How Would a Sentient Robot Respond to an Invitation to a Board Game?

24. February, 2012

“Physical game pieces? … Well, I guess we’ll play like savages, then.” (from Ctrl+Alt+Del)

The next page is great, too. I like his first move: “I win” 😉


I’m Human

13. February, 2012

This movie moved me: I’m Human – Liberty Broadcasting Squad

It’s just 10 minutes and well worth it.


Lazy Dog

1. February, 2012

It’s too damn hot…


Some More WINs

14. January, 2012

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

(source: Braille Burger WIN)

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


Two Nice Browser Games

11. January, 2012

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

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

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


A Couple of Cool YouTube Videos

5. January, 2012

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:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjQPeyKkHj4

Car wash? No problem. Just park here…


Address is Approximate – Amazing video

4. January, 2012

Found on Guillaume Lerouge’s blog:


So Help me Jobs…

26. December, 2011

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?


Woes of Too Much RAM

12. October, 2011

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 🙂


Remote Controlled Cows

20. September, 2011

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA-ST8nXl4U