Recently I had the opportunity to finally get a pocket camera of acceptable quality, all while not much larger than a mobile phone a couple of years ago. In this warm climate the perfect thing to put in your khakis. One of the things I had been looking at for a long time was a camera with the opportunity to record 720p movies and after several months of doubting, I settled for a Sony DSC-W390, a 14.1 megapixel camera with panorama sweep and 720p HD video recording.
One detail which might put doubters off is that the USB standard camera won’t output 720p video to your TV or media player but for me that was no issue because I can connect to my Sony HDTV or PS3 via USB (card reader) and generally have all my video on a network drive anyway.
But that’s rambled enough. You obviously want to see how the 720p recording quality is. Here’s a minute of today’s Tour de France stage, recorded live in 720p with fine settings. The TV broadcast is upscaled digital TV quality, transmitted via IP.
I thought I would add something funny to this but other than that the image 3190pixel high is, I really have nothing to say. Yes, I know. That’s a novelty.
If I were to go live in the Southern of Europe, in a mediterranean environment, I think this would be the ultimate octopus a restaurant could serve me and make sure I would not touch. Not not touch because I don’t like octopus, I love octopus to be honest.
But not touch because it looks so frakkin’ awesome.
Except for one small detail, a really minor detail. It’s $249. And you can not eat it either. No amount of IRN BRU can help you digest this. So you’ll have to find a spot on your desk or coffee table for it. Now go order me one and send it as a gift to the Frankylicious HQ.
Periodic tables are very popular online and I certainly am not one not to like that trend. Actually, I want one like this and a periodic table of coffee as well. In coffee table format.
But a periodic table of periodic tables? WTF? So this guy had way to much of time on hands, made a collection of different periodic tables he found online and then wrapped it all up in a new periodic table. The periodic table of periodic tables.
The worst thing about all this? He even got us to write about!
It’s almost as bad as these Twitter bloc-notes, but then again… it’s a periodic table, right?
Larger version at the flickr, complete with explanation and links.
‘WTF?!’ Is the first thing that comes up to mind with Twitter bloc-notes. Do they have a character count? Do they spread in the wild or do you just have to throw them out of the window and hope that your office isn’t on the ground floor but on at least 27th stock. Why don’t you just follow me on Twitter?
Do they only serve for DMs or how do you actually use them?
Am I supposed to stick them on the outside of my window because yes, my office is on first floor. See what I did there?
So yeah… Twitter post-its. I suppose you use them when all your electrical devices, connecting you to the real world, are out of power and you can’t find a socket in the wall?
If life truly is such a bitch to you, don’t fear and go download the Twitter post-its here. Let me know how to follow you when you do use these.
If you’re anything like us and also happen to like movies, of course David Lynch is one of your idols and favourite movie makers. Right?
Right.
We’ll even forgive you if you’re a softie and only can cope with ‘Lynch beginner level’ suspense like in Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive.
So what if you could have your own, super-sized David Lynch? It now is possible. Well kinda, that might have been a lie actually but Jamie Salmon went ahead and created his own Lynch. Imagine sitting at the table, with your Lynch replica and enjoying your food in real Eraserhead style. Sign me up for one, please.
Many people keep animals as pet but what’s fun about animals? Ok, they can be cute and are so much better with lightsabers but let’s be honest… animals are animals, right?
We would maybe make an exception for BigFoot or Alf but other than that, no pet animals are not the real deal. And so thinks Nick Drummond whose pictures of his preferred pet animal we gladly stole for this post.
Why? Because we can he keeps an AT-AT that’s why. And if you don’t think that rocks, well then maybe you shouldn’t be reading frankylicio.us. Read more
What more does your little heart desire. You now got it all in one: zombies, flowcharts and TFIF!
But I know that we all are exhausted after this long week of ‘unproductivity’ and wish nothing else than to hit that first frozen one, you’ll have to hit the image to have a larger view of the flowchart.
I love watermelons. I hate the seeds though, but nothing beats an awesome summery watermelon cocktail, with vodka, some peach liquor and maybe even some passionfruit juice in the mix. Havana Club? A watermelon mojito, maybe?
I’ll have two thanks. Until then, feel free to have your fun with your watermelon. Maybe you first should get some LEGO before you play with melons , still it’s awesome.
I’m torn, split up between two feelings. Of course total awesomeness but also WTF!
Batman, Darth Vader, Lightsabers. Can it get it better? Thrown all three in one pot, right?
But maybe that’s the wrong thing to do.
So it seems that rumours of a Dark Horse – Batman cross-over comic could become reality? Who knows whether the dream of many a nerd will ever be realised. What it did bring though is this awesome drawing by Dave Dorman.
It’s not that I have forgotten about you gals and guys, but this tab usually is buried somewhere amid another 30 and 40 tabs. Ok, ok excuses of course and the real excuse should be that I was busy, right? Of course not that I barely ever have opened my feedreader recently, right?
Luckily we still love LEGO here at frankylicious HQ and e mark this return with the Story of Adult Fans of Lego
Assuming that they regularly need to reconnect to their network and type the password in again. Thank frak for saved preferred networks! Nevertheless, this could actually work. *Opens Airport Utility*
☆ I know there are fans of coffee art among the frankylicious readers, so I thought I might as well post a link to it here. Even though I would not want to wait or have a barista make a lovely piece of art I would ruin by stirring it up. No, I never would waste any of the guests' time layering flavoured mocchas. Anyway, here you go : Art in My Coffee.
☆ The Sun thinks differently. Did I just link to The Sun?Screw that. Everybody move on now! Nothing to see here.
☆ Not everyone enjoys Christmas but of course that doesn't mean you have to go totally Dickensian about it. Instead, play some Whack-a-mole. On your iPhone. Read a review at AppleGazette.
☆ 1000 Celebrities and pop culture icons in 8-bit art. On your iPhone. At $2.99 a cool deal for 8-bit nerds, otherwise wasted money. 'Get it!', we say.
☆ If you are not a victim of geotardation, ie. if you live in the US of A, you can watch the complete Caprica pilot on SyFy (who's the moron who came up with that spelling?
☆ Interesting discovery and video: an octopus uses a coconut shell to hide under but also takes the shell with him when walking over the mud of the ocean. Coconuts as tools. Most interesting of all, this was not discovered or filmed by the BBC Life team.
☆ Go on, admit it! You also want one of these: 700mW green laser pointer. Abuse the occasion as they are 20% off and only $2.499 anymore! I wished I were rich.
