How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography

http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-make-digital-photos-look-like-lomo-photography/

NYC Hotspots

Sounkyo Sushi ($$$) (all you can eat sushi / drink )

reservations from 7pm-9pm, 9pm-11pm
Japanese, Sushi
Neighborhood: Manhattan/Midtown East
937 1st Avenue
(between 51st St & 52nd St)
New York, NY 10022

(212) 893-8263

Added review: I have never seen anything like this place... We came with a group for the $15 unlimited sake/wine/beer special. And my God did we make use of it... the entire restaurant was doing sake bombs at the same time all night... none of us remember leaving... I have pictures of me there that I don't remember taking... my hands were bruised the next day from slamming the table... I think the food was good but in the condition I was in cardboard would have been delightful. If you're looking for a sushi restaurant this is not for you. If you are looking for an absolutely ridiculous night out with a group of friends you have got to check this place out. One of the best nights I've ever had- from what I remember!

Joshua Tree – Bar (open until 4am)

http://www.joshuatreebarnyc.com/media/joshuatree.html

Tues Through Sunday Nights

House DJ – Playing 80’s Music Videos

Joshua Tree Eastside
513 Third Ave.
New York, NY
212.689.0058

The Pod Hotel (just in case)

http://www.thepodhotel.com/

Contact The Hotel:

P: 212.355.0300
US Toll Free: 800.742.5945
Canada: 800.874.0074
email: info@thepodhotel.com

Website list of Bars / Clubs

http://www.nyc.com/search/find.aspx?secid=5&area=n-14&sort=distance&dir=asc

Meatpacking District – is where most of the nightclubs are located

BEST PIZZA in NYC

Lombardi’s Pizza

32 Spring St.

New York, NY 10012

212-941-7994

You're in Little Italy and you crave pizza---imagine that? Lombardi's is a preferred stop for pizza lovers for good reason. For almost a century, the owners have dedicated themselves to turning out excellent coal-oven pies that emerge charred, with just the right amount of fresh mozzarella and a tangy sauce redolent of basil. All of the toppings are of high quality, especially the sliced homemade meatballs.

dig post-prod

http://photo.net/learn/digital-post-processing/

nike + bat replacement

http://gizmodo.com/5030062/replace-the-nike%252B-receiver-battery-for-5-and-say-no-to-nike-and-apples-overcharging

rip youtube videos audio or video

http://vixy.net/

info sharing

http://lifehacker.com/399880/aurora-concept-video-proposes-the-future-of-the-web

tech diy

shoebox/drawer charging station
http://lifehacker.com/399765/turn-a-drawer-into-a-hideaway-charging-station

htpc setup
http://lifehacker.com/396516/diy-pegboard-media-center

photoshop / photography tuts

http://www.mydamnchannel.com/Big_Fat_Brain/You_Suck_At_Photoshop__Season_2/1167_834.aspx

http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials/tut003.htm


http://www.morguefile.com/archive/classroom.php

http://www.dpreview.com/learn/


http://photo.net/learn/


macro photobox http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-diy-10-macro-photo-studio.html

easy food DIY

http://lifehacker.com/397814/101-picnic-dishes-in-20-minutes-or-less
http://lifehacker.com/398374/cool-off-with-six-simple-diy-frozen-treats
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/dining/18mini.html?_r=1&em&ex=1184904000&en=c7b9dea42eb9cefa&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin

old laptop to arcade machine

http://fsebton.blogspot.com/2008/02/mamebook-cocktail.html

Two-Faced Mac-like Windows Desktop Designer Vijayakrishnan gives us a tour of his gorgeous Windows multi-desktop

LInk

DIY Card Cable Organizer

Link

quick eats

link

Link

Pretty Jokes to see Fred...

filehippo

amalgamated freeware site


http://filehippo.com/

Online Buys From Bad Spellers

Finding hidden deals on eBay from sellers who have inadvertently mistyped their listing information.

