FB posts 2010
Dec 15: The second Humble Indie Bundle out in time for Christmas. http://www.humblebundle.com/
Aug 08: is attending Keat Hong Chinese Orchestra@Esplanade concert hall at 3pm. Anyone else wants to go and support Yi Jia?
Jul 26: Nice web app for planning your module timetable http://www.rantx.com/timetable/
Jun 30: “We are the World” produced from an ensemble of YouTube videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hhX0KkQBW4&playnext_from=TL&videos=LLAUkVLF5vY
Jun 26: Oscar, the world’s first bionic cat! http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-06/british-amputee-cat-first-get-bone-grafted-exoprosthetic-paws
Jun 25: Ni no Kuni: The Another World (PS3 & DS) from game developer Level 5 and Studio Ghibli. The in-game graphics looks just like a Studio Ghibli film! via http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/06/first-footage-of-studio-ghiblilevel-5-game-looks-gorgeous.ars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEsJpRpn4Pg&feature=player_embedded
Jun 17: Indie games galore! http://www.pixelprospector.com/
Jun 16: Chess game played with detailed lego robots, checkout the details on the pieces (~3:50) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THGtbBz1sQo&feature=autofb
Jun 10: Simple solutions to complex problems http://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_sweat_the_small_stuff.html
May 30: Move over PuTTY, here comes KiTTY http://www.9bis.net/kitty
May 29: Are more expensive running shoes necessarily better than cheap ones? The answer will surprise you. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1170253/The-painful-truth-trainers-Are-expensive-running-shoes-waste-money.html
May 05: Support indie games! http://www.wolfire.com/humble
May 04: Beautiful paper art. Possible inspiration for RnF? http://www.abduzeedo.com/astonishing-paper-illustration-yulia-brodskaya
May 03: hmm, maybe I should find a way to work on my laptop standing up … http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_19/b4177071221162.htm
Apr 29: Linux/Windows software to reduce CPU energy consumption, thereby extending battery life and reducing your carbon footprint http://lifehacker.com/5526208/granola-scales-your-cpu-for-energy-savings
Apr 28: http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_wolfram_computing_a_theory_of_everything.html
Apr 27: The beginning of genetics… http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/04/breaking-mendels-laws-the-value-of-informative-errors.ars
Apr 26: A tour of the Blizzard campus http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/04/earning-your-sword-a-picture-tour-of-blizzards-offices.ars
Apr 23: If P and NP could talk … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjUEEHTyhdA
Apr 23: Noooo!! Ran out of disk space :(
Apr 23: has finally found a good use for SoC’s compute cluster. Now running a all vs all comparison between human and mouse genes consisting of ~46000 jobs. About 10% of the way done.
Apr 17: finished watching Temple Grandin, a semi-biographical HBO film. This is a back to basics film, where human emotion and story telling takes center stage. Highly recommended. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHxxOKnH9YE&feature=related
Apr 17: Hunting cat collapses in disappointment
Apr 13: Bunny monster and bunnies singing “Stand by Me” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCRUPWDIgYM
Apr 11: finally got my Huarache running sandal kit that I ordered from http://barefootted.com/shop and made my first pair of Huarache. Can’t wait to try them out later. http://barefootted.com/shop
Mar 12: The voice actors behind the Transformers movie. Peter Cullen is the original voice of Optimus Prime in the original Transformers series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJKGAZO4beI&feature=related
Mar 10: Think you need good running shoes to run? Not according to this study. http://barefootrunning.fas.harvard.edu/index.html
Feb 16: Remake of “We are the World” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glny4jSciVI
Feb 15: prefers to think of it as the Year of the Cat :) http://www.thedailytail.com/pictures/how-to-store-organize-cats/
Jan 20: is putting the final touches to the slides for my talk at APBC
Jan 18: is in Bangalore for APBC 2010 till 22nd Jan
Jan 12: just watched “Just for Laughs” Singapore edition. Super funny, especially the gag where a “baby” shoots out of a pram.
Jan 05: Human see, human feels. The magic of mirror neurons. http://www.ted.com/talks/vs_ramachandran_the_neurons_that_shaped_civilization.html