I Stumbled Upon a web site about face research: Researchers Lisa DeBruine and Ben Jones are experimental psychologists working for the University of Aberdeen. On their web site, FaceResearch.org, you can test some of the computer tools they have developed including an intriguing application which allows you to create average faces from a number of […]
Those who have had the pleasure of visiting Rio de Janeiro have inevitably also seen the favelas, shanty towns, a few blocks off of the citys besung (and in my view vastly overrated) beaches. Norwegians think of favelas as something that we do not have in “our” country. However, upon travelling past Gol in Hallingdal […]
Whilst sightseeing by car on Corsica in May this year, a couple of friends and I came across this fellow who had dragged his wife/girlfriend/woman along on a cycling trip. He was equipped with all the usual pro gear: head band, tiny backpack and cycling shorts. She was about 100 meters behind him, presumably to […]
Came across this wonderful list of ways to tick off your colleagues at work or other people for that matter: HOW TO TICK PEOPLE OFF 1. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies. 2. In the memo field of all your checks, write “for sexual favors.” 3. […]
As exotic problems go, my horizon was significantly broadened after a recent visit to Laoise County Hall. By the entrance door there is a postbox with the following warning on it: ‘Don’t put money in this box’. The thought of doing so never occured to me in the first place, but if people would want […]
One would think, with the massive uptake of mobile technologies, that the public pay-phone would already have been made extinct in 2007. Why isn’t that so? I believe that one of the major contributing factors is the prepaid phone card industry. This industry largely targets people who wants to call long distance and can’t or […]
I have come up a (theoretical) alternative to dieting. It should be fool-proof and builds on the fact that the pleasure of eating is mainly about substance and taste. Once food is swallowed it is purely of nutritional value. The concept would be to intercept the food after it leaves the mouth but before it […]
In the 1930’s during the excavation of a village near Baghdad, archeologists encountered a battery – a 2000 year old battery to be omore precise. You can read more about the Baghdad battery and other world mysteries at http://www.world-mysteries.com. Read a short outtake from the World Mysteries homepage below: In 1936, while excavating ruins of […]
After having written on my homepage blogged for nigh on 10 years now I have come to the conclusion that I no longer have sufficient time to both developing the technology and blogging. Having assessed my alternatives I concluded that WordPress would be the best way forward. All the articles from my old web site […]
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