Wtf....

Rethink

Irritating games

Try these irritating games to waste ur time at work!

X'mas Lunch

Time's Invention of the Year

Very aptly, Time's invention of the year is YOUTUBE! Here's the full story..

Meet Peter. Peter is a 79-year-old English retiree. Back in WW II he served as a radar technician. He is now an international star.
One year ago, this would not have been possible, but the world has changed. In the past 12 months, thousands of ordinary people have become famous. Famous people have been embarrassed. Huge sums of money have changed hands. Lots and lots of Mentos have been dropped into Diet Coke. The rules are different now, and one website changed them: YouTube.
It's been an interesting year in technology. Nintendo invented a video game you control with a magic wand. A new kind of car traveled 3,145 miles on a single gallon of gas. A robot learned to ride a bike. Somebody came up with a nanofabric umbrella that doesn't stay wet. But only YouTube created a new way for millions of people to entertain, educate, shock, rock and grok one another on a scale we've never seen before. That's why it's Time's Invention of the Year for 2006.
But if YouTube is the Invention of the Year, who exactly invented it?
Let's be clear: we know who started it. That would be three twentysomething guys named Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. At a Silicon Valley dinner party one night in 2004 they started talking about how easy it was to share photos with your friends online but what a pain it was to do the same thing with video.
So they did something about it. They hacked together a simple routine for taking videos in any format and making them play in pretty much any Web browser on any computer. Then they built a kind of virtual video village, a website where people could post their own videos and watch and rate and comment on and search for and tag other people's videos. Voilˆ: YouTube.
But even though they built it, they didn't really understand it. They thought they'd built a useful tool for people to share their travel videos. They thought people might use it to pitch auction items on eBay. They had no idea. They had opened a portal into another dimension.
The minute people saw YouTube they did its creators a huge favor: they hijacked it. Instead of posting their home movies, they posted their stand-up routines and drunken ramblings and painful-looking snowboarding wipeouts. They uploaded their backyard science projects, their delivery-room footage and their interminable guitar solos. They sent in eyewitness footage from the aftermath in New Orleans and the war in Baghdad—from both sides. They promulgated conspiracy theories. They sat alone in their basements and poured their most intimate, embarrassing secrets into their webcams. YouTube had tapped into something that appears on no business plan: the lonely, pressurized, pent-up video subconscious of America. Having started with a single video of a trip to the zoo in April of last year, YouTube now airs 100 million videos—and its users add 70,000 more—every day.
What happened? YouTube's creators had stumbled onto the intersection of three revolutions. First, the revolution in video production made possible by cheap camcorders and easy-to-use video software. Second, the social revolution that pundits and analysts have dubbed Web 2.0. It's exemplified by sites like MySpace, Wikipedia, Flickr and Digg—hybrids that are useful Web tools but also thriving communities where people create and share information together. The more people use them, the better they work, and more people use them all the time—a kind of self-stoking mass collaboration that wouldn't have been possible without the Internet.
The third revolution is a cultural one. Consumers are impatient with the mainstream media. The idea of a top-down culture, in which talking heads spoon-feed passive spectators ideas about what's happening in the world, is over. People want unfiltered video from Iraq, Lebanon and Darfur—not from journalists who visit there but from soldiers who fight there and people who live and die there.
The videos may not be slick, but they're real—and anyway, slick is overrated. Slick is 2005. The yardstick on YouTube is authenticity. That's why celebrities like Paris Hilton and P. Diddy can compete with a cute sleepy kitty and a guy doing a robot dance—and lose. That's why Peter's crusty, good-natured reminiscences have made him the all-time second-most-subscribed-to uploader on YouTube. That's why Michael J. Fox let his Parkinson's tremors show. That's why politicians have suddenly started to act like real human beings in their campaign ads, and why some—like Senator George Allen of "Macacagate" fame—have been busted for getting a little too real.
Less than a year after its launch, YouTube has become a media giant in its own right. Last month the company moved out of its 30-person office above a pizzeria in San Mateo, Calif., and into an office building in nearby San Bruno. Oh, and on Oct. 16 Hurley and Chen sold the company to Google for $1.65 billion.
With that kind of money behind it, YouTube has to start conducting itself with a little more legal and financial gravitas. That means making money—mostly through advertising—and convincing the TV, movie and music executives who find copyrighted material on YouTube that it's a revenue opportunity and not grounds for litigation. The learning curve is still steep. "The people marketing content see it as a great new platform, but the legal side of the business doesn't know how to react," Hurley says. "We have instances where someone within the company uploaded something, and the other side's asking you to take it down."
But YouTube isn't Napster. It already has partnerships with NBC, CBS, Universal Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music. And come on—it's the one place on the Net where people willingly, knowingly click on ads, like Nike's legendary clip of sharpshooting soccer star Ronaldinho. If you can't find money on YouTube, you're in the wrong economy, buddy.
YouTube is ultimately more interesting as a community and a culture, however, than as a cash cow. It's the fulfillment of the promise that Web 1.0 made 15 years ago. The way blogs made regular folks into journalists, YouTube makes them into celebrities. The real challenge old media face isn't protecting their precious copyrighted material. It's figuring out what to do when the rest of us make something better. As Hurley puts it, "How do you stay relevant when people can entertain themselves?" He and his partners may have started YouTube, but the rest of us, in our basements and bedrooms, with our broadband and our webcams, invented it.

