How to draw owls

I saw this on the net. I laughed out loud.
Someone wanted me to draw them an owl for a tattoo. I'm going to send this his way. LOL.

Bible like software license

I may have to follow the almighty god, on twitter that is. LOL

I don't do the religion bashing. I respect religion. However I always get a laugh at those that "believe" without knowledge of what they believe.

Azurite

A coin-shaped specimen embedded in kaolinized siltstone. From the Malbunka Copper Mine, Areyonga, Alice Springs, Gardiner Range, Northern Territory, Australia.

The color of this is just amazing.

Nicholas Winston

In 1938, Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish kids escape certain death from the Nazis. He never told anyone that he did this.

Go to the link for the rest of the story. This is the stuff they make movies about.

www.givesmehope.com/view/GMH/50245


I like stories were people have personal glory. It's not something they tell everyone about. It reminds me of that saying that you shouldn't blow your own horn. If you really did something exceptional other will blow horns for you.

Apple Inc. - traitorware.

Apple inc. is or has invented a new technology that allows them to monitor users of their devices. This technology will allow them to know and stop people from tinkering or manipulating their tech. The traitorware (as named by EFF.org) will allow only authorized users to access the device. So if it's stolen, said thief will not be able to use the device. Also a "responsible party", like the owner or a police officer can come to retrieve the device. You ask, "How will Apple be able to send police to get my stolen property?"

Well, the traitorware will allow for Apple Inc. to know where you are at any give time.
As well as, take a picture of your face, without a flash, any noise, or any indication that a picture has been taken.
It will record your voice, whether or not a phone call is even being made.
It can determine your unique individual heartbeat "signature".
It can determine if the device has been hacked, the device can watch for "a sudden increase in memory usage of the electronic device.
It can monitor your Internet activity or any communication packets that are served to the electronic device and record it.
It can take a photograph of the surrounding location to determine where it is being used.

Basically Apple will always know where you are, who you are, what you are doing, they will even know if you're having a Heart attack.

I knew there was a reason I've been so hesitate to become a Machead.

I don't condemn or condone such technology. I find the part where it protects their technology completely reasonable. Also if people give consent to being monitored, so they don't lose their equipment that is their choice. However I think some of the measures used go further than needed if the goal is to stop tech tinkering or lose.

SYNTHETIC LIFE

This is a new era of science... It's a whole new science.
Synthetic life is artificial life. Basically synthetic life is a cell created by humans (with computers) from the fundamental molecules and chemicals of life that make DNA.


Synthetic life will change the world. There is no doubt. Everything from new "bio-fuels" to synthetic biological limbs, to synthetic vaccines, to growing building, to growing synthetic people is possible. (No one will probably make synthetic people but it is possible.)
However it does have it dark side, as all technologies do. One can create some very dangerous bio-weapons from this life as well. Also the same type of fear of "Gray Goo", that came with nanotechnology robots can be attributed to this self replicating artificial life. Also what happens if such life mutates.
Take it even further in the future you could terraform planets. The next ten to twenty years is going to be insanely wondrous technologically.

Synthetic life was created by the same man and team (Craig Venter and the J. Craig Venter Institute) that mapped the human genome. They have mapped more of the diverse genetic microbial life of the oceans than anyone else.



This video can explain Synthetic life creation better than I.


Your world has change more than you may know.

MARS - Taiwainese Drama

Mars is the first Asian drama I could watch completely through. Since I watched this I have been able to watch many others. I watched this years ago but I still think it's one of the best stories of any Asian drama. I think that Taiwanese and Korean dramas are usually the best. This story has been done in Japanese too, but after watching the Taiwanese version I didn't see a need to watch any other. It makes sense that it would be made in japan the story is based on a Japanese Manga.

Mars is like most of these stories. Trouble guy with a dark history. In most of these stories mothers are either a very great influence on a child or very negative. In this case negative. Also the lead character, Ling or Zero, once had a twin and because of tragedy that bond is broken and he blames himself.
The opposite is true for the lead girl who father is a negative influence on her development. The two of them find each other. And the story starts. It also has the typical bad boy but sensitive motif that many of these stories follow.
And for those types that need such things(I'm one), it has some cool motorcycle races and stunt crashes too.

I think what made this story watchable for me was that it is very dark at times. The reason I say that is stories before this one that I attempted to watch were just to silly, sad, or "romantic". This one has those things but the darkness of it brings a balance.

I think if it's your first time attempting to watch a asian drama you can't go wrong with Mars. I think I watched this on Crunchyroll.com. Crunchyroll is the place to go to watch anything and all things of Asian entertainment.


This is the theme song. By Alan Kuo. It's badass took forever to find this song to put on my Ipod.
This video gives a pretty good run through the various stories of Mars.