The Facebook movie - Yeah, you heard it right!

A producer and script writer Aaron Sorkin will write a movie of the famous social networking community site Facebook, which Scott Rudin will be producing for Columbia. Sorkin commented the movie at his Facebook profile and asked the Facebook community the stories regarding the site.

"I understand there are a few other people using Facebook pages under my name -- which I find more flattering than creepy -- but this is me. I don't know how I can prove that but feel free to test me", Sorkin says and adds: "I figured a good first step in my preparation would be finding out what Facebook is, so I've started this page. (Actually it was started by my researcher, Ian Reichbach, because my grandmother has more Internet savvy than I do and she's been dead for 33 years.)"

Sorkin is previously famous from creating the West Wing tv-show and Charlie Wilson's War movie, where Tom Hanks is acting. Rudin's work is in the other hand Revolutionary Road including Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as acting.

No date is available or the Facebook movie name either as of yet.

Performance art in Finland

I'm speechless.. Seriously what's wrong with this country? Even Sweden doesn't have this kind of performance art.

The Anti-Energy-Drink

This time on the series of weird products, a Drank Beverage "energy-drink" blows up the fact that this is not actually energy-drink, but more like anti-energy-drink. According to its producers, Drank is very very popular in Houston, it's sold throughout the liquor and convenience stores. And what best, Drank makes you sleepy, the company's publicist says.

Drank is a carbonated, grape-flavored beverage spiked with melatonin, valerian root and rose hips, and it's good with vodka. We have seen the world stores getting filled up with hundreds of different energy-drinks, but this is something really special.

A direct copypaste from the Drank press release:

"From design to production, every aspect of this calming drink was inspired by today’s popular hip hop artists who embrace the much sought-after hip hop lifestyle that encourages people to capture a stress-free state of mind."

The Wrong Door - BBC Three

"The Wrong Door is a new sketch show set in a parallel universe where the special effects you see in the movies and on TV are part of everyday life. Coming soon to BBC Three," Sounds awesome, and so are these short clips of the show!

Mythbusters draw a Mona Lisa in 80 milliseconds

The Mythbusters compared a CPU vs GPU to explain parallel processing and the GPU drew an actual Mona Lisa drawing using paint balls in 80 milliseconds! This show was held at the nVISION 2008 event in San Jose, California.

Creating 3D surfaces with a flash camera

You tought modelling the world into 3D is hard? Well, soon it won't be hard anymore, but more easy. Creating 3D surfaces will be possible just by using a flash camera.

The scientists at the The University of Manchester's School of Computer Science and Dolby Canada developed a new technique that is making that possible as it "might make capturing depth and textures for 3D surfaces as simple as shooting two pictures with a digital camera--one with flash and one without".

The future of DJing

Today's innovations are simply leaning on the touch-screen technology, and so the DJs are going in that direction too, as Scott Hobbs is presenting us the future of DJing: touch-screen decks! Will this destroy the CD format, which already destroyed vinyls?

Hobbs says for the press that with the TTs you can see and touch the music and continues to add: "It shows where all the beats are, which gives you complete control of the song in a mix."

A portal to Maya Underworld found in Mexico?

National Geographic news unveil that some archaeologists might have found a portal to Maya Underworld in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. A labyrinth filled with stone temples and pyramids in 14 caves, some underwater. According to the archaeologosits, they found "a nearly 300-foot (90-meter) concrete road that ends at a column standing in front of a body of water".

Dubai Carbon Neutral Pyramid will house 1 million people

Dubai's millionaires have just introduced a new kind of project they will be surprising the world's people with. Dubai Carbon Neutral Pyramid is a building that will house 1 million people.

According to the Timelinks architecture office, which is designing the pyramid kind of building, Dubai Carbon Neutral Pyramid could produce its energy independently for example by using solar and wind energy. Read more of the project at Inhabitat's website.

Japaneses caught a prehistoric Goblin shark on video

New Scientist Environment blogs that Japaneses have discovered a prehistoric Goblin shark in the waters of Japan. An unique catch. :)

The coolest photo set of the Olympic Games 2008

An amazing photo set of the Olympic Games 2008 competition has been posted to THDesign.be forums. The photos are no doubt representing the best photo quality at the Olympics. Michael Phelps photo is my personal favourite.

