Medieval TRON
With the recent buzz about the remake of the classic TRON (in the works) I could not resist to post this gem:
With the recent buzz about the remake of the classic TRON (in the works) I could not resist to post this gem:
The other day I watched a movie entitled “the age of stupid“. Long story short, it shows the point of view of someone who, around 2055, survived a human species near eradication and built a tower with all the digital records of mankind and a bunch of other stuff too, like frozen animals, art pieces, [...]
This Saturday I went back to Teuge for another day of jumping out of airplanes. The day started a bit foggy but windguru never failed me so far, so I knew that it would clear eventually. And so it did; around 11 clock in the morning I was part of the first load of the [...]
I already wrote about it in the past, but now we finally got the video of the exit (too bad we can’t record video ourselves yet, but the time will come ). Here’s the link to the video.
Check it out, one of the most original 404 pages I’ve seen.
Go figure.
I was really in shock when I went with my mother to the bank the other day: There was a small sheet of paper stating that bank transfers done via the SWIFT network are prone to have its details shared with US authorities. The network currently has two nodes working with the same data in [...]
I woke up today at around 9 am and proceeded to call my buddy Ricardo to see if he had talked to our big master Mario Pardo about the DZ’s weather forecast for today. He had. Mario told him that the clouds were ok and, although there was a bit of wind, we should go [...]
Turns out that Portugal is in calamity alert due to the heavy winds and rain. The only place that seemed to escape this destiny was the country side, with just a few sprinkles in the morning and an afternoon of no rain. My only problem were the low clouds. As all skydivers know, low clouds [...]
So, yeah, I resumed playing around with android, this time version 2.0. I’m really tempted to buy the new Motorola Milestone that should come out in Europe sometime between… now… and early next year, so I wanna be ready to create all the crazy stuff I have in mind for it One of the things [...]
I want one of these. I wonder who comes up with these things. Maybe the same guy that thought it was a good idea to shoot a satellite against the moon.
Wow, these have been a couple of crazy days: First Samsung announced a new operating system for mobile devices called Bada – that will compete directly with Google’s Android – and the next day Google announces the creation of a new programming language, supposedly a cross between Python and C++, called Go. It looks like [...]
I’m getting addicted to the Fail Blog. It’s the best source of laughs I ever found (well, maybe xkcd and dilbert are up to par). One of the latest ones:
That thing is big. But so peaceful at the same time Here’s the movie.
Watch this video. Show some impressive developments on the artificial intelligence of the robot Asimo: Identifying objects, using features to extrapolate to other unknown ones. The robot war is near
I mean, would you buy this for your children?
Turns out that a hole made in my home country, Portugal, would end up in New Zealand: Check the source website here, and figure out where your country leads to on the other side of the world
Every daring endeavor is prone to small hiccups along the way
For all the “Family Guy” fans out there, here’s a collection of Quagmire’s best quotes. My personal favorite: Also, here are some of the best quotes by Stewie.
This is absolutely amazing. I can imagine that it will not work with every single person, but even if it works with only half a con artist can make a lot of money with these techniques: Checkout this and more videos of Derren Brown in action here.