Archive for September, 2008
Throwing a party is a lot of work, so it
’s a real disappointment when somebody you invited ruins it. Here’s 8 types of people to watch out for before you make your next invite list.
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The 8 Worst Bosses To Work For
Between having to show up at work and having to actually do work, no one likes having a job. But it doesn
’t get any worse than working for one of these eight annoying bosses.
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The 10 Worst Songs That Hit #1
You would think if a song went to #1 on the charts it would have some kind of redeeming quality. Even if it wasn
’t your favorite genre of music, I’m sure you could find one reason why everybody was raving about it so much. So how do songs that have with no originality or creativity [...]
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What a cool ad on youtube – making the site move with the video… check it out!
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Tags: nintendo, wario, wii, youtube
Global Air Traffic over 24 Hours
The AirTraffic team presents this fascinating visualization of global air traffic simulated over 24 hours.
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LaserGames is a mod for projectors allowing up to two players to interact with a game using a run-of-the-mill (red or green) laser pointer in place of a mouse or controller, minus the precision response. [VIDEO]
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Tags: emulator, Game, laser, mouse
Bentley safe box
Stockinger has teamed up with Bentley to come up with a line of safes, exclusively designed to house your pricey collection of timepieces. There are only 400 cabinets on offer and you can opt for any of the trademark Bentley shades. The wood and the leathered interiors bump up its elegant and timeless appeal.
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The 7 Series will also be packed with more high technology than NORAD, including a Side View camera system, Park Distance Control system, Lane Departure Warning system, Head-up display, a four-wheel steering system called Integral Active Steering, and, of course, the latest generation of BMW’s iDrive.
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Canon’s brand new EOS 5D Mk II shoots full 1080p captures at 30fps. But why haven’t the DSLRs we’ve been using for years ever been able to grab video clips like their cheaper pocket-cam brethren? Here, the roadblocks that have stood in the way of the DSLR video revolution, and why Canon, Nikon and others [...]
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Tags: 1080p, 5D, Canon, DSLR, HD, HD video, MK II, nikon
VR4 ballistic protection standards, staving off .44-caliber bullets at firing angles of 45- to 90-degrees. 22 mm-thick glass is fitted all around, along with Aramid fiber mats (think bulletproof protection for your feet), an explosion-resistant reinforced underbelly, intercom and camera system.
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Tags: 5 series, bmw, security
Rotation house – Heliotrop
The rotating solar house Heliotrop
® is based on the idea of erecting a building that comes up to the highest standards of architecture and environmental protection while at the same time offering its inhabitants exclusive living comfort without any annoying limitations.
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Magnetic fields are invisible, at least usually. But Scientists from NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratory have made them visible as “animated photographs,” using sound-controlled CGI and 3D compositing. It makes the fields, as explained by the scientists, dance in an absolutely gorgeous movie called Magnetic Movie.
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Well, not really — the actual experiments that could result in potentially disastrous “micro black holes” won’t happen for another month (and probably won’t end anything except the lives of a few protons), but as rumored, CERN’s flipping the switch on the four billion dollar Large Hadron Collider this Wednesday to test the superconducting magnets
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While space travel is safe for the most part, sometimes things go really wrong. Like last week’s NASA’s rocket explosion on the Wallops Island, where an ATK Launch Vehicle X-1 exploded only seconds after lift off, with hazardous debris falling on land and sea. [VIDEO]
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As promised, Microsoft has started running their new ads using comedian Jerry Seinfeld and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The ad has already been spotted by a number of readers.
The first in presumably a series of ads show Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld in Shoe Carnival.
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Over at Instructables is this DIY project that will let you make your own slender electronic business cards with built-in
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One of the the biggest selling points of Nintendo’s Wii video game console since its launch nearly two years ago has been that it was the lowest-priced of the trio of next-generation machines, which also includes Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3.
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Gore: Bloody Stump Wrist Rests
These bloody hand and foot wrist rests aren’t meant to taunt your co-workers with adolescent slasher film humor Their intention
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August 2008: Automobile sales
Poor sales continued through the month of August as only a handful of brands are able to brag about increased sales. Nissan bucked the trend entirely reporting a 13.6% gain for the combined brands of Nissan & Infiniti. & the BMW Group (1.0%), which barely earned a positive increase thanks to a strong 34.1% [...]
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Google’s in-house innovations (the multithreaded engine, javascript handling and task manager, mainly) make up a tiny portion of Chrome’s user experience. The rest of the interface features, usage mechanics and touted features have clear and very public parentage — in one of their four largest competitors
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Tags: browser, chrome, firefox, IE, internet, opera, safari
Five-Faced Diesel Watch
A thinner, daintier version exists for those wishing to forgo the pre-ordained cities for five choices of your own. All you have to do is remember which one is which. Available for $550 and $495 respectively.
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The 100 ugliest cars
How should one define automotive ugliness? It’s an interesting point: if a car is badly screwed together near Birmingham by a bunch of blokes called Derek, does that make it unattractive, or merely unreliable?
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Whether counting its 23 Eee PCs or 50 plus models of traditional laptops, ASUS isn’t exactly known for its frugality. So seeing yet another press release touting the launch of its bamboo — a renewable material with immense tensile strength rivaling that of many metal alloys — laptops shouldn’t be a surprise.
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