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I, like everyone immediately jumped on the phenomenon (or not) that is Google Buzz. A real time stream of information that showed up in over a hundred million Gmail boxes, promising to add a further dimension to the information and social framework Google is trying to create with profiles, GTalk, Android, etc.

And all I could think after trying this out is: what a fucking mess Google is.

My problems with Buzz though go deeper than just Buzz but extend to the colossal mess that is Google in general.

Threeven, Modulo, Clock Math, and Cryptography.

Interesting visualization of Twitter’s growth, by amount of code written.

With all of the hype surrounding Google Buzz lately, I’ve seen some inquiries about how to get the ‘Verified Name’ badge on your Google Profile. Here’s how.

Now with extensions.

It is the official watch of the Musée International d‘Horlogerie (MIH), the international museum of watchmaking, which is situated in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. The watch is unlike any you may have met in museum shops. The MIH Watch personifies the mission of the museum, which is to convey to a broader public the importance of horology, and of mechanical watchmaking in particular.

The MIH Watch is not being produced by a watch brand on behalf of the museum, nor does it already exist under some other name. It has been designed from the ground up and incorporates a mechanism that you will not find in any other watch. The MIH Watch has a mechanical movement and its casing is fashioned from high-grade titanium.

via swissmiss

Firefox extension to minimize Gmail even further. Huzzah.

James May from Top Gear takes an emotional ride to the edge of space in a U2 spyplane.

You can see the path it plans to go as a red line, which updates when it detects new obstacles at the right screen border. It uses only information visible on screen.

At the “close call” situation: In this version of Mario, when you’re jumping while sliding on a wall, you jump backwards and upwards away from it. That’s what the AI did twice to get out of the hole. via http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rb1006/projects:marioai

Just like modular synthesizers, people connect with each other in order to achieve diverse objectives. In Voltage, robots, half-human and half-synthesizer, powered by a huge amount of energy, connect to each other in an electric and chaotic trance.