Putting the fun back in web surfing
If someone tells you that they think you could become anyone, they don’t usually mean it in the literal sense. Here’s a girl who actually can become anything. Anything from a guy named Drake to Angelina Jolie:
The power of makeup. And she did it in a pretty awesome, believable way.
Members of the Google Art project and the Google Street View team recently came to the White House to create a new way for people to tour the White House. Take a look at the process that went into creating a 360 degree virtual walk through of the White House public tour. Take a look inside the White House at http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-white-house/museumview/
Whenever you feel down or unwanted, just think through this. You are 1 person, out of 7 billion people, on 1 planet, out of 8 planets, in 1 star system, out of 100 billion star systems, in 1 galaxy, out of 100 billion galaxies.
Although the graphic isn’t entirely true, since there are way more stars and galaxies around than a measly 100 billion. Bet that made you feel better.
Depending on which version you believe, Darth Vader was either one of the most evil beings in the Star Wars universe, or simply an accomplished and hard-working person going about his business.
But what would he have been like as a father? Maybe these illustrations will provide some clue:
Looking at these, Luke seems to be the annoying little brat who drove his dad to become an evil psychopath. via
Ever thought about how far we have come as a species from the good old days of 9,600 bps dialup and 1.44MB floppy disks? Check out how much data gets thrown around on the Internet in a single minute.
The amount of activity and data flowing around really is staggering. We probably should try to improve the quality of all this data and kill all the useless stuff.
The way things are going, maybe we should also just stop bothering with Gigabytes and Terabytes and just invent an alternative data unit that doesn’t need to be replaced every couple of years with one a thousand (and twenty-four) times bigger.
I vote to call it a Ploppy.
This cool bookshelf opens a hole into another dimension where its base meets the floor. So you can stuff any number of books inside it, without taking too much room in your …er … room.
Doesn’t look like very hard to make. Will probably need to sacrifice a few books for the bottom part. via
