Enjoy
They are just 30 seconds each so just watch them all if you like during your free time.
Its really funny.
Credits -http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/06/superbowl/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)&utm_content=Google+Reader
Monday, February 7, 2011
Darth Vader Viral Advertisement Super Bowl Volkswagen
A new TV advert for the 2012 Volkswagen Passat is currently making viral waves on social networks like Twitter and Facebook.
It has logged over 3 million views on YouTube since the clip was uploaded on February 2nd.
What's the attraction? What happens when a pint-sized "Darth Vader" attempts to use The Force at home? Golden retrievers, washing machines, baby dolls and mums serving a snack seem impervious to The Dark Side…
Credits -yahoo
Saturday, February 5, 2011
NASA’s Kepler finds 68 new Earth-size planet candidates
NASA’s Kepler Mission revealed data this week detailing the discovery of 68 new Earth-size planet candidates, 54 of which are in the habitable zone, a region around a star where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. This is the first discovery of Earth-size planet candidates in the habitable zone.
“In one generation we have gone from extraterrestrial planets being a mainstay of science fiction, to the present, where Kepler has helped turn science fiction into today’s reality,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a press release. “These discoveries underscore the importance of NASA’s science missions, which consistently increase understanding of our place in the cosmos.”
The Kepler mission’s principal investigator Bill Borucki said the mission’s biggest discoveries were finding the 54 planet candidates in the habitable zone of other stars, as well as finding that about 17 percent of the stars have multiple candidate systems.
“They have systems of planets, like our solar system,” he said. “There’s not just one planet, but there’s a group of them with different characteristics and different positions.”
This is the first discovery of such planet candidates, uncovered in data the Kepler mission collected in its first four months of operation, from May 12 to Sept. 17, 2009.
Borucki said now that astronomers have a good idea of the frequency of Earth-size planet candidates in the habitable zone, they need to build the next major instruments to go and find their atmospheres.
Kepler also discovered six confirmed planets orbiting a yellow dwarf star similar to the sun, called Kepler-11. All of the six planets orbiting Kepler-11 are larger than Earth, and five of them are closer to the dwarf star than any planet is to our sun.
“This is the most compact planetary system discovered by any means,” said Jack Lissauer, a Kepler scientist and co-investigator who is the lead investigator for the Kepler-11 planet system. “It shows that you can have planets orbiting close to one another. That means there’s potential for there to be other systems that might have several planets in the habitable zone.”
The Kepler’s latest data are based on observations of more than 156,000 stars in Kepler’s field of view, accounting for about 1/400 of the sky.
Borucki said that if you compared the Hubble Space Telescope’s field of view to the size of a grain of sand, the Kepler Space Telescope’s field of view is about the size of a fist.
“The Hubble looks at one little area with a great deal of resolution,” Borucki said. “We look at a much larger area, but our images are fuzzy — and they must be to measure the brightness of the stars.”
To date, the Kepler mission has uncovered 1,235 total planet candidates. To verify these are actually planets, the candidates require follow-up observations.
“This bodes well for Kepler’s discovery in the future,” Lissauer said. “We’ve been able to find something that was really, totally unexpected, and this was just the first part of the mission.”
The Kepler spacecraft is about halfway through its mission and will continue searching for planets until at least November 2012.
Credits -http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=177894
“In one generation we have gone from extraterrestrial planets being a mainstay of science fiction, to the present, where Kepler has helped turn science fiction into today’s reality,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a press release. “These discoveries underscore the importance of NASA’s science missions, which consistently increase understanding of our place in the cosmos.”
The Kepler mission’s principal investigator Bill Borucki said the mission’s biggest discoveries were finding the 54 planet candidates in the habitable zone of other stars, as well as finding that about 17 percent of the stars have multiple candidate systems.
“They have systems of planets, like our solar system,” he said. “There’s not just one planet, but there’s a group of them with different characteristics and different positions.”
