All the Google logos commemorating holidays and events from 1999 till present can be found here. I like this one. It is a Google doodle on March 6 2003 to celebrate Michelangelo's birthday.
A Flickr photoset showing women with grocery bags and their panties dropping to their feet. I think some of the panties are a little too big for these ladies.
Finally, a condom that you can actually eat! Presenting the jelly condom snack from Japan. Nao says that they are really yummy but they are not meant to be used during sex. I wonder what Japanese kids will be thinking when they buy one of these.The 10 were hospitalised with flu-like symptoms after the H5N1 virus was detected in 40 chickens found dead last week in Malaysia's first poultry infection in over a year. "The test results on the last two patients were also negative and they have been discharged. There's no new admission," Disease Control Division director Ramlee Rahmat told Reuters. No human cases have so far been reported in Malaysia, which last reported the H5N1 virus in a chicken in the northern state of Kelantan in 2004.
Consumers will also be able to buy either Vista Home Basic or Vista Home Premium, in addition to the Ultimate edition, while businesses will be able to choose Vista Business or, if they have a volume licensing deal, they can opt for a higher-end Vista Enterprise edition. Microsoft also plans a Vista Starter edition that will be sold only on new PCs in emerging markets...You know what I really want Microsoft? All I want is a version that doesn't have so many security holes and one that doesn't hang and crash.
Microsoft did not disclose pricing for Vista, although Goffe said Vista Business will be priced similar to XP Professional, while Vista Home Basic will have a price tag similar to Windows XP home. Vista Ultimate will be the highest priced of the products.
This gallery has some of the most gruesome art every made with knitting. Take a look at a cat with its intestines pouring out of its tummy, a crocodile eating a boy, a shark with a human leg in its mouth and a pair of scissors piercing through a girl's chest. Gruesome indeed!
Ed has been capturing the International Space Station (ISS) transits through his telescopes for many years. His latest attempt is most probably his best. The picture on the left is a composite image consists of 4 frames showing the ISS moving from right to left infront of the moon. It is amazing that you can see the panels and the shape of the space station so clearly! Go to Ed's ISS Transits Page to view the video.
A homemade sex video featuring a 17-year-old student of the Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) in Singapore, which had been circulating in the Internet for sometime, is now available on the VCD and DVD and being sold by roadside vendors for between RM10 and RM20 a copy.I don't know why would anyone want to pay RM10 or RM20 for a copy. I won't even pay RM5 for that lousy video.
Some “enterprising” retailers had downloaded two sex video clips, totalling about 16 minutes, of “Tammy”, an NYP cheerleader, and her 21-year-old boyfriend onto CD-Rs and DVD-Rs, which can be obtained at relatively cheap prices if bought in bulk from any computer accessories shop.
I would like to thank a certain blog let’s just call him bbbbbbbreport for reporting there’s a virus. However I think he doesn’t mean this site has the virus infected file. Or else all the computers in my jc would have been infected by now, since I had my friends download it. I even scan the files in the lab computer before I uploaded it. I would like to point out that he didn’t say the name of the virus and which file had the virus. Is it the doc file or the zip file. Or which website has it. Certainly it’s not my blog...One fact that the blogger fails to mention is that zip files are dangerous. They can hide worms and viruses that may be destructive to your computer. This article from PC World tells more:
What is he doing? Some would think it’s misdirection. Shifting the blame by pointing the attention elsewhere. May be he could point out which site has the virus. It’s certainly not this site. Once people download the files and scan it. They will know.
Anyway if you are worry about virus just scan the files before you open it. Or if you are paranoid just sent it to your gmail or yahoo mail account. The antivirus software there is more powerful.
The .zip attachments were evidence of what antivirus experts say is a new trend in virus writing circles: using compressed .zip files to hide viruses and elude detection by antivirus engines...I'm not saying for sure that the files provided by the blogger mentioned above contain virus and worms that will harm your computer. If he really wants to share the sex video, he could have provided the video file in its original format instead of zipping it. To the best of my knowledge, the original Tammy NYP sex video is in 3gp format (file ending with .3gp) which is a mobile phone video format. So if you find any video claiming to be the real Tammy NYP sex video but it is not in the 3gp format, you should think twice before you download it especially if it is in a zip file.
