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Detonate on Sarah Silverman. We love you too. 2007-11-10 03:32:00 Leaving very few overdensed minded folks unannoyed, this lady absolutely my favorite female star at the moment. Shooting rounds in automatic, having mercy for none, Sarah
Silverman makes previously known female comedians as Sandra Bernhard look like good girls just came back from church.
"She detonates verbal WMD's about everything from Jesus's nailing to the holocaust to 9-11" wrote Village
Plants and Humans: Chemical substances vs Voice communication 2007-11-09 06:33:00 I always knew plants are smart and use chemical communication
methods but never before thought of these methods as in fact better than those we people use. Thus, I particularly liked the last paragraph in this excellent article on wired.com picked up at the mega-hot environmental blog TreeHugger. Stefano Marcuso (shown above), a professor of horticulture at the International Laboratory of Plant Read more:Plants
, Voice
Sharpbrains.com: braintraining is here, and is hot. 2007-11-08 13:27:00 The amazing popularity of Nintendo's Brain Age and its sequel which has been a genuine phenomenon in Japan helped Nintendo DS to "revitalize the Japanese game market."selling roughly 5.7 million copies in Japan in just over a year. Yet, today, everybody knows already that the recent Japanese braintraining trend already migrated from Japan to the West. The new line of braintraining games on
Open Handset Alliance: an Android bad guys did not expect. 2007-11-07 10:30:00 The hints kept coming. After unveiling Android
, their new mobile phone software, it appears that Google's plans go way beyond another proprietary new software. Instead a consortium of top tier wireless companies is already on the run, developing Android to be "the first complete, open, and free mobile platform" As Linux for mobile still has some troubles gaining an honorable spot, and giving Read more:Handset
, Alliance
, not expect
Mediasnackers age: an unsnacked observation 2007-11-06 12:10:00 "It’s time to acknowledge that in a truly multimedia environment of 2025, most Americans don’t need to understand more than a hundred or so words at a time, and certainly will never read anything approaching the length of an old-fashioned book. We need a frank reassessment of where long-form literacy itself lies in the spectrum of skills that a modern nation requires of its workers." (from What
2007 weblogawards: Vote for Wonderland or Not 2007-11-05 07:24:00 One of my top favorite bloggers and best online friends Cooper from Wonderland
or Not made it to the final list within the 2007 Weblog Awards Best of the Top 3501 - 5000 Blogs. If you don't know her blog yet this might be the right time to have a look and read one post. If you don't fancy her writing get back to me and let me know. IMHO this 22 years old lady is a blogger-poet and surely
Apple, Intel, IBM, the big M and Babu: Wheels are in motion 2007-11-05 02:12:00 Remember Jerry Seinfeld's The Visa sketch where he promises Babu Bhatt (played by Israeli actor Brian George) that "Wheels
are in motion" even though the bottom line is still Babu being kept in Jail?
"Jerry: Babu, I'm gonna fix everything! I have a lawyer who knows someone in
the Immigration Department, they're gonna straighten the whole thing out, the
wheels are in motion, things are Read more:Apple
, Intel
, IBM
Jathia's Wager: Open Source Social Movie Making 2007-11-03 03:15:00 The opening scene in the first draft of Jathia's Wager shows a group of people is led by an old man to the edge of a dark forest looking outside into a new world:
EXT. GRASS FIELD - DAY: A dark forest sits at the end of a perfectly maintained sea of grass. Small clusters of buildings shimmer in the distance. A huddled group of people slowly walk through the grass toward the edge of the forest. Read more:Source
, Social
Traffic data analysis: patterns for October 2007-11-01 13:20:00 You may say I am a control freak but one of the reasons I tend to prefer the online environment for the disconnected one (the things usually referred as "world") is that using the right tools you can have a pretty good idea about what is really going on in the online one. and with very little effort and no expenses. The Israel Railroad company, for example, still pay people to walk around the Read more:October
Dubai World Islands: landmarks of ingenuity 2007-10-31 14:10:00 Following another great article from my favorite urban culturist about Islands
and their roles in cultures and literature I was dragged to dig a bit further into the subject of the DubaiWorld