back

hey fellas... sorry 'bout the late notice.. these last few days have been hectic and crazy...

but i'm back in sg! will be here till CNY hopefully...

catch up soon ya..

Check out a great video from PandaSmash.com... it's called "Evil Christmas Carols (Volume 1)"... click here to check it out.

dive dive

this afternon, saturday 23rd dec, head on down to the dawg park at west coast at bout 1600 and you'll see stuff like this. well, not exactly though.

ru ding and i have been headin there with angela and labby (baby) to toss discs with the dawgs and it can be a real dawg fight alright.

the picture shows a frisbee move called a layout, cos you lay out all that you've got to catch the disc. pretty devoted to the cause if you do that.

disc in!

shit storm

must be a bummer for this stormy when the death star blew up.

imagine you're takin a dunk when wedge and lando blew up the reactor core in the 2nd death star in return of the jedi.

i mean, how do stormys take a poop. guess this is it.

mel gibson?

the pattriot missile system

this technology was bugging me during one of me engineering modules. dynamics and control, don't know what so dynamic it is about this subject that no one has control over. was tyin to link something interesting to the subject. but it still didn't make sense.

the principal of how the system is linked to the subject is that once the missile is fired, there's all this guidence and flight path crap that the system has to take into consideration in order to kill the scud.

don't know how i'll do for the subjcet. high kill rate sia.

does this work?

might as well see what all this posting is all about
don't know if this is how you guys do it. see the world through your eyes.

just post your thoughts and anything else right?

but hey if, this shows up. then consider it my first post on the blog site. like that pole on the moon. no holds barred ballz! (no law)

SW

not sure how many of you have seen this before but

Click start and run telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Wanna try?...

Anyone one of you chaps wanna try singing this... DEFINITELY not a prob for the retard gang of Haokenadens!.. Woot!

Updates of W.Ding

Maybe it will finally be over soon.

paaaang saaaaaaai

I had to pang sai.

I love to pang sai

Come on everybody….

PAAAANG SAAAAAAI!!!

BIG BOYZ TOYS!!!!

I tell you... They got this charbor who can spraypaint

miracles on bikes.. Phew, shiok!

And there's a bigini mud wrestling show, if that turns you on.. hehz...

Iraqi Kid Runs for Water

Are you angry yet? We all know what that leads to.

How to make coke.

Got a coca patch growing at home? Don't know what to do with it?

Frisbee!

Okay guys! this coming saturday and next saturday... let's go play frisbee!!

Ipod

http://www.blogmusik.net/

Just for fun

Blender Bender

You know what you'd want for chirstmas?!
http://www.willitblend.com/

Home Sweet Home

Ahh... just in case you guys complain i didn't mentioned when i'm coming back. I'll be back on 20th nov, landing abt 2140.

Anyway... have fun ding! hahahahahahahahaha..... i'm not running this year. But i don't mind meeting up to run! not for the 42k. but for like. 5 - 10k short runs. hahahahahahahaha.... crazy nuts.... what was i thinking last year....

