Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?

Clothing Giant H&M Defends ‘Perfect’ Virtual Models

Also “completely virtual” are the models at the center of H&M’s swimsuit and lingerie online campaigns, the Swedish-based retailer confirmed.

“It’s not a real body; it is completely virtual and made by the computer,” H&M press officer Hacan Andersson told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet in an article questioning the company’s picture-perfect online models.

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H&M under fire for using 'completely virtual' models

comScore Releases July 2011 U.S. Online Video Rankings - comScore, Inc

comScore Releases July 2011 U.S. Online Video Rankings - comScore, Inc

Connect your things to the Internet - IoT

http://ninjablocks.com/
http://www.greenwavereality.com/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/supermechanical/twine-listen-to-your-world-talk-to-the-internet

UI enviornment comparision

Java vs. Flash vs. Silverlight
http://www.shinedraw.com/image-manipulation/javafx-vs-flash-vs-silverlight/

http://www.3djam.com/rozz/demo/speed_demo.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqjidzjkMM0

Quasicrystal - Nobel Prize

Vindicated: Ridiculed Israeli scientist wins Nobel

JERUSALEM (AP) — When Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman claimed to have stumbled upon a new crystalline chemical structure that seemed to violate the laws of nature, colleagues mocked him, insulted him and exiled him from his research group.After years in the scientific wilderness, though, he was proved right. And on Wednesday, he received the ultimate vindication: the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

The lesson?

"A good scientist is a humble and listening scientist and not one that is sure 100 percent in what he read in the textbooks," Shechtman said.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasicrystal

Quasiperiodical structures had been known well before the 20th-century. For example, tiles in a medieval Islamic mosque in Isfahan, Iran, are arranged in a quasicrystalline pattern.^[6] In 1961, Hao Wang asked the question of whether determining if a set of tiles admits a tiling of the plane is an algorithmically unsolvable problem or not. He conjectured that it is solvable, relying on the hypothesis that any set of tiles which can tile the plane can do it periodically (hence it would suffice to try to tile bigger and bigger patterns until obtaining one that tiles periodically). But his student, Robert Berger, constructed two years later a set of some 20,000 square tiles (now called Wang tiles) which can tile the plane but not in a periodic fashion.

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Faster than Light

I thought about it couple of years back, didn't thought that it will get real in my life. One other item will be added in this new world will be multiple dimensions more than what we know today. Look on following post for more on this:

Out of Three Dimensional world
http://techtalk-ns.blogspot.com/2008/03/out-of-three-dimensional-world.html

(Reuters) - An international team of scientists said on Thursday they had recorded sub-atomic particles traveling faster than light -- a finding that could overturn one of Einstein's long-accepted fundamental laws of the universe. more...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/us-science-light-idUSTRE78L4FH20110922

Swiss candidate's platform: PowerPoint

The 51-year-old former software developer-turned public speaking coach is so convinced of the evils of PowerPoint that he formed an entire political party based on his cause. He is now an official Anti PowerPoint Party (APPP) candidate in the upcoming Swiss parliamentary elections. more...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/09/03/switzerland.anti.powerpoint/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Trial, error and the God complex

Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex | Video on TED.com