Islands. Watching the accompanied 3D simulation movie I was first under the impression this megalomaniac project is yet in design stages and that nothing is really there. I was very wrong. This thing is
October's Triple Google Dance: eliminating Paid Link industry? 2007-10-30 17:17:00 Google Dance
is a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) professional term referring to the period of time when Google indices are tuned. According to Wikipedia Google Dance often cause "both a fluctuation in index size as well a significant change in a web site's search result position." A week ago, on Wednesday morning October
24, the world was witnessing an electronic Tsunami of reports from Read more:Triple
, Google
, industry
Between Two Rivers, my friend and the Saddam Hussein dreamroll 2007-10-29 13:58:00 18 years ago, in 1989, I left The Department of the Theater Arts in Tel Aviv university and joined a fringe production written by a friend
who was studying with me, and served as assistant for director Rami Danon who was already a well known and reputed theater director. The young writer was Ilan Hatzor and the play was named "Reulim" (AKA "Masked") which is the Hebrew word for the face cover Read more:Rivers
, Saddam
, Hussein
Southern California wildfires: of the worst fire disasters in Californian history 2007-10-28 14:21:00 If any of us needed another proof for how real global worming impact is I am sure, as sad as it is, the recent events in southern California
might "help" on that. According to france24, a French international news channel broadcasting on a 24/7 basis, it seems that the Californian
Firefighters are getting the upper hand on one of the worst fire disasters in Californian history, thanks to " Read more:Southern
, Southern California
Movies that changed Cinema: The African Queen - fiction meets reality 2007-10-27 16:30:00 Some people say hunting elephants was the real type of activity director John Huston had in mind when he decided to do The AfricanQueen
. Anyway, right from the start, he insisted this is not going to be just another cardboard decorated studio feature. Ranked by the American Film Institute in 2007 as the 65 greatest movie of all time, The African Queen had to be made on location, where real Read more:Cinema
, reality
Israel's airstrike on Syria: imagery clues emerge 2007-10-26 04:50:00 While we are on the subject of rumors, In our new media enhanced universe it's really just a question of time until everything is revealed. Even some things USIsrael
government rather leave hidden. Thus, the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) website now serves the original DigitalGlobe imagery pdf report of the location where Israel airstriked Syria
September 6 this year.
Read more:clues
, emerge
Welcome BlogCatalog. Still love you MyBlogLog. 2007-10-25 13:24:00 The requirement of being reviewed and accepted rather than just going through the usual registration process we know from most Internet services is perhaps the most important difference between BlogCatalog and its sibling/rival community MyBlogLog (MBL), both probably the two leading social blog directories on the Internet.
Other differences, at least as I see it, also help to position Read more:Welcome
FaceBook and Microsoft: is it final or is it Google? 2007-10-24 16:04:00 Rumors about FaceBook negotiating a bitter acquisition bidding war with Microsoft
and or Google
have been around for quite some time. This morning another step was taken as the company confirmed it is planning "a significant advertising-related announcement" in two weeks, in perfect timing with the AdTech new-media marketing conference:
"Facebook has invited some of its closest advertisers to
Metacafe and Peerbox team up for user video sharing on mobile phones 2007-10-23 12:16:00 PeerBox by Nareos, a popular mobile social networking service already reviewed on this blog, announced last week a partnership with Metacafe
, the world’s leading independent online video
entertainment site, to provide Metacafe’s users with mobile social networking. With the help of PeerBox technology, Metacafe users may now access, download and share user generated videos directly from mobile
Thomas Snyder is the first Sudoku National Champion in USA 2007-10-22 14:00:00 The the first U.S. SudokuNational
Championship was won by Sudoku's reigning world champion, ThomasSnyder
, who completed the "advanced" section in seven minutes, eight seconds - about three minutes ahead of his nearest rival - took home the first prize of $10,000 and granted a spot on the U.S. team at the World Sudoku Championship.