The upcoming die-a-thon

The man, check out the 3rd of Dec, the day where I die again. Sucks.

http://www.singaporemarathon.com/en/route/?sec=204&ssec=553
This year, they included a flash map to 'run you thru' the marathon route.
Blah.
I'm dead.
Joshua's deader. He haven't trained like.. at all.

It's so...... far. *whimper*
*gasp*

They are in London...

Decepticons....Merge and Form..... Devastator!

FF7 Robo Chicken Parody

Hahaha.... oldman, you'll love this!

Coolest piece of flash!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1njc5pCpxDM

Gotta check this out..
This guy got:
1. Way too much time on his hands
2. too much violence on his mind
3. heck a lot of talent with flash!

NTU Survey video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOqXlbWf9Io

Check this clip out man.. damn cock! Confirm engineering lecture..

The Handy Dandy Yellow Box!!

The brainchild of a guy who obviouslt has too much time on his hands, (Mark, not me....) we present to you.... THE HANDY DANDY YELLOW BOOOOX!

It's a little device that all smokers should have in little singapore cos of the anti public smoking law. Since the assholes in charge here dictated that all smokers must stay in stipulated boxes (yellow by default) to take a puff, we decided to give them a portable carry it yourself yellow box! YeaAAhhh! Screw ya!

Next in line... handy dandy zebra crossings! wooohoooooooooo.........

Cheers campaign ads

Haha... sibei funny.. the slow motions camera shots... fantastic!

I missed a lot!

Oh my goodness, seems like i missed a hell of a lot here!

Lots and lots of posts! I shall be back to type more soon, but a very current update on wat's been occupying my time (and fucking up my schedule i might add)

Wow, good comics

check these comics out man...

Bounce Back to Life

this guy really draws very well! and the chio bus are... well, chio lor! ;D (to answer ur question glenn, yes, so wat? ;P )

check this one out too, haha i just love star wars spoofs: singlish star wars



who sez singapore got no talent?

Everlong. Everschlong. woot.

Have you guys ever seen the everlong mtv... its weird....

here's the url.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHdwZCVZmg8

Good morning Sir.

class, all rise!

*shuffle table and chairs*

"good morning, mr fang. happy birthday, mr fang."

*shuffle tables and chairs*

*a lone hand ventures up..*

"sir, what is country rock ah?"

White & Nerdy

Weird Al's baaaaaack! Grrooovy baby .. hahah.... *snort* *narf* Music video by "Weird Al" Yankovic from the album "Straight Outta Lynwood"

A Conversation with Barnabas Teo

10/3/2006 2:26:03 PM KD Barney~! hey barney
10/3/2006 2:26:07 PM KD Barney~! are you going back end of year?
10/3/2006 2:33:16 PM Barney~! KD This is not Barney. i'm just using his msn

Create your own funny story!

go to this website: http://www.rinkworks.com/crazylibs/, choose a story and fill in the fields with an appropriate word. go crazy and use words that are farfetched.. but when it asks for names, put in names of people u know (makes it more funny).. it takes a while, but after you're done, submit the words and read ur funny story out loud! here's one that i made... (disclaimer: i had no idea how the story would turn out until i submitted the words... so dun kill me.. :D) (PS: the words in red are the ones I had to fill in..)

Action Movie
Someday I want to ditch this Sith Lord job and become a film director. I have a great script for an action movie.

It starts out with the badguy, Cyril Low Youwen "Barbie Doll" Jamiroquai, hijacking a Millenium Falcon. The old acupuncturist fights him off, but Jamiroquai starts firing his gun and hollering his signature line, "Cannot Make It, Man U fans!" He ties this one dude up and force feeds him a litre of sambal, so the audience knows this Cyril Low Youwen character is mean and retarded.

Enter our hero, Minghui Spandex, who is a rookie NKF CEO. He is gay, because of a mysterious mishap with a paper cut. The old acupuncturist, it turns out, was his adopted twice-removed mother-in-law, so he chases the badguy down in a series of serendipity-packed chase scenes that take place in armoured personnel carriers and rickshaws. It climaxes with a groin fight in a changi bungalow.

"You'll never get away with this!" Minghui Spandex yells as he punches "Barbie Doll" Jamiroquai's groin.

"Cannot Make It, Man U fans!" Jamiroquai hollers back.

