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Un curioso proyecto de Samsung para incrementar la seguridad en la carretera. En este caso se trata de facilitar el adelantamiento a camiones.
Un enorme panel en la parte trasera muestra la imagen que capta una cámara situada en el morro del camión, de forma que el conductor del vehículo que va a adelantar tiene una visión perfecta de lo que se encontrará cuando inicie la maniobra.
Interesante para los conductores y para los fabricantes de pantallas y cámaras. Esperemos que a los fabricantes de camiones también les guste la idea.
Recently, a new trend has been quickly spreading around Chinese social media: The Bellybutton Challenge. The challenge was allegedly created by unidentified American researchers who claimed that being able to reach around your back and touch your bellybutton was a sign that a person was slim. Chinese women across the country took to the challenge and are posting their results online, and the topic has already received over 140 million hits on Weibo. Experts say the challenge does not necessarily mean you are in shape, only that you have long arms or are very flexible.
“could an alive person do this??? … hmm. i’m trying to go through this door. it works at the house i haunt”
28 PLAYS LATER: E3
This week on 28 Plays Later, Paul and I cover stuff from E3 that excites us! Plus, I share a cunning plan to procure a WiiU, involving the murder of someone who owns a WiiU. I guess that was the whole plan.
Thanks to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, our sponsor for this episode — tickets are now available for Back to the Future: Live in Concert! Watch Back to the Future while the MSO performs the score live! Plus a new arrangement from composer Alan Silvestri?! Why don’t I live in Melbourne??
obviously going a bit far, but the audio, the audio. (it doesn't match the terrible sheet music either, seriously XYZ is on there twice)
A is for Alphabet. B is for Beer. C is for China. D is for Doomed.
I thought it was curious that my adult students in Tianjin didn’t seem to “get” rhyming. I taught a series based on Dr. Seuss books, but the whole rhyming concept seemed new to them — like they just couldn’t hear it somehow. Now, as a preschool English “teacher”, I think I may have uncovered the source of this mystery.
The most popular beers in the world are ones you’ve probably never even heard of. Because China just has that many beer drinkers. But beer is not the point. Apply the beer situation to the English language, specifically, the ABC song, or as it’s known in China, the “ABC字母歌“。 It’s like they felt they needed to correct our poor allocation of syllables or something:
Seriously, walk into the nearest Chinese preschool, sing the first line and watch what happens. Or listen to this, which lives in our school’s classroom computers. Is it not appalling?[Visit the blog to listen to audio]
But if 2 billion Chinese kids learn it “wrong” and a measly 500 million Anglo-American kids learn it “right”, the “right” version doesn’t stand a chance.
Chinese beer will rule the beer world. And so will Chinese English. By sheer force of numbers. Western civilization is doomed.
A 52-year-old man suffered involuntary orgasms more than 100 times a day for 20 years due to a rare health issue. Mr. Lin, an accountant from Fuzhou, first encountered the problem after getting an instant erection whilst practicing deep breathing during a qigong session. Lin quit qigong, but the unwanted reaction and burning sensations persisted whenever he wore pants. At work he would use briefcases, documents and umbrellas to cover his groin. The problem was eventually discovered to be the fault of a nerve at the base of his spine, which was corrected with radio wave stimulation.
PayPal.com experienced some unexpected outages today, leaving many of its 165 million active customers unable to access the site via its paypal.com domain.
All of Netcraft's geographically distributed performance monitors have showed outages of at least an hour so far today.
But requests to www.paypal.com continued to work throughout the outage, and customers could successfully log in by browsing directly to that hostname; however, it is likely that many users visit the site by typing only "paypal.com" into their browser's address bar.
The shorter paypal.com address does not serve a homepage; its sole purpose is to redirect visitors directly to the main www.paypal.com website. This shortcut saves the user having to type "www." into his browser, but during the outage, anyone attempting to reach the site via this commonly used method would have faced error messages similar to this (unless the redirect has been cached from a previous visit):
Even a short outage can have a huge impact on a financial giant like PayPal. In 2014, PayPal handled 4 billion payments with a total payment volume of $235 billion.