While .zip files were occasionally used to mask virus payloads, the practice wasn't common in virus writing circles because .zip, unlike .scr and .pif files, required separate software to be installed on the receiving system before the files could be opened and run on ubiquitous Windows machines, he says.
All that changed with the release of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, which includes native support for opening .zip files. That allows virus writers to count on users being able to unzip their attachment and open the virus file stored inside, Shipp says...
The files have other advantages for virus authors, as well, says Vipul Ved Prakash, founder and chief scientist at antispam company Cloudmark of San Francisco.
For mass mailing worms like Mydoom, zipping the virus payload makes it smaller and enables the worm to mail out more copies of itself in the same length of time than it could with uncompressed .scr, .pif, or .exe files, Prakash says.
Zipping also changes the unique signature on the virus attachment, making it harder for antivirus engines to detect the malicious program, he says...
A recent security advisory from AERAsec Network Services and Security GmbH in Hohenbrunn, Germany, found that many antivirus engines are vulnerable to denial of service attacks from so-called "decompression bombs," in which gigabytes of data are zipped into very small files.
Antivirus engines that try to unzip these bombs often crash when trying to handle the huge amount of data stored in them, AERAsec researchers warn.
While decompression bombs have been around since the 1980s, many software products, including antivirus engines, still do not detect such attacks, says Harald Geiger of AERAsec.
For all iPod and Photoshop fans and those who want an iPod but have yet to get one, here's a tutorial teaching you how to create an iPod using Photoshop. The final product looks like the real thing. Really!Dear Prime Minister Lee,More:
I am a Singaporean living and working in the U.S.A. Not many news about
Singapore are usually reported here unless it concerns Americans or other
Westerners. However, to my great surprise today, I came across a story of
great interest that is about Singapore.
It is not about Singapore being any hub, but the infamous story about a 17
year old sex video has been spreading on the internet like wild fire. Such
story is hardly a compliment to Singapore's squeaky clean image.
Upon further look, I came to realized that this wild fire has been fanned by
the interconnected blog sites that have posted the story and linked to the
video. This is a clear example of the government's need to regulate blog
sites. These blog sites act as quasi-news reporting media, but unlike the
main stream media of reporting stories by professional journalists, these
blog reporting are done by individuals, based on hearsays and rumors. There are no fact checking before a report is being published. However, the reader reach of these blogs are in nowhere less when compared to the main stream media.
It may be a sex video story today, however the threat of fundamental and
radical politicians who can exploit these blogs sites to create unrest is
obvious. Thus, I urged the Singapore government to implement laws to
regulate these local blog sites according to the media laws immediately.
Blogger Chuang Shyue Chou braved the human traffic at this year's Asian Aerospace to bring us several photos of the planes and other military hardware at the exhibition. The picture here shows the F-16D Fighting Falcon which belongs to our airforce. Since the photos are spread out in many entries, do look through his blog to view them.
Thai police were alert by local villagers in Sungai Padi district about the presence of the commandos-clad men armed with rifles and machine guns in a rubber field in the district.The commander of Thailand's Fourth Army Area Command said it best after he released the 6 commandos. From Bangkok Post:
Fourth Army Region overseeing the areas sent about 50 soldiers to the site.
Confiscated from them were six rifles, machine guns and rounds of ammunitions. Found with them were canned food and tents.
A police source quoted one of the men as saying that they just got lost because their radio broke. They said they had no intention to invade into the Thai soil. The men then were brought by a helicopter to a headquarter for further interrogation.
Lt Gen Ongkorn Thongprasom, commander of Thailand's Fourth Army Area Command, and chief of the Southern Border Provinces Peacekeeping Command (SBPPC), said the repatriation took place in a friendly atmosphere after investigators found the soldiers simply became lost while patrolling the border separating the two neighboring countries.Malaysian commandos with little knowledge of maps! Hahaha! At least he has a sense of humour.
