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|  | April 12th, 2012 | | Posted 1 day ago by  Rüdiger Klos-Neumann to wopStar |  3 | | Enjoy the show and guess what occupation it is?! Genieße die Show und errate welcher Beruf dargestellt wird?! If you enjoy wopStar, feel free to love, follow, like, tweet, rate and share us, thanks a lot. Visit us on www.wopStar.com to get the solution. About wopStar:
- Soon wopStar starts as free webcam-based browser game.
- The aim is to guess about terms, words or even pantomime show via webcam.
- Play with your friends or meet challenges still unknown.
- Make new friends around the world face to face know.
- Playing together to get stars, fame and honor.
- Pure thrills and action await you! *wopStar is totally free crazy party game for the whole family* | | | Posted about 18 hours ago by Rüdiger Klos-Neumann to wopStar | | 3 | | Enjoy the show and guess what sport it is?! Genieße die Show und errate welcher Sport dargestellt wird?! If you enjoy wopStar, feel free to love, follow, like, tweet, rate and share us, thanks a lot. Visit us on www.wopStar.com to get the solution. About wopStar:
- Soon wopStar starts as free webcam-based browser game.
- The aim is to guess about terms, words or even pantomime show via webcam.
- Play with your friends or meet challenges still unknown.
- Make new friends around the world face to face know.
- Playing together to get stars, fame and honor.
- Pure thrills and action await you! *wopStar is totally free crazy party game for the whole family* | | | | | Posted about 23 hours ago by  Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! | | Though plenty of city folk enjoy escaping the urban confines to see nature, when it comes to the homegrown variety, their staple animal, pigeons, elicit more groans than gasps of delight. That could change if the very strange experiment of Belgian scientist Tuur Van Balen, called Pigeon d’Or, succeeds. The goal is to feed the birds a special bacteria that would make their feces into soap to disinfect rather than defile their home turf. Funding is apparently being provided by the Flemish Architecture & Design Committee and Ministry of Culture and he has experienced some success: I did not manage to make pigeons defecate soap (yet). In collaboration with a scientist, I designed and created a bacteria that could theoretically produce a biological soap inside the pigeon's gut. However, taking this bacteria out of the lab and testing it on pigeons is complicated ethically and legally. Ya think? Other than the obvious animal rights issues, can you imagine what would happen to, say, New York City during a big rainstorm? Bubble madness! On second thought, this might not be such a bad idea. Full story at Tuur van Balen via Treehugger. Scientific oddities. | | | Posted about 22 hours ago by  Futurity to Holy Kaw! | | The effectiveness of Google search advertising is only accounted for by considering goods and services purchased off-line, as well. The study, from Washington University in St. Louis, finds that the conventional method of measuring the return on investment of online search ads is limited. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. | | | | | | | Posted about 20 hours ago by Futurity to Holy Kaw! | | Mathematical analysis of soil from Mars indicates there may be life on the planet. “To paraphrase an old saying, if it looks like a microbe and acts like a microbe, then it probably is a microbe,” says Joseph Miller, who is a neuropharmacologist, but also studies circadian rhythms at University of Southern California. Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona | | | Posted about 21 hours ago by  Carlos Valerio to Conozca Más | | No corro, no grito, no empujo y ¿no muero? Aparentemente, así son los letreros en estos cuatro sitios que prohiben a sus habitantes fallecer. Itsukushima
Según la creencia Shinto, la isla localizada en el mar interior de Seto, Japón, es un lugar sagrado que no permite ningún tipo de deceso. Para mantener su pureza, los sacerdotes han trabajado arduamente para asegurarse de que la flaca no se aparezca por ahí. Desde 1878, nadie ha muerto o nacido en Itsukushima. Las mujeres embarazadas no tienen permitido acercarse al lugar, así como los enfermos terminales y adultos mayores.
En 1955, la Batalla de Miyajima causó la muerte de varios de sus pobladores, pero los cadáveres fueron removidos inmediatamente. Además, el pueblo fue limpiado en su totalidad y purificado de casa en casa.
Longyearbyen
El mayor asentamiento del archipiélago de las islas Svalbard, Noruega, tiene una regla similar. La muerte está vetada y el pueblo cuenta solamente con un pequeño cementerio que dejó de ofrecer entierros desde hace 70 años. ¿La razón? Los cuerpos nunca se descomponen. Debido a la extensa cantidad de permagel (capa de hielo permanentemente congelada), los cadáveres se conservan en un estado perfecto. Incluso, algunos científicos han encontrado rastros intactos del virus de la influenza en restos humanos de 1917. Si alguien está a punto de irse al más allá, es inmediatamente enviado a otra parte del país para que pueda pudrirse a gusto.
Falciano del Massico
En este pequeño municipio situado en el territorio de la Provincia de Caserta, Italia, la historia es un poco diferente. Las personas no pueden morirse, no por el ambiente o sus creencias religiosas, sino porque no hay ningún espacio para descansar en paz. El mes pasado, el alcalde emitió un comunicado para declarar que está prohibido para los residentes, ir 'más allá de los limites de la vida'. Desde 1964, Falciano del Massico ha peleado los derechos del único panteón con un pueblo aledaño. En lo que se construye uno nuevo, los moribundos tendrán que aguantarse un poquito.
