Credit Crisis explained to everyone

I'd like to thank my boy themartorana for this link. As he said 'Easily the best and easiest to understand "layman" explanation of the credit crisis'

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Click for site here

This is what we're going to get RJay for his birthday

City floating on the sea could be just 3 years away

(CNN) -- A floating city off the coast of San Francisco may sound like science fiction, but it could be reality in the not-too-distant future.

The Seasteading Institute already has drawn up plans for the construction of a homestead on the Pacific Ocean.

One project engineer described the prototype as similar to a cruise ship, but from a distance the cities might look like oil-drilling platforms.

According to the plans, the floating cities would not only look different from their land-based counterparts, but they might operate differently, too.

Patri Friedman, a former Google engineer who now works for the Seasteading Institute, said floating cities are the perfect places to experiment with new forms of government.

Some of the new political ideas the group is tossing around include legalizing marijuana and making intellectual property communal -- so that everyone would take ownership in art produced on the city at sea.

"The idea isn't just about getting away from rules or getting rid of rules. It's about a system that encourages experimentation with different political systems," he said.

Friedman said the floating city may be built in modular pieces so that city blocks and neighborhoods can be recombined to create new urban layouts.

The idea of building cities on the sea is not new, he said, but the Seasteading Institute has come closer to realizing the goal than others.

"A lot of people over the past hundred plus years have had this idea and even specifically building cities on the ocean to try out new forms of government," he said. "But they've pretty much been totally imagined and if they did try, they totally failed."

There are several unknowns about future attempts to create floating cities, said Christian Cermelli, an engineer and architect with Marine Innovation and Technology, based in San Francisco.

Cermelli, who is part of a team of designers creating a blueprint for the first seastead, said it's unclear if construction is possible -- or what it would cost.

Still, a prototype for the idea may be finished in as little as three years, he said.

Friedman said seasteads are loosely based on oil rigs, but with important modifications.

"We care more about sunlight and open space, so the specifications are different," he said. "Also, oil platforms are fixed in place. We think it's important to have more modular cities. So you would build a city out of buildings that can actually be separated and rearranged."

Cermelli said the ocean cities may use technology from suspension bridges "to expand the space at sea and basically get a roomier platform."

Friedman says the idea of seasteading has met a range of reactions.

"Some people think we're crazy. A lot of people think we're crazy," he said. "Some people think terrible things could happen, others think it would be great."

About 600 people have joined the Seasteading Institute.

Some of them, like Gayle Young, say the idea is exciting partly because it's so different.

"I love the idea because it's audacious. It's big," she said. "It's about pushing frontiers."

Cube Dolls of your favortie people/ characters!

Cubeecraft (pronounced “kyoob-ee”) papercraft toys are FREE to download.

Each toy features interlocking tabs for construction - eliminating the need for tape, glue or other messy adhesives. To download click on the model you would like then save the template image.

Each toy is designed to be printed on a standard piece of 8 1/2 X 11 A4 letter paper.

Simply print, cut and fold your model into a cute and fun paper toy.

http://www.cubeecraft.com/

The History of the Internet

History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

Visions of 2019 Future by Microsoft

You gotta love the visions of the future. This is a very inspirational video by Microsoft. I'll be 41, Miya will be 19, and Lucas will be 10!

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&showPlaylist=true&from=shared" target="_new" title="Future Vision Montage">Video: Future Vision Montage</a>


This video was unveiled at Wharton Business Technology Conference on Febuary 29th. Microsoft’s Business Division president Stephen Elop unveiled the latest production from Microsoft Office Labs called “2019″, starring stock photo men, women and children playing with the next-generation of communication, collaboration and production technologies.

Yellow Sticky Notes

After realizing that yellow sticky note "to do" lists were consuming his life, animation filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns decided to visually self-reflect on his filmmaking journey by animating on the same sticky notes that caused him to ignore major world events for the last nine years. Animation meditation is blended with image, text, and an original musical score by Genevieve Vincent through the creation of a classically animated experimental film that was drawn straight ahead with only a black ink pen on over 2300 yellow sticky notes.

File this one under Incredibly Bizarre

http://www.boyofblue.com/cameras/yama.html#anchor

This "steam-punk" artist creates pinhole cameras using skulls. The workmanship is beautiful, and rather nightmarish. So are the photographs!

Fan Made Special Effects ... some of the outtakes of Star Wars

Online YouTube video conversion service

YouTube is the power of user generated videos online. The users maketh and the users taketh.


Vixey.net is a free utility that will allow you to download the video or audio from any YouTube video to your computer. Its an online video conversion service.

The Vixey application can be downloaded to your computer, but you can also use the website to download the videos by entering the url of the YouTube video... yes, its that easy.

For all your Photographers Out There...

Check out this link: http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/. The first panoramic slide show is amazing and tells a great story. Shout out to Nigel Storey for sending this my way.

Njoy :)

Stream your media from your mac to the PS3 or Xbox360

Having all your media at your command on your computer is awesome. How would you like streaming all that media from your computer to the tv in the next room? All you need is a mac, router, and a PS3 or Xbox 360.

My home setup uses my Mac to stream all my movies, music and photos to my Xbox360 using Rivet. Using this setup I've created my own personal video on-demand service. All your DVDs can now be ripped to you computer using handbrake and streamed to your tv via your mac. Its great to be able to box up all those DVDs into storage, and have a more streamlined living room.

PS3 users click here for Medialink

Xbox360 users click here for Rivet

Predictions on the future of mobile

The Trend Spotting Blog has posted several presentations on the future.

Here is the influencers on mobile 2009-2020 predictions.

Influencers On Mobile 2009 2020 Predictions By Trendsspotting

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: trendsspotting spotting)

Video chat can be fun

GZA, RZA, Bill Murray, drinking tea is good for you!

Very funny, need to watch all the way through, especially for those Wu fans out there

The death of TV is coming sooner than you think!

YouTube to post full-length MGM films
New partnerships put YouTube in more direct competition with Hulu

NEW YORK - YouTube, the largest video-sharing website, will show full-length television shows and films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's archives in its latest step to boost advertising revenue by adding professional programing, the company told Reuters on Sunday.

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T-Shirt Folding Ninjitsu

Compliments of Laurie

Happy Halloween

It being October and stuff, I figured I would put this link of this fantastic article about a GIANT SPIDER so enjoy.

Happy Spookyween

Captain America!!!!

If you like me, have been craving a Captain America movie, specially after the success of The Dark Knight, Spider 3, Iron Man, and the Incredible Hulk, then take a read of this dandy article. Enjoyskies.

Great comical/educational video on finances

This is from the TED Conference last year. Humorous. Educational. Scary.

Because You Wanted to See It...Or Maybe Not

Giving Geocentrists the Finger

After Galileo Galilei died, his students stole the middle finger off of his corpse and managed to preserve it. It now resides in a museum in Florence, Italy. Find out more.

Pool destruction: FINAL DESTINATION!!!

Wall studs removed














Stripping the wall away and tearing off the liner














Just got the Deck left, wall and liners completely gone














Looks like a UFO has landed in my back yard!!!

The Story Behind Batman's Voice in Dark Knight...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/04/mondaymoviebuzz.darkknight.ap/index.html

Supreme Commander = amazing game

I know I'm behind the times on this but I finally got a new computer
that can play it and it is amazing!!!

"Movies that entertain every age" is an amazing value proposition to live up to

Let's put a effin' post up

Yey! We are here!