Sand drawing Noah's Ark

Taipei Zoo


sand drawing Noah's Ark諾亞方舟的秘密 歌詞 The Zoo 諾亞方舟的秘密 歌詞 作詞：動物爸爸 Jason Yeh 作曲：董修銘 老師 GoGo-GoGoGo GoGo-GoGoGo GoGo-GoGoGo 長臂猿GoGo加油聲 宣告黎明的來臨 大貓熊揉著可愛眼睛迎接美好的一天 大象昂首闊步走過必留下痕跡 長頸鹿眺望遠方天地一片祥和 獅子一聲怒吼撼動草原 威震八方 萬物都稀奇生命真可貴 ...
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WOWOW cool :) Thanks to Janice!
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Hook and Go skeletal shopping cart - Core77

Hook and Go skeletal shopping cart - Core77

A contraption called the Hook and Go, "the smart cart for the urban shopper," seems like a good idea as gets rid of the "cart part, folds into a compact shape, and will hold 70 pounds of hanging bags when unfurled.

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Maybe we can work on the form factor next.. but looks handy!

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Google's grass and goats - Core77

Google's grass and goats - Core77

To clear the fields of weeds and grass at their headquarters, Google could have hired a lawn-cutting service; instead they went with a greener initiative.

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Told You... I bet the one that you saw along HWY 237 is for the same cause.

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Can You Twitter the Gospel? (Josh Harris)

Can You Twitter the Gospel? (Josh Harris)

The team over at 9Marks invite you to succinctly communicate the Gospel in Twitter's 140 character limit. They're even offering free books to those who do it most effectively. Is this a worthy exercise? ...

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twitterific!

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Fast Food Folk Song (at the Taco Bell Drive-Thru)

Fast Food Folk Song (at the Taco Bell Drive-Thru)

Next time you're at Taco Bell, think of us. If you win some cash, you can help Rhett pay me (Link) back. No purchase necessary. Subject to official rules at http://BajaBlast.com Game ends 5/18/09.

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For those of you who've asked: Yes, the guy's reaction is totally authentic. ...

to Vovo: I dare you! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uwY3sjqYX0.

In fact, vovo, k2, caleb trio? maybe Clement too hahaha..

(thanks Wendy.. I can't stop watching it now)

Things you can do from here:

• Subscribe to Jackie Wu's Facebook Links using Google Reader
• Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

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Beautiful Zipper Pond in Taiwan | Toxel.com

Beautiful Zipper Pond in Taiwan | Toxel.com

Toxel.com - Design, Inspiration and Technology Blog

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YEA!!! I love Taiwan!

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Researchers Use Web to Determine Wednesdays Are the Worst

Researchers Use Web to Determine Wednesdays Are the Worst

The usefulness of searchable, user-generated content apparently knows no bounds -- especially for zealous researchers who set out to determine exactly what all those bloggers, tweeters, and status updaters really think. ...

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Wow, it used to be the moody Tuesday! I wonder what made this shift (Or is this data applies to the techy world?) Funny thing is... Monday is not that bad for both studies.

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BlackFire

BlackFire

New product design video of an adjustable Clamplight. www.blackfire-usa.com Animation created by LiGHT-FiSH www.light-fish.com

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Flash Light ;)

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Mark Kinsley's killer fold-out shelving wall - Core77

Mark Kinsley's killer fold-out shelving wall - Core77

Industrial Design content and community site - articles, discussions, interviews and resources.

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WOW... nice to have in my room :D

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I love Industrial Designers

http://www.core77.com/blog/cartoons/coretoon_stick_of_buttergum_14201.asp
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．．．（無言）

其實'眞的假的'還蠻討厭的!
語助詞就還蠻可愛的~~ 大概是因為我也用習慣ㄌ
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Twitter is Not Your Average Social Network

OK... eventually, I will move all these newsharing / inspiration news to another blog... but now...

Twitter is Not Your Average Social Network

via Mashable! by Stan Schroeder on 6/2/09

A study conducted by Harvard Business Review reveals that most Twitter users don't actually use the service much, or even at all. In fact, 10% of active users are responsible for over 90% of all Tweets.

According to the research, conducted on a random sample of about 300,000 Twitter users in May 2009, 25% of Twitter users don't tweet at all, while 50% of users tweet less than once every 74 hours. Active users, on the other hand, tweet a lot, which makes Twitter a lot more like Wikipedia than an average social network (see graph below, courtesy of HBR).

