What a great british animation created by Studio AKA. I love the perfect play between animation, emotion, sound effects and music.

A magical tale of loneliness and friendship based on the award-winning book by Oliver Jeffers. One day, a boy finds a penguin on his doorstep and decides to take it home, even if that means rowing all the way to the South Pole!Here is a short trailer of the 25 minute movie:

Click here to view the embedded video.

If you like it and you want to help promote kindness, please consider a small contribution to the creators of this magnificent animation. You will find more information over at CultureUnplugged.com.
Here is the link to the fullmovie: http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/6063/Lost-and-Found

I would like to take the time to wish all my readers and website visitors a Merry Christmas season filled with peace, love and joy. Now is the time to share your love, spread happiness and find peace with the people who matter the most to you.

During the holiday season I think it’s important to remember the people who ar less fortunate than most of us and the ones who don’t get to celebrate christmas with their loved ones and families.

<3

It was a night filled with work, mostly like every other night. I was sitting and doing my regular sharing / posting on twitter. All of a sudden my updates weren’t refreshing, I couldn’t navigate backwards or forward, I couldn’t click any links either. So the good old F5 (Command + R on the beloved MAC) had to come to the rescue.

What appeared infront of my eyes next was nothing less than mindblowing. At first I though I had been forwarded to a different website, but after a scouple of seconds I realized I had just witnessed a massive Twitter upgrade. Not only did they run this massive UI upgrade on their website, they also upgraded the apps for Android and iPhone users.Even though I had anticipated the update for quite some time, I didn’t expect it to come this fast. I am really impressed with the work the twitter team has done. The UI is a lot more user friendly and more importantly it is so much easier to navigate.

I’m not going to go into detail about all the new functionality and technical improvements, it’s all very well documented on the twitter homepage. To give you a little head start you can go to the official twitter page and read more about hte upgrade right now. I’ve summarized some of the main features  below.

Home is where you view Tweets from the people you have chosen to follow. It’s your personal collection of Tweets, featuring the latest news, commentary and information from the sources you care about.

The new Connect section is where you get in on the conversation. It’s the place to see who has followed or mentioned you, retweeted or favorited one of your Tweets. Connect is your way to keep the conversation flowing.

When you use Discover, you’ll see results reflecting your interests—based on your current location, what you follow and what’s happening in the world. As you use Twitter more, Discover gets even better at serving up more content just for you.

The new profile section puts you and your interests front and center. Others can Tweet directly to you and view your lists, favorites, followers, photos and more. The Me tab is also where you can stay current on your direct message conversations.

Twitter really has it going now and we’re looking forward to some really exciting times in the battle between the social media giants. I have to be honest with you. This twitter upgrade has impressed me far more than the Facebook timeline implementation.

The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond Earth. The temperature on the planet is a balmy 22°C and TWICE the size of our world.

The planet, called Kepler-22b, joins a list of more than 500 planets found to orbit stars beyond our solar system. It is the smallest and the best positioned to have liquid water on its surface — among the ingredients necessary for life on Earth. It orbits a star like the Sun 600 light years — that’s nearly 4,000 BILLION MILES — away in the constellation Cygnus. On a side note, a light year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion km).

“We are homing in on the true Earth-sized, habitable planets,” said San Jose State University astronomer Natalie Batalha, deputy science team lead for NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope that discovered the star.

The telescope, which was launched three years ago, is staring at about 150,000 stars in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra, looking for faint and periodic dimming as any circling planets pass by, relative to Kepler’s line of sight.

Results will be extrapolated to determine the percentage of stars in the Milky Way galaxy that harbor potentially habitable, Earth-size planets.

This is the first detection of a potentially habitable world orbiting a Sun-like star, scientists reported in findings to be published in The Astrophysical Journal.

If that isn’t amazing news, I don’t know what is. I’ve added a video below with a short interview made by Sky News.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Over at GoNeuner.com we reported that the two-time biathlon Olympic champion Magdalena Neuner has decided to retire at the end of the 2011/2012 season.

The 24-year-old German says on her website “the time is right for a change” and that she wants to “try new things”. She believes big things are to come, and she eventually wants to settle down and start a family.