Spandex beats Jamiroquai, but it's not over yet! There's an explosive mee siam mai hum that an astronaut's wife is unwittingly carrying to the very heart of Los Angeles!

Spandex races against time, snatches a toilet bowl away from the astronaut's wife, pulls out the mee siam mai hum inside, and defuses it with just 5,222,663,664,236,686.03 seconds to spare!

Of course, it turns out that Jamiroquai isn't really dead. "Cannot Make It, Man U fans!" he screams, leaping to his feet and flexing his mighty pancreas muscles. But then Spandex skewers him with a dental floss, and it's all over.

Let's have a serious discussion for once

hi guys, i know this is highly irregular, but i thought perhaps we could increase our intelligence quotients a little with some serious, rational discussion on the current affairs in the news.

i have noted with alarm that our recent posts have not only decreased in intellectual and engaging ideas..

.. and our conversations have degenerated to one liners like "freeeeeeeeeeedoooom" and "grunt" and "narf" (ok, the last two are slight exaggerations) ..

.. but also, and more disturbingly, we have substituted reasonable words and discourses with videos of farting (dictionary.com defines this as "verb: to expel a flatus through the anus; break wind.") cyborg scotsmen and parodies of cinematography (also known as "movies") from popular culture!

and so, with our grand old heritage of responsible scholarship in mind, and as alumni hailing from our honoured alma mater - a.c.s.(br), i would like to propose that we discuss the deep metaphysical rammifications of the recent coup d'etat of the thai government as reported in the news here: Thailand article
to aid our discussion, i have attached a picture that is in the abovementioned news story which i believe, in my own brutally honest opinion, cannot but perfectly encapsulate the popular sentiments and conclusions of all discussants after reading the report:

(please scroll down to view picture)






















and the conclusion that i had earlier alluded to us thus:

"wah rwaw eh!!! thaksin's daughter is damn super sibei chio lor!! how come he so long in power we also din know he got so joot ah girl, one? nair mind! i fly bangkok right now!! dun care coop wat coop... eh? his daughter is in london now? wah piang.. cannot make it lah, tiger airway where got fly so far one?? liddat how to afford? sian la..."

[for more information (i.e. pics) on thaksin's daughter, go here: http://www.onasia.com/system/quicksearch.aspx?qst=Pintongta&qsp=1&qsi=true]

[and here:http://events-in-thailand.blogspot.com/2005/12/who-richest-in-thailand.html (she's 23 years old! and is thailand's richest stakeholder owning shares worth 19.2 billion baht!!!!)]

[and here:http://nationmultimedia.com/2006/09/21/headlines/headlines_30014243.php (she's studying in london!)]

Freeeeeeeeedooooooomm!!!!!! *Zap*

Crazy ass stuff, but fantastic!

Heh.




www.howitshouldhaveended.com

Oh this is damn funny!

Failam sent this thru email.. Damn funny!!

Robot Chicken Empire Strikes Back Parody

Hahahaha... cannot make it.. this is too good.

absolutely amazing

alright guys, this is by far the best street magician i've seen! farking amazing stuff! his name is Cyril Takayama and you gotta go down to youtube and look for his magic clips. Here's just a sample! check it out!

What's better than turtles in a half shell?

black is coool. >:]

wei

za men hao,

wo zhan shi de di qu shi zai kao shiung.

ze li de feng jing bu zuo ba. you de zhi, you de wan

ha ha da xiao

Lifesize Gundam

Youwen...I know you're getting a hard-on right now, and it's not because of the jap girl.

http://www.physorg.com/news73893894.html

Cool Ads!

These are for the running at this year's Ink Awards, They're actually pretty good advertisements! Maybe the standard's increasing...

As you can probably tell....

Courtesy of Ah Waiz.... We have a more appropriate picture in our title!

waddle waddle

check this out.

retrooooooooooooooogade!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p3mFM1Vyb0&search=two%20princes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wljjTpJHVNg&search=runaway%20train

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHJqp-716cs&search=another%20day%20in%20paradise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRO6gRP8Yqk&search=smash%20mouth

check these out man... super retro but cool mtvs

It's time to decide

Attention all Wusses and Pussies.

It's time to decide.

SPCA fun run. 4.8km. MacRitchie. 20th Aug.

