Think Quest
What do you do if you want to use your money and your good name to induct some positive change in the world? Well, this is what the Oracle Education Foundation finds to be a good idea.
ThinkQuest is a competition that challenges students to create innovative educational websites for the benefit of everyone in the world. There's a global benefit through the valuable information that is put together and there's perhaps an even more important benefit for the participants who expand their horizons and their skills and push themselves beyond their own limits. There's plenty of information on the ThinkQuest.org website.
The next big thing that I found to be very interesting was the website of this year's winners of ThinkQuest. It's called Young Blood: Children of War and besides the really good design and construnction it also brings a very important topic into focus. It's really worth a look.
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| Christian Nasulea - 07.11.2007 | |
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Energy Drink DIY
There I was, sitting all by myself in my room on Sunday night, working
on the computer, with my mind made up not to stop until it's all done.
I got tired and was feeling really sleepy when I remembered I had just
found something very interesting in a drug store on Friday.
Do-It-Yourself Energy Drink
You can find it in Sensiblu drug stores, but apparently not everywhere
as I haven't been able to get any for a couple of years. Until Friday
that is.
It's simply a little bag of powder that you mix with water. It tastes
good and it really seems to be having the same effect as Red Bull, Burn
or any of the other energy drinks.
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| Christian Nasulea - 06.11.2007 | |
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Deep Purple
There was a Deep Purple concert in Bucharest on the Cotroceni stadium last night. The que to get in was half a mile long in two directions.
Overlooking the looong wait to get in and the looong wait for the concert to start it was a good experience. I won't make any observations about the music itself. The thing that struck me most of all was the coordination of the whole performance, particularly the big screen live video feed. You could really see it wasn't the first time they were doing it.
There was of course the small matter of them blowing fuses in the middle of the song. Three times! Since this was Deep Purple we'll choose to overlook it. Looking at the positive side of things I guess this just means that as soon as the guitarist or the guy on the keyboards would start to get carried away the power just wouldn't be enough anymore.
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| Christian Nasulea - 01.11.2007 | |
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The Last Supper in Great Detail
Here is what one Italian technology company has deemed worthy of doing with their time and money.
On their website you can find a digital rendition of Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" at a resolution of no less than 172181 by 93611 pixels. That's like saying it's as big as 168 monitors wide by 122 monitors tall.
Words don't even begin to express the magnitude of what they did so just go to the HAL9000 website and see for yourselves.
Besides the actual picture of the Last Supper I also recommend you have a look at:
the Backstage Video
the Understand section
the Other Works section particularly La Gloria di Sant'Ignazio
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| Christian Nasulea - 31.10.2007 | |
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Guitar Lap-Tapping
I remember reading a guitar book many years ago which said the guitar is the most versatile instrument in the world. I didn't give it much thought, I probably thought to myself that the intro to the saxophone book said the saxophone is the most versatile instrument in the world.
Anyway, here's something that might just prove that book right:
Erik Mongrain showing off and proving that there's more to playing guitar than what we're used to.
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| Christian Nasulea - 31.10.2007 | |
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Knowledge 4 Development
I like graphs and indexes. I like making them off my own data but I really don't mind working with other people's data either.
I found a very interesting source of data thanks to my Creative Management professor on the World Bank website. The section of the website is called Knowledge Assessment Methodology, it looks at data on the 4 important Knowledge Economy Indexes: Economic Incentive and Institutional Regime, Education, Innovation, and ICT.
Have a look, play with the toys, enjoy...
The attached image is a graph generated on the site looking at Romania, Italy and Finland.
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| Christian Nasulea - 30.10.2007 | |
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Pink Martini
Last night we went to a Pink Martini concert at Sala Palatului. There were a lot of celebrities and, interestingly enough, quite a few of my acquaintances. If musical taste is any indication it must mean I'm rolling in the right circles.
Which brings me to the concert. Pink Martini isn't a band, it's an orchestra. They showed musical talent worthy of a philharmonic and arrangements that took the audience from classical music, to ethnic, to party music, to ... a lot of other places, too many to enumerate.
It was good, very good.
More info on Pink Martini on their official website www.pinkmartini.com
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| Christian Nasulea - 28.10.2007 | |
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Little House Near The Danube
Last year for my birthday I bought myself a blue carbon-body Stagg electro-acoustic guitar, which I'm still very very proud of.
This year I went and bought myself a house in Serbia.
The story (short version).
I guess it all started some 2 months ago when Dea's mother told us about a real bargain she found for a little house in a little village near the Danube. About a month ago I went there to see their little house and also saw another little house (that at the time was not for sale) 2 plots from theirs. A couple of days later she called me to tell me that the little house just became available.
Yesterday I went to Serbia and signed the papers for it.
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| Christian Nasulea - 26.10.2007 | |
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A compliment?
Here's what somebody told me this week that I think really falls into the "that's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me" category. I quote:
"You'd make a really good James Bond Villain"
Now being the positive person that I find myself to be I think they were referring to my intelligence, imagination and problem-solving abilities and not to my being slightly derranged.
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| Christian Nasulea - 19.10.2007 | |
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Video Glasses
It finally looks like somebody's put what we were all dreaming of into practice.
The LUMUS P-20 is basically a pair of glasses with a micro video
projector embedded in one side. From the outside there's little to make
anyone think that they're anything more than a normal pair of glasses.
What puts this gadget above anything else in its class is that, in
theory at least, when the projector is off you can just look through
them and see the world as if they weren't even there.
You can see what info is available on the manufacturer's website.
I'll definitely be looking forward to the commercial release of this one.
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| Christian Nasulea - 13.10.2007 | |
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