Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Super Mario Brother Crossover

Play the old NES game with other legendary characters. Buttons are defaulted to the arrow keys, Z, X and S.


http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/534416

The Russian Space Pen

Funny... I used to actually have one of the Astronaut pens made by NASA where you could write in any environmental situation. This pen is the perfect example of over-engineering and wasting money. Look at the Russian's solution... LMAO... this is just funny.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Face Blending

I didn't know their was an exact science to beauty. What we call attractive is actually the brain having an easier time processing the individual's face. I'm gonna look more into this... but here's a cool picture of face-blending on celebrities. Follow the reddit discussion here... hopefully it stays up for a while... http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/bwq5x/those_arent_mugshots_just_louis_vuitton_models/

Monday, April 26, 2010

Safer to sit in the back?

Interesting diagram about plane seating and the chances of survival.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

The US $100 Note

Pretty cool things added to the new note... but why showcase all of this to the public????

http://www.newmoney.gov/newmoney/flash/interactive100/index.html

Monday, April 19, 2010

Killing Your Resume

I remember having to go to the University Career Center and sitting with a counselor to review my resume. I had no experience and was about to graduate college. We've all had similar encounters during our job hunts. One of the biggest things the counselor told me was that I needed to add key words/phrases to my resume that reflected my strengths. So I did that... Ten years later, it looks like everybody and their mothers use similar key phrases to spruce up their resumes. With the power of Google, you can search for resume templates to land you the first interview easily. I only thought about this after reading a Yahoo article http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/career-experts-10_phrases_that_can_sink_your_resume-115

After looking at my current resume, I still have some of those key phrases in my summary section. Whatever... To me, the experience section is the most important. I know this because I'm performing the interviews now =] So even when I see these cliche descriptions, I'll ask the interviewee to elaborate more.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

How a Sakai Blade is Made

Pretty neat post with good pictures on the knife building (Haiku knives or Chroma Cutlery)... the best and probably most expensive


Link here

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Uh... okay..... baby washing a snake

Like the caption says... "only in Thailand"... man that is NUTS!!!

Thursday, April 8, 2010

How Credit Card Companies Predict Divorce

I heard about this but never read about it or researched it. I wonder what kind of data mining algorithms are used to figure out whether a person is about to get divorced or not.

Link here

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

What Stormtroopers Do On Their Day Off

So creative! I'm a bit jealous because the guy who did this has a nice collection of action figures!!!

http://wildammo.com/2010/04/06/what-stormtroopers-do-on-their-day-off-part-2/