AHM. 21km. Padang. 27th Aug.

In or out? Decide now!

Thanks Guys

Hey guys, thanks for coming down to see me off at the airport.

Anyway, end of the year, will it by samui or sydney?

I heard lots of great things from mark and ding + seow about samui...

btw, how in the world did subur talk my dad into bringing him down to the race course?

Funny video clip from one of Royston Tan's films..

This video's quite funny... heard it's only the front bit tho..

i was digging thru some old files on my home pc when i stumbled upon this:it's a design for a barker t-shirt that i did back in the good ol' days (why not, whilst we're reminiscing)...

i actually showed NEC, but he was concerned about the "negative image" that the word "maniac" had .... hah!

Balik Kampung

I will be going back to Sorong, Irian Jaya, this december. Will be for a couple of days (1+ week) for the sole purpose of fishing and island hoping. Anyone interested give a holler out on the chatbox. I was thinking of going to zanzibar, but it's BS and too $$$

Sec 4 biology is chicken feet.

Assholes

Letter from K BHAVANI
Press Secretary to the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts

Your mr brown column, "S'poreans are fed, up with progress!" (June 30) poured sarcasm on many issues, including the recent General Household Survey, price increases in electricity tariffs and taxi fares, our IT plans, the Progress Package and means testing for special school fees.
The results of the General Household Survey were only available after the General Election. But similar data from the Household Expenditure Survey had been published last year before the election.
There was no reason to suppress the information. It confirmed what we had told Singaporeans all along, that globalisation would stretch out incomes.
mr brown must also know that price increases in electricity tariffs and taxi fares are the inevitable result of higher oil prices.
These were precisely the reasons for the Progress Package — to help lower income Singaporeans cope with higher costs of living.
Our IT plans are critical to Singapore's competitive position and will improve the job chances of individual Singaporeans. It is wrong of mr brown to make light of them.
As for means testing for special school fees, we understand mr brown's disappointment as the father of an autistic child. However, with means testing, we can devote more resources to families who need more help.
mr brown's views on all these issues distort the truth. They are polemics dressed up as analysis, blaming the Government for all that he is unhappy with. He offers no alternatives or solutions. His piece is calculated to encourage cynicism and despondency, which can only make things worse, not better, for those he professes to sympathise with.
mr brown is entitled to his views. But opinions which are widely circulated in a regular column in a serious newspaper should meet higher standards. Instead of a diatribe mr brown should offer constructive criticism and alternatives. And he should come out from behind his pseudonym to defend his views openly.
It is not the role of journalists or newspapers in Singapore to champion issues, or campaign for or against the Government. If a columnist presents himself as a non-political observer, while exploiting his access to the mass media to undermine the Government's standing with the electorate, then he is no longer a constructive critic, but a partisan player in politics.


See Mr Brown's letter here
http://www.mrbrown.com/blog/2006/07/today_sporeans_.html#more

The world is such an interesting place

The Gaza minefield
ISRAEL is making Gaza pay dearly for the abduction of a 19-year-old Israeli soldier exactly a week ago. Five thousand Israeli troops, backed by armor, have ringed the Palestinian territory, waiting for the order to cross the border. As of Sunday the order for a major ground offensive has not come down, as Israeli officials allowed Egypt one last chance to secure the release of Cpl. Gilad Shalit. But that hasn’t stopped Israeli aircraft, artillery and gunboats from pounding selected targets inside Gaza, including its power station, key bridges and the office of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniya.
Israel’s message to the ruling Hamas Party is clear: Send back Shalit alive or we will annihilate you. One Israeli newspaper reflected the government’s resolve. “If the kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit does not return alive, there is no more Hamas government. Israel will erase this concept from the Middle Eastern political map,” the paper warned.
No one questions the capability of the Israeli army to unleash the dogs of war on Hamas. Israel has never tried to hide its contempt for the group, which has vowed to crush the Jewish nation. Hamas has sent its followers on suicide missions into the very heart of its hated neighbor. Now that it has risen to power in the Palestinian territories, the Israelis have all the more reason to feel apprehensive.
If Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert does give the order for ground forces to move into Gaza, it could set off repercussions that are bound to convulse the entire Middle East. For one thing, Syria will inevitably be drawn into the conflict. Israeli has long accused the Damascus government of coddling Hamas Already Israeli warplanes have made overflights in Syria over the past week. An attack on Syria could further stoke the already seething anger against Israel in the Arab world. Egypt, which has been playing the broker between the Israelis and the Palestinians, will have to take sides. Jordan, too, will have to make a crucial decision of its own.
Expectedly, Hamas will retaliate by launching more suicide attacks on Israel.
As the clouds of conflict gather, the shadow of a humanitarian crisis spreads in Gaza. Since the power station was knocked out last week, the territory’s 1.4 million inhabitants have been left without electricity. With the pumps not running, taps have run dry and the sewerage system is clogged up. Fuel deliveries from outside Gaza have been blocked by Israeli troops. Emergency generators for hospitals are about to give out, putting patients at risk.
Over the weekend the indications are the impasse over the release of Gilad Shalit is not about to be broken soon. The crisis is just beginning to enter its most dangerous phase. The protagonists must negotiate carefully through a diplomatic and political minefield and find a peaceful solution. Every effort must be made to prevent hell from breaking loose.