Taekwondoka kicks referee directly to head at the Olympics

A Cuban taekwondoka Angel Valodia Matos kicked the referee directly to head on purpose. The kick happened after the Swedish referee Chakir Chelbatia had announced Matos as a loser of the Bronze match at the Olympic Games 2008. According to Matos, this kick was a protest towards Chelbatia's decision. Matos used too much time for curing his leg and therefore the referee checked this action as "cancellation" and so he announced him a match loser.

Losing a nerve control was destructive to Matos, when an international Taekwondo union set a permanent ban for Matos and his coach. The ban means Matos can't participate to any of the championship games the union is organizing.

56 impressive ads about problems in the world

Afrison.com has listed 56 very impressive ads together about the problmes in the world, which also make you to think. Check out the best four below and the rest here.

Scientists unravel "galactic spaghetti monster"

Scientists have found out new information of the galaxy, which reminds them as "galactic spaghetti monster", namely Galaxy NGC 1275 in Perseus. The scientists note that there are some "spaghetti-like gas filaments around a black hole". I'm not sure why they are calling this as spaghetti monster, but for me the picture of this galaxy reminds the hell more likely.

What NewScientistScope explains about the galaxy is the following: "As the black hole sucks in gas from its surroundings, it powers jets of matter that produce bubbles of energetic particles in the surrounding cluster gas. As these bubbles grow and rise, cooled gas from NGC 1275's core gets drawn into long tendrils in their wake, like the strings that trail behind balloons."

Image Metrics Emily CG Facial Animation is too real

Image Metrics is a company that has created an Emily CG facial animation . It's representing the current quality of the animations as this person is completely computer generated even though people might believe her to be real.

Very young Michael Phelps

The picture says enough of the 8-gold-medals record breaker Michael Phelps.

Nebula in troubles - Clients asking claims for damages of 10,000 euro

After a somewhat massive server crash in the device room of Finnish server provider Nebula, their clients have asked huge claims for damages of the sites' one-day nonappearence on the Internet. The damage claims raise to 10,000 euro according to Ville Skogberg, the head of Nebula.

Skogberg commented that there shouldn't be an interruption any longer on any big systems and continued to admit that some singular servers might still be under problems.

The massive interruption was caused by the overheated switch, which also got melted.

Two huge local sites were down at least a day, including UusiSuomi.fi, a Finnish media service and Telkku.com, a TV service.

Five game developers sue 25,000 illegal downloaders

DailyMail reports that over 25,000 British illegal downloaders have been sued by five biggest game developers in the world including Atari, Topware Interactive, Reality Pump, Techland and Codemasters. Every downloader has to pay at least 375 euro, but if we multiply the sum with 25,000 we get over 9 millions euro in total.

According to the appraisals by the locals there is over 6 million British people, who are downloading video games illegally.

Spanair plane accident at Madrid's Barjas Airport - 148 dead says unconfirmed report

Today Spanair Flight AJK 5022, a Spanair McDonnell Douglas MD-82 plane skidded off the runaway precisely saying at 14.44 local time and then caught fire soon after take off. The plane's fuselage scattered into two parts. At least 148 have been confirmed to be dead, according to the unofficial report by Reuters and 25 were able to escape.

The plane was reportedly carrying 164 passengers including two babies and 9 crew members. The flight was supposed to end to Las Palmas Airport, located in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands.

Samsung Omnia i900 - Unboxing it

Samsung has released a new promotional video of the Omnia i900 mobile phone. Check out more details regarding the phone via their official website: http://omnia.samsungmobile.com/.

German Idol-star turned into Shemale

In 2003 a man named "Lorenzo" participated Germany's Idol-star competition, has now turned into Shemale. A few years ago doctors allowed him silicons, and also the faces got a more womanly style at the same operation. He already had a roundish arse as inborn, so no operations were necessary.

