LeeNukes

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/igrill.shtml

I’m yet to be bored at the amount of inovation you can get out of a USB device. I’ve bought 3 of these already.

PimpThatSnack.com

This website is brilliant!

Why?

Well, its got a simple concept and it sticks to it. It doesn’t spend ages trying to get the site all pretty, its easy on the eye without trying to blow your mind with flash all over the place. Its fast because of this too.

It reminds me of the days of the late nineties and early 00’s when you would load a site up on your 56k modem and it wouldn’t try and be anything more then informative.

Excellent site, it gets 5 stars, if I had 5 stars to give it that is.

A team of computer scientist from the University of Boston have created some software that analyses a persons emotions by using a digital camera to concentrate on eight key facial features that characterise the persons emotional state.

This then reports back to the software. So, for example if the person is happy the picture will be of bright colours and soft textures etc. Should the person be angry however then the picture will have more dramatic brush strokes and darker stronger colours.

Somehow I feel they’ve got it the wrong way around though. If I was angry, I wouldn’t want to get angrier by looking at a picture that would accent this state.

However, I suppose if I was happy, I wouldn’t want to look at pictures that make me more angry. Although I think that being in a state of happiness and looking at a picture that has angry tones would be better. The state you are in should give you an emotional distance from anger so you wouldn’t feel as strong a bond to the painting as if you were in the same state.

Its hard to explain in words, but basically the effect is felt more when you are in the same situation. If you are happy and you see something sad, the negative effect will be less of a hit then if you were already sad.

Good work though guys. It makes the pictures in Antitrust almost possible :)

Why can’t I just have the option to bookmark where I’m at!!!

I often read large PDF documents, several hundred, sometimes a coupld of thousand pages in length and it can get very tedious if I want to read a document from begining to end but have to close it down half way through, because to be honest, I don’t fancy sitting there reading several thousand words in one sitting, especially on a VDU.

So, where is my option to slip my nice leather bookmark onto the page so that the next time Adobe Reads that document it thinks, ahh, the last time this user read this he was here, and he bookmarked that page.

Its so simple, yet its not been done, or at least, not that I can find.

Its not as if I want to save anything back to the PDF, just a reference of what PDFs have been bookmarked in my adobe reader user profile.

I don’t want this bollocks of having to run javascript to get it to work, or view the pdf in a web-browser so that I can bookmark the page, I want it IN adobe reader or any other program if someone knows of one.

The only limitation is that I will need to view this document, with its original title on the same machine I did previously, or on a machine on the same network if it was saved to my profile.

ARGHHH, it winds me up.

Someone please put me out of my misery and say, you can just do this *tada!* and it works.