The cause of the outage is as yet unknown: The PayPal Notifications website does not show any scheduled maintenance for the live site until tomorrow, and does not currently list any unscheduled events corresponding to today's outage.
Since retiring from the U.S. Army in 2000, Dr. John Henry Hagmann has helped train thousands of soldiers and medical personnel in how to treat battlefield wounds. His company, Deployment Medicine International, has received more than $10.5 million in business from the federal government.
The taxpayer-funded training has long troubled animal rights activists, who contend that Hagmann's use of live, wounded pigs to simulate combat injuries is unnecessarily cruel. But an investigation by Virginia medical authorities alleges that pigs weren't the doctor's only training subjects.
During instructional sessions in 2012 and 2013 for military personnel, Hagmann gave trainees drugs and liquor, and directed them to perform macabre medical procedures on one another, according to a report issued by the Virginia Board of Medicine, the state agency that oversees the conduct of doctors.
Hagmann, 59, is accused of inappropriately providing at least 10 students with the hypnotic drug ketamine. The report alleges Hagmann told students to insert catheters into the genitals of other trainees and that two intoxicated student were subjected to penile nerve block procedures. Hagmann also is accused of conducting "shock labs," a process in which he withdrew blood from the students, monitored them for shock, and then transfused the blood back into their systems.
Everyone’s favorite mystical poet, Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, probably could not have predicted how much global influence his work would have eight centuries after his death. Nor could he have appreciated the irony of his 13th century Islamic Persian verse making him the best-selling poet in the U.S. And yet, a huge part of Rumi’s appeal to the majority of his readers, religious and non-, comes from his non-traditionalism, his anti-dogmatism, gentle iconoclasm, and romanticism. Claims that the poet was gay may be contentious, but there’s no getting away from the eroticism, much of it homoeroticism, in much of Rumi’s poetry. Rumi also inspired the hardly orthodox Sufi sect known as “Whirling Dervishes,” who invoke a trance-like state through a rhythmic spinning ritual based on the poet’s own devotional practices.
But Rumi did not begin his career as a mystic, or as a poet. Author Brad Gooch, who is writing a biography of Rumi, describes him as “a traditional Muslim preacher and scholar, as his father and grandfather had been.” That is until age 37, when in 1244, he met a mystic called Shams of Tabriz. “The two of them have this electric friendship for three years—lover and beloved [or] disciple and sheikh, it’s never clear,” says Gooch. After Shams’ death, possibly by murder, Rumi began writing poetry. “Most of the poetry we have comes from age 37 to 67. He wrote 3,000 [love songs] to Shams, the prophet Muhammad and God. He wrote 2,000 rubayat, four-line quatrains. He wrote in couplets a six-volume spiritual epic, The Masnavi.” These poems, writes the BBC, are “recited, chanted, set to music and used as inspiration for novels, poems, music, films, YouTube videos and tweets.” Today we bring you some of those contemporary appropriations of Rumi’s work.
At the top of the post, hear actress Tilda Swinton—who has her own global cult of admirers—read Rumi’s “Like This.” Swinton recently turned to Rumi’s poetry to promote her line of fragrances. Below Swinton’s reading, celebrity spiritual adventurer (some might say spiritual tourist) Madonna reads Rumi’s “Bitter Sweet” with her guru Deepak Chopra. It was recorded for the album, A Gift Of Love: Deepak & Friends Present Music Inspired By The Love Poems Of Rumi. And just above, we have two very devoted scholars and interpreters of Rumi’s work, Coleman Barks (who translated the poem Swinton reads) and poet Robert Bly, accompanied by tablas, sitar, and drums. Barks has done much to explain the global reach of Rumi’s poetry, writing in the introduction to The Illuminated Rumi that the poet’s “whole life was a witness to the boundless universality of the Heart…. His vision was a whole-world work and the poetry was part of the soul-unfolding done in a learning community.” When Rumi died, Barks tells us, “he was mourned by Christians and Jews, as well as Muslims and Buddhists.” Below, hear Barks attempt to expound on Rumi’s very non-traditional, non-Western, and difficult-to-translate view of love.
so for those of you not in the know/care, tumblr added this thing where you click a button, and type some text, then it autoselects an unoriginal gif that expresses your unoriginal thought.
