Archive for April, 2007

ETFE - material of the future.

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Beijing water cube

ETFE (Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene) is the building material of the future. This wonder polymer, a transparent plastic related to Teflon, is replacing glass and plastic in some of the most innovative buildings being designed and constructed today.

Great architecture works already use this material, looks fascinating!

Usefull French phrases

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

General Chit-Chat

“Would you stop spitting on me while you’re talking!”
“Voulez-vous cesser de me cracher dessus pendant que vous parlez!”

“You’re a complete moron”
“Tu es completement debile”

Helping Others

“I’d help you, but I don’t like you.”
“Je vous aurais bien aide, mais je ne vous aime pas.”

“Do yourself.”
“Faites-le vous-même”

“Stop bothering me!”
“Parle à mon cul, ma tête est malade”

The rest of useful phrases in are here. A huge respect goes to the author! :D

Japan: reasons to live or not to live in the land of rising sun

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

More less 100 reasons not to live in Japan. The text is in , so you can use Google Translator (translated results aren’t so awful!), or Google toolbar’s translation feature.

After you finished those lists, check out the post from the same blog concerning 1000 reasons of living in Japan!

News for gamers on Linux and OS X

Sunday, April 29th, 2007
The Alky Project began with the singular goal of providing users of desktop and Mac OSX operating systems with high quality titles usually offered only to the masses running Microsoft Windows. Many have attempted this feat before with varying levels of success using the Open Source software dubbed Wine. While Wine, at this point, is certainly a far more mature offering than Alky in certain regards, falls well short in crucial areas including speed, overhead, and the inability to support the coming age of 64 bit computing

Falling Leaf Systems planning to move more then 5000 games to Mac and platforms.

Tune of a day: Oomph - Augen Auf

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

German version of hide and seek! ;)

Asus vs iPhone User Interfaces

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Maybe ’s just midnight and over-working, but these interfaces are too alike to be true!

Asus running linux

New Asus based on Linux

iPhone UI