SolarPuff

The SOLARPUFF is an amazing little device, a small, bright, foldable lamp driven purely by sunlight.
I own several of them myself, from their Kickstarter campaign, it works well.
It can do much good and fun for us, but the real boon is what it can do in the large parts of the world without an electric grid.

Fork, a new macro pic

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Update: 

Russ thought it might work as B/W too, so let's see: 

Also I wondered a bit late if a bit more contrast might be good:

Less subtle, but more punch.

  

"Sheep view 360"

If Google street view won't come to the Faroe Islands, then the Islands will come to Google, sheep and all!
(The girl behind it is beautiful too.)

Acid Horse - No name no slogan

New macro pics

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(They are all better in full size, but especially Buddha here.)

(Olympus Pen-F, M-Zuiko 60mm Macro lens.)

Three girls and a Kite

I can't find out to get an embed code for this, but trust me, this is an unusually fun/funny video.

A site for asking about differences

I found an interesting site, diffen.com, for finding out the differences between things, for example a CEO and a president.

Summer

I hope all a'youse are enjoying your summer, however and whereever it's taking place. (Even if it's a winter on the Southern hemisphere.)

Virtual car ads

A specialized kind of car now exists explicitly to allow car makers to make photo-realistic car ad videos without having the actual car they are advertising! Info and video.

Singapore re-imagined

Outstanding videos, watch 'em both.

There are two of you in your head

Thanks to Bert for finding this amazing (spooky?) video of brain weirdness.

"How are you?"

It's a normal greeting in many languages to say "How are you?" or the like. (Locally here it's often "are you okay?".)  Since I have the odd tendency to believe that people mean what they say, and to not lie if avoidable, I've been long confused as how to answer that. The answer may be complex, or it may be negative on a bad day. And do people really want to hear about it?

I think not, generally. What they want, I think, is to show that they care (which is surely true to some degree or other) and to reassure themself that you are one less thing for them to worry about.

And of course they usually can't help you anyway if you're having a bad day. So in that case I've developed a kind-of solution which does not involve any lies. I simply nod and smile and say: "And you!" That seems to be perfectly acceptable.

I'm reminded, it seems a common idea that "Good morning" means "it is a good morning." But it seems obvious to me that it means "I wish you a good morning."