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Hasselblad introduces the 50 megapixel H3DII-50

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

We haven't heard much from Hasselblad lately, but whenever the high-end cameramaker does make a peep, it's usually pretty impressive -- like the new 50 megapixel H3DII-50 back it just announced. Building on the H3DII-39 back, the 50 features a 36 X 48mm Kodak sensor twice the size of other full-frame DSLR sensors that generates 300MB files at 1FPS.

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Life.

From Dan Perjovschi's "What Happened to Us?" exhibit at MOMA.

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No Google source code for Viacom, just 12TB of YouTube data

Friday, July 04, 2008

As part of the discovery process in its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube, Viacom asked for an astonishing array of information: the source code for the search functions that power Google and YouTube, the source code for YouTube's new "Video ID" program, a complete set of every video ever removed from the site, databases containing information on

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Youtube to hand over all user histories and IP addresses!

Due to a recent judge ruling, Google will be forced to turn over every record of ever video watched by YouTube users, including user's names, and IP addresses to Viacom.

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Supermodel Ruslana Korshunova Commits Suicide

Monday, June 30, 2008

Striking Ruslana Korshunova, 22, jumped from her ninth floor apartment in her Water Street building, in the Financial District, just before 2:30 p.m.

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Menudo is back!

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Oh yes! The 80's latin pop sensation is back! But don't get me wrong. They are no longer made up of Ricky, Robby et al. Menudo got some new breeds!

Just a few days ago, they made a TRL appearance, after their show, Making Menudo concluded. They are actually uncomparable with the original Menudo gang.

You can visit theie MySpace here: http://www.myspace.com/menudo

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Beware of Friendster Phishing Site!

Thursday, October 18, 2007

This evening I discovered a possible phishing site.

Fake Log-in page: http://www.yenikoylu.com/components/com_galleria/upload_tmp/

Fake Adobe Flash security warning: http://www.yenikoylu.com/components/com_galleria/upload_tmp/security.html

NOTE: YOU MAY VISIT THE SITE BUT DO NOT LOG-IN OR DOWNLOAD ANYTHING FROM THAT SITE.

I think that is a phishing site, meaning it harvest your username and password and send it to yenikoylu.com's server.

I was tricked, yeah, but I i mmeadiately changed my password after i had safely removed it from my computer.

I downloaded the program and run it, but it does nothing! It only runs at the task manager. An exact characteristic of a key logger or someform of malware. Once the file i downloaded, you cannot delete it, unless you end the task at the task manager.

And how did I discovered this page? I was browsing my friend's profile (http://profiles.friendster.com/21441322) and decideto leave a comment, but insteadit redirected me to the fake log-in page.

I already emailed Friendster about this and I hope they will do something about it. It concerns our security and of course their site's integrity.

Please tell all your friends about this and always pay attention at what you are clicking and downloading.

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50 ways to say I Love You -- The Cheesy Way

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

If you can't say I Love You, why not try it this way?