Lorenzo is now known as Lory Glory and he is a big star in the Mid-Europe and at the moment he is making career in the United States. You can get more information of him through his official website: http://www.lovely-lory-glory.de/.

Polar submarines in the cold waters of Arctics

Polar submarines spotted in the cold waters of Arctics.

New photo set of the Georgia-Russia war

New photo set of the Georgia-Russia war is available at EnglishRussia.com website.

New world record in Zimbabwe: 11M% inflation

Zimbabwe has strided towards a new record as in their inflation course. The new record hits 11,27 millions percent, according to the local statistics central. On July the inflation percent was only 2,2 million, which makes clearer how fast the speed has been.

Zimbabwe is still taking the world record on the inflation and the experts have predicted it to be continued. Gideon Gono, Zimbabwe national bank's leader suggested to freeze salaries and prices to its current standard at least for half year in order to control the galloping inflation.

Buildings based on Soviet Architecture

A small set of the buildings based on soviet architecture. Check out more here.

Two of the greatest predators on the ultimate battle

A photographer has caught up an amazing battle into set of photos, which are showing a crocodile battling against a hungry leopard. Who wins? Well, the slow crocodile is way too helpless nevertheless the enormous bites and strength. It seems to be even way too easy catch for leopard. The photos say enough.

"Let's take a half cider so we are so drunk"

A Finnish news paper Kouvolan Sanomat posted news of how the youngsters are spending time at the Night of the Arts event in Kouvola, Finland. These kind of events usually attract young people together, but the art isn't really the real reason for that. The reason is drinking and "good atmosphere" like one of the girls answered in the news.

The best comment however comes from 13-year-old teen girls, who say: "Let's take a half cider so we are so drunk", a direct translation from Finnish to English. And they were serious. Oh, dear..

Brutal New York City in between 1965-1995

Skyscrapercity.com forums user named "swivel" posted a really stunning album featuring photos of the New York City, taken in between 1965-1995.

A cook cut his girlfriend's head off and then clowned with it

In the beginning of this month a Greek 31-year-old cook Athanassios Arvanitis drifted into power of rage, which continued to killing his girlfriend's dog at first and after it cut girlfriend up into pieces with a knife. After cutting her, he took a picture of the pieces and sent it to his friend called "Joe", and commented the following: "Wazzup Joe! Throw her head into a bag, I'll send u a pic of her pieces later. Peace."

Rage didn't stop here as Athanassios later walked in Vourvoulos, Santorini showing to the people the cut head. He was also able to steal a police car and ran over two motor cyclists before he got caught. Officers said they fired at least five shots during the chase.

This picture below is rolling on the Internet and it's connected with this news.

Burj Dubai is approaching its peak

Burj Dubai is the world's tallest skyscraper located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It's currently under construction, but it's nevertheless that approaching its peak quite fast. David Hobcote has taken a few photos of the building this month, and I can tell you that they are surely so awesome. Burj Dubai will be ready for occupation in September 2009.

Check out more pictures from the official Burj Dubai photo site: http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com.

A suicide as seen from the road-condition cameras

Two days ago on 16th August 2008 a middle-aged man jumped in front of the truck in Kuopio, Finland. Nothing special or new there as seen from the news, but at IRC this news item gets purely a different view. The Finnish Road Administration based links were copypasted to several channels, when the road-condition camera on "Road 5" in Kuopio snapped pictures of the mentioned accident.

Five shots were taken in total, the one showing how the man is walking on the road in front of the truck, the second when the truck has already hitted this man, and others where you were able to see authorities with the man's corpse in the accident place. Only two pictures are available, as the Finnish Road Administration unfortunately deleted the files from their server.

The Georgia-Russia war in photos

Sometimes you just can't trust the way the world-wide media is showing us the content of some war. This nice photo set of the Georgia war shows us what's really happening there. Big thumbs up for Milkavkaz.net forums.

Rich people's rooftops in New York City

A man behind the "jwilly" nickname uploaded a cool gallery to flickr of rich people's rooftops in New York City. Reminds a lot of The Sims game! Check the full gallery.