Archives for "July, 2010"

Posted by venlala on 29th July 2010
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Wolverine and Spiderman share a moment

Two of my greatest comic heroes – this fistbump makes me love them even more.

Posted by venlala on 27th July 2010
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The Easter Egg In Hans Zimmer’s ‘Inception’ Score

I saw Christopher Nolan‘s Inception film last week and loved it – just like everyone else. I never realised that the stretching of time in dreaming was also built into the music score: Basically, every level of sleep in the film stretches the time – 5 minutes of sleep gives you 1 hour of dreaming [...]

Posted by venlala on 26th July 2010
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Every Death Star Has Its Exhaust Port

Toupé have just released a new album Duninadé and have allowed the album to be Downloaded For Free. These guys are not only supertalented but also superheroes: if you wanted to show your support or enjoyment of the album then they ask you to make donations to Burma Campaign or Refuge (the domestic abuse charity). [...]

Posted by venlala on 24th July 2010
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High-speed robot hand

Ishikawa Komuro Lab’s high-speed robot hand performing impressive acts of dexterity and skillful manipulation. This video presentation at ICRA 2009 (which took place in May in Kobe, Japan) has an informative narration and demonstrates dribbling a ping-pong ball, spinning a pen, throwing a ball, tying knots, grasping a grain of rice with tweezers, and tossing [...]

Posted by venlala on 22nd July 2010
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Out with the world’s strongest bear

Saturday morning in Tampere Market Square I bumped to a visitor from Sweden: Bamse, the strongest and kindest bear in the world. Bamse and his friends are very clear and admirable about their values – strongly opposed to racism, bullying and violence. Bamse is often seen helping those in needs and his slogan is Beating [...]

Posted by venlala on 20th July 2010
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What’s inside your box of memories?

When I was a kid and told my mum that I don’t ever want to grow old, she calmed me down by telling me that a person always gets to keep all the past ages inside her. So, a hundred year old person is actually hundred different people inside one body. Those memories and ages [...]

Posted by venlala on 19th July 2010
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Blogging with Android

A smoke test trying to submit a blog post from my mobile. Featuring summer, sauna and a butt print.

Posted by venlala on 12th July 2010
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Ruisrock 2010

I worked as a photo uploader for the Ruisrock’s photo gallery and this photo taken by Mari shows how wild party it was.  Throughout the three-day festival it was over 40 degrees in the media center and the monitor was so hot that I felt like sitting in front of a fire. Why am I [...]