  1. “If my heart were a baked potato, I’d serve it to you with extra butter and sour cream.”
  2. “Your terrible personality isn’t so terrible after a few drinks and even when I sober up, it’s not as terrible as everyone says.”
  3. “I’d shave my entire body with a dull, rusty razor blade and take a vinegar bath for you.”
  4. “I am rubber, you are glue, and any feelings you have for me bounce off and stick to you. Ironically, I feel the same way.”
  5. “The other day I saw this little girl drops her whole ice cream cone on the ground and start bawling. After I stopped laughing, I thought, “I’m the same way when you don’t call when you say you will.”
  6. “I saw you in the morning, on the toilet, and I didn’t run screaming. So there.”
  7. “Hug me. If you let go -- you lose.”
  8. “Umm… like… you and me? Yeah. You and me.”
  9. “You are to me what an eye patch and parrot is to a pirate.”
  10. “You are the hole in my donut.”
  11. “I am the pork, you are the beans.”
  12. “You make me want to vomit little chocolate hearts.”
  13. “You are my personal parachute.”
  14. “If you were a margarita, I’d drink you by the bucket.”
  15. “I really like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like you.”
  16. “If I had my junior high dance to do all over again, I’d lean against the far wall, stare at you, and hate myself for not asking you if you liked the punch.”
  17. “I don’t love you. I merely enjoy tolerating your existence immensely.”
  18. “I’ll still want to have sex with you even when you’re old, fat, and ugly.”
  19. “You had me at ‘Stop following me’.”
  20. “Your farts smell like vanilla.”
  21. “We’re a two person chain gang.”
  22. “I am valedictorian of the University of You.”
  23. “If you needed a kidney transplant, I’d also throw in a bonus lung.”
  24. “The wet, fatty ball of muscle and sinew that pumps my thick, steaming blood to all of my internal organs starts to beat irregularly when you come into my line of sight.”
  25. “You are to me what Oprah is to mediocre self-help gurus.”
  26. “While you’re in the shower, I collect your skin flakes from the sheets and now I carry them around in this little napkin I keep tied around my neck.”
  27. “You suck! So good.”
  28. “If you were frozen in Carbonite and taken by bounty hunters, I’d gladly disguise myself, infiltrate a fortress of intergalactic gangsters, threaten them with a thermal detonator, and defrost you myself.”
  29. “When I was a kid I was kind of stupid and I thought it would be fun if I stuck a fork in the wall socket and obviously I was thrown across the room. Well, that shock that made my teeth chatter and my hair fall out? That’s like you.”
  30. “We are totally codependent and I don’t want it any other way.”
  31. “This is the “happily ever after” part of the damn fairy tale, dig?”
  32. “If you were a handful of genital crabs, I’d never change my underwear.”
  33. “I’m not saying we shouldn’t see other people. I’m just saying I’ll chase whoever you see out of town with a nail-studded baseball bat.”
  34. “I am your blank check. Don’t bounce me.”
  35. “Shut your piehole! Okay -- now kiss me with that beautiful piehole.” (piehole is a slang for mouth)
  36. “If you were in a horrible accident and they put your head in a saline solution-filled fish tank, I’d feed you, change your water, and carry you on my back everyday until they built you a kick-ass robot body.”
  37. “If given the choice between playing roundball like Michael Jordan and raising rugrats with you in a trailer park then I’d be the first to stand in line to buy diapers.”
  38. “You’re such a fucking asshole! And so am I. Let’s forgive each other, get drunk, and screw.”
  39. “If I was smart, I’d follow you around like a puppy and never, ever crap in the corner.”
  40. “Not only would I carry you out of the factory and drive away you away on my sweet chopper… I’d also buy you a beer and a basket of fries.”
  41. I wrote you a poem: “You walk in beauty like the night/ which means you’re the hottest babe in sight/Come home with me so I don’t get in a fight/I agree with what you said: you are always right.”
  42. “I’m a grown up and just face the facts that you’re my security blanket.”
  43. “You don’t know it, but right here, right now, is the point in the musical montage part of the movie. Let’s split a pretzel and go for a walk on the footbridge.”
  44. “Not only would I die for you, I’d bitch slap Satan a good one, too.”
  45. “Look: you’re the only one allowed in my bunker. So go get some batteries while I’ll clean my shotgun.”
  46. “I’m a junky for your instant messages.”
  47. “I had the weirdest dream last night: I was waking up just as dawn was breaking, but instead of the sun rising on the horizon, it was your glowing face. You were smiling and glowing and it felt too good. Isn’t that just strange? I have NO idea what that means. Pass the ketchup.”
  48. “You’re my best and only naked friend.”
  49. “If you we’re a cigarette, I’d smoke five packs of you everyday and welcome each and every eventual tumor.”
  50. “Let’s set aside cool, ironic detachment for just a moment, shall we? I love you. Wow… wasn’t that just like lame movie Reality Bites? You’ve never seen it? It’s awesome… in a totally stupid way.”
Not bad! Some are really cheesy while some are way too sweet. I emphasized my favorites And if you really like like like like like like like like this post, please StumbleUpon it!

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Ladybug Sex -- no adult content

Ok. So here's the deal, you get two lady bugs, place them in your palms and wait for them to have sex given that the other lady bug is actually a guy.

And if you succeed, you can take a video clip of them upload it to YouTube and voila, 2 million + views in 6 months.

I wonder what the ladybugs been thinking...

And oh, if you don't know what I'm talking about, here's the kid with the lady bug sex at his palm.

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Internet People

Sunday, September 09, 2007

Wow! I so love this video by Meth Minute 39. I saw this just a few hours after it was released, and I think that it would be great idea if I could link all the internet people -- well, those that I could find.

