It’s often said that pop culture fails to provide inspiration to aspiring engineers. Design News magazine article Slideshow: Engineering the Silver Screen attempted to capture a few exceptions to that rule. In truth, Hollywood occasionally writes engineers into movies or television plots. In some rare instances engineers serve as central characters, or even as stars. →
In Five Worst Inventions video TIME senior writer Lev Grossman discusses the choices for Worst Inventions of the Year 2009. Check out the video even though it is few years old. →
Do engineering videos grab your interest? What is the correct way to advertise an engineering product? Which is the better MCU pitch? Song-and-dance or dog-and-pony video? article asks if traditional dog-and-pony show or uptempo song-and-dance style is a better way to advertise a micro-controller. Because this is a Friday post, I will link here that →
A seasoned veteran give tips and encouragement to an aspiring software engineer. For a software developer this is hilarious and a little bit creepy! →
The best animated gif Pixar/NSA satire you’ll see today For background why this is so relevant, check the comments at Security trends for 2013 article. Check also USA vs NSA Animation Alternate Ending. →
Hopelessly addicted to email, social networking, or other online distractions? Robert R. Morris and Dan McDuff created Pavlov Poke to wean themselves off Facebook and finish their dissertations. While this project is intended to be a joke, the project creators believe a serious discussion is needed about how communication technologies are designed. In the technical →
Star Wars Imperial March Played by Dual Floppy Drives Join the Dark Side, we have floppy disks! Ghostbuster’s Theme on eight floppy drives Somethin strange in your floppy drive. Who you gonna call? Tech support! I ain’t afraid of no DOS. Building a six-channel floppy drive synth from start to finish →
Advertisement with your own image, what the heck? Photoshop Live – Street Retouch Prank does that. Cool. Good idea and nice implementation. Is this the future of advertisement? In the video the people waiting for bus are immersed in the advertisement with help of image editing software and image editing artists. Victims of reactions ranging →
Google Analytics In Real Life – Online Checkout →
Summer is starting and weather is getting hot, so look at this cool Fishing under ice (ORIGINAL). It contains some beautiful views under ice views from a lake in Finland. To get the idea where the amazing visuals come from, watch the entire video to the very end: they are underwater and upside down. If →