Thursday, November 27, 2008

why you can't trust 'friends' on Facebook

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beware of scams by your 'frens' on facebook...


memory foods

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and the memory foods are...

salmon
sunflower seeds
blueberries
lean beef

hmm nothing said about ginkgo nuts le...

Monday, November 24, 2008

M.I.T. futurists focus on next-gen multimedia

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The MIT Media Lab has announced its latest endeavor - the creation of a Center for Future Storytelling. The center will use new technologies to make stories more interactive, improvisational and social.

Existing research projects include:

Everything Tells A Story: A project that will enable everyday objects to keep running "diaries," of what happened to them. The information could be used for "personal story creation" by individuals.

Tofu: A robot that uses cartoon-animation style movement to work with kids. The researchers describe it as "LEGO Mindstorms meets Muppets." Future versions of Tofu will allow children to design, program and remotely operate their own puppets to tell stories.

Nexi: A project to create a social robot, or a "synthetic performer." The project combines mobility, dexterity, and most remarkably, sociality. The robot's expressive face is capable of multiple human facial expressions. A video of Nexi can be viewed below.

Programmable Movies: A research project to turn movies into a customized experience based on certain parameters like emotions, place or time. The idea is to let users piece together different images using metadata encoded in the images.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

operation spidergirl

what began as a 'friendly gesture to help secure 仙姑's possessions in her cubicle' while she is away on oversea trip became...


... complete with soft toy victims trapped in the web and a dangling spider made from trashed printouts. hahaha!!....

Monday, November 10, 2008

Has our organisation changed name? - how come i don't know

Don't i suay or what. Seems that I always kenna (sit near a person from another department) who like to make a lot of noise. Recently, I thought I am working for the wrong organisation. Apparently there is this newbie who just joined, he was talking VERY LOUDLY to someone on the phone that he works for XXX YYY Agency. - since when did our organisation changed name ???

Also this guy seem to be a Thai as I am hearing him talking to people quite regularly in Thai (or some language, I don't understand) .... stay tuned for more this guy before we say goodbye to level 13... : )