These are just records of things or sites I think are important, interesting, funny or both. Therefore, if you have a little time in your hands at lunch break or when you get home just relax, sit down and have a look.
Moon is a film directed by Duncan Jones, starring Sam Rockwell, Matt Berry, Robin Chalk, Dominique McElligott and Kevin Spacey as the robot. Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is finishing his contract with Lunar Industries, which operates a mining operation on the far side of the moon. Using automated mining machines, the company mines Helium-3, a precious gas that holds the key to reversing the Earth's energy crisis (wouldn't that come in hand?). He has been a faithful employee for three long years at Selene, a moon base where he has spent his days alone. While there, he only has a robot Gerty (Kevin Spacey) to keep him company. I had a peek at the trailer and at the synopsis but for people who like sci-fi movies like I do, seems to be a good film. Also with the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing having happened so recently, there couldn’t be a more fitting time to revisit the Moon.
If you like popular science this site is for you. Interesting, informative and full of novelties. There are lots of surveys in which you can for instance get a brain sex profile to find out if you think like a man or a woman or you can also find out why scientists are interested in the length of your fingers.
One Canadian is hoping to de-stress the world, one can at a time. Lino Fleury has created what is known as the anti-energy drink. Slow Cow is packaged like the popular Red Bull energy drink, but it has the opposite effect: "It's a balm that soothes people and takes the edge off stress," says Fleury. Under the premise that caffeine-packed drinks tend to increase anxiety, Slow Cow contains theanine, chamomile, valerian, passiflora and other ingredients known for their calming effects. This drink is meant to increase mental awareness while improving relaxation, without the post-effects that caffeine and other stimulants cause. Slow Cow, whose logo apparently did not amuse Red Bull, might have found a gap in a market saturated with energy drinks of every possible variety. I want to try it!
Life would be hard without this engineer's guide to cats. All you need to know to deal with your cat from corporal cuddling to collaborative low energy cardboard performance art. A must see.
Here is a great idea to sell stuff. The SomethingStore is a website that operates simply: They will send you something, an item selected randomly among many things from their inventory, for $10 and you will find out what your something is when you receive it! You might get lucky and receive a neat present (like a magazine subscription) or you might just get stuff you don't really need (like a set of shiny shower curtains). Anyway $10 seems like a fair price to pay for a surprise, don't you think?
How hard is it to break with our clicking habits? What happens, if we remove the essential element of navigation from an interface, which we are accustomed to? Does it change our behaviour of navigation? And is change good or does it suck? These are some of the questions which will be answered by the project don't click it. It took me a while to get used to but after a while I was already into it (sort of...)
According to the Greenpeace site, Japan is still the whales’ enemy number one. Japan has aggressively expanded its “scientific” whaling over the past five years and pushed for an end to the ban on commercial whaling. Figures provided by Japan also show that almost a third of the whales Japan harpooned in the Antarctic last summer were pregnant, making a mockery of its “scientific” program.I know this probably won't solve the problem but it's a noble initiative and it's fun! All you have to do is customise your own whale (you can choose from a different set of colours, textures, props and sounds) and send it to japan with a personal message. After having designed your whale you can track her and spread the idea by sending an invite to your friends. Mine is already out there!
Robin Sloan (generalist writer and web-worker in San Francisco) has produced an original flash online movie for the Museum of Media History which predicts the evolution of media from 1984 up until 2014 and how newsmasters will eventually claim their territory. In this fictional narrative, the ‘Evolving Personalized Information Construct’ (known as EPIC) Sloan describes the system by which our sprawling, chaotic mediascape is filtered, ordered and delivered. Everyone will contribute – from blog entries, to phone-cam images, to video reports, to full investigations. Many people will get paid to contribute by Googlezon (which will be a fusion between google and amazon). It was interesting to watch this thought provoking prediction of a not so far away future. You can also see the updated version (2015), which is basically the same movie with a few updates.
I don't really know how I am going to feel when Clint Eastwood is gone, but I am guessing I will be devastated. Clint is unique and irreplaceable. One feels like everything would be less interesting if he were not involved and things that could easily be sentimental in other hands turn into something human when he is involved. This is one of his latest films and as usual it mirrors Clint's intelligence, strenght, character and heart. I have seen it twice already (both at the cinema and at home) and it has - made my day! - Just out of curiosity, the Gran Torino song was written by Clint Eastwood himself, Jamie cullum, Michael Stevens and Kyle Eastwood (Clint's son who just happens to be a Jazz musician!)
Moon is a film directed by Duncan Jones, starring Sam Rockwell, Matt Berry, Robin Chalk, Dominique McElligott and Kevin Spacey as the robot. Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is finishing his contract with Lunar Industries, which operates a mining operation on the far side of the moon. Using automated mining machines, the company mines Helium-3, a precious gas that holds the key to reversing the Earth's energy crisis (wouldn't that come in hand?). He has been a faithful employee for three long years at Selene, a moon base where he has spent his days alone. While there, he only has a robot Gerty (Kevin Spacey) to keep him company. I had a peek at the trailer and at the synopsis but for people who like sci-fi movies like I do, seems to be a good film. Also with the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing having happened so recently, there couldn’t be a more fitting time to revisit the Moon.
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