Snyder, 27, a postdoctoral student of bioengineering at
The return of Dr. Caligari 2007-10-21 11:53:00 The first thought that came to my head when I saw the photos of the Film & Visual Media Research Center at the University of London’s Birkbeck College is that someone was crazy enough to color a copy of the cardboard decoration from my favorite horror movie The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, a 1921 silent B&W masterpiece from genius director Robert Wiene. Apparently I was not very far from truth and
Movies that changed Cinema: Jaws - the first Blockbuster 2007-10-19 11:30:00 On June 20, 1975 when Jaws was limitedly released at 409 theaters, followed by a wider release five days later into 675 theaters the word Blockbuster
was still never used to describe a movie. American media needed a new word to describe what this movie did to people: Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel and inspired by a real event, audiences loved to be horrified by that movie so much Read more:Cinema
Last.fm: social your music taste 2007-10-17 10:40:00 And while we are on the mashup subject, here is another interesting mashup application named Last.fm - The Social Music Revolution. With more than ten million page views a day and claiming for the world's largest social music platform crown, this venture is focused in tracking what you listen to, learning what you like and giving you better music, just as I demonstrated my friends from Read more:taste
BuddyMapping: map-based guestbooks supporting Google Earth 2007-10-17 06:10:00 In the old days, when there was only Microsoft, software were always closed in the sense of not having an Application User Interface (API) for other developers to have their own software "talking" with them. Then came Google
with their very different approach leaving everything open and inviting developers from other companies to join in the mashup game and generate new media content and Read more:Earth
Criticker: Movie taste now shares better 2007-10-16 11:48:00 The folks from Criticker, reviewed here last Friday, seem to doing lots of extra hours lately and when folks does that I tend to take my hat off as its not easy: following a recent successful launching of a Facebook movie application (screenshot above) Criticker just announced their new movie widget yesterday. Blogoholic movie buffs are now invited to publish their personal movie taste
not just Read more:shares
, better
Lunacore Photoshop Training: how to beautify a face 2007-10-15 14:51:00 We all know advertising agencies have professionals working for them in making all the faces we see in their ads look perfect but how exactly is it done? This Photoshop
tutorial from Lunacore Photoshop Training
reveals the secrets of retouching art, showing step by step how the face of an ordinary human can be turned into a glamorous movie star face.
The technique is indeed making the face
Magicmirror: Enhanced consumer experience 2007-11-13 16:56:00 As Internet begins to fulfill the expectations it failed to answer priorly to the dot com crisis of 2000, brick-and-mortar retailers feel threatened, not say pushed to the wall. Thus, after long years of "easy life" retailers need to consider some new ideas such as this Magicmirror for example, from an RFID retail installations company in Italy named Thebigspace.
Expected to appear in a Read more:experience
Kids Logic puzzles: Brain-training the next generation 2007-11-12 12:31:00 As I promised last Thursday in my article about Sharpbrains.com and braintraining getting a hotter trend in the west I would like to follow-up on what I said about how sometimes things just tend to "sort out on their own" and what this post from Sharpbrains was just perfect for me for, so her it is, just in case you are not a regular visitor to Conceptis Free Weekly Puzzles section or one of Read more:Logic
, Brain
Reveal Your Dream: Separation of church and state 2007-11-18 12:44:00 Thanks to Leena from ConceptisAddict who encouraged me to reveal a personal dream of mine by tagging me for this meme by Neil of the neilsattin.com blog titled Reveal
Your Dream
: A Personal Development Challenge.
According to Wikipedia the phrase "separation of church and state" is derived from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to a group identifying themselves as the Danbury Read more:Separation
BookSnap: bulk professional book capturing in the speed of light 2007-11-16 04:35:00 Ever wanted your own personal digital library with all the books you ever had? if you did and ever tried scanning a whole book you must have stumbled upon this known problem: scanned book page images always come out twisted on their edges as you can never get the whole page to touch the surface of the scanner without destroying it. For a heavy scanning project this just won't do, it will take a Read more:professional
, light
Social Media to the Power of 7 Squared 2007-11-15 12:52:00 Greg Verdino of the Crayon marketing company and of my favorite marketing bloggers gave this presentation today within a PR News Online webinar on social media public relations. Titled "Social
Media to the Power of 7 Squared" his part of the event focuses on the "basics of blogger outreach and some simple ways to use social media channels and tools to connect with both influencers and consumers Read more:Social Media
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