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My animation skills have significantly improved since my last post on my fish animation. The above animation is one I’ve just made in class.

A guy made some funny cartoons about babies, above is one of his cartoons. It’s interesting to find something like this in the evening…

Look at these wonderful long legs. Maybe he’s a terrible dictator but at least you’ve got to give him some credit for his taste of females.

I thought this is a futuristic concept hotel when I first saw it on Shanghaiist, but it is not. In fact, this five-star resort hotel will be built within a beautiful water-filled quarry in the Songjiang district close to Shanghai in China. It’s also said this cool hotel will integrate lots of green features ranging […]

Recently Channel Five showed an documentary about this conjoined twins. Unfortunately, I missed the documentary, but was struck by their incredible story after I read about it.
According to Wikipedia, each of the twins manages one side of their conjoined body, controlling her own arm and leg, and receives no sensation from the other side. […]

A funny picture I found today. A US baseball player instead of hitting the ball had probably threw out his bat. I just love the facial expressions of the people in the photo.

I found this design of Thinkpad from a recent post on DesignMatters weblog (a Lenovo blog on its product designs). As you can see this design combines both the portability of a laptop and the advantage of a desktop user interface. The author of the post made a poll to gather votes from its audience […]

Today, I bought a good book and it was quite unexpected. I went to the Waterstones bookstore located very close to London’s Piccadilly Circus (it’s the biggest commercial bookstore in the UK) during my lunch break. Although I don’t normally visit to bookstores on a Sunday’s lunch break as it’s very short (only 30 minutes), […]

Yesterday, I went to The Apple Store during my lunch hour at work. (It is Apple’s first hands-on interactive store to showcase its products in Europe, located on London’s Regent Street, very close to the Oxford Circus tube station.) Because the store is only a few steps away from the place I work, I have […]

When I was reading ‘The World is Flat’, I particularly took a mental note of ‘web-based applications’ the author mentioned in the book. Of course, online tools and web-delivered services are nothing new, Hotmail, YahooMail and online games are all examples of it. But these are nothing campared to the complicated software delivered through the […]