Odds for today!

The Power of Neem

Neem’s antiseptic properties are widely recognized now. "Neem preparations are reportedly efficacious against a variety of skin diseases, septic sores, and infected burns. The leaves, applied in the form of poultices or decoctions, are also recommended for boils, ulcers, and eczema. The oil is used for skin diseases such as scrofula, indolent ulcers and ringworm.
Cures for many diseases have been reported but these need to be confirmed independently by trials under controlled conditions. Laboratory tests have shown that neem is effective against certain fungi that infect the human body. Some important fungi against which neem preparations have been found to be effective are: athlete’s foot fungus that infects hair, skin and nails; a ringworm that invades both skin and nails of the feet; a fungus of the intestinal tract; a fungus that causes infections of the bronchi, lungs, and mucous membranes and a fungus that is part of the normal mucous flora that can get out of control leading to lesions in mouth (thrush), vagina, skin, hands and lungs.

Neem’s Home Remedies
http://www.neemfoundation.org/home%20uses.htm

It has proven beneficial or preventative for the following:
Abrasions. Epilepsy. Obesity. Acne. Eczema. Piles. AIDS. Fungal Infections. Peptic Ulcers. Allergies. Fever. Prickly Heat. Arrhythmia. Food Poisoning. Parasites. Arthritis . Genital Warts . Pain . Athletes Foot . Gingivitis . Plague . Amenorrhoea . Gonorrhea . Periodontal Disease . Bed Sores . Gout . Rashes . Birth Control . Gastritis . Rheumatism . Bleeding Gums . Goitre .Sore throat .Stomach Problems . Stress . Burns . Hepatitis . Syphilis . Bad Breath . Herpes . Scabies . Boils & Pimples . High Blood Pressure . Sinusitis . Cavities . Hives . Snake Bite . Chagas Disease . Hypertension . Sores . Chicken Pox . Hair Loss . Smoking . Heart Burn . Skin Ulcers . Cholesterol . Hangover . Chronic Fatigue . Headache . Skin Problems . Circulation (poor) . Influenza . Colds . Insomnia . Immune System . Toothache . Cancer . Ulcers . Cough . Inflammation . Cuts . Joint Pains . Vaginal Disorders . Dental Problems . Wounds . Diabetes . Diaper Rash . Wrinkles . Dry Skin . Yeast infections . Dandruff . Migraines . Nausea.
Taken from http://www.neemfoundation.org/health.htm
More info @ Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neem

check out this site..

http://forum.asianbookie.com/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=39&Topic=896596

These ppl are hardcore! the threads by & are very accurate!

Spain France

Brazil Ghana Odds

Anybody game?

Hey guys, are you going for either the milk run or this?

Let's do something active!

Dance Dance Revolution

I think they dance better than most of us.

Robots make cool FYP

My Final Year Projects

These are some of my FYP Projects. For all you non-engineers out there, ain't you glad you're not studying engineering?!?! For the engineers, how damn interesting rite!


