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marți, 8 martie 2011

Damn Cool Pics

38-Meter High Dive Goes Wrong
Creative Tear-Off Ads
MacDonald's Balancing Sasuke Toy
2011 Rio Carnival
Superhuman: The Incredible Savant Brain
Glass Harp-Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 05:45 PM PST

Constable Velumurugan of the Tamil Nadu State Police gives a whole new meaning to the words 'pain dive'.

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 05:37 PM PST

Usually Tear-off advertisement is just a plain white paper with tear offs of contact information. While in our today's collection, we try to show you some creative and inspiring designs. Those tear-off pieces in those designs are quite good combined with the product/service they want to promote and encourage the interaction between ads and people.

MacDonald's Balancing Sasuke Toy

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 05:13 PM PST

Sasuke is a weird little meme with a great kernel. This McDonald's Happy Meal toy, based on the Sasuke Uchiha character from the Japanese anime show Naruto and issued in Japan and Taiwan, is surprisingly easy to balance large objects on. This ability has landed him in loads of forum pictures and on Taiwanese TV.

Maybe it's the deceptively long surface area of the top of Sasuke's hair, forming a steady triangle without looking like a flat surface. The little plastic Sasuke can apparently balance coins, computers, other toys, handguns, rice cookers and the front wheel of a motorbike on its head or even upside down.

Source: jorsindo

2011 Rio Carnival

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:10 PM PST

The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is coming to end today on March 8th and it is quite a spectacle. Thousands of revellers and spectators enjoyed a visual display of colors, dancers, floats, streamers and costumes all set to the sounds of samba music.

Sources: 1, 2, 3

Superhuman: The Incredible Savant Brain

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:43 PM PST

One of the more common arguments against our capability to build an AI (or reach the singularity) is built upon the premise that we are still very far from understanding fully the capabilities of our own human brain. Thus, the argument goes, we are unlikely to simulate let alone re-create successfully any artificial one, be it in a virtual or silicon based environment.

I just found out this interesting graph called Superhuman: The Incredible Savant Brain that makes me pause…