Run Fat Boy Run

I've only watched half yet, but I gotta recommend Simon Pegg's Run, Fat Boy, Run (US link and UK link).
It's just a wonderful comedy and story on so many levels.

Big toy division

[Thanks to Uncle Ron.]

Biggest remote control plane I ever heard of, and it's a jet! (The video is a bit loosely edited, but hang in there, it does fly.) (Remember the HQ button, some of the new videos can get really big.)
Man, I think that thing could demolish a small building if it came down wrong.

This Tee is da bomb

[Thanks to TidBITS.]

One Apple geek tee-shirt feature the old-timey bomb symbol that Macs showed before OS X to hint that your computer had gone belly-up.

Apart from the (in retrospect) morbidity of the symbol, I find it amusing that you will not be allowed to board an airplane in an American airport if you are wearing this tee-shirt visibly. Seriously. Admittedly that's not a confirmed fact, it's an educated guess based on what kind of shirts people have been blocked for wearing. I know I wouldn't try it, these people have no sense of humor.

Montgomery Art

Montgomery Art is a daring and awe-inspiring new Fine Art initiative from our friend, LEGO enthusiast Alex.
Apart from him coming dangerously close to revealing personal details about one of his models, I have a very good feeling about this new gallery, and I think it could become very successful. You heard it here first.

What is a browser?

In the mid-nineties, an anecdote made fun of one of the Spice Girls, I forget which. She saw a computer with a web browser on it, and she said: "Can I have that? Can I have an Internet?"

This video shows that a minority of people using the Internet knows what a "browser" is. They often confuse it with a search engine. TidBITS has an article commenting.

Years ago I was in a writers' group, and I made a satirical poem about technology. Despite the fact that at that point I was a newbie myself, and despite that I deleted words which I thought the broader audience might not know, the poem caused massive confusion in the group, they hardly knew any of the terms I'd used.

I also notice how many people even today confuse the terms "web site", "blog", "email list", "newsletter", etc.
I really hope I'll never need to take a job as tech supporter.

Neeraj said:
About two years ago some so-called "child reporters" asked our top politicians about "internet" (see youtube, of course in German).

One of the questions they asked our minister of justice (Brigitte Zypries) was:

"Which browser do you use?"

Her answer was, after some hesitating:

"Browser? What is a browser?"

Since then, the question "What is a browser?" is a running gag all over the internet communities in Germany.

One suggestion is, that she has thought about a shower head, because in German it's also called "Brause".

She may also have thought about sherbet, because that is also called "Brause" in German.

Whatever;-)

(Together with the other answers it shows that our politicians have no understanding at all about internet, but sadly they decide about it's future, mostly by trying to keep it under control, which leads unavoidably to censorship ...)

Modern art

I love this quote:

"Modern Art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea." - John Ciardi

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The irony of course is that Sturgeon's law (“Ninety percent of everything is crud.”) notwithstanding, I do like "modern art".
But I also like the kind of art "where you can see what it is supposed to be". And I remember as a young man I was pondering, what's the perfect subject?
Well, a living subject compels more attention than a non-living one.
And one's own species compels more attention than others.
And, well, girls are just prettier. :-)

Iko Iko (Jockomo Feenanay)

I must have a dozen versions of Iko Iko on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper's version (below) is one of my faves.
But some of the lyrics don't make no sense. Especially "Jockomo Feenanay".
There are many different interpretations/explanations, but the one I like best is:
"“Jockomo Feenanay” is a chant used by the Mardi Gras Indians, African-Americans who dress in creative adaptations of Native American costumes. Jockomo Feenanay is Creole dialect for a French phrase, which means, “Every day is New Year’s Eve.” Jockomo Feenanay relays the essential message of Carnival: every single day brings us new opportunities to appreciate life."
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Here is the (or an) original version.

Pogue on compacts

David Pogue talks about low-light compact cameras. New ones I haven't even heard of yet.
Don't miss the funny video. (Get in on iTunes in high rez.)

Operation Beautiful

Talking about complimenting, how about Operation Beautiful?

Bad poster

Strange ad concept. Fuzzy, you might say. Or not much, really. But well, they are getting a bit of fuss over it.

(Updated) The Hubble Ultra Deep Field

Need new numbers for "many". HD video.

Pascal said:

Prefixes they should teach everyone in school:

1,000 : Kilo
1,000,000 : Mega
1,000,000,000 : Giga
1,000,000,000,000 : Tera
1,000,000,000,000,000 : Peta
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 : Exa

0.01 : centi
0.001 : milli
0.000,001 : micro
0.000,000,001 : nano
0.000,000,000,001 : pico
0.000,000,000,000,001 : femto
0.000,000,000,000,000,001 : atto

For EVEN bigger or smaller numbers, I think we can use digits for the very rare occasions. :-)
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Urrrrrgh, discrimination