also expect some writing on this blog now, not just simple regurgitation of silly crap I find online. I will continue to provide the service of filtering you guys the highlights of my wasted hours on the intertubes and blag-o-sphere’s but begin to provide some opinions, explanations, and original work.

Oh, and I have a new browser recommendation for anybody who uses flickr, photobucket, or has a blog of any kind; Flock. They are a Firefox based web browser (meaning they started with Firefox’s open source code) and it has all kinds of neat tools. I am actually writing this entry on their blogging tool. Its quite nice. Check them out at Flock.com

Blogged with Flock

Imaging Science Gets Frisky

Lets hear it for non-invasive infrared technology and its newest application; telling doctors how horny you are! (My major makes cool things happen, hehe)

Over at Science and Reason Charles Daney found that gem of research showing that women get aroused just as fast as men do, proving that scientific research has immediate, practical, argument winning applications.

The new finding is based on the use of infrared imaging technology to measure skin temperature from a distance. This is not only more sensitive to temperature differences, but also does not require uncomfortable instruments in contact with the subjects’ genitals.

In the new study, 28 men and 30 women first watched a video of the Canadian countryside in a room on their own, so that researchers could establish each individual’s baseline temperatures.

The Article approaches the subject level headed and actually raises some good questions with links to dissent and other blog posts. check it out

Whistler

Digg Whistler

A revolutionary music interface for us all. Utilizing advanced technology to make music fun. Imagine Humming, tapping, beat boxing, or whistling which is then molded it into glorious instrumental form. Integrated Garageband capabilities. Make it a reality, Vote for it at MyDreamApp.com

Reviews-

“Whistler could change people’s lives, for the better, launch new careers, bring happiness to people.” – John Harris, (MDA judge)

“This application seems like a real killer app.” – Bruce Horn (Apple)
This is just awesome. Someone make it, please. The greatest thing an application can do is allow users to do something that was once too difficult or complex to be feasible…Whistler would be a useful tool and a phenomenally fun toy.
Nicholas Jitkoff (Quicksilver)

“the one I am most dying to play with by far…borderline revolutionary”
Bill Bart (The Skins Factory)

“I adore this idea… …Whoo, Whistler…
I love this idea, and it’d be fun to code.”
Jason Harris (Shapeshifter)

“I just want to write two things about this idea – congratulations and oh my God does it look sweet! Whistler introduces a completely new way of interfacing with sound editing apps, which is so intuitive and simply human, that I’m actually astonished that I’ve never heard about it before.”
Piotr Gajos (Inventive)

“this idea – which might at first seem technically ridiculous – is actually probably quite possible and could be amazingly awesome”
Cabel Sasser (Panic)

“This concept is pure brilliance incarnate.”
Bill Bart (The Skins Factory)

LHC factoids

-The data recorded during the 10-20 years of the LHC lifespan will be equivalent to all the words spoken by humankind since its appearance on earth

That is so freaking cool!

Read More at Cosmic Vaviance

Google Calendar

You can check out what I am doing just about anytime any day of the week if you click the  “What I am doing” link in the sidebar.

And might I recommend Google Calendar to anyone, it is simple to use. You can set up repeating events and all kinds of fun stuff. Also, if you have the right provider (which is almost all of them) you can have reminders for specific events sent to you 10minutes (or how ever early you chose) before the event. I think this is just plain awesome. And the price is only the cost of normally receiving a text (sms), which for me is free.

Also, for you people with a calendar program, Google supports uploading calendar files from many other programs, so the switch may be worth it.