He said the six soldiers were only low ranking army personnel who have little knowledge of maps.
They were arrested by police in Sukirin district in Narathiwat Monday evening.
''They are definitely not spies," Lt-Gen Ongkorn said.."If they were, they would not have worn uniform.''
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Robots are cool. Robots that turn into giant trucks - way cool. Robots that turn into giant trucks and command a fleet of autobots - now that could change pop culture history. Such was the impact of the Transformer when the toy line was introduced in 1984, spawning decades of TV shows, movies, and comic books.
First, shutdown your computer and unplug the keyboard. Remember which socket you unplugged the keyboard from so that you can easily plug it back in. Next, I suggest you find an open area to work; one that is not crowded.(Thanks Babbs)
Now, take a picture of your keyboard or write down where the keys are located. You will need this as your reference when putting the keys back in the keyboard, unless you have a photographic memory?
The planned launch sometime in March of a rocket carrying the ashes of actor James Doohan, who played chief engineer Montgomery Scott on "Star Trek," and Mercury program astronaut Gordon Cooper will give a fitting send-off to two men who helped popularize human space exploration.
The craft also will hold the ashes of 185 others, including a telephone technician, a nurse and a college student.
Their families paid $995 to $5,300 for the flight, being conducted by one of a handful of growing businesses hoping to give a space experience to the common folk.
Tammy NYP Was the #1 search today on technorati.com. Who or what does it refer to? A girl named Tammy who attends Nan Yang Polytechnic in Singapore, and who's camera phone was stolen by a "a rival cheerleader, jealous of her popularity" who promptly uploaded a 10 minute video of her having sex. Is Tammy the next dog poop girl? The consequences could be a little worse, as the school may kick her out of school, and the average sentence for an 'unnatural sex act' is one year in jail, according to this moralizing (and oddly worded, but grammatically correct) blog entry.Maybe Paris can give some tips to Tammy.
posted by Paris Hilton
For the curious souls out there, the original clip is 10 minutes long and about 5 MB in size. It started with Tammy giving a good blowjob, she really seemed to be enjoying it! Frankly, its very stimulating and I got a little aroused too (a female reader who saw the clip confirmed she felt likewise too). The subject proper (read: love making in missionary position) followed next. After sometime, they changed position (Tammy sitting on top) after he put on a condom. The last scene had it that the boyfriend inserted his rod into her other hole (the one where waste matter exits).Apparently she recorded the clips on her mobile phone and it was stolen/lost one day. Whoever got her phone then decided to post her sex clips online. Her polytechnic has seen the clips and is investigating but won't kick her out of school yet. I've also heard that some NYP students have been approached by reporters who want Tammy's contact.
Despite experiencing more sexual problems than someone 10 or 20 years younger, the average 50-year-old male was more sexually satisfied, researchers found...Looks like I have to wait another 20 years or so till I get more sexually satisfied. Ahem. I guess it's like wine. It gets better with age.
They found that men in their 50s were more satisfied with their sex lives than those in their 30s and 40s, who suffered greater work-related stress.
Smoking is thought to cause blood clots and damage the endothelial, the layer of cells that line blood vessels.Go grab your dark chocs now!
The researchers found that dark chocolate "significantly improved flow-mediated dilation, a measure of the function of the endothelium, for eight hours".
Platelet activity, which is associated with blood clots, was reduced almost by half.
White chocolate had no effect on endothelial cells, platelets or antioxidant levels, the study found.
