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Brain wiring problem it seems, or just lack of practice?

The world is probably too cynical…

The article in which the term AJAX was coined.

'A Googlewhack is a Google search query consisting of two words that return a single result. A Googlewhack must consist of two actual words found in a dictionary.'

What do job interviews really tell us?
The prelude to Blink!

Including the classic 25/5=14

Interesting presentation format – kinda like tree rings. Resembles the Firefox logo though.

A simple script to access Wave in a tab in Thunderbird.

Handy instructions

The whole story behind United breaking the guitar. Two songs down & one to go. Companies better beware of the power of the web & social media.

Minority Report & MAtrix, here we come…
'THE retail giant Westfield is considering introducing controversial face recognition technology at its Penrith shopping centre in Sydney's west.'

Strange case of Northern lights it seems. Interesting phenomenon nonetheless. A few photographs & videos accompany the post.

Interesting list covering a gamut of villains like Skeletor, Shredder & Bluto. Mostly old cartoons though.

Something doesn't seem right here, especially if this was supposed to have been a co-branding exercise:
"So far, there are over 35 pages of people posting about why EA released Pandemic Studios' final game, Saboteur, to first the EU on December 4th and then, after knowing full well it did not work properly, to the Americas on December 8th. They have been promising to work on a patch that is apparently now in the QA stage of testing. It is not a small bug; rather, if you have an ATI video card and either Windows 7 or Windows Vista, the majority (90%) of users have the game crash after the title screen. Since the marketshare for ATI is nearly equal to that of Nvidia, and the ATI logo is adorning the front page of the Saboteur website, it seems like quite a large mistake to release the game in its current state."

Not exactly a work of perfection. A really long list. Not to mention the ability of people to distinguish between a sheep & goat's bleat – 'Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the goat is offered to the T-Rex, you hear the bleating sound of a sheep as opposed to a goat's bleating sound.'

Who said subway stations have to be boring. Some of the most architecturally interesting subway stations in the world.
via http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/08/the-most-beautiful-subway-stations-in-the-world/

So twitter does help in selling after all.

It's not so bad. I'm actually trying to get my grandfather on facebook 🙂

So much for fingerprints being one of the ultimate proofs of one's identity. Also, MIB & Mission Impossible seem much closer to reality now.
'A Chinese woman managed to enter Japan illegally by having plastic surgery to alter her fingerprints, thus fooling immigration controls, police claim.'

Interesting list – includes Wave, Bing, Twitter among others

Now that's a real high tech concert. A bunch of interesting videos.

Or is it? Either way, the philosophy is pretty simple:
'No-www.org strives to make the Internet and communications about it as fruitful as possible. To that end, we make the modest proposal that website makers configure their main sites to be accessible by domain.com as well as http://www.domain.com.'

'What if every store had a bar-code sticker on its window so that you could pull out your iPhone, wave it in front of the bar code and get all sorts of information about that business—the telephone number, photos, customer reviews? Starting on Monday, you'll be able to do that at up to 190,000 local businesses throughout the U.S.
Google has mailed out window stickers with two-dimensional bar codes (aka, QR codes) to the most-searched for or clicked-on businesses in its local business directory.'

A very innovative & visual way to represent one's history.

'Some design professionals expect their portfolio to serve as a "visual resume." But portfolio images are typically just work samples, unless dated and laid out chronologically. What I want to know, is if depicting your work history graphically is effective at getting the attention of the right people, or if they are just novelties meant to amuse graphic-inclined folks like me who find them interesting to study. I assume the traditional resume would also be required, but I'm not sure if that's correct, if you can fit the dates and companies to depict your work history inside the visual presentation.'

Incidentally developed by an IBMer whose blog & other works I've gone through during my stint with IBM. It's based on Java appets though.
'Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.'

Needs registration

Too bad it's not connected to LinkedIn to pull out the recommendations

Of course those who're not fluent in Klingon will not be able to understand what they tweeted… That's where the "to english" translator comes in handy.

Interesting bunch of ideas. Wonder how many of them could be actually created & commercialized.

"Only" 18 buttons

An interactive portfolio of portraits by Platon of world leaders, with commentary by the photographer.

Makes you feel like the tiniest speck…

'Dubai was meant to be a Middle-Eastern Shangri-La, a glittering monument to Arab enterprise and western capitalism. But as hard times arrive in the city state that rose from the desert sands, an uglier story is emerging.'

Especially those by unwanted applications

'Among the CIA's many tricks during the Cold War, it turns out, was some actual magic. A now-declassified manual by magician John Mulholland taught American spies the arts of deceit.'

Kind of puts James Bond to shame
via http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/01/spy-shoelaces/

The question still persists even after all these years

A student draws a Charizard in the test & the teacher replies with another. Is this the future of education?

An online clock using scrollbars for display

Very interesting way to represent the evolution.
via http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/29/infographic-the-comp.html