I know there are a lot of Internet People that I failed to include on the list, so please if you know the link to one of the internet people, hit the comment button!

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Ring the Alarm.. clock! Top 10!

Sunday, September 02, 2007

After the review i did before about the coolest tables, now, I present to you the alarm clocks review. Here are the top 10 alarm clocks that would surely get your butt off the bed better than your mom!

On the 10th spot is...

The Sfera alarm clock hangs from the ceiling above your bed. When the alarm goes off, you can reach up and touch it to activate the snooze function causing it retract towards the ceiling. When snooze goes off again, you have to reach higher to activate the snooze again. Each time you activate the snooze function the alarm retracts a little higher to the point that you get your butt out of bed. The Puzzle Alarm wakes you up by firing four puzzle pieces up in the air, then it is your mission to get the pieces and put them back in the alarm clock or it won’t turn off until then. Price:$52 The interactive alarm clock with a unique personality goes by the name, Nooby. To see what time the alarm is set you simply ask him and he reads the current alarm setting and assures you it’ll go off. When your favorite time of the morning comes around, he’ll beep and say, “Rise and shine, it’s time to get up!”. When you go back to sleep and don’t turn the alarm off right away, he’ll beep again, but this time he gets nasty, “Take your fingers out of your ears!”. To put an end to this harassing wake up call, you simply ring the clock’s blue neck. If he senses that you are angry, he’ll get grumpy and ignore you.Price:$29.95

ClearSounds Wake & Shake alarm clock features a choice of loud tones, a flashing strobe, or vibrating pad to alert you when the alarm signals or as an added bonus, when the phone rings!

Tone control offers 95 dB ring level volume intensity. Flashing strobe light breaks through sleep to wake you up. Vibrating pad can be positioned under your pillow or mattress for a sturdy nudge out of bed.

Anemone Clock rumbles when the alarm goes off, eventually shaking its way all across your room, forcing you to get up to stop it. It keeps shaking when you pick it up, shaking you awake and making it a hard to find the off button. The Kuku Alarm Clock greets you every morning by crowing and laying eggs. It won’t stop chirping until you’ve returned its eggs. Price:$49.95

The Drill Sergeant Alarm Clock

After a bugle plays “Reveille,” your personal drill sergeant clears the cobwebs from your brain with an inspiring round of orders you can’t fail to obey. LCD display provides you with time, alarm time, and date. Alarm with snooze button sounds with bugle, drill sergeant, or AM/FM radio (when you’re off duty, of course).

Price:$19.98

The blowfly alarm clock escapes from a cage in your room, moves and produces sound around you when the alarm goes off. To turn it off you have to catch it and put it back in its home. A similar alarm is available at Amazon for $25 The Sonic Alarm will wake pretty well anything up. Simply pull the pin, yell an emphatic “fire in the hole” and lob the grenade into the sleeper’s room. After ten seconds a very annoying and piercingly loud noise (there are three volume settings) will blast out from the alarm. That’s not all however, what makes this especially great is that to stop the alarm the sleeper has to find you so you can put the pin back in. Price:$19 When you hit Clocky’s snooze button, he will roll off of the nightstand, fall to the floor, and run around the room, searching for a place to hide. When the alarm sounds again, you have to get out of bed to find it and turn it off. He finds a new spot everyday, “kind of like a hide-and-seek game”.

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Groooveee!

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Wow! I mean wow! I saw this vid like a month ago, but I still love watching it. Maybe I just missed my dancing days.

And another wow for this one. The person must have a really good hands.

Don't forget to hit your "I Like It" button at your StumbleUpon toolbars! Thanks!

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Wikis -- the Pros and Cons

Monday, August 20, 2007

Wkipedia has been a student's lifesaver for research works and other documentation projects. Now, maybe all of us have used a Wiki before, but not all have edited or contributed to an article.

The following video shows us how a Wiki works and how it could help us eliminate the use of email system.

But since Wikis can be edited by anyone, the question remains -- Are Wikis (Especially Wikipedia) accurate?

A recent article from maltaStar showed how corporate giants used Wikipedia to somehow manipulate or front their image.

