Wondering how Amazon get their dropdown to be that fast? Find out in this nice post!
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
Flight (2012)
Last line in the movie "Flight (2012)", the son asks: "So, who are
you?"; the father (Denzel Washington) replies: "That's a good question."!
Monday, January 21, 2013
What's The Most Dangerous Place on Earth? by Vsauce
Nice video, full of interesting facts!
Video details:
Video details:
Published on Jan 20, 2013
Subscribe to Vsauce. It's FREE! http://bit.ly/POIaN7
Music by Jake Chudnow: https://soundcloud.com/jakechudnow
Vsauce2: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce2
Vsauce3: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce3
Falling into lava video: http://youtu.be/kq7DDk8eLs8
Flowing lava video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAymSMrOlOQ
What death by lava would actually be like: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/the-right-and-wrong-way-to-die-when...
Where you can find a lava lake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_lake
How percentage of people are still alive? http://what-if.xkcd.com/27/
Hypothermia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothermia
Mariana Trench: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_trench
AMAZING xkcd chart showing depths to scale (click for larger pic): http://xkcd.com/1040/
Influenza: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza
Black Death: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
Malaria total fatalities: http://www.aaas.org/international/africa/malaria/gwadz.html
Global Peace Index: http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi-data/
Cabot Cove murder rate: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2191990/Murder-capital-world-Quiet-se...
Most dangerous cities by murder rate: http://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-cities-in-the-world-2012-10?op=1
Dirtiest cities: http://www.popsci.com/environment/gallery/2008-06/worlds-dirtiest-cities
Lake Karachay: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2215023/Is-polluted-place-Eart...
Chernobyl as haven for wildlife: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_chernobyl/all/
Music by Jake Chudnow: https://soundcloud.com/jakechudnow
Vsauce2: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce2
Vsauce3: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce3
Falling into lava video: http://youtu.be/kq7DDk8eLs8
Flowing lava video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAymSMrOlOQ
What death by lava would actually be like: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/the-right-and-wrong-way-to-die-when...
Where you can find a lava lake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_lake
How percentage of people are still alive? http://what-if.xkcd.com/27/
Hypothermia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothermia
Mariana Trench: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_trench
AMAZING xkcd chart showing depths to scale (click for larger pic): http://xkcd.com/1040/
Influenza: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza
Black Death: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
Malaria total fatalities: http://www.aaas.org/international/africa/malaria/gwadz.html
Global Peace Index: http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi-data/
Cabot Cove murder rate: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2191990/Murder-capital-world-Quiet-se...
Most dangerous cities by murder rate: http://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-cities-in-the-world-2012-10?op=1
Dirtiest cities: http://www.popsci.com/environment/gallery/2008-06/worlds-dirtiest-cities
Lake Karachay: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2215023/Is-polluted-place-Eart...
Chernobyl as haven for wildlife: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_chernobyl/all/
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
What if money were no object? by Alan Watts
How would you really enjoy spending your life? What would you like to do if money didn't matter? What would be your profession? What would you master? What do you desire?
Inspirational short video (music by Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire):
Video's script:
"What makes you itch? What sort of the situation would you like? Let's suppose, I do this often in vocational guidance of students: they come to me and say well, we are getting out of college and we haven't the faintest idea what we want to do. So I always ask the question: What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? Well it's so amazing as the result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say 'Well, we'd like to be painters, we'd like to be poets, we'd like to be writers' But as everybody knows you can't earn any money that way! Another person says 'Well I'd like to live an out-of-door's life and ride horses.' I said 'You wanna teach in a riding school?'
Let's go through with it. What do you want to do? When we finally got down to something which the individual says he really wants to do, I will say to him 'You do that! And forget the money!' Because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing you will spend your life completely wasting your time! You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living - that is to go on doing things you don't like doing! Which is stupid! Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing then a long life spent in a miserable way. And after all, if you do really like what you are doing - it doesn't really matter what it is - you can eventually become a master of it. It's the only way of becoming the master of something, to be really with it. And then you will be able to get a good fee for whatever it is. So don't worry too much, somebody is interested in everything. Anything you can be interested in, you'll find others who are.
But it's absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don't like in order to go on spending things you don't like, doing things you don't like and to teach our children to follow the same track. See, what we are doing is we are bringing up children and educating to live the same sort of lives we are living. In order they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in life by bringing up their children to bring up their children to do the same thing. So it's all retch and no vomit - it never gets there! And so therefore it's so important to consider this question:
What do I desire?"
- Alan Watts
Inspirational short video (music by Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire):
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British born American philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. From Wikipedia.
Video's script:
"What makes you itch? What sort of the situation would you like? Let's suppose, I do this often in vocational guidance of students: they come to me and say well, we are getting out of college and we haven't the faintest idea what we want to do. So I always ask the question: What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? Well it's so amazing as the result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say 'Well, we'd like to be painters, we'd like to be poets, we'd like to be writers' But as everybody knows you can't earn any money that way! Another person says 'Well I'd like to live an out-of-door's life and ride horses.' I said 'You wanna teach in a riding school?'
Let's go through with it. What do you want to do? When we finally got down to something which the individual says he really wants to do, I will say to him 'You do that! And forget the money!' Because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing you will spend your life completely wasting your time! You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living - that is to go on doing things you don't like doing! Which is stupid! Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing then a long life spent in a miserable way. And after all, if you do really like what you are doing - it doesn't really matter what it is - you can eventually become a master of it. It's the only way of becoming the master of something, to be really with it. And then you will be able to get a good fee for whatever it is. So don't worry too much, somebody is interested in everything. Anything you can be interested in, you'll find others who are.
But it's absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don't like in order to go on spending things you don't like, doing things you don't like and to teach our children to follow the same track. See, what we are doing is we are bringing up children and educating to live the same sort of lives we are living. In order they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in life by bringing up their children to bring up their children to do the same thing. So it's all retch and no vomit - it never gets there! And so therefore it's so important to consider this question:
What do I desire?"
- Alan Watts
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)