Weekly Stuff #1
- From:
- justin flavin
- Date:
- 2010-09-03 @ 15:45
Weekly Stuff No.1
*** Interesting Stuff ***
America's Ten Dead Cities
http://247wallst.com/2010/08/23/americas-ten-dead-cities-from-detroit-to-new-orleans/
Kindle and iPad screens under the microscope
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/pictures-kindle-and-ipad-screens-under-microscope/
Colour home movie 1938 - Paris and Berlin. Includes a Nazi rally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5XM3gqiMGo&
*** Political & Current Affairs Stuff ***
Draconian laws for 2012 Olympic Games
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2010/aug/26/ioc-london-2012-olympic-games
What libertarians say vs what "retards" think they are saying
http://i.imgur.com/fxDpG.png
Ex Insurgent doesn't want the U.S. military to leave Iraq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100826/ts_nm/us_iraq_usa_falluja
LA Times - "Mexico's drug war"
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-mexico-20100814,0,6902034.story
The John Galt speech from "Atlas Shrugged"
http://amberandchaos.com/?page_id=106
*** Financial Stuff ***
Flash trading graphs
http://www.nanex.net/FlashCrash/CCircleDay.html
High Frequency trading is a scam
http://market-ticker.org/archives/1259-High-Frequency-Trading-Is-A-Scam.html
Market data firm spots the tracks of bizarre robot high frequency traders
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/08/market-data-firm-spots-the-tracks-of-bizarre-robot-traders/60829/
*** Tech Stuff ***
Fun with rm
http://www.leo.org/information/freizeit/fun/horror/rm.html
File i/o in every language
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3538156/file-i-o-in-every-programming-language-closed
The rise of microblogging and the death of posterity
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/22/thnks-fr-th-mmrs/
Airphone 4 review. Possibly the worst smartphone ever.
http://evostoning.blogspot.com/2010/08/airphone-4-review-fake-iphone-4.
The Facebook "meh" button
http://www.pubnub.com/blog/facebook-meh-button
Veho USB microscrope on Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Veho-VMS-004-Discovery-Microscope-Magnification/dp/B002JCSCYI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1282036089&sr=8-1
I got a USB microscrope
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2722
DailyWTF - "We Use BobX"
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/We-Use-BobX.aspx
*** Space stuff ***
Copenhagen Suborbitals
http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/
Photos of the Danish rocket and submarine
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3271649&pagenumber=16#post381212767
*** Video Stuff ***
Aphex Twin face mapping
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGosqmf-740
Lisa Needs Braces. Dental Plan!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd9Yibf_UXE
Kylie + Zero B - Can't Get You Out of My Lock Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeAAoMB-QuE&feature=youtu.be
Red Dead - Dastardly massacre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD2ywdtvK-8
Red Dead - unicorn easter egg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXqnqQSabfw
*** Movie Stuff ***
Inception music comparision - is an inception
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVkQ0C4qDvM
Inception mashups
http://io9.com/5607842/double-rainbow-dreams-20-of-the-most-deranged-inception-mash+up-videos
Titanic inception
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upZMMVLdDmU&feature=player_embedded
Simpsons Inception
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odpNE6ApxY0
Upception
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY69-AgUmDQ
Futurama Inception
http://i.imgur.com/TTkOh.png
*** Music Stuff ***
Did an Indian musician invent acid house - in 1982?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/apr/10/charanjit-singh-acid-house
Paulstretch Quiz
http://music.joshmillard.com/2010/08/17/bieber-paulstretch-music-quiz/
Justin Bieber is Paulstretched
http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/d1y2t/hey_rmusic_i_took_justin_biebers_u_smile_and/
http://www.heatworld.com/Fun-Stuff/2010/08/Justin-Bieber-is-incredible/
More Slowitup links
http://www.reddit.com/r/slowitup
Gx2 - "Amazing"
Now on iTunes, Zune and Tesco
iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/album/amazing/id389221636
Tesco
http://www.tescoentertainment.com/store/mp3/gx2--amazing/2%3a44806755/
Zune
http://social.zune.net/album/Gx2/Amazing/40998706-0100-11db-89ca-0019b92a3933/details?cache=true
*** Book Stuff ***
"Bought and Paid For - The unholy alliance between Obama and Wall Street"
http://www.amazon.com/Bought-Paid-Unholy-Alliance-Between/dp/1595230718/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282398777&sr=8-1
*** Quotey Stuff ***
"When I was sitting in Burger King and
'Holiday' came on, I really felt like I was
on a holiday" - Wyclef Jean
*** Jokey Stuff ***
Q: What do you call a woman with two c**ts?
A: N-Dubz.