Singapore may not have a space program like neighbour Malaysia but very soon it will have an integrated spaceport that will offer suborbital spaceflights, as well as operate astronaut training facilities and a public education and interactive visitor center. Spaceport Singapore will be developed by Space Adventures, a company that has launched private explorers to space and a group of Singapore companies.I suppose of the causes of heavy metal's decline in popularity is debatable. There are some who have theorised that metal's fall in popularity may have largely been due to the emergence of grunge, in the form of such bands as Nirvana and Pearl Jam. While I suspect that the rise of grunge may well have been a contributing factor in heavy metal's decline, by no means do I think it was the only cause. An equally important cause, perhaps more imporant, was the fact that as the Eighties became the Nineties many of the older, established heavy metal bands either broke up or changed personnel. In 1991 vocalist Rob Halford left Judas Priest and the band never quite recovered. Throughout the Eighties, Black Sabbath had changed personnel to the point that the only original member left was Tony Iommi. With no new heavy metal bands that could quite fill the void left by legendary groups, it is perhaps no wonder the genre went into decline.History of heavy metal part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5
The secretive snow leopards in western China have been caught on photographs thanks to a study funded by the Snow Leopard Trust and the Wildlife Conservation Society to find out how many snow leopards are left in China. Snow leopards are an endangered species. Only 3,500 snow leopards are left in the wild. For the study, 48 cameras are placed in the remote Tien Shan mountains near the China border. The cameras, which are triggered when a warm body moves past their built-in infra-red detector, remained in the mountains for about 14 weeks. So far, the study has been a success with more than 53 snow leopard photos taken.
It's here again! Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2006 featuring 26 superstar models in their bikinis. The highlight of this year's Swimsuit is definitely 19 year old Russian tennis superstar Maria Sharapova. She traded her cute tennis outfit for some hot bikinis for the Sports Illustrated photo shoot.
Noah K loves taking photos of himself. He has been taking portrait shots of himself everyday since the year 2000!Taking part is easy. All we’re asking you to do is download a simple programme, which doubles as a screensaver. Once you’ve installed it, your computer will take care of the rest. You don’t have to send us anything. You don’t have to enter any data. In fact – if you decide not set the programme as your screensaver, you probably won’t even notice it’s there.Download the experiment here.
However, if you want to, you can follow the progress of your experiment on a 3D spinning globe.
The experiment works by making use of your spare processing power. All you have to do is use your computer exactly as you normally would, and the programme will run calculations in the background. When it’s done, it will send results back to scientists in Oxford, who will combine everyone’s results. The more people who take part, the more complete their predictions about the future climate will be.
Real Madrid's income has doubled in the past five years, as players such as David Beckham have boosted shirt sales.My favourite club Tottenham Hotspur is at number 13 in the table.
...the appeal of star players such as David Beckham, Ronaldo and Raul have helped boost the club's merchandising efforts. It has used the appeal of these players to boost sales of shirts and other merchandise, particularly in Asia where David Beckham has a huge personal following.
"Real Madrid have been more successful in turning their international support into revenues than most other clubs including Manchester United," Deloitte's Paul Rawnsley said.
“For patients with psychological concern about the size of the penis -- particularly if it is normal size -- there is little point in offering them surgery because it makes no difference,” said Nim Christopher, a urologist at St Peter’s Andrology Center in London.(Thanks Mr Big)
Christopher and his colleagues, who questioned 42 men who had the surgery, found the dissatisfaction rate was very high. Often the men requested another surgical procedure.
Extreme high speed photography of the first few microseconds of an atomic bomb upon explosion. Amazing how something so destructive can look so beautiful.Over the last month, Cannondale has opened its corporate Web site to 15 of its sales and marketing staffers. Each one now has the tools to file his or her own updates, press releases, photos, and news about the race teams Cannondale sponsors, says Janet Maurice, the company's Webmaster.Step aside corporate intranets!
It may not seem like they're blogging. They're simply using software to send information. Sometimes they do it from remote Internet cafés. In time, they'll be able to file from cell phones. But each mailing, technically, is a blog post. And the program will expand to a host of Cannondale staffers and affiliates. "We're transferring our corporate content management system to blogs," Maurice says.
Kamasutra like you have never seen before. With clothes on! Presenting The Clothed Kamasutra photoset on Flickr. Can we have a swimwear kamasutra set next please?
