“I Hate Perfume”

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We don’t like perfume. And even if we secretly do, admitting it is just as tough as telling your parents that you’ve been a homosexual for the last decade. Then here comes this “I hate perfume”(yes it’s the brand’s name), by which you can make your own perfume by mixing basic scents.
It turned out that the creator of “I Hate Perfume” has also worked for Kiehl’s, which happen to be my favorite cosmetic brand. The interesting bit is how he came up with this idea. Here’s a quote:

I worked at a great many odd jobs during the 80’s but driving a cab was perhaps the oddest. People are generally shocked when they find I did this. Still I drove for a brief period and this was when I discovered that I Hated Perfume. Women would get into my car in the evening wearing some horrible scent that made me sick. 12 hours later in the cold freezing dawn, my eyes would still be watering & my stomach churning..

Indeed, that’s perhaps the reason most of the guys hate perfume– too many women who wear perfume have no taste at picking scents.

Now you have a chance to mix your own perfume. Sounds like a fun thing to do even for me.

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[Link:CB I Hate Perfume]

AFI: Top 10 greatest films in 10 categories

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The American Film Institute has released a new set of top 10 lists.
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  1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
  2. Pinocchio (1940)
  3. Bambi (1942)
  4. The Lion King (1994)
  5. Fantasia (1940)
  6. Toy Story (1995)
  7. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
  8. Shrek (2001)
  9. Cinderella (1950)
  10. Finding Nemo (2003)

Fantasy

  1. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  3. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  4. King Kong (1933)
  5. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
  6. Field of Dreams (1989)
  7. Harvey (1950)
  8. Groundhog Day (1993)
  9. The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
  10. Big (1988)

Read more…

Some dreams fade over time

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I remember back in high school, Kevin Garnett was THE basketball player in my list, even though his team was losing badly. That’s partly because I had some kind of sympathy on him, that his dream was never even close to reality, and neither was mine.

I finally knocked that bully’s ass out. That’s what it felt like.

Garnett said in the conference.

It’s been 6 years since I first watched his game, today his dream has finally come true. Congrats, KG.

The Earth from Mars

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The Earth From Mars

The Earth seems to be a little lonely in all that darkness. A bit fragile, too.

[Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona]

The sounds of Wall·E

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Wall·E

One of my favorite websites, Rottentomatoes, has put up a video in which the director of Wall·E, Andrew Stanton, and sound director Ben Burtt guide us through the sounds in Pixar’s latest movie. Ben Burtt is also the man who was behind the sound effect in Star Wars(R2-D2, for example). The download link is here.

[Photo via:andy castro]
Update: Surprisingly(or unsurprisingly?), the rebooting sound of Wall·E is exactly the same as the bootup sound in Mac OS X. I wonder if Jonathan Ive designed this or it’s from Ben Burtt too.

Update 2: Ben Burtt interview.

ZFS: why and how

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Jonathan Schwartz, the CEO of Sun, has posted an insightful article on the why and how behind ZFS. The link is here.

The vulnerability of the newscasters

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What happens when news broadcasters aren’t talking? We, the general audience rarely pay attention to such details. Yet, Jason Arber, director of London based motion graphics outfit Wyld Stallyons captured this phenomenon in his artistic yet eerie video presentations. Jason originally became interested in the way news broadcasters looked when their partner broadcaster is talking. So in a swift and brilliant idea, he put together footages where he removed the talking broadcaster and put in its place a non talkative one. Add in some thematic music composed by Ben Frost. We then have an artistic piece that captures the vulnerability of the newscasters in such a subtle and poignant approach.

Video option:

> Quicktime H.264
> iPod Compatible
> Watch in Flash

[Via:idents.tv]

An interesting Pizza ad

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Papa John

Papa John Pizza

Instead of delivering coupons like other pizza makers, Papa John’s has taken an interesting approach to direct marketing with its deceiving faux delivery boy & pizza appearing at your doorstep. Seems like this idea was stolen from the movie The Fifth Element. Don’t bother looking for it though, it’s not worth it.

Something that’s worth noticing though:

Just waiting for the story:

Papa John’s sued for covering up security devices.

Aaron Aardvark, 72, has just sued Papa John’s Pizza for covering up his security peephole. Aaron was hospitalised by two thugs last week, after they rang his doorbell - when he checked to see who it was, he thought it was someone who’d got the wrong address for pizza’ because PJ’s had covered his viewer with a little picture.

Aaron is still in hospital, but his lawyer, Phil ‘PheeShare’ Phillips, or Sue, Grabbit and Run, explained that he was using the famous Pizza chain for $3.5 million.

[Via: The Fire Wire]

A little blue screen for everyone

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The blue screen is back, brought you by Adobe!
Ok not exactly by Adobe. It’s done by this guy.

Here’s how it works.
When you enter fullscreen mode in Flash 9 there’s a little message telling you that you can exit fullscreen by pressing escape. What this guy discovered was that it’s not difficult to obscure that message and make it appear as though the machine has crashed(Windows crash).
Don’t worry about future variations(read:future pranks) though, because when Flash goes fullscreen, keyboard input is disabled.
Now if only someone is smart enough to come up with a fake OS flash done this way..

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