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Lazy Dog

digulla — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:01:41 +0000

It’s too damn hot…

Tagged: Dog, Fun

Some More WINs

digulla — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:58:32 +0000

Making food visible for the blind … I really like the smiles when the dish is served.

I fondly remember this line from MAD magazine: If a student takes six hours to write a paper by hand, how long would it have taken had he used a pencil?

Maybe even longer:

(source: Finger Painting WIN)

In the next video, a couple of people had lots of books and lots of time and a lot of creativity went into it, too:

(source: Book Party WIN)

Some people only read books. Wimps! There is so much more you can do:

Book Carving WIN

And last but not least: Something to enjoy like a great sunrise – “Seconds of Beauty“

Tagged: Books, Braille, Fun, Painting

Two Nice Browser Games

digulla — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:52:53 +0000

If you’re looking for a simple game to fill a five-minute gap, here are two by Microsoft:

Pirates Love Daisies (tower defense)
Cut the Rope (logic puzzle)

Even though developed to show off IE9, they work perfectly well in Chrome.

Tagged: Browser Games, Cut the Rope, Fun, Pirates Love Daisies

A Couple of Cool YouTube Videos

digulla — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:14:37 +0000

If you ever wondered what happens when two drop of water drop:

Here is some good reasoning what is wrong about in discussion about climate change (stupid title, though):

And being a cat lover/owner:

Car wash? No problem. Just park here…

Tagged: Fun, Video

Address is Approximate – Amazing video

digulla — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:05:19 +0000

Found on Guillaume Lerouge’s blog:

Tagged: Fun, Video

So Help me Jobs…

digulla — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:44:07 +0000

One day, Apple might go one step further and start to shape their customers to their liking. They know best, right? Watch this.

“I have nothing to hide.” “Then why do you have curtains?“

Tagged: Fun, Siri

Woes of Too Much RAM

digulla — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:14:34 +0000

Usually, you can’t have too much memory in your PC but there is one exception: When you have lots but not enough.

Example: I have Eclipse (1.5GB), Chrome (1.6GB), Firefox (1GB), VirtualBox (2GB) and a Maven (1.3GB) build running. Plus 20 console windows.

That’s roughly 8GB in total which is the amount of real RAM I have installed.

The problem arises when the real memory is exceeded. I do have 8GB of swap but do you have any idea how long it takes to swap out 1-2GB of RAM to a harddisk?

Ages.

When you have lots of RAM, you don’t think about starting something else which might need lots of memory like GIMP or a video editor or starting WebSphere. All of a sudden, your whole computer freezes and you think “WTF? Did it crash? What’s going on?”

A lot of RAM can be bad

Tagged: Fun, RAM, swap

Remote Controlled Cows

digulla — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:34:50 +0000

You could use a dog or a horse but an RC so much more fun!

Tagged: Fun

Futuristic Fountain

digulla — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:46:37 +0000

Here is an amazing example of a 21st century fountain:

Makes me feel like someone during the age when fountains were invented.

Source: Water Screen WIN

Tagged: Fun

Eventually Windows Will Have Voice Recognition

digulla — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:22:38 +0000

At least for a couple of days until children start to run through the cube farms screaming at the top of their lungs: “Format C: Yes!”

Tagged: Fun, Speech recognition