- Microsoft tried to cover up the XBOX 360 failure rate
- Apple edit Microsoft entries, adding more negative comments about its rival
- Bill Gates revenge? Microsoft edits Apple entries, adding more negative comments about its rival
- The Vatican edits Irish Catholic politician Gerry Adams page
- In the 9/11 Wikipedia article, the NRA added that “Iraq was involved in 9/11”
- Exxon Mobil edits spillages and eco-system destruction from oil spillages article
- FBI edits Guantanamo Bay, removing numerous pictures
- Oil company ChevronTexaco removes informative biodiesel article and deletes a paragraph regarding fines against the company
- Scientology removes criticism and negatives article from Scientology page
- Al Jazeera TV station adds that the foundation of Iraq was just as bad as the Holocaust
- Amnesty International removes negative comments
- Dell Computers deletes negative comments on customer services and removes a passage how the company outsources work to third world countries
- MySpace removes paragraph when their website was hacked
- EA Games deletes whole paragraphs of criticism about employment practices and business methods
- Dog breeding association deletes whole paragraphs about fatal attacks by dogs on humans
- US Republican Party changes the "Post-Saddam" section of the Baath Party article to a different account of the war, changing the language from "US-led occupation" to "US-led liberation"
- Fox News removes all controversial topics against the network from the Fox News page
- News of the World deletes a number of criticism against the paper
- Nestle removes negative comments on its business practices from its page
- UN address calls journalist Oriana Fallaci a racist ‘prostitute’
- Portuguese government removes entries about Prime Minister’s scandals
- DieBold, the company that controversially supplied computerised polling stations in the US elections, removes numerous paragraphs with negative comments
- Walmart removes criticism of outsourcing work. The retailer also changes negative paragraphs of underpaid workforce
- Sony removes harmful paragraphs against blu-ray systems
- Someone at Reuters calls Bush “a mass murderer”
- Coca Cola removes negative content about its effects
- British Conservative Party removes negative references of its MPs and deletes paragraph of the party’s old policies
- US University adds the “prestigious” adjective to its page
- Boeing edits from “Boeing is a leading American aircraft and aerospace manufacturer” to “Boeing is the leading American aircraft and aerospace manufacturer”
- MSN Search is “a major competitor to Google”. That’s what MSN added to their page
- BBC changes Blair's drink from coffee to vodka and his workout from the gym to the bedroom. Someone from the BBC also changes Bush’s page, changing the name from ”George Walker Bush” to “George Wan*** Bush”
- Someone from The Guardian edits the Wikipedia page of rival newspaper The Times. Originally in the article it is said that The Times sells more than The Guardian. After the edit, The Guardian sells more.

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Tibetan Personality Test

Try this one! I don't know if it's just cold reading or something, but I enjoyed it anyways. Nothing to loose in trying thi test. If you dont have a paper near you, notepad can used. :P

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Amy Winehouse I can go to Rehab with you

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Quantcast

She is currently my uber favorite soul-jazz singer. Of course her single Rehab is just one of the fine songs you can hear from her album "Back to Black."

Her song "B-Boy Baby" is a collaboration with former Sugababes and now a solo performer Mutya Buena.

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Sad

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

I was rummaging the wilderness of the web when I stumbled on this website.

I must admit that I almost couldn't sleep the night I saw the pictures. This maybe the saddest thing to happen for a mom.

The pictures are taken by Renee C. Byer, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner for Featured Photography.

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3 World's Most Amazing Tables

Monday, August 13, 2007

Fletcher Capstan

The ingenuity of this classic looking fletcher table is amazing.

Now that's what I call expandability!

Milk

Milk is an ultra-modern table designed for the people with an elegant taste.

This is the onlt table in the world wherein you can put your Mac or PC on top of with without revealing the wires.

It is a high gloss lacquer RAL 9016 with a solid MDF table top. The height of the tablecan be adjusted electronically through a button underneath. You can also add a small fish tank!

SawStop table saw

Have you seen SiCKO? Now if the guy who paid 12 grand for his ring finger had a saw stop, that wouldn't happen to him. Why? Because SawStop is the world's safest table saw.

And oh, this one made it to the 4th place: The Safe Bedside Table.

The Safe Bedside Table was designed by http://www.jamesmcadam.co.uk/

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Facebook Off -- The Movie

This is a parody of Facebook, a social networking site just like Friendster and mySpace, did by the guys from College Humor.

This clip reminds me of this Def Poetry Jam...

Fuck myspace 'coz I need my space and tell face book I want my face back.

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Have You Seen NASA?

Sunday, August 12, 2007