Remove Plaque with Your Tongue Stud

Eewww! A toothbrush tongue stud! I am all for dental hygiene, just ask me how often I floss my teeth in a day… but I find this truly disturbing!

The Flipbook is Neato!

Checkout the cool program/website called Flipbookwhich is for making animations.

It’s a web application that allows people to easily create frame animation by simply drawing on screen and publish it online (yeah, it’s that simple – and works well). There are over 180,000 animation clips contributed by the visitors (including me) and the number is increasing. This work’s value would be not only in the web application itself but also in the media space that is rapidly expanding through end-user contributions — and the simple and inclusive user interface that invites people from many countries in the world to create and contribute.

Machu Picchu… Gezundheit

The fascinating architecture of the Incan Empire astounds me! So I am very excited to be able to see some examples of it in March.

The geometry used is fascinating: Often, doors and windows are perfectly aligned one behind another. They are not only beautiful to see, but also functional, as they are built following severe and effective rules to limit damages from earthquakes (the earthquake that hit Cusco about an half century ago, destroyed many Spanish buildings, but not Inca’s).

These rules include the inclination of the walls, the trapezoidal shape of doors, windows and walls itself, the accurate cutting of the stones, which are also joint using a precise / alternate pattern and often firmly tied internal reinforcement (as already seen in Tiahuanaco). Last but not least, the buildings are built over foundations usually one meter deep, made of sand and gravel, in order to compensate and movement.

To destroy them, spanishes often had to use the dynamite.

Amazing!