Philosophical Memo design to cheer you up

Short excerpt from a memo I read just a while ago,

“Does a salmon understand what's happening when it is being squeezed back up the Columbia River, battered, pushed against the current, leaping rocks, flipping forward, upward? Does a butterfly understand what's happening when it bursts, twisting and dewey-damp out of the dark, cozy cocoon?”

(Link)The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension, A Memo Designed to Cheer Up the Human Race

Database guide in Japanese style comic book

The Manga Guide to Databases is a Manga fan IT pro’s dream comes true. You can read them all you want in the office and wouldn’t get penalize.

(Link)ThinkGeek, The Manga Guide to Databases.

Flickr set of tumor cell photos in *guinea pig*

In this high resolution photograph, you can see HT-29, colon cancer cell under eye of 3D microscope. I wouldn’t say beautiful, but what else would you say with this? No 1 human killer in it’s naked form.

Who has seen something like this?

(Link)Flickr, High Resolution HT-29 Cell in Rats. *confirmation needed

Dodecahedral Puzzle, intriguing homemade puzzle spotted via MAKE

Those who can solve the cubic puzzle under a minute. Try this.
(Link)Mind-blowing homemade dodecahedral puzzle

Bandai HR Calculator, Predicts Your Future

I cannot read Japanese. According to TokyoMango, it combined techniques of numerology to forecast your future. It is only for fun, isn’t it? No one can say accurately about future.

You see, my analogy of future is like this, if you can tell but cannot change, then there is no point to know. You won’t need to know if you can change. Right?

Have fun with this calculator(Link). 4 colors. Via TokyoMango.

Point to note: What does this ‘little’ disclaimer - ※本商品の計算結果は、実際の出来事を保証するものではありません。 Says?

Humanzees, the next evolution

Nope! Sorry to disappoint you guys, mad Scientists and fellow SF ‘Visionary’. Although they are only 2 Chromosomes apart, the generation gaps are just too great to overcome by mere looking at the surface. You have to come closer to make it happen.

(Link)Discovery Channel, via Youtube. Are Humanzees Possible?

Eye of the ugliest cat

If what they said about eye being the window of soul is true. One cannot be judge lightly without looking into his/her eye. There is no ugly eye in this world; you see ugliness through your own perspective.

Bruce Wayne Self Proclaim Zip-Up Hoodie

Batman jacket for righteous wannabe individual. Who cares what others think! This is a darn cool jacket!

(Link)Lot29, Urban Wear - Batman Full Image - Full Zip-Up Hoodie. Via CoolestGadget.

We are creationist, it's buried so deep you didn’t realize

A psychologist at Boston University led a study which aims to prove human tends toward intelligent design is by nature. Means it is, *ahem* by ‘design’, hard coded into our brain. During the experiment, series of ambiguous true or false question like,

Flowers wilt because they get dehydrated

Rocks are jagged so animals can scratch themselves

The earth has an ozone layer in order to protect it from UV rays

drive our logic into thinking whether universe is purposeful. These clever questions, is said to have been answered ‘wrongly’ even they were given enough time to ponder upon. Deborah Kelemen, the lead psychologist also suggests that Darwin and Einstein would display the same tendency under such test.

Great work in proving Intelligent Design, :) :)

(Link)New Scientist, Life, Humans may be hard-wired to believe in creation

You choice of book or music tell your IQ

What is your favorite book or music? Wall Street Journal report on these two sites(crash already!) which state your intelligent by your choice of book or music. Example,

“Beethovan” scores 1371, makes you smartest while choosing Lil Wayne(poor Lil) is associate with the dumbest. “The Bible” is also choice of the smartest while, obviously, you will be the dumbest if you don’t read. This will surely prompt many to rethink their choice, even if they clearly do not enjoy those cultures.

(Link)The WSJ blog, Digits, Books and Music That Make You Dumb.

Sita Sings the Blues, CC license

Nina Paley wrote on her site,
“Conventional wisdom urges me to demand payment for every use of the film, but then how would people without money get to see it? How widely would the film be disseminated if it were limited by permission and fees? Control offers a false sense of security. The only real security I have is trusting you, trusting culture, and trusting freedom.”

Sita Sings the Blues is an animation which attempts to interpret an event in Ramayana, a Sanskrit epic. In it, the different form of ideal human, like ideal king, servant, lover etc, is portrayed.

Watch here(Link), main site here(Link)1 hour 21 minutes

Who made me?

The children jump onto our bed this morning. Ruth asks a something I don’t know how to answer.

“Who made this?” Ruth eyes flicker with curiosity while her hand was playing with hairs on my stomach. Wife distracts her by asking another.

“Do you want to have this on your stomach?”

“No!”

Next time, remind me to cover those.