Singers' view on the world

Now I really want to learn CPR

I”m sure all of you remember my lengthy post about an iPad application concept that I”d love to see developed – iPad note taking application concept.

In the original post I also promised to let everybody know once I found something that looked interesting and close to what I wanted out of a note application on the iPad. I think this application comes really close to something that I”d love to use in my daily work.

CourseNotes looks like the application that I”ve been waiting for. It has a lot of great features combined with an awesome UI, that seems really intuitive. Check the promotion video after the jump: (more…)

Great video of how much different TV-shows and movies actually use a green screen when they are shooting scenes. It’’s kind of a sudden wake-up because everything looks so real. Some places they are really hard to spot, but I promise you that after you”ve watched this little video you”ll be able to spot green screens a lot better.

It almost seems like Ugly Betty is being shot entirely in front of a green scene, which is kind of disappointing. I”ve never actually watched the show but I like to think that the casts are actually out in the real world doing their acting. This is a lot cheaper for the studios because they don”t have to pay for transportation, expensive actors and lighting on location.

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This is an amazing 30s video of a pigeon riding the subway. Now you might think, well how is that cool -- if you take a look at the video it’’s pretty clear that the pigeon knows where it needs to get off. The speaker announces the next station, it starts walking around, the doors open and the pigeon quietly walks out. It’’s quite impressive that the pigeon have learned to do this, or was this just a coincidence?

This video reminded me a lot of Moscow’’s stray dogs who has adapted to the way humans live and get around. Scientists have studied groups of these dogs and they seem to have a hierarchy which is really close to that of a wolf pack. The stray dogs found out that people were more likely to give them food at subway stations. It’’s really interesting how these animals adapt to the way we live.

You can read more and see picture of Moscow’’s stray dogs: “Smartest Dogs: Moscow’’s Stray Dogs”