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Solar powered house that can walk ? 2008-10-30 14:17:11 Walking house ! This house was built in Denmark by a team of engineers to give an idea about an alternative eco-lifestyle. It is written in the official walking house website that there are solar panels and little windmills to collect energy from the natural environment. It can collect the rain water and there is a toilet system as well.This 6 legged hydrological living form was inspired by the tr Read more:Solar
Surfing the internet can damage your brain? YES!!! 2008-10-27 10:23:09 CANBERRA (Reuters) - The Internet is not just changing the way people live but altering the way our brains work with a neuro-scientist arguing this is an evolutionary change which will put the tech-savvy at the top of the new social order.Gary Small, a neuro-scientist at UCLA in California who specializes in brain function, has found through studies that Internet searching and text messaging has m Read more:Surfing
81 years old man found true love... online 2008-10-27 10:16:38 BEIJING (Reuters) - An 81-year-old Chinese man has proved age need not be a barrier to Internet love, marrying a 58-year-old bride he met online
, a local newspaper reported.Wu Jieqin, a retired Beijing art professor who has spent time in an aged-care home, married Jiang Xiaohui, 23 years younger, in a ceremony on the weekend, the Beijing News reported."The Internet doesn't belong to the young alon
You know you're a romanian if... 2008-10-26 12:03:03 Well i can't defend myself this time saying it's not true because i have seen/heard/experienced some points on this list :|You grew up on liver sandwiches.... and thought that was normal.You make your own noodles.You had to share a room until you were 21.Everything you eat is savored in garlic and onions.You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course aluminum foil.You are standing next
Did you know ... ??? 2008-10-26 11:29:20 Starting with some facts about... the human body (won't improve your sex life if you read this so you can as well google anything else starting/ending in xxx) Hiccups happen when the diaphragm, the muscle that controls our breathing, becomes irritated and start to spasm and contract uncontrollably. With each contraction, air is pulled into the lungs very quickly, p
Australia scientists say bees can count to four 2008-10-26 02:51:46 SYDNEY (Reuters) - Researchers have discovered that honey bees can count
to four, a report said here on Sunday.A researcher from the University of Queensland put five markers inside a tunnel and placed nectar in one of them, Australia
n Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) radio reported.Honey bees placed in the tunnel flew to the marker with the food, and would still fly to the same marker stripe when t Read more:scientists
Nvidia's Big Bang 180 drivers 2008-10-26 02:51:01 Glad to be back in action, it seems like i have gone missing for some time... well many things change everyday so it's pretty useless to go in any detail but the 1mil$ question is "what changes faster than life?"Answer: TechnologyLast months were a bit "strange" to put it that way but it's all sorted out now and got myself some new "horsepower". Those of you who know me personally know for sure I Read more:Big Bang
Asia, Europe close ranks to ease financial crisis 2008-10-26 02:50:21 BEIJING/LONDON (Reuters) - Asia
n and Europe
an leaders closed ranks on Saturday to try to bolster confidence among investors who fear that a global credit crunch has ushered in a deep and damaging world recession. The worst financial crisis in 80 years has forced countries to work together to find ways to help shore up a financial system crippled by banks fearful of lending to each other.
A Game to Help Fight Cancer? 2008-10-26 02:50:21 Video games are among the most popular entertainment media in the world. Now, groundbreaking research shows that a specially designed video game can promote positive behaviors in young cancer patients that enhance the effectiveness of medical treatment.This research, sponsored by the nonprofit organization HopeLab and published today in the medical journal Pediatrics, provides scientific evidence Read more:Cancer
Romania to switch to winter time at weekend 2008-10-25 11:39:43 Romania will officially switch
to winter
time (Eastern Europe time) on Saturday night (Oct. 25/26), when clocks will go back by one hour at 4 a.m., which will become 3 a.m.Romania from Sunday will go back to the GMT+2 time.Several countries from Europe as well as the United States will switch to winter time, by turning back the clocks by one hour. Three European Union countries (Britain, Ireland a
Bad Vista Tweaks 2008-10-24 23:14:44 Well i was very skeptical about Vista
in the past but it doesn't seem that bad after all. Anyway i must inform you that i made my own tweaked Vista dvd and installed from there (all ram hungry and yseless services were removed, as the annoying UAC, Firewall and Defender cause i am using third party anyways. Total size of the DVD is 1.2GB compared to 2.6GB of the original wich was full of useless d Read more:Tweaks
Intel refuses to use Vista 2008-10-24 08:58:40 On wednesday New York Times wrote an article where they describe Intel
's position against Vista
stating: Large companies routinely hold off a year or so after a new version of Windows is introduced before adopting it, waiting for initial bugs to be eliminated and for applications to be written. “But by 18 months, you’d expect to see a significant uptake, and we haven’t seen that,” said Dav
The Coming Age Of HDTV - What Does It Mean To Me? 2008-10-24 08:58:40 HDTV - high-definition television: it is something that has been discussed for some time now, however not everyone has a strong sense of what it is and why he or she would want to have it.Because all television stations will be required to broadcast a digital signal after February 17, 2009, many viewers are beginning to ask a lot more questions about how the new digital age of television will affe Read more:HDTV
