Monthly Archives: November 2007

Have you ever heard of Savants?

Nov 28th, 2007

I often say "we live in an amazing and breathtaking world". Everyday there are numerous opportunities to prove that. Recently I watched a documentary on savant syndrome and thought I might share a few thoughts with you. Savants are people with exceptional mental abilities. And I mean really exceptional. We have learned to cope with teleportation, space travel, enormous size of the universe, UFO's and accepted those amazing things as a normal parts of our lives.

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Spread your wings, fly the Flock

Nov 28th, 2007

Here is a little review of a new revolutionary web browser called Flock, the social browser. For those who have been around a while and made a transition to Firefox, you'll be interested to hear that Flock is based on same Mozilla foundation like Firefox. For you who missed the Firefox revolution and still use their trustworthy Internet Explorer, never mind, you might have tuned in just in the right moment.

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Revolution is happening – Crayon Physics Engine and Songza

Nov 23rd, 2007

This week's cool links have only two entries. But what a revolution they represent! Crayon Physics Deluxe is a game featuring new type of physics engine. It took only 5 days to create because of it's simplicity. And that's the beauty of it. This had good potential to spawn a revolution in way games are made in the future. Songza is a online music player that uses enormous database of youtube videos to find and play the songs you are searching for.

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Why is Pilates good for Internet users and Men in Particular?

Nov 22nd, 2007

It hurts! It hurts like nothing you tried before. You have no idea how much a series of small, innocent looking exercises can hurt a human body used to sitting in front of the computer. But don't give up now! Read all!Typical Pilates exercise I used the title on purpose because internet users and man are two groups that could benefit from Pilates the most. So what is Pilates exactly ? From Wikipedia: "Pilates was developed in early 20th century by a guy called Joseph Pilates.