Mario’s World

I came across this cost of living graph on Kuwait and the expenditure on Restaurants really sticks out. 33% on eating out!!! I tell most people there are only two things to do in Kuwait… shopping and eating. Now there is graph to go with that.

John Steffen has come up with a real fast method of boarding airplanes.

“They should board from the back, each taking a seat on every other row, starting with the  window seats first.”

This sounds pretty good but I doubt it would work on most Middle East and India routes. I like the part in the video where they mention that Science may not be able to cure stupidity. They were referring to cases where people occupy the wrong seats. And if you have flown in this region, you know there is no shortage of stupidity.

And add to all this the amount of bulky cabin baggage most people carry on board … not including the duty-free shopping spree goodies.

Came across Textify today. It’s a pretty cool site allowing you to convert your photos to a text version. You can drag your photos onto the page and pick the alphabets and other font settings you need and then save the generated text image.

The smaller the font size, the clearer the image. I took a photo of myself and regenerated it using the alphabets of my name. I probably look better in alphabets.

I came across an interesting post today on Right hand vs Left hand traffic in the world. Then found some even more interesting info on Wikipedia.

Seems some 66% of the world drives on the right hand side like us here in Kuwait and the remaining drive on the left hand side like in India. What’s interesting is that many countries changed from left to right. The legend of the chart above is below.

Personally, I don’t see much of a difference in either as long as your steering wheel is on the appropriate side.

Either way I’m always extra cautious when I drive in a different country and guilty of driving in the wrong direction a few times.

In Dajeej, you can test drive sofa’s too. Don’t just sit on it in our showroom. Take it on the road and go for a spin.

I was on my way home around 4 and the funny sight of this sofa unit lying there in the middle of the road took my mind of my growling and very hungry stomach. Either some guy forgot to load that onto the back of his truck or the chaps in that area are  preparing for a road side Iftar party later in the evening!

I was looking for some free fonts and came across this free Webfonts project by Google. It’s pretty cool. There are some 229 odd free fonts for use both on your desktop as well as the net. And they even have a little utility there to help you keep them up to date.

You can add your preferred fonts to a collection and compare them side by side, test them and view the entire character set. All online.

These Google guys think of everything.

I didn’t take HTML 5 very seriously till I saw this video made by the Mozilla team. I still can’t believe its all in Javascript. That’s right it’s a video built from code. Even the music is built from code.

Too bad it didn’t run in Firefox but it ran pretty well on Chrome.

Pulled up this images from Wikipedia. It’s the human Circadian rhythm.

Looks like the best time to work is around 10am in the morning and then between 2pm to 4pm. So probably about 4 hours a day. So now all your slackers who keep getting caught “wasting time” on Facebook and Youtube at the office have a valid scientific reasoning.

Google’s experimental hotel finder engine is looking good. It only supports hotels in the U.S. currently.

I really like the “Edit shape” option on their map. Haven’t seen this one before on any other site. And the site is very fast. That’s Google for you.

The format of the search results are very neat too. I like that they focused more on images and reviews and less on a hotel description.

I’d like to see how this looks a few months down the line. A real competition killer in the making!