when i was younger i had a really bad fear of danny devito when i was going to sleep so my older brother gave me a watch that he set to like 8 hours ahead so that it was always daytime on the watch when i was asleep and he told me it would confuse danny devito and he would think it was daytime and get scared of the sun and leave me alone
Your brother is the best
Who the fuck changed this from vampires to Danny devito
the real question is why I was completely ready to accept that this person had a debilitating childhood fear of Danny Devito
A second generation immigrant from Hong Kong by the name of Alan Mak has become the first ethnically Chinese British MP. Chinese netizens seem to have one of two things to say about this. Either that England and the rest of the world will soon belong to China, or that this man isn’t real Chinese since he doesn’t want to mention his ancestry and can’t speak Chinese, so the Chinese shouldn’t “put gold on their faces” (flatter themselves).
Reporters asked the company why it had chosen to advertise its eyeglasses with the world’s most famous blind person. The company replied that Chinese schools teach the story of Helen Keller primarily as an icon of fortitude, and sure enough, sales of the frames were brisk. Helen Keller glasses were selling under the slogan “You see the world, and the world sees you.”
i guess i lived there during the golden age. not only did one smoke in restaurants, but also ash and throw butts on the floor.
The tightest smoking regulations in all of Beijing’s history officially has begun on June 1st. It is illegal to smoke in all common indoor areas, workplaces, and public transportations. All tobacco advertisements are also prohibited. Breaking these rules will result in a maximum 200 RMB fine. These new regulations protect the populace against secondhand smoke, however in an investigative survey, over 60% of people admit that they won’t turn in others for smoking. Chinese netizens agree with the regulations, and think that cigarettes shouldn’t be made so that people can’t smoke.
all this and all i fuckin wanted was to be able to pop it out to a window of its own like i used to be able to.
Gmail – The size of the compose window starts out short. As you fill it up, it expands. But it doesn’t expand to the size of the entire text, and never expands outside the size of the of the parent window. When you scroll the parent window up and down, the compose field expands and contracts so that the field never overflows past the top of the parent window. The header and footer of the compose fields always stay in a usable place.
Iranian artist Shirin Abedinirad explores issues of gender, sexuality and human compassion through her site-specific installations, performances, and conceptual fashion designs. Seen here are two recent public works, Evocation (Iran, 2013) and Heaven on Earth (Italy, 2014) that utilize mirrors in both an urban and rural desert setting to reflect the sky above, perhaps mimicking the color or form of water. Abedinirad studied under Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami and now splits her time between Tehran and Florence. You can see more of her work on her website and on Tumblr. (via Cross Connect)
Guy Laramée‘s (previously) new series Onde Elles Moran (Where They Live) captures the mystique of the native birds of the Brazilian region Serra do Corvo Branco (Range of the White Raven) through both portrait and carved landscape. The series contains nine sculptures sourced from secondhand bookstores within the country—tomes of the Classicos Jackson which is aseries of literature classics published in the ‘50s in Brazil. The rich linen covers inspired the palettes of many of the portraits, the original colors working their way into Laramée’s artistic remodeling.
Although Laramée had originally planned to photograph the vast canyons of the region during his 4-month visit, the diversity, songs, and liveliness of the native birds kept persuading him to eclipse the beautiful scenes with their portraits. The series is dedicated to these birds and their habitat, each book containing a portrait of one on the cover against a faded background and an environmental carving into the pages of the book on the opposite side. The size ratio of the bird to corresponding landscape highlights the creatures’ importance, acknowledging their role as the true owners and rulers of the region.
“Being in the company of these lively beings were one thing, painting them was another story,” explained Laramée while discussing his process. “They became like ghosts on a theater backdrop, posing in front of wallpaper, looking at a vanishing scenery.”
Laramée hopes that this series exudes the stark differences between Man and bird, recognizing that we do not live within the same world. Man’s world has been transformed into an object from which we now feel alienated he explains—we live within our heads and books, not the canyons or earth. “Maybe where they live is where we should live,” says Laramée. “In the solitude of virgin landscapes, we might rediscover our intimate relationships to the world.”
Laramée is represented by JHB Gallery in New York City.
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