Link

150 Funniest Resume Mistakes, Bloopers and Blunders Ever

Link

Build Your Own Wire Photo Wall

Link

AT&T Blue Room

Check out some free (sponsored) content

Link

Seven Ideas for Preparing Food at Home Cheaply with Minimal Space and Resources

some ok info


Article

Just another 'amazing' commercial.......

REVERSE GRAFFITI: Clean Green Street Art hits San Francisco!

The Reverse Graffiti Project imbues the guerrilla tactics of street-art with an eco-friendly element, detourning the definition of graffiti by actually cutting through and cleaning up grit to leave a lasting impression. The artist scraped through the grit and grime of the tunnel walls to reveal a stunning portrait of a lusher San Francisco.

Article

Sometimes even the Big Dogs get Slapped in the Face

$9 BILLION IN CASH, PROFIT GUARANTEE WERE ON TABLE BEFORE AD DEAL REACHED WITH GOOGLE

Microsoft executives, spurned twice in their attempt to buy Yahoo, crafted a third offer, one they thought the company couldn't refuse.

But Yahoo nonetheless turned it down and signed a partnership with Google on Thursday, befuddling Microsoft executives.

Kevin Johnson, a key member of Microsoft's negotiating team, said in a letter to employees Friday that his company had offered Yahoo $9 billion in cash, "which could have been used by Yahoo to reward their shareholders."

Article

Parkour

Parkour is nothing new, but I'm still amazed when I see these guys jumping/flipping and crawling up and down walls..... death seems so imminent

Rent or Buy?

This handy tool from NYT via Apartment Therapy helps you calculate when it's better to rent or buy.
Very useful tool for those of us that are thinking about this currently.


Link

Teen figures out how to decompose plastic bags in 3 months

It's not often I write about local advances, but this had me stunned.

Go Canada!

Ontario high school junior Daniel Burd wanted to try to figure out if there was a way to get plastic bags to decompose faster. As it stands, it takes thousands of years for the wasteful objects to disintegrate. But by using bacteria, he figured out how to make it happen in a mere three months

Article

PC Tool Round-up

I think I'm going to start posting tech tools in single posts for nerds like me, while keeping everything else running smooth, lol

Without further a due:

Automate Windows Tasks like virus/spyware scans
HomeCamera Turns Your Webcam into a Surveillance Camera
Easily rip DVDs to Xvid/Divx or with this tool
Clean up misc/dead files on your PC w/ CC
WildCard File Renamer - batch file name writer **
Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software

Paul McCartney’s Lexus Hybrid Gets 4 MPG

for us on the metric system, that's.... well, still terrible, lol

Great example of how people don't see the whole picture

Article

4 Most Harmful Ingredients in Packaged Foods

Planning a frozen dinner tonight? Think again.
Ninety percent of Americans' household food budget is spent on processed foods, the majority of which are filled with additives and stripped of nutrients. Discover which common ingredients in the foods you eat pose the greatest risk to your health.

Short List:
TRANS FATS
REFINED GRAINS
SALT
HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP


Just a friendly heads up.
Eating natural keeps sounding better and better.



Article

Photographer speared by javelin at meet

PROVO, Utah (AP) - A newspaper photographer got a little too close to the action at the state high school track championships — and was speared through the leg by a javelin.

Article

lol

Apartmenttherapy.com - Small Cool Spaces 2008

Some great use of space in here.
Above are a couple of my favourites

More at
Apartmenttherapy.com

Regulators want answers from Bell Canada on P2P throttling

...interrogation is exactly what the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has in mind for Bell Canada. Late last week, the regulator issued a detailed set of "interrogatories" (PDF) complete with chart that must be filled in by May 29. The goal is to find out exactly how Bell's deep packet inspection technology throttles traffic and the justifications for using it on all Bell traffic, even that sold at wholesale rates to smaller ISPs. Anyone interested in these matters stands to learn plenty of interesting information 10 days from now.

wow, the government is acting more mature than the private sector for once.

kudos

Article

New Light Source Lasts 15 Years Without a Recharge

Non-toxic and cheap?
Go science!