Sarpourenx
Aquí, si a alguien se le ocurre morirse, será severamente sancionado –¿a caso lo enterrarán desnudo? La absurda ley de esta población francesa obedece a que la corte rechazó el permiso para ampliar el único cementerio existente. Les deseamos vida eterna. FUENTE odditycentral.com/Wikipedia | | | Posted about 17 hours ago by  Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous | |  | Meetings.io is the latest step in the evolution of videoconferencing services, a classic example of enterprise-focused social networking, which have always held much potential but also frustrations. Starting out as services only for the biggest enterprises that could afford expensive equipment and software, eventually videoconferencing offerings trickled down to Internet-based, mass-market products for anyone (business or consumer) to use with a connected PC or mobile device equipped with a microphone and camera. But even so, they came with a catch: with Skype, GoTo Meetings and WebEx, you need to download software, and pay fees (as you do with Skype to enable more than a one-to-one conversation); with Google, you need to join its social network to use Hangouts. “But you may not want to do that for someone who may be only a short-term contact,” says co-founder Arend Naylor (via a Meetings.io link). And that’s before any and all technical glitches. These are all barriers that Meetings.io is attacking with a very simple, peer-to-peer service aimed not at early adopters and those more technically-minded, but those who need to make a group call for work and without the painful process of setting that up. The aim: “Something lightweight that works without software,” says Naylor. The result: to initiate a call, a registered user simply sends out a link, or invites people to visit a meeting room. Read more at Techcrunch | | | | | Posted about 19 hours ago by Carlos Valerio to Conozca Más | | ¿Qué es lo que resulta de la combinación entre Massive Attack y X-box? El tema principal de 'Halo 4'. El día de hoy Microsoft y 343 Industries anunciaron la colaboración del afamado compositor musical, Neil Davidge, ícono del grupo Massive Attack, para componer el tema principal de la esperada secuela de una de las franquicias más grandes en la industria de los videojuegos. Davidge es un compositor que ha ganado distintos premios y ha contribuido en la creación de algunos de los sonidos más innovadores de las últimas décadas. “Como fan apasionado de ´Halo´, me siento muy honrado y emocionado de tener la oportunidad de componer el tema principal para su cuarta entrega comentó Davidge. “La música de ´Halo´ se ha caracterizado por ser cautivadora e icónica. Por ello, queremos ir más allá del fascinante legado que se ha creado hasta ahora".  | La alianza entre Davidge y 343 Industries marca la primera vez que un compositor haya colaborado sobre el tema principal desde el lanzamiento del videojuego original –hace más de una década. Para la composición, Davidge y su equipo de producción seleccionaron a un tenor masculino entre 16 personas, un coro de bajos, 10 vocalistas búlgaras, una orquestra completa de 50 músicos y colaboradores. Si deseas más detalles del proceso creativo detrás este tema musical, puedes visitar the Waypoint blog para escuchar y descargar una exclusiva muestra de audio así como ver un nuevo video detrás de cámaras y fotos de las sesiones de grabación. | | | Posted about 17 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! | | As if a 9-year-old boy creating the arcade of his dreams out of cardboard and ingenuity wasn’t enough to get you all choked up, the flash mob who showed up at his father’s junkyard in East L.A. to support his dreams is sure to pull a few heartstrings. Darn it, pass the tissue. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at Vimeo via Kottke. What a kid. | | | Posted about 17 hours ago by  Annie Colbert to Holy Kaw! | | 1 | | Artist Garrett Miller uses a dash of "awesome dust" to recreate children's illustrations with his professional touch. Full collection at Imaginawesome. Have fun with art. | | | Posted about 16 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! | | If you’re wary of plunging into the real estate market due to the impending apocalypse, now you can put your fears to rest and invest thanks to the efforts of real estate developer Larry Hall. Much like the Hunger Games’ infamous District 13, Hall has taken abandoned missile silos in the Great Plains and turned them into condos. The development includes features like an indoor farm, pool, movie theater, and library, and if the facility needs to go secure, there’s also space for a medical center and school. Just imagine, all this could be yours for the bargain price of $7 million. Or, you could District 12 it and send off for some books on edible and medicinal herbs. Yeah, we’ll be heading over to Amazon now. Full story at Survival Condo via Boing Boing. Luxury living in low places. | | | Posted about 14 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! | | 7 | | Stop sweating over what’s for dinner tonight; it’s time to dust off that fondue set Aunt Tilly gave you (or your parents) for a wedding present and fire that baby up! The national dish of Switzerland, the first reference to this delightful foodstuff dates back to 1699 in a cookbook from Zurich, and it's has been lauded in recent decades with catchy slogans like “Fondue creates a good mood,” which apparently sounds much better in French. To find a recipe to your taste, head over to this handy website, and call a couple of friends over who share your love of all things cheese. Full story at Eatocracy. Additional info from Wikipedia. All about cheese. Photo credit: Fotolia | | | | | | |
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