Pete Lawrence took 34 shots of Saturn and its moons through his telescope and then created an animated sequence consisting of those 34 shots. Saturn is visible in the western part of the sky roughly one hour after sunset. Here's a guide to observing Saturn through a telescope.To my enemies: If I need information from you, seconds count. So apologies in advance if I have to break your thumbs or threaten to kill your family; I empathize with you. Believe me, I've been tortured plenty of times myself, and I know interrogation ain't no picnic. Please listen to me very carefully: I will DO WHATEVER IT TAKES to stop this assassination/nuclear bomb/horrible karaoke.
P.S. Feel free to add me to your friends list! Send me a detailed message first (preferably encrypted) with your full background information and a recent photo. I will reply within 24 hours with instructions as to how to proceed from there. Understand that if you deviate from my orders in any way, I will be forced to place you on the "Ignore/Block User" list. Are we clear?
Those aliens are too much! First, they vandalised the crop fields on Earth with huge geometric patterns called crop circles like this one found on Google Maps UK and now they have stepped up a gear. Also found on Google Maps UK, is a huge message most likely carved out by those aliens that says, "Eddie Fuck". God knows what they are trying to tell us but I think most likely, they are pissed off with Eddie. The problem here is that they do not leave any surname for Eddie so that means all Eddies in this world should beware. The aliens are coming to get you!
I went down to *scape at 8am... and what a sight greeted me! Hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of Idol hopefuls! They queued in a barricaded area standing on nothing more than plywood boards. The line snaked left-to-right and right-to-left about 20 times. Almost everyone looked like they were in their teens, though I spotted a few young adults too. Those who were at the front of the queue held on to their Singapore Idol "survival kit" (comprising of T-shirt, poster, water, etc.) (with a huge Channel 5 logo on it).K now, sing with me!
Yahoo News has a series of photos taken by Reuters of the new tomb discovered at the valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. The tomb contains five mummies possibly members of a pharaoh's court.The simplicity of DIT's approach belies its effectiveness. The company distributes software, called FreeGate, which disguises the sites a person visits. In addition, DIT sends out mass e-mails to Chinese Web surfers for clients such as VOA, which is banned in China. The e-mails include a handful of temporary Web addresses that host off-limits content and springboards to other forbidden sites...
Yet despite being outmanned and outspent -- Xia has a tiny staff, an annual budget of about $1 million, and relies mainly on volunteers -- DIT's customers say it has been remarkably successful. Xia's staff monitors the success rate of the hundreds of thousands of e-mails they send out each day. If one gets bounced back, the language must be scoured and the offending words detected and added to the company's blacklist. Workarounds are often developed, much like spammers finding holes in a corporate e-mail filter. For instance, an e-mail that contains "VOA" might get squelched, but one with a zero substituted for the "O" could get through.
15 is a film by Singapore film maker Royston Tan about five teenagers on the fringe of Singaporean society. You can watch it on YouTube. It is in Mandarin/Hokkien.
Someone made a pop-out plush toy of a six week old fetus for embryology class. What a way to illustrate the various features of the fetal membranes!The first double-spirited men -- now known as vampires -- were created by kabalistic magicians during the inquisition as a means to fight the inquisitors. Although they had to act in secret, their fight was largely successful. The fact that vampires were originally created to fight a corrupted church also explains why vampires are so easily upset by the appearance of crosses.Now, if only he can show us some real vampires. That would be great!
The reason that vampires now have such a bad rep is that if the magic that binds their second spirit to them is not periodically renewed, their mind begins to age, even though their body remains young forever. This leads to a specific kind of madness, often expressed in unnatural desires (e.g. for blood). Fortunately, someone with experience in the particular kind of kabalistic magic needed to create a vampire can restore a vampire to sanity. If we could encourage this, vampires would once again be a force for good.
A Boeing 767 pilot with American Airlines took a video of his 3 day trip from Boston to Paris to show his daughter how a typical day at work looks like for a pilot. He must have been a cool dad especially with his choice of song for the video - U2's Vertigo!Residents of the Chinese territory are now having regular sex, and doing it in more places, with more people and in more ways, the survey by HK Magazine found.(Thanks ritmo)
More than 10 percent of respondents said they'd had sex with so many partners that they had lost count. More than half of the men said they had paid for sex, while that figure for women was 2.4 percent.