This is the first discovery of such planet candidates, uncovered in data the Kepler mission collected in its first four months of operation, from May 12 to Sept. 17, 2009.
Borucki said now that astronomers have a good idea of the frequency of Earth-size planet candidates in the habitable zone, they need to build the next major instruments to go and find their atmospheres.
Kepler also discovered six confirmed planets orbiting a yellow dwarf star similar to the sun, called Kepler-11. All of the six planets orbiting Kepler-11 are larger than Earth, and five of them are closer to the dwarf star than any planet is to our sun.
“This is the most compact planetary system discovered by any means,” said Jack Lissauer, a Kepler scientist and co-investigator who is the lead investigator for the Kepler-11 planet system. “It shows that you can have planets orbiting close to one another. That means there’s potential for there to be other systems that might have several planets in the habitable zone.”
The Kepler’s latest data are based on observations of more than 156,000 stars in Kepler’s field of view, accounting for about 1/400 of the sky.
Borucki said that if you compared the Hubble Space Telescope’s field of view to the size of a grain of sand, the Kepler Space Telescope’s field of view is about the size of a fist.
“The Hubble looks at one little area with a great deal of resolution,” Borucki said. “We look at a much larger area, but our images are fuzzy — and they must be to measure the brightness of the stars.”
To date, the Kepler mission has uncovered 1,235 total planet candidates. To verify these are actually planets, the candidates require follow-up observations.
“This bodes well for Kepler’s discovery in the future,” Lissauer said. “We’ve been able to find something that was really, totally unexpected, and this was just the first part of the mission.”
The Kepler spacecraft is about halfway through its mission and will continue searching for planets until at least November 2012.
Credits -http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=177894
What Goes Around Comes Around
Ever feel like you are troubled because you are doing something that you once saw in someone you disliked before ?
Sounds abstract? Well, basically, we human beings hate and the things we hate are de facto our very own guilty pleasures.
To put it simply in layman terms, for instance, when you see people speaking up in class, elaborating on with abstract points continuously, you get irritated and somewhat disgusted. Thinking that he's a showoff, you downplay his intelligence.
But later on, when you speak up in class yourself, did you ever think that you are doing the exact same thing? And that someone in some corner of the class is exactly like you? He hates you because you speak up in class.
But when you think about it yourself, you didn't think that you are being irritating, disgusting or even a showoff. Perhaps, you just want to express your viewpoints. Simple as that.
You would in fact be astonished that someone in the class is actually thinking that you are a showoff. But stop and think back again, didn't you had the exact same thought a while back then of someone else who spoke up earlier than you?
Another example, we always criticise people mugging and that they have no life.
Then later on, when we ourselves mug, we think that we are merely trying to study and hope to gain as much knowledge as possible. Besides, we should in fact be proud of ourselves because it is by no means an easy task to settle oneself down and start to concentrate.
But the same thing happens again, someone else would criticise you mugging. But when you think about it, you don't think you did anything wrong.
Then again, you did criticise people who mug earlier on.
So its really a vicious cycle, what goes around comes around.
But of course, the revelation of the matter per se can actually stop this vicious cycle. In order to not be so guilty when executing your guilty pleasures, try to put yourself in that someone's shoe before you criticise them otherwise, you might be shooting yourself in the foot.
The last example would be a short one. Say someone else is showing off their achievements, rather than condemning them immediately. Think about what you would do in his shoes. Think about whether you did show off your achievements as well, even subtly counts. In fact, if you think deeply, its really not about showing off or being proud, its just that we all hope that someone would share our joy and congratulate us on our achievements.
In this way, you not only trained up to be more understanding, you too will be able to boost your level of emotional intelligence to a great degree.
Sounds abstract? Well, basically, we human beings hate and the things we hate are de facto our very own guilty pleasures.
To put it simply in layman terms, for instance, when you see people speaking up in class, elaborating on with abstract points continuously, you get irritated and somewhat disgusted. Thinking that he's a showoff, you downplay his intelligence.
