7 billion of us
12 years ago there were 6 billion of us. Today – exactly today, October 31st, 2011 – we welcomed the 7 billionth human being.
And we have the same questions as we had 12 years ago and when the world population reached 5 billion in 1987: is there enough food? Well, either we all soon are going to get really thin or we shall yet again trust that we humans tend to sort things out in the end. Read more…
Full-color Kindle Fire
18 million movies, TV shows, songs, magazines, books, thousands of popular apps and games. Quite a mouth full – or shall we say, screen full – but that’s how Amazon introduces their new full-color Kindle Fire.
That sounds very nice to all us normal souls who enjoy a good movie, some music and a good book when time permits but if you’re the geeky kind, you’ll appreciate the rest Amazon has to say about the Fire: Read more…
Adventure biker saves calf
Think of motorcycle adventure riding and a picture of a dual-sport bike thundering loudly in the dust along a lonely gravel highway might come to mind. But browse around popular adventure bike forums and you’ll notice the riders’ passion for wildlife and animals in general. These guys ride not just for fun but also to get closer to the “life out there”… and to embrace it. Read more…
Quantum Levitation awesomeness
Was explain to you in a few simple words exactly how quantum levitation works but then realized that you already know. But just in case you forgot, the quantum nerds featured in the video will remind you. Read more…
Steve Jobs tributes
“Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is,” said Steve Jobs when he introduced the iPhone in 2007. Together with his buddy Steve Wozniak, Jobs reinvented not only the phone but a number of ways the whole world would communicate, from their first Apple computer in 1977 to iTunes and the iPad. As creative genius, Jobs turned Apple became the world’s most admired company. Read more…
Get a life, get a hog!
Every year Americas spend billions on life coaches, self-improvement courses, plastic surgery and botox. Harley Davidson offers an affordable alternative… as their TV ad explains: Read more…
Best Rugby World Cup Team
World Cup Rugby fever is at a pitch. The road to the finals on 23 October in Auckland, New Zealand is half littered with broken dreams and half filled with joy. If the fixtures at first seemed to stuffed with obvious results the bookies are in for a bonus this year.
There have been some shock surprises, non more when Australia got beaten by Ireland and France got beaten by Tonga – neither without being knocked out of the tournament – in the pool stages. The best World Cup Rugby team, however, did get knocked out. Yes, Wales was the team with the most surprises, fighting spirit and some stylish play. Read more…
Happy Birthday Google
This youngster turned 13 today, entering the teen years. Happy birthday Google. May you continue – or, in the least, try to – “do no evil.”
Google’s first kiss came at a very young age, making out with blogger (aka blogspot) – and a host of others – at age 5, with Android at age 7 and then turned hot on YouTube at age 8 with many others to follow. Sure been one heck of a busy kid, this Google youngster. Kinda reminds one of Alexander the Great who also, by the way, conquered almost the whole world at an young age. Read more…
Achieve inner peace
Some doctor on TV this morning said the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started. So I looked around my house to see things I had started and hadn’t finished.
I managed to finish off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Chardonnay, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of wum, a pockage of Prungles, tha mainder of bot Prozic and Valiuminun scriptins, the res of the chesescke an a box a chocletz. Yu haf no idr how bludy fablus I feel rite now. Plaese sahre dhis wif dem yu fee ar in ned ov iennr piecs. An telum,u blody luvum!
[lol. dis waz emald ot me]
Chop Chop Chop
The Greeks are used to breaking things. It’s part of their custom. Smashing plates at parties, wedding receptions and tavernas, that is. The custom is said to have originated with ancient traveling potters breaking their own wares, inviting the locals to share in the fun and thereby maintaining a market for their products.
But the story also goes that the noise of the smashing of plates was meant to drive away evil spirits. That makes a lot more sense in modern terms: rioting Greeks (and others) breaking things to ward off the evils of the recession – pensions being reduced, benefits being cut, public spending being chopped, bankers continually being stuffed with free public money, etc. Read more…
