I usually pulls out of topics like these, but when I bump to this Calvin & Hobbes pic, I knew I had to post this:
The original article is in Gawker article here, where it points out Americans are in it for 10 more years before their income level can be back to where it was 10 years ago. That’s a total of 20 years of income pit.
What happened to the tax-the-rich plan? Calvin & Hobbes know best.
Men’s Journal: The Blind Man who Taught Himself to See
Among many types of disability in life, blindness is the one that scared me the most. To hear, to smell, to walk, to breathe to name a few, are all special and beautiful skills that humans are designed to use and enjoy, and many take for granted. To lose an ability or sense is such a tragedy indeed, but personally, to lose the ability to see must be my most dreaded disability.
The article linked above tells the story of a person who completely lost his ability to see, yet able to develop one of his other ability to an uncanny level. I’ve heard story that blindness can cause a person to increase their sense of hearing, but to have an echolocation ability? In other words, to fly as good (and as blind) as a bat? That is an unbelievable skill and/or talent. To be completely honest, as I was reading it, I was saying to myself, this man must have super-power!
In my personal opinion, the story of Daniel Kish is one that can really spark a hope to one of the biggest disability of human kind; blindness. And it definitely sparked my afternoon to a new level. And hopefully it can do the same to you 
Now if only more research can be done in this field…
Link: Men’s Journal
I have return! Hahaha…
Well after a month-long void, I apologize with no posts. It’s been a crazy month with new job AND new home. But glad to know everything’s going well now. Just need to tie a few loose ends 
Several articles I found interesting the late few days (no Kotaku/Facebook from work 
)
Software to detect gender based on what you browse? Men, go try this out: Browsing-determines-gender
The biggest stir-up in the crypto community! US’ newly founded Cyber Command has a new logo, and it has crypted code on it! And according to Wired magazine they’re actually challenging people to solve it. The only hint? It’s their mission statement. Wired Article – Cyber Command Code
The last isn’t really techno, I know, but it’s interesting what you can find in the Internet isn’t it? A comprehensive list of what is *assumed* to be the cause and/or prevention of cancer: Kill or Cure?
Photography buff? Love nature/wildlife pictures? BBC Wildlife just released their Masterclasses tip sheet. Great tips for beginner and pro alike!
Text stuff of the day (and quite a few interesting ones at that) are as follows, ladies and gentlemen…
Victorinox apparently just announced that they will be launching a hacking event of hacking their latest device… an encrypted USB key in a Victorinox army knife – the Victorinox Secure Penknife. The winner will win £100,000 if they manage to crack it, and still get a free penknife if they failed anyway. The contest, unfortunately, will be limited to 24 very lucky people, but anyone is free to apply.
The penknife itself is a mixture of the true-and-told tough (and original!) Swiss Army knife, but also embed an encrypted and secure USB drive, that will require a fingerprint scan to open – which, if you failed to provide the correct fingerprint, will automatically notify the owner by email. Which, by the way, should the owner never replies back to it, will cause the deletion of the file within the drive. Never mind the contest, tell me where can I buy that thing!
Samsung Swipe – On other news, Samsung released an update to their Swipe-system for their mobile. For the unknown, this is a program that enables you to swipe around a touchscreen to type in your cellphone. But for more clarification, please feel free to watch the video of the device breaking a new world-record in the fastest text-message typing.
Gizmodo Article: Samsung Swipe
Real Science on Mass Effect 2. Last but certainly not least. Do you play Mass Effect 2? Do you also enjoy watching Discovery channel? Ever wondered how thin it is the separation between real science and science fiction in the game?
Well, Dr. Michio Kaku – a real nerdy (hey he pulls references to Star Trek and Star Wars, ok?) physicist who are also damn good at explaining complicated things into not-so-complicated brains – took a shot at explaining all of those. This is a seriously awesome short interview video if you’re into this stuff. Myself, for example,could not pause or stop watching this video mid-way at any point (except when the other dude is talking)
Source link: Kotaku Link
WARNING: NSFW – the picture in this post is Not Safe For Work… (well you shouldn’t be reading my blog from work to begin with anyway)
So I found this picture on the Internet regarding video gamers and I amused myself. Good picture. Funny. But nothing immediately jumps out to mind.
Until I read one of the comment posted by hismastersvoice on the Kotaku page, and I thought to myself… oh heck yes. The comment:
“The guy in red – a console gamer
The guy in yellow – a PC gamer
How can I tell?
He knows what couches are for.”
…of course, afterward I proceeded with some healthy burst out laughters… in the office.
PC Gamer FTW!
Interesting article by Wired. The layout alone is definitely one heck of a trip down memory lane for most people who remember those days.
is awesome…
Ok, so there’s nothing groundbreaking with the gameplay or graphic or technology… but Fist of The North Star!!! If you don’t know this title (Hokuto Musou!!!) then you can skip the whole post, really.
But for all of you that do know, and enjoy the comic (or even Anime, yikes!), you owe it to yourself to play this extremely over the top fighting game……… Man I love those comics.
Ken: you feel lucky, punk?
punk1: huuuuuh?
punk2: and who the **** are you, eeeeeh?
Ken: YATATATATATATATATA!!!!
*punks’ heads start to get swollen*
punk1&2: what the? thats the best you can do?? hahahah…errrk*
*heads exploded*
It’s like a trip down memory lane… while riding on a bike, swinging spiked chains, running over evil punks, blowing their heads off with your punches.
I was never big on reading other people’s blog (so sue me… ) but the few I’ve read, they latched on me for life a long time.
Here’s a good example. A mathmetician’s blog with puzzles: http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/
On another news, I’m still waiting for a chance to stop by EBgames to get a copy of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. I was a huge BF2 maniac (and a wee bit of BF2142) and been missing a solid online FPS frag fest (no, Call of Duty is not one of them – solid Single Player, sure… but kiddies MP). Hopefully this game can finally cure it. Well the following video helped….
