I love comics, because they often put the true reality in your face. Have you seen the comic about the only measure of code quality? Well, here’s another comic (this one by Geek and Poke) which describes exactly what good code is. Great one 
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These days there are so many options available when it comes to buying a mobile phone. The reason is that there are so many more requirements that the consumer has of their phone – making calls (of course), using the internet, listening to music, taking photos, social networking with friends, and many more. One of the phones that fulfills most of these requirements is a a device by LG called LG Chocolate Touch. This phone has a lot of neat features that have the potential to make this a phone of choice.
Let’s look at some features. If you listen to music on your phone, then you won’t be disappointed because it incorporates the Dolby Mobile technology for crystal clear sound. This means you don’t have to lug around that mp3 player with you anymore. A dedicated key for social network messaging allows easy access to send status updates to Twitter, Facebook or whichever social network that you are active on. The 3.2 megapixel camera and recorder eliminate the need to carry your point-and-shoot as well as your camcorder with you wherever you go.
These features combine with the great software which gives you very beautiful visual displays, great text and voice messaging capabilities, and cute features such as rhythmic vibrations which cause the phone to vibrate in sync with the beat of the music. All in all, it makes a great little package which should be a good option for people on the move who want to stay connected with their friends.
I like this. I really like this. To me, the Twitter trending function didn’t make a lot of sense a whole lot of times. The reason was because a lot of times the trends didn’t really appeal to a worldwide audience and were localized towards wherever the majority of the users come from (the USA?). Anyway, Twitter has now launched Local Trends.
As you can see in the image, you can set a location for where you are, and see what the people there are talking about. I am guessing that Twitter will use the geolocation information for finding out which tweets are coming from where.
You have to set your location for this to work. However, you are going to be disappointed if you do not live in either Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, UK, or the USA. Because these are the only countries for which local trends are supported right now. You can also further fine tune the local trends if you live in any of the 15 cities that are supported right now. A long way to go, but I am guessing now that the basic functionality is up, its just a matter of adding support for newer locations. Anyway, even now, you can see what people in Chicago are talking about, and whether its the same as what people in Atlanta are tweeting.
Nice going, Twitter.
Subject: Danbo (meaning Cardboard, an apparently popular action figure for those who follow Japanese animations).
Flickr is just full of awesome photos of an object which is basically a bunch of cardboard boxes put together in the shape of a robot. As you can see in the photos, it is much more than just a collection of cardboards. I have picked out the best ones that I like on Flickr (by various photographers) – each one links to the photo page on Flickr, from where you can find many more Danbo photos by the same photographer.
I could just keep posting these over and over, but here’s the mother load link on Flickr, sorted by interestingness – http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/danbo/interesting/
I always get excited whenever I see great photos, and I love animal photography more than anything else, and if you add on top of this photographs of baby animals, that is a recipe that makes my day. In the hope that there are others like me, I am sharing some photos that I came across on the National Geographic website. To get a larger view of any of the photos below, click on the photo and it will take you to the Nat Geo site where you can see a larger resolution photo, and even download wallpapers of these photos; and on top read a fact or two about each species.
Baby harp seal
Baby Asian elephant
Baby lynx with mom
Baby black bear with mom
Baby leopard playing with mommy’s tail
Baby bobcat
Mom helping out a baby polar bear
3 cheetah cubs hanging out with mom
A black bear kid learns how to climb trees
A baby crocodile being born
I hope you enjoyed this little collection as much as I did. Of course, the Nat Geo website is a treasure trove for such photos. I will try to gather more photos and post on this site on a more regular basis.
I always love to post about artistic and creative work that I encounter on the Internet, and here’s another such post. The artist is a Russian named Ksenia, and I encountered her work on Deviant Art. (I am making an assumption that Ksenia is a girl since searching that name on Google turns up a Wikipedia article about a Russian beauty queen). She draws landscape and architecture of places that you would have seen in movies such as Lord of the Rings. Below are some samples of her work, please visit her gallery on Deviant Art for more.
If you liked them, for some of them you can even order prints from Deviant Art.
Over the years, Google has entered our lives more and more (to some this is scary, to others like me, its great). We use Gmail, Orkut, Blogger, Google Analytics, Google Alerts, Google Docs, Calendar, and many more services. All of these services are accessed using one Google account that you have. So, it would only make sense that you should be able to configure, monitor, and access all these services from one single place. Till recently, this was not the case, but over a month ago, Google launched Google Dashboard. Yes, this is a place where you can doo all those things that I just talked about from one single place.
The Dashboard provides access to over 20 services. Not only can you configure the services from the single place, but it also shows you information about the service right there on the dashboard. For instance, for Gmail, it shows you how many emails, drafts, sent mail, chat, etc. do you have in your account and when the most recent one happened. Or for Google Docs it would show you how many documents are there in your account, and how many have been shared with you by others. There is all this data and much more.
Here’s a video that Google put up when it announced this feature on their official blog:
The Google Dashboard is part of the Data Liberation effort from Google.
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