For those of you not familiar with TED, here is a great introduction of what it’s all about, well sort of at least. TED is usually conference where people share their ideas and innovations, always something interesting to watch and listen to. This time Bill Gates takes the spotlight sharing his thoughts on the world, poverty, and brings it together with the focus on energy. Check it out!

Okay, not literally, but this thing is ridiculously bright. I decided to go with a Romisen flashlight, the price was great on dealextreme, but then I discovered Shining Beam. Tuesday I ordered the flashlight, and it came today. Shining Beam typically sells modded flashlights that you can find on websites like dealextreme. Both websites sell flashlights at a great price, yet work ridiculously well. The Romisen flashlight I ordered has a modded clicky switch in the back so that you can momentarily turn it on, and upgraded with a CREE Q5 LED. The flashlight is fantastic, and the build quality feels wonderful, the best part though was the price, which can’t be beat for what you are getting. Once again the thing is bright, and you must be careful operating it so you don’t hurt your eyes, like those guys on the freeway that upgraded their headlights to HID lamps and either never properly aimed them, or aren’t running them with lenses, which in that case totally blind you when they are behind you, and you want to kill them.

So you are reading this and thinking either whoa cool! or eh, totally lame. See, last fall I found myself on a hike at night, with a small toy-like LED flashlight that had some luminance, but just not enough. Later I started doing a little bit more research and came up with what I got, and I am more than happy with it. I think my next flashlight though I might was something adjustable, regardless, I encourage you to check out Shining Beam and Candle Power Fourms if you think this might be something that interests you.

Here is a link to the flashlight I bought, they also sell it in black,
http://www.shiningbeam.com/servlet/the-88/Romisen-RC-dsh-F4-CREE-Q5/Detail

A little something a lot of people don’t really know about me is my fascination with North Korea. Maybe those of you reading this are somewhat educated on North Korea, but time after time it is to my surprise how many people aren’t. I have a thing for watching documentaries on the country, and have seen a lot of them. But today I discovered a very awesome website from a post on Digg, immediately catching my attention with the words North Korea in the post title, I couldn’t contain myself but to see what my fellow digg users were digging up. VBS.tv, was the website that produced the video, which I of course later found do lots of little documentaries. So I watched, and all I really can say is watch it and that it’s by far my favorite video on North Korea made yet. It shows a few things I’ve never seen before, and is filmed in a way that might seem that of a bloggers point of view, very raw, yet still produced in a professional manner. You can tell that most of the time, they are secretly filming when they are not supposed to, on digital cameras. This Documentary by far (in my own opinion), is the best introduction yet to those who are not familiar with the homogeneous North Korea or their leader, Kim Jong-il.

For some reason the video, Vice Guide to North Korea is in 3 parts.
All 3 parts are accessible after the page break.