Quantifying Friendships

Now that I was stupid enough to add some celebrities to my Facebook friends I get annoyed by friend suggestions that Facebook bases on the amount of friends in common. Surely enough when I click on those "friends in common" I see all the celebrities and people who add everyone.

Of course there is friend on Facebook and there is Friend, but beside me and the friend in questions there is no one to quantify that relationship. And I'm sure letting users explicitly quantify relationships on Facebook will be supper annoying and not used by most of the users in much the same way they don't use Friend List. What Facebook can do though is to approximate this quantification.

A friend who has 100 friends is more likely to know and have something in common with me than a friend with 4000 friends. In other words this also means that the more friends I have, the less I value each of the particular friendships (on average of course). This is why having 1 friend in common with someone who has 10 friends makes me more likely to know that person than someone with whom I have 10 friends in common, all of which have 1000 friends. Just a suggestion for friend suggestion.

Window Shopping Reinvented

This great idea gives a whole new meaning to window shopping!



Shared by Meg who keeps a great blog of her misadventures.

Ukrainian wedding a la "Alice in Wonderland"

Very modest Ukrainian wedding a la "Alice in Wonderland" -=B-)



The former minister of social politics Lyudmyla Denysova is said to have spent $600,000 on this home-made musicale ;-)



Source: ТАБЛОID: Екс-міністр Денисова витратила $600 тисяч на весілля?

Manslater

The Manslater is an indispensable gadget every man dreams to have - Woman Language Translator!



Laughed at from a pointer by Mani & Amineh :-)

Obama's Birth Video

Hillarious video of President Obama Roasting Donald Trump At White House Correspondents' Dinner! -=B-)



Cudos to Chris for sharing.

Smack My Bitch Up Remix

For those of you who remember the naughty official Smack My Bitch Up music video, here is a funny unofficial, but equally naughty sequel to it ;-)



All the naughty videos are coming from my lil brother ;-)

Make the Girl Dance Baby Baby Baby

Haven't been posting for 4 month, but this one definitely deserves time to watch and blog about -=B-)

So here is the original:



Now here is a sequel:



And here is a plagiarism:



The original video is by French band "Make The Girl Dance".

Thanks to Abe for this being his best french song ;-)

Time Treasure

"Time Treasure: They have returned" is a location based augmented reality game that overlays game characters over objects in the real world. This awesome idea along with augmented reality applications like Layar and SixthSense, demonstrates the great potential of augmented reality applications.

The English Language In 24 Accents

This is probably the fastest growing viral video of all times: it gathered more than 2 million views since September 18, 2010, which is less then a month.



The guy is absolutely amazing - everyone who saw this video were amazed by how precise he is in faking those accents.

And the kudos go to Vahideh jaaaaan who shared this "must see" masterpiece with me :)

Armless Pianist Wins 'China's Got Talent'

Liu Wei, a 23 years old armless pianist who lost both arms in a childhood accident and plays the piano with his toes, has won China's Got Talent. Liu Wei performed his version of James Blunt's love song You're Beautiful to a packed audience at the Shanghai Stadium.



Liu's arms were amputated after he suffered an electrical shock while playing hide-and-seek when he was 10.

At the age of 18, he decided to pursue a career in music, using his feet to play the piano, much as he uses them to navigate on the computer, eat, dress and brush his teeth.

Source: The Independent: Armless pianist wins 'China's got talent'