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Cool stuff digest: August 2010

September 1, 2010

Things that I liked in August

  1. Who killed more people in the Bible, God or Satan? A bar graph;
  2. Collaborative design thinking;
  3. New concept of bus in China;
  4. Informative infographics video about freecycling consumption trends driven by technology;
  5. Cool service for electronic content promotion: pay with tweet;
  6. Reduce stress scientifically;
  7. New good & free internet radio: Soma FM;
  8. Wikipedia edit wars :)
  9. Service that forms movies recommendations generated based on your friends’ tweets;

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Japan: temples, palaces and gardens

August 8, 2010

I would like to devote this post to Japanese temple, imperial palaces and just gardens. I believe, you can enjoy their beauty and sophistication regardless of your attitude towards monarchs, religion or concept of God in general.

Japan, Tokyo, Shinto shrine

A couple of words about religion. Buddhism and Shinto prevail in Japan, so these are the ones that I’m going to cover here. However, in general Japanese tend to associate themselves with few religions at the same time. Moreover, only 20% of population actually believes in any God.

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Cool stuff digest: July 2010

July 31, 2010

Things that I considered worthy to pay attention to in July:

  1. How various teas (green, oolong, etc.) are processed;
  2. Curious project which aims to create a movie about our planet all shot in one day all over the world;
  3. TED talk that answers the question “What Leonardo da Vinci Really Looked Like”;
  4. Worth watching talk by venture-capitalist Fred Wilson on “10 ways to be your own boss”;
  5. Just a funny picture that illustrates how Gantt diagrams feel in reality;
  6. Video that shows how augmented reality can potentially look like;
  7. Impressive strength: Konstantinov doing 325kg squat & 420kg deadlift!;
  8. Common Errors in English Usage book;
  9. Very action-oriented comprehensive & yet free webinar about web-based infobusiness, affiliate programs, passive income;
  10. Another motivational video (Nike commercial);

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Japan: devil is in the detail

Interesting examples of Japanese design and just handy things.

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Cool stuff digest: June 2010

NYTimes on multi-tasking vs. mono-tasking & addiction to gadgets; Shanghai 1990 vs 2010; An absolutely awesome creative blog – visualization of worthy speeches; Quite an interesting research: comparison of the “pace of life” betw. different cities; Interactive map by Kayak that shows the lowest tickets prices based on your current location; Atypically interesting article about [...]

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Turkey, pictures. Apr, 2010

Beautiful pictures from Turkey. Sea, mountains, sun.

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Japan: tea ceremony

Japanese tea ceremony from traveler’s eyes: pictures and short descriptions.

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Japan: cuisine and food

A glance upon the Japanese cuisine with the traveler’s eyes.

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Cool stuff digest: May 2010

1. Presentation hacks for entrepreneurs (elevator pitch, etc) 2. How to create little planets using Photoshop 3. Glowing stickers for keyboard 4. Awesome speech by Tim Ferriss on how to deal with haters! 5. How to get your dream job for $6 using Google AdWords 6. 11 Presidents’ Favorite Books 7. Free application to track [...]

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Trip to Japan, impressions and beautiful pictures

Trip to Japan, first impressions and pictures.

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