Download ComeAcross Podcast 9
Summary: First, a heads up - I might combine some of my sites very soon to deliver extra content efficiently. For this podcast, a “best of” approach where I pick the best blog entries from my blog (raoulpop.blogspot.com). The news: super-efficient cars, Turbotax, SimplyHired, Chernobyl, silly passwords, BYOL (bring your [...]
Ask Yahoo! answers that question in this week’s entry. Truth is, the US did adopt the metric system, quite a while back, but not as a replacement for the British measurements. A few decades ago, the government even tried to put metric units on traffic signs, but gave up after receiving numerous complaints. So, we’re [...]
» Go to this postProfessor Andrew Frank from the University of California at Davis developed a hybrid SUV that can get about 100 miles per gallon - or so the article says. It does this because it’s a plug-in hybrid. It recharges its batteries from an outlet at night. This is indeed really cool, but what I’d like to [...]
» Go to this postIn a bit of a surreal twist, just found out from Reuters that political candidates in Mexico are trading barbs over the size and quality of their manhood, in their latest attempts to differentiate themselves from their opponents. Odd, very odd… I guess it doesn’t matter how one stands on the issues, if he can [...]
» Go to this postAssistant professor Metin Sitti at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh developed a little robot that can run over water. The professor looked to nature for his inspiration, in particular to the basilisk lizard, which creates little air pockets as it slaps the water with its feet. He created both two-legged and four-legged robotic lizards that [...]
» Go to this postIn Brazil, women have finally gotten their wish: pink-striped, women-only metro cars. Apparently, there’s a lot of groping and feeling going on in Brazil (shame on you, fellow men!) and it’s so bad they lobbied for women-only cars. Now they’ve got them. The article mentions how women themselves will police the cars, to make sure [...]
» Go to this postToday’s Blog of Note from Blogger is m.Lee Prints. Marissa - that’s the artist’s name - focuses almost exclusively on woodcut printmaking, and the results are beautiful! Have a look at her site, you’ll like it!
» Go to this postToday on Refrederator: Little Swee’ Pea. A trademark of the Zukor cartoons were the multi-layered backgrounds that moved at different speeds, creating the impression of 3-dimensionality. Some of the Popeye cartoons use them, this one included, and all of the Betty Boop cartoons feature them as a mainstay. Have a look and see for yourselves!
» Go to this postFound an article on CNET News which details a survey done in Britain. It showed that there is a directly proportional relationship between the number of passwords one has to remember for work, and the number of unauthorized accesses on the company’s networks. Here’s the link to the CNET article.
Having been a director of IT [...]
Engadget has a post about this, and I couldn’t help writing one either. This looks like a pretty cool alarm clock, and the price is very reasonable given that it’s made by a designer. The clock is angle shaped, and it has two positions. One side is for alarm-on, and the other for alarm-off. I [...]
» Go to this postMy wife teaches piano lessons to children and adults, and has also started to do primer music camps for children, so I designed two websites for her. The first is Fun Piano Lessons and the other is Fun Music Camps.
I want to point them out because I’m using the Wordpress CMS to drive the sites, [...]
Cartoon Brew has a post linking to a Russian site, where they do side by side comparisons of frames, to show you how often Disney animators reused animation sequences. The site is in Russian, but the photos are readily understandable, so I encourage you to visit it. This is pretty interesting. I hadn’t known about [...]
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