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Monday, March 22, 2010

Really Very Smart People join The Smart Life

If you are a Mensa member, a really smart person with a really high IQ, you have specific needs. You enjoy watching the Astronomy Picture of the Day (Nasa) or the photo of the day (Narional Geographic). You use Facebook and LinkedIn but you also socialize on The Smart Life. You buy books at Amazon like everybody else but also at Edmund Scientifics. In short, when you are a Mensa member, you have these 50 sites to entertain you in 2010.

You even like I can haz Cheeseburger.
Not so smart after all.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

great way to prepare travelling


Check out this map, originally constructed by Nasa, and circulating as another image on Flick'r.

No more excuses: want to live through a full solar eclips somwhere in the coming years? Go and pick your holiday destination to do so.

I remember going on a solar eclipse trip in 1999: my mum and me participated in a trip organised by the local public observatory Urania and experienced it somewhere in the northern parts of France. Even though it was a very cloudy day it was very, very, very impressive. Nature holding its' breath.

It's the silence I remember most. Imagine experiencing it again in, say, Australia, November 13, 2012? I'm game!

Monday, March 15, 2010

Google's PR trick?

Admit that it sounded tricky from the beginning. Google's ethical stance on China and its indignant positioning against the Chinese authorities. Wasn't it Google that supported these authorities years ago when allowing censorship on its search engine? I distinctly remember one of my old mentors, Frederik Marain, proving this point by trying to use search terms like Tien-an-men.

The FT has announced that Google will withdraw from China and this time, it's for sure. Why do I keep thinking that they have been planning it for quite some time and that these ethical arguments are just a smoke screen? Shouldn't we take a closer look at Baidu?

Monday, March 8, 2010

Itch, it must!


I like not myself like this. Yes, hmmmm.
Itching me, this wool is.
But I do, what can, hmm?
You do this too want to, hmmm, yesss? Create woolen Yoda? Seek advice, you must. Here, find it, you will, hmmm.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Norgebukser hype on Facebook


You have to admit that the phenomenon of fan and group pages on Facebook sometimes is quite amazing. From the 'hommage' page for our deceased colleague to the Norwegian Olympic Curling Team's Pants Fan page with a mindblowing 606.333 members. All because of those equally amazing clown-like pants the team wore. You have to admit ... these pants fit that fascinating sport perfectly!