The survey of 1,500 people, which also took place in the Bangkok and Singapore, found Hong Kongers were more prepared to have sex to further their careers and that an equal number of men and women -- around 86 percent -- like to talk dirty
The researchers hope that the find will reveal more about the primitive phase of tyrannosaur evolution.
"Guanlong shows us how the small coelurosaurian ancestors of tyrannosaurs took the first step that led to the giant T. rex almost 100 million years later," Prof Clark said.
Most of the tyrannosaur fossils that have been found date to the latter years of tyrannosaurs' existence, and there are very few early specimens.
Prior to the discovery of the G. wucaii, the 130 million-year-old feathered Dilong paradoxus (D. paradoxus) reported in 2004, was the oldest tyrannosaur known.
McDonald's said that after using a new method to test the level of trans fats in its fries in December, the level of trans fats in a portion of large fries was 8 grammes, up from 6 grammes previously displayed on its website and printed on nutritional literature.Now you know why their fries taste so damn good.
US dietary guidelines call for consumers to keep their intake of trans as close to zero as possible. Trans fats have been shown to raise levels of harmful cholesterol, contributing to heart disease.
The disclosure comes at an awkward time for the world's largest fast food operator, which has been attempting to rebuild trust among consumers in some markets – notably the UK – in its ingredients and food preparation methods.
A dude who works in Google, takes photos of the food he eats there and posts them on his Flickr photoset called Google Food Photo Blog. Yummy! Now I know what Google is feeding their people. Dang! I wanna work for Google! Check out their snack room too. I asked my friend Cindy who used to work in Google. She said that the food served in Google's cafes are delicious and best of all... they are free for all staff and their visiting friends! Cindy now works in HP Singapore and misses Google's free food.
This is a picture I did not take of a woman smoking crack, or her red jacket, which was hanging by its hood on a red pole (tall as a person) sunk in red brick, isolated and perfect, or how she wanted me to pay her, saying, "everything costs in America" while pulling her coat away, nor is it of a large man in a tiny t-shirt, loading a child's tricycle onto an empty bike rack on the front of a bus, while a man in a coat and a "Fast For Survival" t-shirt flashed me (and his friend) a butcher knife that he was concealing up the sleeve of his winter jacket, nor is it of the man in a wheelchair across the street, attempting (and failing) to roll-up a ramp, and nearly falling backward while being yelled at by another man approaching, shouting, "man, you gotta Slow Your Roll!"You can almost visualise the photograph developing infront of you. Now, who says you need a camera to capture such moments?!
Running a big corporation like McDonald's ain't easy at all. I played the McDonald's videogame (in flash) a while ago and just realised that it's tough trying to make money all the time. In the game, you will have to create pastures, rear your cattles, slaughter them to make burger, hire and manage your crew, do lots of advertising and marketing and please your board of directors. There are also a lot of dirty work to do such as bribing the politicians and environmentalists, cutting down forests and clearing human habitat. All these for McDonald's to the rule the world. Tough job but someone has to do it.
The Buddha Project invites people all over the world to submit photographs that depicts the images of the Buddha. It aims to build an online collection of Buddha related photographs. Currently, the project has over 120 photos. Go ahead and send yours today.The team captured the first photos ever seen of exotic birds such as a male Berlepsch’s Six-Wired Bird of Paradise (Parotia berlepschi). It also found a new large mammal for Indonesia – the Golden-mantled Tree Kangaroo (Dendrolagus pulcherrimus), formerly known from only a single mountain in neighboring Papua New Guinea.Here's another press release from Conservation International regarding the discovery of the missing Bird of Paradise. From Conservation International:
“It’s as close to the Garden of Eden as you’re going to find on Earth,” marveled Bruce Beehler, vice president of CI’s Melanesia Center for Biodiversity Conservation and a co-leader of the expedition. “The first bird we saw at our camp was a new species. Large mammals that have been hunted to near extinction elsewhere were here in abundance. We were able to simply pick up two Long-Beaked Echidnas, a primitive egg-laying mammal that is little known.”
