Monthly archives: February 2009

 

 

The Elusive Life of Benjamin Button

Few select movies that I’ve watched actually make me think many hours after watching them. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is one of them. For some reason this movie has had a profound affect on me. It has once again reminded me that life is magical and sacred. And yet it is short and [...]

 

Science: Transparent head and Tubular Eyes

This must be one of the most freakiest creatures in nature. The species of fish commonly known as Barreleyes have a transparent head inside which resides a pair of tubular eyes. That’s right, a transparent head with tubular eyes inside! This deep-sea fish has been known to science since 1939 when it was first described. [...]

 

Deranged

There are those who do not conform to the norms of civil society and there are those who are completely deranged and leave the fold of humanity. Here’s that very phenomenon…in…penguins.

 

Big Dog: the creepy and the funny

Big Dog is actually a four-legged robotic dog created by Boston Dynamics. I was simply amazed by the advancement of the robot’s maneuverability. In the video below you can see it climbing slopes, treading ice, balancing in slippery frozen terrain, making its way through rubble etc. How the four legs react in these situations (to [...]

 

MvBlogosphere Companion Extension 0.2

What is it? This is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser that enables hiding and highlighting of blogs from the mvblogs.org listing. Say, you are at work or you let your children use the computer and you know that some blogs listed on mvblogs.org are inappropriate for a work environment and children, how [...]