Shonzilla, a pattern-seeking animal

Street Hero - Amazing bus jump

An attempt at launching a viral campaign for the latest HTC smartphone running Google Android - HTC Hero. This video is supposedly created by a parkour group Street Heroes whose MySpace page is a couple of days old.

To get the full point of this viral ad, make sure to watch the related video where you can see the entire commercial from point-of-view recorded with headcam, i.e. HTC Hero strapped to guys head. :-)

[via thestreetheroes and digital buyologie]

The best street dance moves you have ever seen

This guy, Robert Muraine a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic, has got some wicked street dancing and popping skills.I’m also posting this as a short tribute to Michael Jackson’s who sadly passed away yesterday.

Thanks to Ivanjah for sending me this one. :-)

[via cashadz]

Marty Monster vs. Kangaroo

[via reestv and Alexander Tarasov]

Google has recently started reminding people that Google Search is the discovery engine in a response to Microsoft’s Bing touting itself as one, as if they’re doing something that hasn’t been done before.

The most visible part of this reminding campaign is the new line on the main Google Search page (classic, not personalized page):
Discovering the web: Explore the world of Google search.

Google has also launched a series of 15 second search tips - reminding everyone all the nice information you can get on Google Search. Out of all 17 of them, the video above is my favorite: Fill in the Blanks

[via Google and

Last lap in Moto GP of Catalunya in which Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo had an epic battle. I thought it would be best viewed with Italian commentators…

Valentino said it himself - incredibile! :-)

To make things even more exciting in Moto GP 500cc class, three riders have 106 points after this race: Rossi, Lorenzo and Casey Stoner. But since this was only 6th race out of 17 there will be sure a lot more excitements.

[via MaNuxTuBe17]

The Beatles: Rock Band Short Film

Wonderful short film announcing the upcoming The Beatles: Rock Band game. Produced by Passion Pictures.

The Beatles E3 2009 Trailer

Trailer for a wicked game from Rock Band games series, which was in turn inspired by Guitar Hero series.

Not only could player be playing lead guitar, bas guitar, and drums parts, singing will also be possible via an USB microphone. Yes, you’ll need to match the singer’s vocals. :-)

The human side of the human interface.

Very cute and thought provoking… :-)

Watch and listen to this intro packing real-time rendered animation filled with fractals and music into (hold your pants) - 1kB! Yes, that’s 1024 bytes! That’s less memory that any computer you ever owned had inside.

This is just one of intros showcased this year at one of the most popular demoscene parties - Breakpoint organized in Germany.

Demo group that made this wonder is called TBC while the intro is called Untraceable

I’m amazed every time I see anything remotely advanced like this fitting in anything below 64kB… this is simply beyond my comprehension. Hm… I wonder if these guys ever get laid while trying to cram yet more fractals, fps and animation.

Google Squared (link will be live by the end of May 2009) is the new project from Google that is soon to come out of Google’s R&D showcase known as Google Labs.

Google Squared will deliver search results in spreadsheet format. So what? you may ask. Well, look at the video demo above. Each search query will return an appropriated table of search results which has its own set of columns, i.e. common attributes that are associated with the (prevailing) topic of your search. In a nutshell, Google Squared turned unstructured nature of Internet into structured data. Now that’s big news since it comes from the company that knows about searching information on the internet more than anyone else.

I believe that Google Squared will finally bring the Web 3.0 a.k.a. semantic web to life. Imagine all sort of creative uses of this structured search data by semantic mash-up applications that will allow you to discover information about “any” given topic in a step-by-step fashion or about a pre-selected set of topics in a step or two. All this by combining topic attributes and Google Squared search results with other online resources. After all, having search result metadata (i.e. Google Squared spreadsheet columns) that are related to search results makes search data structured and easier to manage algorithmically and computationally, i.e. using additional software layers on top of this data.

On a side note, even though Wolfram Alpha will be pushed outside the limelight as a result of this new Google’s project. I say this even though I’m aware that Wolfram Alpha is not a direct competitor to either Google Search or Google Squared with its announced capability to offer precise answers to questions that have them based on data on the internet. Google Squared has already become a hot topic in its own right on Google Trends.

I hopeexpect Google will release an API for this at the same time cause I would love to try it out on my Android phone. Yes, I’m becoming a bigger Google (services) fanboy every day and for good reason(s). :-)

The video above was a demo organized for Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch.