Off topic fun

Some fun for this Friday: If coding language were an essay… on 9GAG http://m.9gag.com/gag/aWZXKyx →

Tim Cook discovers iPhone in painting from 1670 article: “At one point Tim rushes over and tells me ‘Come take a look, I found a painting with an iPhone on it!’ So he takes my arm and shows me a Rembrandt with a person seemingly holding an iPhone…” Tim Cook finished the story, saying “I always →

Toa Mata Lego Band Actually Rocks article tells that [Opificio Sonico] has been at the Lego-based robot music making business for a while now. He has released videos on YouTube that shows a definite evolution of his style and the Lego ‘bots technical range. Awesome! Toa Mata Band is known as the World’s first LEGO →

http://www.geek.com/news/11-awesome-youtube-channels-where-people-destroy-stuff-1655296/ Sometimes seeing annoying things destroyed is enjoyable. You don’t need to do this yourself. →

http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations Correalition does not always indicate causation. Check also related comic xkcd: Correlation →

Eurovision Diary 2016 at  http://m-m-pr.com/index.php/eurovision-diary-2016 is an interesting technical blog how this year’s Eurovision song contest show was built. There were lots of video,lights and other special effects technology in use. And here is a funny bonus video: Måns Zelmerlöw and Petra Mede find out how to create the perfect Eurovision Song Contest songs →

Virtual reality is today big news. Arguably much of the resurgence in interest is down to Oculus, the company that surprised everyone in 2012 with a fabulously successful Kickstarter campaign to build its Rift VR headset. The company had been acquired by Facebook in 2014  for the previously inconceivable sum of $2bn. The consumer version →

Painters and Hackers: typically people think they have nothing in common whatsoever – but some can see programming as art. Classic Programmer Paintings page shows software engineering as depicted by artists through history: classical paintings with suitable software engineering subtitles (technically, might not be all classical). Here is one example from Classic Programmer Paintings page: →

Check out this comic https://xkcd.com/323/ Related fake book: →

https://medium.com/conquering-corporate-america/toddler-vs-ceo-f241ad080d78#.b2lc2iwc8 This writer finds some funny similarities. →