“The first World Cup weekend is behind me and now we look forward to Hochfilzen,” she said on her website. “Before the upcoming competitions though I have an important anouncementto make – I will finish my career as a biathlete when this season is over. This may be a shock and surprise to many of you and it was in no way an easy decision.“For starters, I miss a normal lifestyle. I’m looking forward to a bit more rest and being able to do things outside of sport. I am motivated to try new things in other fields and I’m open to suggestions from everyone.

“At the moment I am still trying to get the C-License coaching qualification so I can pass on my experiences to children and upcoming athletes.

“Now I am looking forward to the upcoming winter, and of course the Ruhpolding World Cup.”

Neuner is the most decorated biathlete with 10 world titles. She won the overall World Cup title in 2008 and 2010 and has 25 World Cup wins. She was Germany’s athlete of the year in 2007.

We wish ‘Lena good luck with her final season. Hopefully she can crown her career with some fantastic gold medals in Rupolding. in the beginning of 2012.

On a personal note I’m hoping for a “Lena” comeback in a couple of years from now :)

It looks like I’m doing something right these days ( it’s not that uncommon actually :)). In the past 100 days the traffic to Fabnomena.com has increaed drastically.

I’m guessing it has to do with the recent google freshness update, the more frequent posts with fresh content, and my efforts to keep this blog alive in general.

Thanks to all of you who visit my blog, to all of you who twitter about this place and thanks to all of you who leave useful feedback in my mailbox.

No words needed. Just sit back and enjoy this one!

Have you ever wanted to know how many iphone applications are downloaded in a minute? Ever wonder how many new videos are uploaded to youtube in 60 seconds? What about the number of Facebook status updates?

Well, this chart breaks down the most important numbers for you. Some of these numbers are really mind-boggling. Click on the image to view the fullscreen image.

Well well well, look who’s back. It feels like I haven’t posted here in ages..and that’s probably true. Without going to check my post log, I’m guessing it’s been 6-7 months or so. I’m amazed my blog still shows up in the search engines with the current lack of updates.

I haven’t forgotten about Fabnomena.com though. I’ve just been extremly busy with some of my other projects and I don’t think I’ll ever see an end to my to-do list.

So, what projects have I been working on you may ask? Well, if you really want to know…here I go!First and formost I’m going to move to Fabnomena.com to a new domain. I’ll break down the details for you all later, but let me just say there always is a reason for everthing.

As much as I love my blog, some of my projects occupy most of my time, which leaves this blog unused and outdated. My biggest problem is currently the # of hours in a day, which is 24. If we somehow could slow down the rotation of the earth, we could double the # of hours in a day ( If you’ve watched NatGeo you know that wouldn’t be a good thing in the long run.)

I’m currently in the process of selling some of my domains. Why? My goal is to free up some space for bigger “names” that I can develop. I think I’ve gotten caught up in this world of domains a little too much, hence I’ve bought domains I haven’t even had time to look at.

One of my most recent aquisitions was STFUA.com (use whatever word you like for A, I chose Already!). Originally my idea was to make that domain the new home of my blog, but instead I put up a simple twitter feed that mirrors everybody telling someone to shut the fuck up already! Until I come up with a better idea for the domain, I’ll leave it at that.

Some of the other domains I haven’t had a chance to look at are CreativeDesire.com, BrandMod.com, LikeB.com, Psykd.com, OhHuh.com and 10 or so more domains I’ve picked up in the last 5-6 months. Get my point? :) They are/were all great ideas and I like the names, no doubt about that. But I’ve realized I can’t develop them all, for sure not maintain all of them and keep them up to date. So I’m going to keep a few, sell a few and we’ll see where it goes from here. Sometimes I really hate my creative mind because it keeps spinning and spinning, searching for new brandable domains. It’s addicting so be careful :)

I recently purchased a domain that I can’t talk about yet (the domain transfer is still pending), but it’s definitely going to be one of my primary domains in terms of development. I think the name has huge potential and I can’t wait to share it with you all and hopefully some of you will participate on this project as well.

For now I’m off. I promise I will post again before the next iphone is launched. I just have to find a way to sort through my to-do list in a efficient and straight forward manner. Have a great weekend all!

Earlier this year we saw the time and date add up to 12:34:56 07/08/09 or 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Tomorrow at 11:11 we’ll experience another “cool” date for the history books. Tomorrow is 11:11 at 11/11/11.

This will be once in a lifetime experience, and it won’t happen again for a thousand years so enjoy it :)