The most useless gadget ever

D.I.Y. projects have always been fun, but when besides the looks and functionality the inventions have that “wow” effect – we’re out of words. The crew that stands behind Saskview.com had decided to pull together the most useless gadget in the world. The full name of the invention is “The Most Useless Machine EVER”, and the gadget does nothing more than turn itself off once turned on. Pure genius! The detailed instructions on how to assemble this thingamajig are here, where the crew from the site instructables.com explains step by step how to make this brilliant machine.

The Code of Bros

Opening sentence: “Whether we know it or not, each of us lives a life governed by an internalized code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. I call it “the Bro Code.”" I mean with an opening like this one, the book must be good, right? And you know what. It is. Of course, I’m talking about “the Bro Code”. A book presumably written by Neil Patrick Harris (Barney Stinson) and Matt Kuhn. Although the book is considered only as just another piece of entertainment, there’s a lot of truth and wisdom in it’s pages. The things that you’ll read/hear there are unique in their own special way and you’ll definitely won’t hear them anywhere else. The book isn’t as much a guide on how to be a bro, as much as a set of rules that any bro anywhere must obey. It’s a paperback that every guy should have. The witty one-liners, diagrams, footnotes, images etc. will definitely leave you with a smile on your face and something to think about for a couple of days. In fact, if everyone followed the rules set in this great piece of literature as much as they could, the world would become a douche-free place (or just the opposite). If you do take some it’s contents seriously, it will make you a better man, or more acurately, a better bro. So if you are thinking of buying a self improvement book and you’re caught in the middle  between “the Bro Code” and some lame book about learning how to interpret your emotions. Well, it’s a no-brainer. So if we convinced you it’s a wise choice to buy this book, try to buy the audiobook as well. The dramatic pronunciation of the books articles gets the job done. We here encourage everyone willing to try something different, something fresh to give this book a try. To some it all up in just one word, the book is legen… wait for it…

UFO or Russian missile or…?

Ok, here’s a new alien story, fresh out from the box. Just yesterday on the 9th of December 2009 an object that cannot yet be identified has appeared in the sky above Norway. According to the story and the video, the object appeared to soar in from behind a mountain and suddenly stop in the middle of the sky. Then, it went all spiral and lasted for about 10 to 12 minutes before disappearing into thin air. The object had a bluish color and although it appeared in an arctic area it isn’t connected with the natural phenomena of aurora borealis (or northern lights). According to witnesses it was bigger than the Moon and apart from that, all other info about it is purely speculative. Some say it is a Russian missile test that went wrong but the Russian military strongly denies this. However, new media reports state that a missile called Bulava (which failed 7 of it’s 13 tests) has indeed been launched from the White Sea. Fresh reports also say that Russia formally notified Norway of a missile test within a time period that coincides with the time the blue light was seen. A Russian military source stated that “the third stage of the rocket did not work” but the Russian Defense Ministry had no comment regarding this. Some witnesses say it was a meteor and speculations about the origin of the light went as far as it being a stargate (yes, like the movie). But what do you think? Here’s the all famous news video, note: the video has gained more that a million and a half views in less than two days and it’s not stopping there. So check it out and state your opinions on the matter in the comments section bellow.

We had a few theories of our own and here’s some of them.

Good Vista… Why Vista never sucked?

We’ve all heard/read exactly how much Windows Vista sucks. But why is that? Does Vista really deserved all that negative criticism. Have you ever tried Vista for yourself? Vista had positive first reviews. In a 2006 review, PC World said, “All in all, Windows Vista is a great leap forward for the operating system”. So what happened along the way? Why did everything went horribly wrong? Well, we’re here today to clear some of those questions up and express our opinion for the matter at hand. This is purely our point of view so don’t get offended if you’re a Vista hater or a Mac lover. So let’s start from the top. Why all of the sudden the greatest Windows to be, became the target for negative criticism from all over the world. In our opinion most of the Vista haters never even tried Windows Vista for them selves. Someone, somewhere said that Vista sucks ass, some other one posted that on his/hers blog, and probably that’s how the whole thing started. The post was so fresh and new that it had to be true, I mean, it’s on the internet. So probably everybody started to copy or rewrite the post, big discussions about how Vista sucks came to be, and now the whole internet is flooded with sites, blogs and posts all saying how bad and crappy Windows Vista is. People somehow forgot the good things and innovations that came with the operating system. We’ve been searching around the net for hours and we couldn’t find one positive post or one good word about the Vista. It was all bad. No one can really say that it’s the perfect OS. It had it’s problems and glitches and nobody can deny that. The high requirements, the lack of backward compatibility with pre-Vista hardware and software and the user control numerous authorization prompts are all bad. But in our opinion that’s not enough to degrade a five year project. The guys at Microsoft started the OS from scratch and managed to put over 50 million lines of code in it. So let’s be clear on that. The OS isn’t just an improvement of an existing OS. It was build from nothing, so it was bound to have some problems. But somehow everybody forgot all that and still bitched about it. I personally have used Vista for a while and couldn’t find anything wrong with it. The software ran great, the games ran great, and it was stable enough. It had it’s glitches, but what OS doesn’t. Can you name at least one OS that runs with absolutely no problems and errors whatsoever on any type of machine available? I didn’t think so. There will always be problems. It’s not possible to create the perfect OS that will run at 100% anytime and anywhere. But enough of the down sides of Vista. Let’s mention some of the many good things and innovations that came with the OS. Things that people seemed to forgot. Let’s start with the security of the system. The guys at Microsoft invested a lot of effort in improving the security of the OS in it’s entirety. Everybody bitched about the XP’s vulnerability to viruses and spyware, and now when the issue is looked into, they bitch again. Next is the improved search and the new display and audio sub-systems, and the pre-installed desktop gadgets were a nice touch. It’s power usage is way better then older versions of Windows’ Operating Systems.And how could we not mention the best and most beautiful graphical user interface and visual style, the mighty Aero. Try to remember this. AERO CAME TO BE WITH WINDOWS VISTA, and god damn it’s as beautiful as a piece of bacon. No man can deny the pure awesomeness of the semi-transparent glassy window borders and the bitchin’ real time thumbnail preview of the opened windows. I mean golly gee willikers Batman, Aero is the shit. So let’s recap, Vista ain’t so bad, but due to popular belief it’s the worst OS that has ever hit the streets. Belief fueled mostly by people that have never even tried the OS, that have never even gave it a chance. Thanks to that, the people at Microsoft kinda bailed on the project and created the new Windows 7 which is just an improved Vista. So the focus now is more on the Windows 7 and less on the Vista, the system that kinda set the future for Microsoft’s operating systems. It’s still early to say how the “7″ will do, but it’s sorta clear that it’s hasta la Windows Vista now. Oh, and as a final personal note I want to say that Vista is the second most widely used operating system in the world with about 400 million users and 23.6% market share (after XP which has over 60% market share). So, up yours Apple. You and your 5% market share (Mac OS X) can go suck it.