Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Amazing Photos

Today I found some simply amazing photo on cybernetnews, I will post a couple here, to see the whole collection please visit cybernetnews.

Labels: design, news, rambling

posted by Stavanger at 5:45 PM | 5 comments

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Underwater Hotel

If you are willing to spend $15,000-per-person, per-week reservation fee, you may very well be one of the few people in 2008 to take a vacation in the world's first large scale underwater hotel. Bruce Jones, a renowned submarine architect is planning Poseidon Mystery Island Resort by sinking many habitation tube in the island Fiji. Here are a few pictures of what's to come:

Labels: news, rambling, science

posted by Stavanger at 5:41 PM | 3 comments

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Threadless

The internet opens up many opportunities for brilliant ideas and ventures.
Whoever thought you would find a friend via a cold electronic machine? or
Electronic sticky notes? The basic idea behind Threadless is members can
submit their t-shirt designs and after votes, ratings etc Threadless will
choose a dozen every month to print! There are prizes and other incentives
to submit a t-shirt design, however having people buying your t-shirts is
just way cool.

Threadless is actually the very first t-shirt design community, there are
many spinoff from this idea and not just t-shirts either; NakedAndAngry is a
tie design spinoff, but I fine tie patterns limiting compare to the
possibilty of t-shirt designs.



Anyways today I just submitted my third design to Fast Food Nation Loves
Threadless competition. Threadless has three or four additional competition
around a central theme in additional to the ongoing general competition.



The theme of Fast Food Nation Loves Threadless is "Where Are You On The Fast
Food Chain?", but I think this is extremely hard to express and the result
may not be suitable for a t-shirt. So, as you can see, I went with "Fast
Food Nation". What other nation in the world can claim the title other than
the United States? Show your patriotism! Now if only I have some extra
colors (Threadless only allows five) I will change the hamburger box into an
actually hamburger...

For Fast Food Nation I have another idea of French Fries spelling out the
words American Fries with maybe a French Fry who has French mustache running
away. The competition ends on the 15th, otherwise I surely would have submit
this design as well. These design requires so much detail and time (which is
the reason I only enter the Loves competition thus far so I don't have to
think up my own theme) anyone interested can submit the idea as long as they
send me a shirt if it goes to print...o wait, I'm not sure I would wear that
:D

Here are some other awesome entries to Fast Food Nation Loves Threadless









Here are some awesome winning design which you can purchase

Labels: design, news, rambling

posted by Stavanger at 5:02 PM | 4 comments

Monday, December 04, 2006

Hawking Still Keen To Visit The Final Fronier!

A few days ago, the renowned scientist Stephen Hawking expressed his fear that terra firma will ultimately be destroyed by nuclear war or some sort of asteroid

"The long-term survival of the human race is at risk as long as it is confined to a single planet,"

-Stephen Hawking On BBC Radio

Hawking shows optimism in matter-antimatter annihilation as a way to settle on extraterrestial planets for that Hawking, wheelchair bound is still keen on visiting the final fronteir!

"My next goal is to go into space, maybe Richard Branson will help me."

-Stephen Hawking On BBC Radio

Well Prof. Hawking, if I were ever to build a spaceship or more precisely a starship, you would be my guest of honor.

Labels: news, rambling, science

posted by Stavanger at 5:27 PM | 0 comments

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Nuclear Poisoning

Investigation continues over the death of Ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko due to nuclear poisoning from Polonium 210.

An investigation was under way last night into Russia's black market trade in radioactive materials amid concern that significant quantities of polonium 210, the substance that killed former spy Alexander Litvinenko, are being stolen from poorly protected Russian nuclear sites.

As I track this story over the last week, I couldn't stop making a connection to the 2003 movie Cradle 2 The Grave with Jet Li, featuring rapper DMX.

DMX and his professional heisters stole some extremely rare black diamonds that turns out to be top secret Taiwanese military project for stable plutonium until its enriched. Becuase of this, DMX is swept into a storm of people trying to get there hands on these diamonds namingly Jet Li - Taiwanese Agent who tries to destroy the diamond - and of course his evil traitor counter part Mark Dacascos, who kidnapped DMX's daughter.

The most relevant part of this movie is when Dacasco enriched the black diamonds with a green laser and read out its potential to a whole bunch of international terrorist representation...tomahawk missile, hiroshima, 2 hiroshima...new world order from one black diamond. Then Jet Li flies in and in an ultimant show down against Dacasco, Jet Li made the villian swallow a enrich black diamond. The special effect shows plutonium begin to radiate and light up as Dacasco quickly begin to quickly disintegrate atom by atom.

Labels: media, movie, news, rambling

posted by Stavanger at 3:19 PM | 1 comments

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