Nice Things From Web: October 2009

Living Without Cash / Money: Interesting

He lives without cash – and I manage just fine
Armed with a caravan, solar laptop and toothpaste made from washed-up cuttlefish bones, Mark Boyle gave up using cash

Read his own story...

In six years of studying economics, not once did I hear the word "ecology". So if it hadn't have been for the chance purchase of a video called Gandhi in the final term of my degree, I'd probably have ended up earning a fine living in a very respectable job persuading Indian farmers to go GM, or something useful like that. The little chap in the loincloth taught me one huge lesson – to be the change I wanted to see in the world. Trouble was, I had no idea back then what that change was.

So to be the change I wanted to see in the world, it unfortunately meant I was going to have to give up cash, which I initially decided to do for a year. I got myself a caravan, parked it up on an organic farm where I was volunteering and kitted it out to be off-grid. Cooking would now be outside – rain or shine – on a rocket stove; mobile and laptop would be run off solar; I'd use wood I either coppiced or scavenged to heat my humble abode, and a compost loo for humanure.

To get around, I had a bike and trailer, and the 34-mile commute to the city doubled up as my gym subscription. For loo roll I'd relieve the local newsagents of its papers (I once wiped my arse with a story about myself); it's not double-quilted, but I quickly got used to it. For toothpaste I used washed-up cuttlefish bone with wild fennel seeds, an oddity for a vegan.

What have I learned? That friendship, not money, is real security. That most western poverty is of the spiritual kind. That independence is really interdependence. And that if you don't own a plasma screen TV, people think you're an extremist.

People often ask me what I miss about my old world of lucre and business. Stress. Traffic jams. Bank statements. Utility bills.

Well, there was the odd pint of organic ale with my mates down the local.

For more, please visit: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2009/oct/28/live-without-money

Bush to Obama...Smooth transfer and takeover

Comedy in the photo Background People

Ref: http://www.comedycentral.com/tosh.0/2009/10/20/top-23-reverse-photo-bombs-on-the-net//

For more such fun, please visit: http://www.comedycentral.com/tosh.0/

Very Small Chip Holds 20 HD DVD Movies: its amazing

Ref: http://www.switched.com

Engineers at North Carolina State University have created a computer chip that holds one terabyte -- or 1,000 gigabytes -- of data and is no larger than a fingernail. For perspective, that means you could store 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text on this tiny chip. According to Computer World, this modern marvel is made possible by a process called selective doping, in which engineers add an impurity to a material in order to change its properties. In this case, it results in a drastic reduction in size.

Not only does this breakthrough affect data storage, but it has implications for 'green' technology, too. For example, engineers could use selective doping to build ceramic engines that could withstand higher temperatures. That possible outcome, lead engineer Jagdish "Jay" Narayan says, could lead to better fuel efficiency. Doping could also better solar energy by improving the thermal conductivity of the materials used.

While the potential here for energy conservation is great, we still can't get over the fact that this chip has more than 50-times the storage capacity of other silicon-based chips.

For more please visit: http://www.switched.com

Secret In the painting

In the first pic, u can see a painting. This was a gift given to Tata on his B'day by a street artist. Unfortunately, only the painting was given to him and he had promised to reveal the secret shortly. However, Tata was no more when the secret was actually revealed.

When u place a steel rod at the circle in the first one, u'll c the image of the JRD Tata as a reflection on the steel rod as seen in the second pic.

Location:TataMuseum, Jamshedpur, India

Internet POP Culture: Inside The Tube: Incredible Wave Photography

Ref: http://internetpopculture.com/

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Amazing Table PC Build

Ref: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/265974-31-awesome-table-build

Specs:
1. The desk surface was constructed by Danger Den of two sandwiched, laser-cut layers of clear acrylic bolted to an aluminum frame.
2. A half-gallon of glycol runs through 15 feet of Tygon tubing and a radiator, cooling the processors.
3. To support our Times Square lighting, we used an Antec TruePower Quattro kilowatt power supply.
4. Two 300-GB 10,000-rpm VelociRaptor hard drives handle storage.
5. Synaptics engineered us this one-of-a-kind, flush-mounted touchpad with an integrated proximity sensor and light.
6. At the heart of our system is XFX’s 790i Ultra SLI motherboard, outfitted with 4 GB of Kingston HyperX DDR3 RAM and a 3.0-GHz Intel Core 2 Quad processor.
7. This worthless 15-inch custom PCI-E cable did not work—so we replaced it.
8. We cooled our PaLit GeForce GTX 280 graphics card with Danger Den’s Tieton water block.
9. Seven fans circulate air within the desk—and 13 bright-blue neon lights blind the user at the desk.
10. Ejecting up from the desk surface is a Sony BDU-X10S Blu-ray drive.

For more, please visit: http://www.tomshardware.com

SUPER COMPU ANIMATION

Amazing Animation, please visit: http://xqno.com/OWYzO

POLITICAL IRONY: The Real Reason Obama Got the Peace Prize

Ref: http://politicalirony.com/2009/10/11/the-real-reason-obama-got-the-peace-prize/

For more, please visit: http://politicalirony.com

Page Of A Children`s Book From...funnyjunk.com

Ref: http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/58261/Page+Of+A+Children+s+Book+From+The+1970s//

For more, please visit: Ref: http://www.funnyjunk.com

Good Morning Jokes

Ref: http://goodmorningjokes.blogspot.com

1. A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the supermarket, but couldn’t find one big enough for her family. She asked a stock boy, “Do these turkeys get any bigger?” The stock boy replied, “No ma’am, they’re dead.”

2. After her conviction of murder in the second degree, the District Attorney, during her sentencing hearing said, “Mrs. Grey – after you put the arsenic in the stew and served it to your husband, didn’t you feel even a little remorse for what you were doing?” “I did,” she said calmly. “And when was that?” quipped the D.A. “When he asked for seconds!” she replied.

3. A Swiss man, looking for directions, pulls up at a bus stop where two Americans are waiting. “Entschuldigung, koennen Sie Deutsch sprechen?” he asks. The two Americans just stare at him. “Excusez-moi, parlez vous Fracais?” he tries. The two continue to stare. “Parlare Italiano?” No response. “Hablan ustedes Espanol?” Still nothing. The Swiss guy drives off, extremely disgusted. The first American turns to the second and says, “Y’know, maybe we should learn a foreign language.” “Why?” says the other. “That guy knew four languages, and it didn’t do him any good.”

4.A Police officer approached a motorist stopped in the middle of the road before the river overpass holding up traffic. The officer noticed the driver jotting on a notebook frantically. He asked the driver, what in the world are you doing? The driver replied, "The sign says Draw Bridge".

and many more....

For more nice, funny and hilarious jokes please visit: http://goodmorningjokes.blogspot.com

Dead Flies Art: Height of creativity

Ref: http://acidcow.com/pics/4553-dead-flies-art-15-pics.html/

Dead Flies Art: Its great, its amazing...

For more, please visit: http://acidcow.com/

Windup Battery

Ref: http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/10/05/crank-up-battery/

Crank Up Battery

Re-chargeable batteries are no good when they run out of power and you have no electric point handy to tank them up again. Here’s where the concept of the Wind Up Battery steps in; re-charge these cells via the conventional battery charger OR use the hand-crank to wind up and source-up some juice. Kinda like your hand-crank radios. A simply superb concept!

For more, please visit: http://www.yankodesign.com/