one of a kind?

brands are somehow overrated and almost always definitely overpriced. and apple is an example. i used to hv a creative and it cost like less than one quarter of the price of my ipod bt i hv a question bout it. is the ipod the only mp3 player out in the market where you actually can scroll through songs. like let's say, i hv ten songs in my creative. the 1st is AC/DC(cuz it's an A) and the last is like The Zutons or smthing. so like if i'm hearing AC/DC and i wanna hear the zutons next, i will hv to click the next button 9 times and i'll hv to hear like the 1st second of the other 8 songs on my ,mp3. bt on my ipod, i jst hv to scroll with the round thing and i don't hv to go through the other 8 songs. and i think that is the only reason why my ipod is better my creative. bt i don't know even one mp3 player out there, other than the ipod, that makes song-jumping smooth. is there?

too fast maybe?

recently on david letterman, barack obama gave his top ten campaign promises. and it's like a funny top ten kinda list and there's jst so much nonsensical stuff in it(you know he said like to keep the budget balanced, he will rent out the situation room to sweet sixteens) bt one of them was "i won't let apple release the new and improved ipod the day after you bought the previous model" and at that moment, i just fell off the chair. yes.

i got an ipod nano 2nd generation(it is pink and beautiful and filled with delicious music, no r&b or rap or that nonsense) in october/september kinda and jst a week later, they released the ipod nano 3rd generation and it made me so angry cuz like i got it frm the states, so i didnt even received my ipod yet, when they released the new one. so my ipod wwas already out of fashion even before i got it. how sad.

apple is going too fast. maybe someone should tell steve jobs to slow down. tell him that if he goes too fast, he might get into an accident. i'm so serious, i'm not even kidding.


this is the barack ombama video on david letterman. watch it and please laugh.

Face recognition

the scientists at MyHeritage.com have come up with a new face recognition technique which will aid security searches.

This new technique called FaceVACS has a 100% accuracy and will help much in airport security.

click here for more info.

Falling For You

for this particular blog post, i choose to write about an American internet rockstar who makes beautiful music; Ronnie Guglielmone, or more commonly known as his stage name; Ronnie Day. Being a logical man, Ronnie realised that most people wouldn't be able to pronounce his Italian last name and left the matter to his MySpace fans who chose the name Day as his stage name.
After graduating school at 16, he recorded self-written songs in his room and released them onto the internet(he plays many instruments). "Falling for you" made it's way into being featured onto MTV's Real World:Denver and The Hills before mtvU decided to do a feature called the Ronnie Day project. on him as one of the internet's rising stars.

Ever and after is a beautiful song. check him out.

i've been smoshed

i guess the internet is pretty much a platform that ordinary folks can make a name for themselves through out the world, without any geographic boundaries. this results in the birth of internet celebrities; namely bloggers, youtubers or indie musicians spreading their work through the internet. one of the biggest internet celebrities is Smosh.
Smosh is a duo of college boys from the small town of carmichael, California who started making videos back in and met with instant success when when they released a video clip of them singing to the theme song of pokemon on youtube. they shot to stardom overnight receiving a million hits in a week. (other people also did covers on their pokemon video in crazy languages like hebrew and chinese even) their pokemon video was followed up by a few more music videos before they released, what i think is their best video over; Food Battle 2006, which was followed by dozens of crazily funny videos. They direct, write, shoot and act out their own videos and their appealing and exaggerated sense of humour landed them a recordin deal with video streamin company With collaborations with other youtube celebrities like LisaNova, TheHill88, TheWineKone, DaxFlame, and Perez Hilton, they have managed to widen their fan base. They also were the winners of the youtube awards a couple years back , beatin out the highly popular happyslip.
Currently, Smosh has released videos and hold the top spot on youtube's most suscribed list. their smosh empire have expanded to smosh t-shirts and hoodies (which they wear all the time in their videos) and x-mas cards sales even. They ship their merchandise all over the world. the list of countries include singapore bt not malaysia(ridiculous nonsense). they've also appeared on TRL, the local newstation, chattin with charlie, the Times magazine and much more.

i love smosh.

click here to visit their youtube site or here for their official myspace page or here for their own smosh website.

Video reflection

Well, i thought that the videos, the first especially, were all thought out really carefully and it was pretty understanding because it seems like it took the point of view of the kids more, instead of like the teachers. So maybe that professor who made the video is real understanding about his students and their problems. And it seems like the professor gets that it is hard just to sit in a room full of people and try to learn something that a single person is saying at the front of the room and he has good intentions in making this video to encourage classes to be more interactive and interesting maybe. But maybe the kids too have to understand that there is such things as responsibilities and they should be trying to pay attention to their teacher at least instead of going on facebook and all that nonsense and they shouldn't skip lectures and stuff because like college costs a lot so why should they just waste their money and they should actually realise that they are getting the opportunity to learn and potentially become a lot smarter than they are and not everyone in the world gets to go to school even, especially in the context of tertiary education. like I wouldn't facebook while a lecture is going on. i know better.

But in the second video where it showed the kids wanting to get the opportunity to apply and analyze and all that nonsense, like I really do think that their teachers should, in some way, incorporate technology in their teaching because like the technology is there so the teachers should use it especially since the students are so into it like who frigging listens to a harry potter podcast? and since technology has proven to make life easier and more convenient for us, I think like the teachers should explore technology and make learning more fun and hands on.

an energy saving search engine

Google; the powerful search engine comes in a new energy-saving package.
use Blackle instead of Google. it's all black so it saves energy. i've been using it for bout a year already and it's exactly the same as google, it's jst all black so it's too cool.

click here to try it out and save the world.

a taser that plays music?

an iTaser. u-huh. whistling when you are scared is just too old now. why not listen to your favourite songs while being able to potentially shock someone with a 50,000 electric charge?
personal protection can now be fashionable and functionable. that is too cool.

click here for more information.