But later on, when you speak up in class yourself, did you ever think that you are doing the exact same thing? And that someone in some corner of the class is exactly like you? He hates you because you speak up in class.
But when you think about it yourself, you didn't think that you are being irritating, disgusting or even a showoff. Perhaps, you just want to express your viewpoints. Simple as that.
You would in fact be astonished that someone in the class is actually thinking that you are a showoff. But stop and think back again, didn't you had the exact same thought a while back then of someone else who spoke up earlier than you?
Another example, we always criticise people mugging and that they have no life.
Then later on, when we ourselves mug, we think that we are merely trying to study and hope to gain as much knowledge as possible. Besides, we should in fact be proud of ourselves because it is by no means an easy task to settle oneself down and start to concentrate.
But the same thing happens again, someone else would criticise you mugging. But when you think about it, you don't think you did anything wrong.
Then again, you did criticise people who mug earlier on.
So its really a vicious cycle, what goes around comes around.
But of course, the revelation of the matter per se can actually stop this vicious cycle. In order to not be so guilty when executing your guilty pleasures, try to put yourself in that someone's shoe before you criticise them otherwise, you might be shooting yourself in the foot.
The last example would be a short one. Say someone else is showing off their achievements, rather than condemning them immediately. Think about what you would do in his shoes. Think about whether you did show off your achievements as well, even subtly counts. In fact, if you think deeply, its really not about showing off or being proud, its just that we all hope that someone would share our joy and congratulate us on our achievements.
In this way, you not only trained up to be more understanding, you too will be able to boost your level of emotional intelligence to a great degree.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Hollywood's next generation of stars
What goes up must come down.
Soon, famous stars like Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock, and etc. They will all step down and let the younger generation take over.
Remember these names. They got lots of potential and are definitely going to be big names in the future
Anne Hathaway – Previous Oscar nominee for "Rachel Getting Married", newly cast Catwoman in the next "Batman" flick and this year's Oscar ceremonies co-host.
Credits -celebrityrush, -yahoo, -independent, -filmofilia, -thehollywoodnews, -comicbookmovie
Soon, famous stars like Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock, and etc. They will all step down and let the younger generation take over.
Remember these names. They got lots of potential and are definitely going to be big names in the future
Anne Hathaway – Previous Oscar nominee for "Rachel Getting Married", newly cast Catwoman in the next "Batman" flick and this year's Oscar ceremonies co-host.
Andrew Garfield – The new Spider-Man and a standout Eduardo Saverin in "The Social Network."
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Former child actor and co-star in "Inception"
Noomi Rapace – Star of the original "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo."
Jennifer Lawrence – 20-year-old Oscar nominee for this year's "Winter's Bone"
Credits -celebrityrush, -yahoo, -independent, -filmofilia, -thehollywoodnews, -comicbookmovie
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
´´This season I built the collection around the contrast between a contemporary urban feel and the glamorous days of the international jet-set in the late Sixties and early Seventies´´ said Giannini. She designed a women's collection for Gucci that was inspired by Ziggy Stardust, a persona adopted by David Bowie in the early 1970s. The collection feature minimalist shapes, understated elegance and pushes an alluring combination of neutral shades with signature details. Besides the usual Gucci glamour we saw pieces that were a little more downtoned and more wearable. Short skirts and turtlenecks were topped by long, military-influenced coats and paired with above-the-knee boots or open strappy high heels. This collection felt like 70's glamour with an edge: luxurious and effortless, they feel like bare essentials for a twenty-first-century wild child.
My favourite: the cocktail dresses in black crepe anchored with studded metalwork on the neckline and shoulders.
*Tell me what you think of this collection!*
My favourite: the cocktail dresses in black crepe anchored with studded metalwork on the neckline and shoulders.
*Tell me what you think of this collection!*
Style
Vogue
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
foot storage.
i dream to have a beautiful place to display my shoes as a piece of art //
{various images via the coveted.}
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