Wow, Apple really seems to look far into the future. Do they have any knowledge of upcoming tragedies we don’t know yet?

Well, it seems like, as they have a staff position called ‘Senior Armageddon Avoidance Engineer‘

Originally discovered from this blogpost and @hessi & @admartinator.

Huch, wo bin ich denn da wieder gelandet? #google

Wow! Hab wohl grade den absoluten #JS-Massaker #SEO-Alptraum Quellcode gefunden. Man beachte den Content des body-tag

November 7th, 2007 Autor: ui. in wie man sich vor terroristischen anschlägen schützt |

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Pilot und Autopilot

Unser Gehirn erhält pro Sekunde von allen Sinnen etwa 11 Millionen Bits. Psychologe und Nobelpreisträger Daniel Kahnemann nennt dieses System das System 1: den Autopiloten (das Unterbewusstsein).

Nahezu grenzenlos kann es Informationen aufnehmen, nur einen minimalen Teil davon – zwischen 40 und 50 Bits – gib es an das System 2: den Piloten (das Bewusstsein) weiter.

via Neuromarketing – Auf der Suche nach dem Kaufknopf im Gehirn!.

Simply magic toy

“Todays magic is tomorrow’s science”… as we always say here at ThinkGeek. Now you can get a bit of magic for yourself with this amazing Fly Stick Van de Graaff Levitation Wand.

This battery powered wand features a mini Van de Graaff generator inside. Push a button on the handle and the static charge built up in the wand causes the included 3D mylar shapes to levitate at your command. You can also do some cool tricks causing the shapes to jump back and forth from your hand to the wand. Not quite Harry Potter… but hey, we do our best for you. Awesome!

The Early Adopter Song! (Part 3) – popula.de

Nicht nur das popula.de mal schwer die deutsche “wo-geh-ich-heute-hin”-Szene rulen wird, ist das Video sowohl musikalisch als auch visuell verdammt gut gelungen!

Jungs ich wünsch euch einen BIG LAUNCH! Bring the noise!

BoomTown is flatly fascinated by the rather incredible memo Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer penned to his troops yesterday, with news of the reorganization of its massive Platforms and Services Division and the departure of its president, Kevin Johnson.

In the memo, in a very rare public airing of its less-clean laundry, Ballmer actually casts Microsoft’s two major rivals, Apple and Google, in a somewhat positive light, while still vowing to best them.

It is not often that Ballmer or even Microsoft Founder Bill Gates mentions either company in public. More to the point, what neither typically does is acknowledge that they do anything right.

But Ballmer did so yesterday in the memo, perhaps a sign that Microsoft (MSFT) realizes it has trouble on its hands and needs to publicly declare tough enemies to pump itself up to fight.

The memo should be Topic A for financial analysts, who are gathering at Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., headquarters today for their annual meeting with company leaders.

“It’s going to be a rocky day,” said one Microsoft source.

And how! Especially given the need to explain the memo in more detail, including plans for beating back incursions by more nimble companies like Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG).

Ballmer took a baby step in that direction in the strategy email to employees.

About Apple, for example, Ballmer wrote:

In the competition between PCs and Macs, we outsell Apple 30-to-1. But there is no doubt that Apple is thriving. Why? Because they are good at providing an experience that is narrow but complete, while our commitment to choice often comes with some compromises to the Read the rest of this entry »

Some lovely childish views on what are the real importances and questions in daily life
See for yourself:

What if this years Christmas tree looks brighter than ever? What if singing Christmas songs turns to a real obsession? Why doesn’t the goose taste at all this year?
Well, maybe you have been presented some toys named “Bindeez” by the Australian company “Moose” (manufacturing in China, of course). The secret about all this: The bubbles in some of the toy-sets contain the designer-drug Liquid Ecstasy!
Seems like some burned out Chinese employee swapped the cartons of the ingredients while doing his 18hour shift, haha

Nevertheless, it’s a serious thing. The countries affected are Read the rest of this entry »