Although this may sound strange at first, Twitter really is more like Wikipedia than, say, Facebook. Twitter is not so much about connecting with your friends, it's about broadcasting information. Although it doesn't necessarily take much creativity to create a tweet, only the most creative users actually persist in tweeting every day over a longer time period.

However, Twitter is also similar to a instant messaging tool, which should have a very different curve, with a larger proportion of users contributing to the number of overall tweets. It seems that Twitter's micropublishing component is winning over its chatting component.

The Harvard Business Review study reveals another interesting tidbit: men seem to follow men more than women on Twitter. There are more women than men on twitter - approximately 55% of all users are female - but an average man will follow a man in 65% of all cases, while a woman will follow a man in 56% of cases. It's hard to pull any meaningful conclusions from this anomaly, except one: Twitter is different than other social networks. But you already knew that.

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Cupcake Cones

OMG... Someone is thinking!
This is great and eco-friendly!

Cupcake Cones

via Instructables: exploring by scoochmaroo on 6/8/09

Delicious, clever, and surprising, these cupcakes impersonating ice cream cones are sure to delight!

My mother used to make these for my brother and me when we were kids and had to bring in birthday treats to school. I had extra cake batter left over from making Cake in a Jar (coming soon), and ...

By: scoochmaroo

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RidetheCity.com Gets An Update In Time for Biking Season

Can't wait to have it for Bay Area... so I can test how "safest route" is better than safe route.

via Google Reader:

RidetheCity.com Gets An Update In Time for Biking Season

via TechCrunch by John Biggs on 5/22/09

RidetheCity.com is a service that maps the best bike routes in New York. You add a starting point and an end point and the service finds dedicated bike lanes, greenways, and other "safe" routes for you to take on your two-wheeler through the mean streets of the city.

We've just been given permission to let you folks beat up their latest incarnation, RidetheCity 2.0 with a few interesting updates. Co-creator Jordan Anderson reports:

- Much faster routing and overall performance
- Better looking maps
- SMS support
- Sort of wonky, but workable multi-language support
- Better info. about bike shops and rentals

The new service uses CloudMade Web Maps Lite tiles for a far prettier interface and it seems snappy as heck. The map is considerably nicer to look at and the sharing system is great - you can send an SMS message with your directions to your phone for orienteering on the go.

There's even a bonus for Brooklyn-based readers: RidetheCity is having a launch party on Saturday at Radegast at 113 N 3rd Street in Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn from 2pm until 6pm. They'll be giving out RidetheCity schwag and one lucky person will win a Bicycle Habitat gift card.

The new site will go live tonight but feel free to test it on their sexy beta server until then. They even have a widget for those so inclined.

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UI - article: Most new ideas aren't

http://metacool.typepad.com/metacool/2009/04/8-most-new-ideas-arent.html

Most new ideas aren't. Someone, somehow, somewhere already thought up the essence of what you're thinking about.

... Best of all, standing on the shoulders of giants is a free activity.

... Innovators ship, dreamers don't.

So what's keep you from making your idea real?

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Don't mind what other said about you... it's the effort that counts!

Despite of how little I like about Curt Schilling, he got a pretty good post today about critique:
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I receive daily quotes from athletes all around the sports world through a pro-athlete website service. Some of them are very good. The best ones are usually the most simple. Today’s was a particularly good one.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.~ Arnold Palmer

Off of that someone at 38 Studios sent me one from a book on Teddy Roosevelt that I thought was not only spot on, but pretty powerful.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

http://38pitches.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/curt-schilling/general/i-love-inspirational-people/
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Greener Gadget Top 50 Semi-Finalist Laundry POD

For convenience sake, Greener Gadget Top 50 Semi-Finalist Laundry POD, designed by RKS Design Team, combines the salad spinner and the laundry machine, creating a new way to clean our clothes while saving energy at the same time!

While re-engineering and re-designing a salad spinner, we learned resourceful women were buying salad spinners to wash their delicates. This sparked the idea that the salad spinner technology we innovated could be used to create a portable, hand-powered laundry machine that would be far more appropriate for the task, than a salad spinner. The Laundry POD combines innovation and eco-conscious style to save energy, water and answer the need for a quick, easy, eco-friendly way to do small loads.

