Jordan Horwich felt like he could do better with some unique speakers for his music needs, and decided that simply buying other new ones was too simple and geeky.
“The total cost ended up around 100 USD for everything. It was mostly the shipping prices that made it so expensive. If I had spent some more time finding cheaper prices, or finding the parts locally, the cost would have been about 60 USD.”
ps.: save the earth! reduce, reuse, recycle!
official google logo (present)
for most of you guys who has been using google for a long time, you would found out that the interesting google logo changes occasionally through out the year according to celebrations, holidays or any special occasion.
for me, google is my starting homepage for my web browser.
therefore i always looking for new google doodle.
Google has had several logos since its renaming from “BackRub”. The current official Google logo was designed by Ruth Kedar, and is a logotype based on the Catull typeface. The company also includes various modifications and/or humorous features, such as cartoon modifications, of their logo for use on holidays, birthdays of famous people, and major events, such as the Olympics. These special logos, designed by Dennis Hwang, have become known as Google Doodles. –wikipedia
first google logo (1998)
the first ever google doodle (1998)
here some special google logo for 2008.
google’s season’s greetings logo (december 2008)
google’s thanksgiving’s day logo (27-november-2008)
google’s helloween’s day logo (31-october-2008)
for more google’s special’s day logo click here.
The first Google Doodle was a reference to the Burning Man Festival of 1998. The doodle was designed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed. Subsequent Google Doodles were designed by an outside contractor, until Larry and Sergey asked then-intern Dennis Hwang to design a logo for Bastille Day in 2000. Hwang has been designing the Google Doodles ever since. –wikipedia
so to google team, keep up the good artwork!
just love it.
read more:
Wikipedia: Google logo
Wikipedia: Dennis_Hwang
Official Google logos
Google holiday logos
Google Logos Online Museum
Oodles of Doodles
Dennis Hwang on CNN:Technology
nike had been officially unveiled the malaysian national football team’s jersey last november 2008 for the AFF suzuki cup 2008 campaign in thailand.
here is their ads campaign.
cool stuff!
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ps.: not to be sarcastic, hopefully the malaysian football team plays as good as their jersey! (no offence!)
F1 car is made up of 80,000 components, if it were assembled 99.9% correctly, it would still start the race with 80 things wrong
When an F1 driver hits the brakes on his car he experiences retardation or deceleration comparable to a regular car driving through a BRICK wall at 300km/h
F1 car can go from 0 to 160 km/h AND back to 0 in FOUR seconds
F1 car engines last only for about 2 hours of racing mostly before blowing up on the other hand we expect our engines to last us for a decent 20yrs on an average and they quite faithfully DO….that’s the extent to which the engines are pushed to perform…
An average F1 driver looses about 4kgs of weight after just one race due to the prolonged exposure to high G forces and temperatures for little over an hour (Yeah that’s right!!!)
At 550kg a F1 car is less than half the weight of a Mini.
To give you an idea of just how important aerodynamic design and added down force can be, small planes can take off at slower speeds than F1 cars travel on the track.
Without aerodynamic down force, high-performance racing cars have sufficient power to produce wheel spin and loss of control at 160 kph. They usually race at over 300 km/h.
In a street course race like the Monaco grand prix, the down force provides enough suction to lift manhole covers. Before the race all of the manhole covers on the streets have to be welded down to prevent this from happening!
The refuelers used in F1 can supply 12 liters of fuel per second. This means it would take just 4 seconds to fill the tank of an average 50 liter family car. They use the same refueling rigs used on US military helicopters today.
TOP F1 pit crews can refuel and change tyres in around 3 seconds. It took me 8 sec to read above point
During the race the tyres lose weight! Each tyre loses about 0.5 kg in weight due to wear.
Normal tyres last 60 000 – 100 000 km. Racing tyres are designed to last 90 – 120 km.
dry-weather F1 tyre reaches peak operating performance (best grip) when tread temperature is between 900C and 1200C.(Water boils boils at 100C remember) At top speed, F1 tyres rotate 50 times a second.
And that’s not Magic…
Its only a game…!