With an international team of 11 scientists, the majority from the Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI), Beehler conducted the first thorough survey of biological diversity in the Foja Mountains – the largest nearly pristine tropical forest in Asia. There they uncovered a trove of new and "missing" species, among them the mysterious and legendary Berlepsch's Six-wired Bird of Paradise (Parotia berlepschi). On their second day in the forest, the team became the first outside scientists to observe a male bird of paradise, finally putting to rest the mystery of the origin of this species.
"We stood in awe as the male romped about in the saplings around our entrance trail, flicking his wings and white flank plumes, and whistling his sweet two-note song for the female-plumaged bird," says Beehler. "I was too spellbound to go get my camera."
While the iPhone is more of an inevitability than pure speculation at this point, look for Apple to integrate a phone into most iPod lines over the next few years, as features and convergence of portable personal devices become an ever increasing probability. In fact, analysts at Morgan Stanley predict such a device this year with sales revenue in the $1.2 Billion dollar range.
Given the nature of cellular phone use and the popularity of the iPod’s click wheel, Apple could make good use of such a transition. Since cell phone users generally dial friends stored in a contact list, a click wheel seems a much more effective method for quickly accessing the number of a friend than the standard up and down arrows. With text messaging becoming increasingly popular amongst cell phone users and touch sensitive gestures likely being integrated into the iPod, text messages could be sent much faster in an iPod phone.
Looking for a Japanese girlfriend? Wear this T-shirt, then hang out at Japanese restaurants, shopping malls, schools, anywhere that has Japanese girls. Pray and hope you get lucky. The Japanese words on the T-shirt say, "Now accepting applications for Japanese girlfriends". Oh, it also helps if you have a Japanese sounding name like Mr Miyagi.
Over at Google Video, you can watch all the commercials that aired during Super Bowl XL. Some of the big names that advertised in this year's Super Bowl are Burger King, Pizza Hut and Toyota. I especially like the commercials by domain registration company, Go Daddy. I'm sure sales will skyrocket for them during the next few days, weeks and months.He has been slashdotted, boingboing’ed, nominated for 2 Asian Blog Awards and was runner up for best Singapore blog in 2004 - ladies and gentlemen; the one and only IZ Reloaded. His blog is a phenomenon, providing a plethora of links and information on topics ranging from sex, gadgets, news and local happenings every day of the week.
Also interesting is his female fanbase, affectionately dubbed “IZ Rabid Fangirls” although from the photo above, it’s quite easy to see why he attracts the opposite sex (the dude is rather hamsem, right?). I personally have been following his blog for some time now because IZ is not only good at finding new and interesting links, he’s also a marvelous writer and a fantastic photog.
In this interview, we learn more about the man behind the blog...
The plan, while it's optional and would apply to only a fraction of people sending e-mail, amounts to a reversal in the economics of the Internet because it would charge message senders rather than those receiving them. The current model has led to the proliferation of spam and so-called phishing scams because the people perpetuating them can turn a profit even when only a minority of recipients respond, analysts have said.
AOL and Yahoo said the program, which is being offered through a company called Goodmail Systems, will target banks, online retailers and other groups that send large amounts of e-mail. In exchange for a payment and a pledge to contact only people who have agreed to receive their messages, the companies would be ensured their e-mails aren't diverted to spam folders or have images or Web addresses filtered out.
Similar to another popular sushi chain here, Sakae serves sushi from a conveyor belt. However, thanks to Singaporean innovation, the restaurant is one up on its competitors as it provides personal computer screens on the dining table which enables customers to place their orders through an interactive menu. You can view the picture, drop the order into your “shopping cart” and then click on the mouse to confirm. Service is also faster because the order goes straight to the kitchen. Only one technical glitch here though – in my friend’s case – her four-year-old happily clicked away and she ended up with extra food that she didn’t know about.