Article

40 Hours of Illustrator Time-Lapsed

Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo.

Up Your Lifestyle Game

If you like nice things like me, but unlike me, have the funds to cop them, this site has a couple nice items that would make for a lovely addition to your materialistic life.

scoute.org

Explaining Web 1.0, Web 2.0 & Web 3.0

Stop saying everything is 'web 2.0' and get educated.
Here is the best available definition:

...After all this data was posted online with the Web 1.0 movement, the online community began to look for ways to share all of this data. The main question that drove this movement, “How can I take this data and share it with other people?”

Article

Lil Wayne Kanye West - Lollipop Remix [OFFICIAL REMIX]

Will Smith Opens Scientology School

No longer the prince of Bel-Air, but rather a slave hubbard.

We Lost Good ol' Will :(


Article

The Pirate's Dilemma

Matt Mason's fascinating view on the affect technology can have on a particular business ecosystem.

Anyone even remotely interested in music, business or economics will find this video very interesting. I do warn you that it is just over half an hour long.

Referencing Mason's book, The Pirates Dilemma, an article in Ars talks about How Viacom can sink the pirates

Sex And The American Mom: 1 In 3 Report Getting Action On The Side

The survey, "Sex and the American Mom," revealed that 34% of these married moms is in the midst of, or has already had, an affair. Think of three married moms you know and ask yourself, "Which one is cheating?"

The great world we live in.
Article

See The Dress That Got A High-School Senior Arrested

Madison High's prom took place at the Sugar Land Marriot. But Taylor only got as far as the lobby because when she tried to enter the ballroom an official stopped her.

She was told her dress violated a school dress code.

Video Link

Article

Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet

A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California.

only in America.... lol
Article

Teenagers to take embarrassing ailments to Second Life doctors

Spanish health authorities launched a virtual portal through the Second Life website yesterday designed to help young people too embarrassed to speak to a doctor about sexually transmitted disease or a drug problem.

Good Idea .

Article

Translate Text

Translate anything from plain old text, to an entire website.
Nice little gold nugget this is.

Link

UPDATE: to aggregate more engines, try this app http://translateclient.googlepages.com/index.en.html

‘Air Tree’ Structures in Madrid produce Oxygen and Energy

A little ugly, but with some Logically Creative designing, this concept could be all the rage in urban centers around the world.
lol

The city of Madrid soon plans to add a striking new structure that will “climatically transform” its urban architecture. Designed by Urban Ecosystems, the Air Tree pavilion is to be built from recycled materials and will be 100% energy self-sufficient. Using photovoltaic cells, the Air Tree produces a substantial amount of energy, which is then sold back to the local electric companies, the profits being used for maintenance of the structure. The second byproduct is of course oxygen - hence the name ‘Air Tree’!

Article

25 Rejected Ideas From Grand Theft Auto IV

Posts have been getting a little slow lately, for I am working a little more and trying to figure out what I'm doing with my life.... lol

Until then, here are some more great ways to waste time:



Link for rest

Audio from Youtube

My brother asked me to get an audio clip from a Youtube video to make him a ringtone (no, it was not copy protected material)

After doing it the hard way, I found this nice little service.

Takes the audio from the video.

http://www.vidtomp3.com/

Disclaimer: don't do illegal stuff, ya heard?

YELLE @ The Opera House

Wednesday April 30th, 2008

Great show, very high energy. She sure is a performer.

Note: my flash batteries died as YELLE came on... so needless to say, the shots are subpar....










It seems that my image hosting system is seriously flawed.
For the time being I'll just put the pics on fb. If you want a copy, feel free to PM/leave a comment and I'll get back to you.

MGD hides nothing with campaign

At least it's a slightly fresh take on beer commercials....

