From the simplest bacteria to apes, evolution's mechanic is the same: fittest survive and reproduce, weak fail. Thus the specie evolve and gets better in every generation. But humans turned out to be somewhat different from the rest of the biosphere.
We are much more complex than all the other species, even our closest relatives. We changed the rules of the game that is as old as the life itself. Read more…
It's fascinating that Google is not capable of making an usable social network. They made the best search engine, a decent email service, calendar, on-line documents and even video editor and much more all the way to Google Wave. But each time they step in the arena of social networks they only make one fail after the other.
Which doesn't make much sense. So, what are they missing? Read more…
Yesterday morning a new video from Gorillaz' Plastic Beach album showed up on their YouTube channel. I liked it, as I like all their videos, so I did a natural thing: shared it on social networks.
That afternoon, I mentioned it to a friend, but she couldn't see the video. In the meanwhile, video was forbidden for viewing in certain countries, Serbia included. There is obviously somebody with great talent for marketing there.
A year ago Neda Agha Soltan was murdered. On the street. In Tehran, Iran.
She was murdered because she knew that life is much more than empty ideologies of sick and brainwashed people. She was murdered because she was free. And she was murdered because she was beautiful. Read more…
This post is an easy tutorial for patching the Sociable plugin for WordPress. Sociable makes the icons for sharing that you can see under the post. It offers 99 different social networks but Buzz and Plurk are still missing.
This is not the type of post you expect on this blog, nor the type of post I expected to write. But I really like Plurk and my sister wanted Buzz. And I felt a bit of hacker's urge tonight. So, for bloggers among you, here they are.
Some people love talking about religion. More than that, they love quarreling about religion. Two most prominent subjects being
Which would be all nice if 97.5% of all the words spoken and written weren't completely meaningless. That is, if the people asked themselves one simple question: WTF are we talking about? Read more…
Yesterday I was talking about sending my picture in the space with NASA's STS-133 expedition. Thousands of us uploaded the photographs which will be taken on the next two flights to the International Space Station. Not sure why we did that, probably just because we can. And because we can't actually go up there. So he photograph is the next best thing. Or something like that.
Now, what if aliens find all those pictures including one that I just uploaded? Read more…