Development of a remote virtual CNC machining system
The technology of Virtual Reality (VR) has become a popular user interface tool due to the
advancement in computer technologies. The Internet technology has also broken the boundary
of time and space underlying the distributed information framework. An integrated Web-based
VR CNC system has been reported recently. The system can be used to activate the remote
CNC machines for NC code generation and machining. In collaborating with the overseas
partner, you will further verify the system for its feasibility and develop an interface locally to
work with the remote partners geographically dispersed.

Study of a biomimetic for micro gripping
Micro grippers are used to hold micro components during various manufacturing operations.
Such grippers must have the capability to provide sub-micron position resolution. When dealing
with such level of precision, careful design is required to make sure that the outputs of the
mechanism meet the design requirements such as high holding strength in a very small area.
This study continues an earlier project to investigate the characteristics of Gecko feet which
have very high strength to hold the weight of the Gecko while climbing smooth vertical surfaces.
An attempt will be made to design and fabricate a simple new class of biologically inspired
micro gripper mimicking creatures like Gecko, which can be used to hold very small
workpieces.

Micro EDM of tungsten carbide
Tungsten carbide moulds are preferred over currently used steel moulds for direct fabrication of
glass micro lenses. Such moulds are either machined by grinding or by electro discharge
machining (EDM) processes. In this study, EDM process will be applied to achieve nano
surface finish on such moulds.

Games!

hey guys, if you look at the sidebar, you'll see that there are games there!

Things ppl actually said in court

Read this from Mr Brown's blog
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Things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.

Q: Are you sexually active?
A: No, I just lie there.

Q: What is your date of birth?
A: July 18th
Q: What year?
A: Every year.

Q: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
A: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.

Q: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
A: Yes.
Q: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
A: I forget.
Q: You forget? Can you give us an example of something that you’ve forgotten?

Q: How old is your son, the one living with you?
A: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can’t remember which.
Q: How long has he lived with you?
A: Forty-five years.

Q: What was the first thing your husband said to you whenhe woke up that morning?
A: He said, “Where am I, Cathy?”
Q: And why did that upset you?
A: My name is Susan.

Q: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo or the occult?
A: We both do.
Q: Voodoo.
A: We do.
Q: You do?
A: Yes, voodoo.

Q: Now doctor, isn’t it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn’t know about it until the next morning?
A: Did you actually pass the bar exam?

Q: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?

Q: Were you present when your picture was taken?

Q: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
A: Yes.Q: And what were you doing at that time?

Q: She had three children, right?
A: Yes.
Q: How many were boys?
A: None.
Q: Were there any girls?

Q: How was your first marriage terminated?
A: By death.
Q: And by whose death was it terminated?

Q: Can you describe the individual?
A: He was about medium height and had a beard.
Q: Was this a male, or a female?

Q: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
A: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.

Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on deadpeople?
A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.

Q: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did yougo to?
A: Oral.

Q: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
A: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
Q: And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?
A: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy.

Q: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?

Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive whenyou began the autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive,nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicinglaw somewhere.

There goes my Computer...

Haha, my bike died yesterday... To respawn in 15seconds, i have to spend $1000 to change practically the whole engine!

Woohooo......

Adidas Fresco

Some eye-candy in the spirit of World Cup
Wallpaper here

i believe we have made our mark on wikipedia.

I came across this in wikipedia.

Click Here

This is truely a must read.

military award

hmm...how bout award for scoring 3 goals in less than 10 minutes.
think that might work..what do you think?

socceroooooooooooooo.

Military Awards?

(mostly directed towards youwen and Leon)
hey, i'm gonna make military awards for my reservist unit. stuff like best soldier and best noncobatant etcetc... was thinking of making something like the purple heart... (like US army)
I'm also wondering if there's any meaning to the patterns on the cloth.

Any other suggestions?

World Cup News!

Woohoo! World Cup!! Best thing is, my mom subscribed to the cable channel! So if anytime you guys wanna come over, gimme a call. But only if you're betting. heh heh...
Speaking of which, here's the 'expert' view on the upcoming match, JAPAN Vs AUSTRALIA! the first match i'm excited about! (And going to bet on)
pundits choice

Here's the odds on the game Singapore Pools

World Cup Schedule Click here

The glass is now half empty

for all you chronic optimists out there..

http://www.demotivators.com/pessimistsmug.html

Assualt your eyes once a day...

Keeps boredom away.