iPhone 2.0 targets business men 2008-10-24 08:58:21 When WWDC was all over and everything was packed away, what most people made a big deal out of, understandably, was the price of the newest iPhone
. However, iPhone 2.0 is something that, in all the racket, was a little over looked. Apple is looking to target business men with a focus on enterprise use of the iPhone. Support for Microsoft’s mail server, Exchange was arguably one of the biggest e Read more:targets
The Battle & Future of Internet Browsers 2008-10-24 08:57:43 With Internet
Explorer 8 now available, can Microsoft hope to retain market dominance over fierce open source rivals such as Mozilla FireFox or the feature packed Opera web browserFireFox was the browser that grew and grew in these years. Every year capturing an even larger market share percentage than before. More user friendly than most of its rivals along with high security levels and arguably Read more:Battle
, Future
Self-improve yourself by thinking positive 2008-10-24 08:55:51 We all find ourselves at certain points in our lives holding first class tickets to negative mental trains of thought. Michele Wahlder (MS, LPC, PCC), a two-time cancer survivor and Dallas, Texas-based Certified Life Coach and Psychotherapist, has placed thousands of people on the right track to self-empowerment via a plan she calls the 5 C Process. The journey challenges individuals to:OneClarify Read more:thinking
Cars and more cars... 2008-10-24 08:55:51 Really had to "clean" my eyes after the last "beauty thingy" and i thought why not share it with you guys... and girls perhaps(small chance of that ever happening on here)Crazy Arab's Drifting (OMFG)What happens when you don't see snow & ice too often... CRASHTIME!
The Mona Lisa of "Dacia Tuning" 2008-10-24 08:55:51 First of all... for the majority who's thinking WTF is a Dacia, well... it has 4 wheels and wants to look/feel/be a car... kinda... u can get more info about it HERE. (if ur interested in not interesting stuff)And this is the "one of a kind" Special Dacia Tuning
Edition (the Mona Lisa of all tunings i ever seen), i'll keep the nasty comments to myself because after seeing that "thing" I'm in a t
Google doubts that hard drives fail because excessive heat 2008-10-24 08:55:51 Mountain View (CA) - As a company with one of the world's largest IT infrastructures, Google
has an opportunity to do more than just search the Internet. From time to time, the company publishes the results of internal research. The most recent project one is sure to spark interest in exploring how and under what circumstances hard drives work - or not. There is a rule of thumb for replacing hard
Linux gaming... myth or reality? 2008-10-24 08:55:51 First of all i would like to say I've been using Linux
(Ubuntu more specific) since March 2006 and have been really impressed by it. Some of the major "problems" an everyday user has in switching operating systems is the "fear" of new things and not knowing how they work (or just getting used to specific ones and not really interested trying something diff if it can do the same thing).Wine is a so Read more:reality
YouTube ventures into live event webcasting 2008-11-12 08:48:14 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - YouTube
will venture into webcasting later this month, in an effort to take the video sharing Web site's popularity to a new level by showcasing the talent behind its most viewed videos. The site, owned by search giant Google Inc., has matured from Web start-up and video fad to a site with loyal fans. But as any good TV industry executive will say, it needs to begin p Read more:event
Google adds video and voice chat to Gmail 2008-11-12 08:44:40 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google
Inc added a voice and video
chat feature to its Gmail
email service on Tuesday, launching a free Web-based service that competes with the likes of eBay's Skype. Gmail and Google App subscribers can now choose to speak with friends on a video screen and simultaneously instant message them in a Google Chat box. The video screen can be popped out of the ch
Iran test-fires new missile, Israel within reach 2008-11-12 08:42:19 TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said it test-fired a new generation of surface-to-surface missile on Wednesday and that the Islamic Republic was ready to defend itself against any attacker. Iran's latest missile test followed persistent speculation in recent months of possible U.S. or Israel
i strikes against its nuclear facilities, which the West suspects form part of a covert weapons program, a cha Read more:fires
, within
NASA begins shuttle launch countdown 2008-11-12 08:39:59 CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -- Countdown clocks at the Kennedy Space Center began ticking down on Tuesday toward Friday's launch of space shuttle Endeavour on a mission to outfit the International Space Station for an expanded live-aboard crew. Liftoff is targeted for 7:55 p.m. EST. At a news conference on Tuesday, managers said the shuttle was in good shape for launch. "We haven Read more:NASA
New soup kitchen opens in Berlin... for dogs !? 2008-11-06 21:58:59 BERLIN (Reuters) – A soup kitchen exclusively for dogs has opened its doors in Berlin
providing pets of the homeless and unemployed with a free meal, the director of the establishment said on Friday. Despite the looming financial crisis, director Claudia Hollm dismissed criticism that it may be more sensible to collect money for humans than for dogs. "Nowadays people underestimate do
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