Article

Hooker Sues Pornographer For Immorality

Eliot Spitzer call girl Ashley Dupre can sexually exploit herself just fine, thank you, and doesn't need any help from Girls Gone Wild, the video company she is now suing in federal court in Miami. Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis had offered Dupre $1 million to pose for a nude video, but rescinded the offer when he found footage of a 17-year-old Dupre in his archive of drunken teen nudity. He repackaged the footage as Hooker Gone Wild, and Dupre is accusing Francis of marketing the video in a way that makes it sound hotter than it actually is, i.e. properly fulfilling his duties as Chief Poontang Officer at Girls Gone Wild:

Article

trapped in an Elevator for 41 Hours....

Claustrophobics be warned.

Long NewYorker Article

Filter Google Results by Date with a URL Trick

Link

Austria: woman was 'imprisoned by father for almost 25 years'

Police last night entered the homemade dungeon where a 73-year-old engineer allegedly held his daughter captive for almost a quarter of a century, sexually abusing her and fathering up to seven children.

The world never ceases to amaze me.....
What a disturbing story.

Article

Just Wow

This video review really shows what the game can do without spoiling it.
I might just have to move the purchase date of my PS3 up now....

London Underground has a hot 'Tunnel of Love'

50% of London's Underground travelers admitted to swapping numbers, dating or having sex (not on the tube) … 1 in 100 even married someone they met on the Underground. 9/10 admitted to a 'missed moment' when they did not take things further with a fellow passenger. ... this could be very helpful info for planning your journey.

Short Article

LoL

Who Wears Short Shorts? - Watch more free videos

Keep Your Surfing and Files Safe, Foo!

Five important security apps for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows

A great list of FREE (and some pay if you opt for it) apps to keep your pr0n from your kids......

Ars Article

Hard times ahead as porn goes soft?

Economists are citing some dire portents of a recession these days, but they've missed one indicator I find especially disturbing: The porn business has suddenly gone flaccid.

Article

DANCE PARTY!

Tickets copped.
Get yours soon @ Rotate This, Soundscapes or Online.
Promises to be a gay ol' time. (in both senses of the word)

DIY Camera Stand

Anyone that's taken a couple photos knows the value of a tripod.
This nice little ditty gives you all the features of the 'gorillapod' at a fraction of the cost.

Link

10 Percent of Broadband Subscribers Suck Up 80 Percent of Bandwidth But P2P No Longer to Blame

No, p2p is no longer the single biggest traffic whore, responsible for only 20 percent of total traffic. It's streaming video, like YouTube and Hulu, which is now 50 percent of total traffic. During peak congestion—the times when Comcast will slow you down for hitting the pipe too hard—70 percent of it is http.

Does this mean ISPs are going to stop throttling encrypted packets? No
Are they going to start throttling video? Most likely.
Are they going to stop advertising fast up/download rates, but really not offer it? Of course not.

How is this legal?

Link

Science 2.0 -- Is Open Access Science the Future?

Is posting raw results online, for all to see, a great tool or a great risk?

Interesting Article.
Long read, but the first page has a "Key Concepts" Section.

Article

A Cellphone's Missing Dot Kills Two People, Puts Three More in Jail

The use of "i" resulted in an SMS with a completely twisted meaning: instead of writing the word "sıkısınca" it looked like he wrote "sikisince." Ramazan wanted to write "You change the topic every time you run out of arguments" (sounds familiar enough) but what Emine read was, "You change the topic every time they are fucking you" (sounds familiar too.)

Article

Milan Furniture Fair 2008

OLED Wallpaper

A collection of some great new works.

Link



Also Check this new OLED Tree Lamp. Energy efficient and stylish.

Free 'Cab' Rides in TO

Go Mobile Media and Lipton Green Tea are giving commuters a free lift this summer.

The ice tea company has signed on to sponsor an eight-cab fleet of “green” three wheeled, pedal-powered “EcoCabs,” set to hit the streets of Toronto, May 1.

