May 2004 bring you happiness and joy..
Let’s all try to make it a memorable one!! :)
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Monthly Archive for December, 2003
Boy, this has got the be the coolest thing I’ve seen!
Or try simpler, BMW paper models
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ongoing · On Search, the Series
A great collection of essays on the web search technologies.
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NOVA | Sinking City of Venice | PBS
Be sure to catch the next NOVA episode, on the city of Venice and Italian government’s muti-billion dollar effort to save the city from sinking into the Lagoon.
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Yahoo! Movies: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) - Movie Info
My friends and I went to see the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King on the opening night (last night). (Call us LOTR geeks but it definitely WORTH IT :P)
Since I already knew how the story was going to end from reading the book, watching it felt a little dragging at times, but the visuals were just spectacular! I mean, I had really high expectation going in (reading all the raves), but it didn’t disppoint at all! Some of the battle scenes were just mind blowing.
It’s, by far, the best one of the series… and it’ll be very tough to beat the series as a whole, as the best fantasy/action films of all time.
I’ll probably go watch it at least once more :)
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Blunder No. 1: “During the scene with Sam and Frodo in the field with a scarecrow, you can plainly see a car cruising past in the distance, from left to right.”
Haha, I’ll have to see the DVD again :) UPDATE: Aw.. sounds like Jackson removed it from the DVD.. Oh well…
Here are comprehensive collections of bloopers from each LOTR movies:
Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Return of the King
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Wired News: SARS Case Confirmed in Taiwan
Oh boy.. here we go again… :O
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My continuing coverage of useful Google features.. :)
Now you can track UPS and FedEx packages, or lookup patents, FAA flight registration, FCC equipment ID’s, etc.. by using Google’s new Search By Numbers feature.
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In Archimedes’ Puzzle, a New Eureka Moment [nytimes.com, free registration req.]
Story of one of Archimedes’ manuscripts that was once thought lost… “A computer-enhanced image of a 1,000-year-old manuscript reveals the faint traces of a copy of Archimedes’ Stomachion treatise…. The Stomachion, … was far ahead of its time: a treatise on combinatorics, a field that did not come into its own until the rise of computer science.”
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Coincidence Theory (NYTimes free registration required)
“[Researchers] believe that anomalous phenomena may be a result of some type of information exchange between the unconscious and the intangible. ”Clairvoyance” may actually be snippets of information from the physical world slipping into the unconscious mind and percolating up into awareness. Moving in the opposite direction, the unconscious mind may have the ability to subtly alter the physical world…”
Hmmm… perhaps this could also explain the fact that I keep seeing “11:11″ on the digital clock.
Click below for full text…
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After a much frustrations and annoyances, I finally found out what these are after a visit to my optometrist. They are (appropriately) called Eye Floaters and Spots, which are “tiny clumps of gel or cells inside the vitreous, the clear jelly-like fluid that fills the inside of your eye… [and what you see are] the shadows of floaters cast on the retina, the light-sensitive part of the eye.” It sounds many nearsighted people experience this, so no need to panic yet! Whew~ ^^;;
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