only words - chapter II

have you ever thought…

lock — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:16:56 +0000

When you buy a new iPhone it comes with a very nice photo of earth as background. We’re used to see lots of images like that nowadays but if you stop for a while and think about it… Is it real? I mean, where camera should be placed to get the whole thing inside the lens?

It turns out that image is not real, it’s the result of several satellite images, along with many other sources, pasted on a 3D globe surface. It’s called Blue Marble 2002 and got inspired by a 1998 Nasa project (Blue Marble 2000) aiming to get the most precise image of our planet. Later, in 2005 a new version, Blue Marble IPCC, was created and it’s at the moment the most detailed continuous and seamless true-color images of the Earth’s surface ever produced.

But we actually have a real photo of earth, taken in 1972 by the crew of Apollo 17 (with a 70-millimeter Hasselblad) from a distance of about 45,000 km (here’s where you need to place your camera, should you have an holiday in space). Unsurprising it’s called… Blue Marble and it’s the gourgeous one you can see in this post. :]

More info on the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science webpage.

Cheese! :]

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harmonious html5

lock — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:34:07 +0000

click to launch it

Harmony is an outstanding HTML5 canvas work by Ricardo Cabello. It clearly demonstrates that Flash is no more so mandatory for web animations. Go and try it yourself, it’s really mesmerizing!

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the “me neither” joke

lock — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:25:08 +0000

click to read full joke

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pirates vs paying customers in home video

lock — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:09:35 +0000

click to see the full scheme

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demotivational: lines

lock — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:19:06 +0000

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hard to reach a worse fail level!

lock — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:47:00 +0000

Ok, this is a bit “over the lines”.

Sister tells parents about brother’s hidden alcohol bottles in the room and he gets a bitter revenge.

Click here for the pic but be warned: explicit sex sentences (no pics, tho).

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tzpretzpretzpre…

lock — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:57:57 +0000

Crazy japanese commercials never fail to amaze me. These one are drilling my head just now. ;]

HTML5 canvas particle system

lock — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:49:20 +0000

click to start the show

Very good example of HTML5 possibilities with javaScript/HTML5 canvas.

Also works, albeit slowly, on iPhone (not that on my netbook is any faster).

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blue Ballmer of fail

lock — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:18:09 +0000

click to enlarge

A portrait of Steve Ballmer done with a mosaic of 80 random Windows crash shots. :]

[from: the secret diary of steve jobs]

warning dog owners!

lock — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:10:27 +0000

If you are an owner of a dog that belongs to a “dangerous breed” category and you also have a child or a visiting small child please take this as a warning.

Don’t leave your dog with a small child unattended under any circumstances!!!

Only one little moment was enough for the following to happen…

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