Brad Smith, Microsoft's senior lawyer, said it would now remove blog entries only if it gets a "legally binding notice" from the government of that nation. Entries will also be removed if they break the MSN Spaces terms of use.Previously: Microsoft took down Chinese blog, Scobleizer dissapointed with Microsoft
He added that only people in the nation where the entry breaks local laws will be blocked from seeing the controversial comments. In all other nations access to the entry will be unrestricted.
The deaths mean a 10 percent drop in the number of Irrawaddy dolphins living in the Mekong, previously thought to be between 80 and 100. They are restricted to a 190km (115 mile) stretch of the river in the Cambodia/Laos border area...
The WWF said that at least one of the dolphins drowned after becoming entangled in fishing gillnets, the biggest threat to the Mekong population. But other factors such as pollution may be responsible as eight of the 10 dead dolphins were calves, it said.
Sky and Telescope magazine is offering its Getting Started in Astronomy flyer as a 10-page, black-and-white Adobe PDF file. It is an easy guide to exploring the universe. There are two versions. One is for northern hemisphere observers and the other is for southern hemisphere observers. For those living in equatorial countries like Singapore, download both versions because we are able to see both the northern and southern hemisphere stars. The guide also comes with a nice moon map. Email me if you need help with the guide.
As many people will have noticed, we've had significant hardware trouble over the past couple days. We have tried to keep all of you informed about the status of the service and our efforts to correct the problems. Unfortunately, today's problems were widespread enough such that we were unable to provide ongoing updates.My apologies. It's Blogger's fault!
It has been estimated that if every household in the US replaced just three of its incandescent light bulbs with energy-saving designs and used them for five hours per day, it would reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by 23 million tonnes, reduce electricity demand by the equivalent of 11 coal-fired power stations and save $1.8bn...The author of the above story also runs a blog cum online campaign called Ban The Bulb.
In reality, few people seem to be prepared to pay the higher upfront cost of an energy-saving bulb, even though they have much lower running costs; while many seem to feel they are entitled to pollute the Earth's atmosphere without worrying about the consequences.
The Lego Suicides photoset contains a series of photos depicting people in suicidal situations. The weapon of choice for their suicide: Lego! The picture on the left shows a guy with a Lego gun and Lego blood.
I don't know why anyone would want to buy a fully robotic, life-size bust of a chimpanzee that looks and behave like the real animal. It can see, hear, feel and interact intelligently with people. It has soulful eyes that can track movements using infrared vision. It has ears that have stereoscopic sound sensors and skin that reacts to contact with touch sensors all around. It even has four emotional moods. Scary!
Yesterday, I posted about StarForce, a harmful technology used by game companies to restrict their customers' freedom. StarForce attempts to stop game customers from copying their property, but it has the side-effects of destabilizing and crashing the computers on which it is installed.Similarities.org has a list of known games that contain StarForce. It is wise to becareful when playing these games.
Someone identifying himself as "Dennis Zhidkov, PR-manager, StarForce Inc." contacted me this morning and threatened to sue me, and told me that he had contacted the FBI to complain about my "harassment."
The UFO Casebook has compiled some of the best UFO pictures ever taken from 1870 to 2006. I think this one on the left is one of the better ones. Now, you be the judge if these photos are real.New to Internet Explorer 7 for XP SP2 beta 2 is a complete Really Simple Syndication (RSS) substructure. Currently, when you use a third-party application to receive and read RSS feeds, the app must load a complete RSS rendering engine. Microsoft has created its own and adds it to the Windows XP SP2 operating system (hence, you'll have to reboot when you install the new IE 7 beta). However, the payoff is nice. When you subscribe to an RSS feed, you'll no longer see a page of HTML but a fairly basic representation of all the current feeds for that page, plus any categorizing the site has done regarding specific topics. Also, Microsoft has joined with Mozilla in using the same icon from RSS, making it easy for users to switch between Firefox and IE 7.Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Beta is only available for Windows XP (SP2) users. You can download it via the official website. There's also an Internet Explorer 7 blog written by the developers.