Like this design? Wanna vote for it or leave a comment? Check out this entry or the entire Greener Gadgets TOP 50 Gallery and help determine the TOP 10 for live judging at the upcoming Greener Gadgets Conference.

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方便行事 最常用也最易被盜密碼：1234、password

央廣 更新日期:"2009/02/12 09:45" 楊明娟

在選擇電子郵件、銀行帳戶或機票密碼時，請多思考一下，因為根據調查，太過沒有想像力、沒有辨別度的密碼，最容易被盜用。

美國資訊週刊InformationWeek報導，一項針對28,000個最近被盜用的密碼進行分析後發現，過於簡單行事是造成帳號被盜用的最主要原因。

分析指出，在這些被盜用的帳號中，有16％是用自己或家人的名字當密碼、14％是依照鍵盤排列方式、例如1234或12345678等。在美國，人們常用QWERTY，而在歐洲則因鍵盤排列方式不同，AZERTY是設定密碼的最愛。

另外有5％的人是以電視節目或偶像的名字來設密碼，例如當紅的歌手HannahMontana(孟漢娜)、Pokemon(神奇寶貝)、Matrix(駭客任務)、Ironman(鋼鐵人)。

調查發現，4％的人喜歡用容易聯想的字，例如password、password1等；3％會用表達自己態度的字眼來設定密碼，如「Idon'tcare」、「Whatever」、「Yes」、「No」、「Iloveyou」、「Ihateyou」等。

專家建議，為了防止密碼被破解，在設定密碼時最好不要少於8個字，而且其中應該包含大寫、符號等。
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女子求租男性肩膀哭哭 隨傳隨到

= rent a shoulder for crying

Wow, I thought I was being original when I had this idea! Not that I cry that much, but ... :-p
Anyway, I will recommend her to get a taller guy... but I guess 5'10 is not bad :)

重慶一名幼稚園謝姓女老師在網路上徵求「租個肩膀讓我哭」，每小時願付約新台幣246元，已經引起網友熱烈討論。討論一些需不需要帶紙巾之類的技術性問題。也有人認為價錢太便宜。

謝姓女老師貼文表示，如果五官端正，身高175CM以上，肩膀靠著舒服，願意出租，50元人民幣一 小時，就和她聯繫。還強調非誠勿擾。　　23歲的謝姓女老師表示，時常都有哭的衝動，但一個人哭覺得自己太造孽了。她要租的肩膀只要讓她靠著哭一下，不開 腔、不說話、不問原因，也可以一起哭。出租條件必須是男性，出租地點要安靜的公共場所，只要她想哭的時候就要隨傳隨到。

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超想看的電影

http://blog.udn.com/sosoabcd/2201899

「痛」（原來是一種說不出口又流不出血的感覺）

當內心的感覺僅剩下嘶吼，理由不再是藉口，隨天空遠去的異次元空間就算我們滑過一百次水道也到達不了；不是說有十台電風扇就可以，不是只要存滿一千兩百塊就足夠，方法都用盡但是童年跟人生都只能有一次。

夢想在校園裡喃喃掠空飛過圖書館的紅色窗簾，圖畫書被風翻閱細讀快樂王子和虎姑婆的故事，魔笛在賣火柴的少女手上滑落；玩具店販賣著愛不釋手的新潮玩具但是得用新台幣去兌換。我們的長大愈來愈複雜，我們的滿足愈來愈困難；幻滅的過程突然在某天就悄悄開始。

靈魂只有兩公克卻載負太多的慾望與哀戚；快樂不成比例地在陰暗的巷弄低聲迴盪。於是寄望著微笑能夠帶來力量，在淺淺的弧度中休止憂傷；依附童年的記憶日漸拉拔茁壯的只有身體而不見得連心智一起。

所以像是任性和賴皮這樣的行為並沒有離開。

帶著疑問在退潮的海邊跳躍通常許多的好奇找不到解答，沉進有塑膠熱帶魚浮游的水缸裡經過五分鐘發現自己不能呼吸；原來夢境和現實之間需要換氣。企圖逃避卻無法真正逃離，後悔長大可是再也回不去。

在我什麼都有可能相信的年紀，在我引頸期盼快點成年的願望裡，突然睡醒就只剩下遍地撒落的無能為力。

男孩幾年之後變成男人，雖然童年妄想觸及的那片藍天依舊搆不到；還可不可以留住一點天真在身上？

囧男孩官方網站

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