Article

The Green Ad Effect

A recent survey from Burst Media revealed that green advertising has a stronger than average impact with consumers. Good, right? Well they have higher recall, but they aren’t necessarily buying into the messages. Maybe that’s due to the overwhelming amount of green claims consumers have been hit with

Article

Last Request: Please Don't Smoke

Last Request: Please Don't Smoke
Originally uploaded by Sean (Ajka_Hungary)

"Powerful Story (click image to link)"

Celebration Of Vintage and Retro Design

A great collection of Vintage Designs

Link

Digital Cuteness

Link

Kurt's Not Here Man.....

When bananas ruled the world

Intrigue. Power. Corruption. Death. Sex. The history of oil has nothing on that of the yellow fruit.

A long, but interesting read into the history of Central American politics and that lovely yellow fruit.

Article

New CEO Murphy makes $39.1 M trying to fix Gap

Interesting to see the Pay breakdown

Gap also paid Murphy $2.1 million in bonuses, including $1 million for taking the job, to supplement his $755,769 salary for a half year’s work. He received miscellaneous compensation of $363,593, including $50,000 to pay the lawyers who negotiated his contract and $182,301 for the personal usage of a company plane.

Full Article

Towel, Sunscreen, Swimsuit, and a Cup of Java?

As this ScienCentral report explains, research into the effects of caffeine in mice shows it can help get rid of sun damaged skin cells before they become cancerous.

Article

Violent Video Games =! Violence IRL

Some interesting points on the rubbish theory stating that violent games cause violence.



Thnx Y for the link.

HPV-related oral cancers rise among younger men

The sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer in women has now been linked to an uptick of throat, tonsil and tongue cancers - in a younger and healthier group of patients than doctors have ever seen before.

Things seem to be moving closer and closer to the virtual sex helmets from the movie Demolition Man :S
(no, not Snipes and Stallone, it was Bullock and Stallone)


Found this lil diddy on google, lol. Someone actually put time and energy into describing the likelyhood of all the tech from the movie actually coming true..... w/e, I used it

Virtual sex
Likelyhood: low
Time Frame: 2040+
Sex / brain technology:
Sex has been outlawed as dangerous and unclean. People are no longer used to touching each other.
Because sexual behavior is so heavily hardwired, it might be relatively easy to engineer with genetic and chemical interventions. But the societies that would contemplate doing this—North Korea and the Taliban in Afghanistan for instance—are dwindling. Westerners would not submit to it, whatever the wishes of some on the Christian right.
Virtual reality is substituted, with direct-to-brain "digital transference of sexual energies."
Some clunky devices for virtual sex are already being devised. But virtual sex won't replace the real thing until images and sensations can be downloaded directly into the brain—and this may never be possible.

From Here


HPV Article

Clinton, Ouch

To All the Geeks Out There

This is some interesting shit.
"Why don't you come over and I'll setup a supernova for you"

To everyone else, this basically means we may be able to create a mini 'sun' reaction on earth producing clean energy.
Wowawewa

Simply Terrible

I am at a loss for words.

Please don't watch more than a couple seconds of this.
Just get an idea of what failure and embarrassment looks like, then continue with my other posts.
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"You're Found Guilty of Making Her Too Thin!"

French lawmakers adopted a ground-breaking bill that would make it illegal for anyone—including fashion magazines, advertisers and websites—to promote extreme thinness.

These will be pretty cut and dry cases......
Article

World Press Photo Award 2008

Surreal...That isn't CG...
Other Photos

New Want

Samsung F480
It's like an iPhone, but not shit.

Announced 2008, February
Status Coming soon

Beef

With the commercialization of YouTube we have seen lots of content stripped. But I'm just pissed that now (could have started a while ago...) they are disabling embedding of some videos.
This absolutely boggles the mind.
Why the fuck would someone want to do that? If it is on YouTube, the purpose is to get the most eyes and embedding content on blogs and websites is a cornerstone of information sharing. This forces the creation of multiple copies of the same videos being created so one can be embedded.

