Sony Corp. has developed an integrated walking, running and jumping motion control technology that enables its humanoid robot "Qrio" to smoothly combine conventional walking movement with new running and jumping motions. It's quite amazing to see it moving around,- looks pretty human... You can watch Qrio running here

Mark King, the bassplayer of Level 42, played this bass-solo at an concert in Hamburg in 1999. Funky and very fast,- listen to it here. Interview with Mark King

Pop star George Michael is abandoning the music business, and has decided to release his songs online for free instead. Way to go Michael...!

Maas Digital founder Dan Maas created this dramatic, scientifically accurate computer animation to illustrate NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Don't miss it...it's very realistic and very impressive!

Check if you're getting what you pay for. At BroadbandReports you can check the performance of your DSL internet connection. There's also a forum where you can get help, tips and tricks on to how to tweak you networksettings to get the best possible speed.

Here are the testresults from the test I performed on my connection....Rating:"Looking good"...

I was very happy to learn, that the brigthest brains at Berkeley University are using their funds to do some serious research. I want a machine like that...now!

Even though it's still a beta-version this application is insanely great!!!!! It's by far the most exciting new release of 2004 to this date.

It is essentially just another one of those type-the-first-few-letters-to-launch affairs, the preferences allow you to choose what items to search. You can tab to the second field to choose an action. It's extremely quick, customisable, powerful and unobtrusive. The app. quickly scans the following folders at start-up: Applications, System, Addressbook, Internet Bookmarks, Recent Items, Scripts etc. You can add more folders yourself, e.g.the Documents folder. You'll have instant access to all your files and applications with a single keystroke. QuickSilver even offers a built-in enhancement to the copy/paste-feature in OS X, so that you'll be able to copy/paste an infinite number of items instead of only just one. As an extra bonus you can download some great scripts for free from the developers site. There are three ways in which you can view the "search-field"...I've posted two of them here:



In this view you only see it in the menu-bar...very unobtrusive


Althought it really doesn't matter, it also has the coolest "fast-fade-away"-feature when you've launched an app. or file....just to add the last little spice to this great program. The developer could easily charge 20 $ or more for this app.....but he didn't! It's free!

BlackTree - QuickSilver

Supermax-prisons are high security prisons where inmates are kept isolated 24/7. It's a facility for "the worst of the worst". There are no jobs, no activities, hardly any educational programs and barely any human contact. You are locked in your 8-by-10-foot cell almost around the clock. You can't see the other prisoners in the cells adjoining yours, nor the guards watching from a central observation booth. Most of the time, all you can see through the fingertip-sized perforations in your cell's solid steel door is the wall of the eight-cell pod, the larger cage containing your cage. Guards deliver your meals. Once a day, the remote-controlled cell door grinds open, and you get 90 minutes to spend alone in a walled-in courtyard—a place more like the bottom of a mine shaft than an exercise yard. Your allowed to have 6 photographs and 4 books in your cell. 2 of them must deal with religious matters. If you can afford it and if you haven't violated any restrictions, you can be allowed to have a television in your cell. You won't be able to watch public television, but only the prisons own closed circuit television network where they show educational programs. The cell lights are never turned off, and prisoners who try to cover them to shield their eyes are penalised, setting back their chances of ever returning to a normal jail. Prisoners leaving the cell block wear a set of rigid metal handcuffs, known as a black box, which allows no movement of the wrists. They are strip-searched on their way out and on their way back. In some states, the conditions are even more extreme-e.g., lack of windows, denial of reading material, a maximum of three hours a week out-of-cell time, lack of outdoor recreation.
America's supermaxes have been denounced as inhumane by organizations from Amnesty International to the United Nations.

I don't see why the US practices capital punishment when they have these kind of facilities...This must be worse than "The Chair".

Supermax survival guide
3D-tour of a Supermax prison cell
Notes from Inside
Pelican Bay Prison-A necessary evil?
The Supermax solution

I'd go absolutely loco in a place like that...within two days!

Anyway..some of them do deserve to be locked up in a place like that...maybe...dunno...

Christopher Walken, 61 year old actor known from movies such as "Pulp Fiction" and "The Deer Hunter", shows off his dancing skills. Apparently Walken initially intended to study dancing instead of acting...I didn't know that (no surprise...).

Came across this great gallery of wallpapers with band-photos from BBC's "Top of the Pop"-shows. Do yourself a favour and check-out the Bucks Fizz wallpaper. If I'm ever going to an eighties party I wanna look like one of those two guys..lol

You might need to have an "eighties"-fetish to fully appreciate these wallpapers ;-)