Lil Wayne jokes limo/aight track


The other vid I was going to post was this 'new' Avril Single.
What in (insert your religious icon here) has caused such garbage to be deemed mainstream.
Ugh.

What's in your Water?

A little more on the 'save the earth' thread; I just saw a tv spot for thinkwater.ca and couldn't agree more. We really waste a lot of water, especially in our consumerist society of North America.
I was a big fan of the 2 flush button toilets when I was in Europe. Essentially, one for brown, one for yellow. Self explanatory.

Here's a great spot on bottled water.
I must admit, I turn to the bottle once in a while, but it started when the water that came out of my student house was brown.... I just couldn't go back to tap. But it was mostly for grabbing a bottle on my way out (convenience, I know, weak excuse).
And to think, I loved drinking from the hose when I was a kid in the summer.


Best Line "A dollar fifty for half a litre, that's $3/litre. Would you ever buy gas for $3/litre? "

Really comes down to the same argument with all these conservation things. If everyone just thinks about what they do, and doesn't needlessly waste, we're already be much better off.

Ok, I'll get off my soapbox.
Cheers.

SWAT!

The Beer Formula

I grow tired of the same thing.
I did chuckle at the 'throw your coat somewhere and knew it wouldn't be stolen' line though.

I prefer this beer diddy.
NWS
LINK


Marketing Mag Article

Make Your Own Infused Vodka

"Maceration" may sound like some crazy combat maneuver, but it's really what happens when a flavor is steeped into a fluid. If you're using the process to add flavor to your vodka, it's given the much cooler moniker of "infusion." Vodka distillers have caught onto the craze, but for the most part they've stuck to common flavors like citrus. But with a decent jar, some produce, and lots of vodka, anyone can create their own signature flavored spirit.

Link

Blame games: bill says content makers liable for violence

Just to show you how backwards the US legislation is, they are trying to pin violent acts on content makers due to influence....

Article @ Ars

New Zealand copyright reform law schools US DMCA on fair use

Some interesting progress in DRM/copyright land.


Article

Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis

In Al Gore's brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of "generational mission" -- the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement -- to set it right. Gore's stirring presentation is followed by a brief Q&A in which he is asked for his verdict on the current political candidates' climate policies and on what role he himself might play in future.

Some scary motivational shit.
"Don`t just change the light bulbs, change the laws"
Thanks to N for the link.

Great Ad

Click to Enlarge.
Read the Copy reflected in the mirror.

"See John, it's a Question of Capacity..."

This pic is too money

Cellular providers are working hard to retain their customers as the market reaches the point of ubiquity. The advent of (relatively) hassle-free number portability, and network exclusives such as the iPhone has meant that operators have to come up with convincing reasons for their customers to stay put, and opening up the bandwidth taps is a pretty good one.

AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint now all offer unlimited calling plans for $99 per month, and Sprint goes the extra mile by including data services in that price.

Interesting to see if the infrastructure will be able to take it.
Just last week, Rogers, a Canadian cable/wireless/internet Service Provider introduced much tighter bandwidth restrictions because of this very issue.
Now of course we have terrible infrastructure compared to you southern neighbours, but with the exception of a couple metropolitan areas, the US is pretty far behind Japan and Europe.

Maybe they're banking on the fact that Wi-Max will be absorbing a majority of the bandwidth in the near future, thus not straining their systems. Who knows...

The problem is that the Telcos are not seeing a dime from content providers for all the bandwidth they take up, so a serious industry shift needs to take effect.


Article

What's Wrong with this World

Audi R8 parked @ a Walmart

Damn US Commies...

A bill currently under consideration in the Arizona state legislature would impose liability on persons who produce or distribute "dangerous or obscene" content (including audio, video, interactive media, and even written content) that is found to be the material cause of a terrorist act or felony.

Article

King of Ed Banger

Fellas at dejourmagazine did a nice little interview with the head honcho at Ed Banger.

Check it

Oh dear.....

A new low.....

Zombie Strippers Trailer