Entries from March 2008

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Tetris Shelves

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Monday, March 31st, 2008

Life’s little mysteries, like: Why do women wear high heels?

Why do women wear high heels? Why are soft drinks in round containers while milk cartons are rectangular? And why did kamikaze pilots bother with helmets? Here, ROBERT H FRANK uses economics to explain the weird and wonderful situations we encounter in everyday liferead more | digg story

Monday, March 31st, 2008

The 101 most useful websites

There are tens of millions of sites to visit. Not forgetting telegraph.co.uk, here are the only ones you actually need.read more | digg story

Monday, March 31st, 2008

When a Nerd Holds a Woman (Pic)

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Monday, March 31st, 2008

The Circle of Life [COMIC]

And we go round and round, looking for a way out..read more | digg story

Monday, March 31st, 2008

16 Things to Remember if You Want to Date a Supermodel

The theory is that women who inhabit the uppermost echelon of conventional beauty are so otherworldly, so demanding, so desired, that no ordinary semi-self-respecting man (i.e., you) could ever make them happy.But is it true? Hell if we know. So we asked the extraordinarily good-looking Adriana Lima to set the record straight. Here’s her take….read […]

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Google has lots to do with intelligence

When the nation’s intelligence agencies wanted a computer network to better share information about everything from al Qaeda to North Korea, they turned to a big name in the technology industry to supply some of the equipment: Google Inc.read more | digg story

Monday, March 31st, 2008

How do you get that backwards ‘B’ ?

Title says it all.. really.. read more | digg story

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Facebook Girl Beaten And Shot Dead By Her Father……

A woman was beaten up and shot dead by her father for talking online with a man she met on the website Facebook.Internet engineers said that young Saudis were using Facebook to flirt and make “web-cam calls”.read more | digg story

Monday, March 31st, 2008

A New Hat For The Eiffel Tower [PICS]

David Serero, principal of Serero Architects, said in a telephone interview that his firm’s proposal was merely a spontaneous design it had submitted to the Eiffel Tower management group in view of the tower’s approaching 120th anniversary and, he said, was neither a response to a design competition nor solicited by the tower’s management.read more […]

Monday, March 31st, 2008

The American Teenager (photo gallery)

Over the course of her career, photojournalist Robin Bowman has worked for People magazine, traveled to dozens of countries and negotiated countless difficult situations, including the conflicts in Darfur and Bosnia.read more | digg story

Monday, March 31st, 2008

The 10 Greatest Faked Tech Vids of All Time

From Christopher Null, PC World Magazine: “From subtle hoaxes to clever goofs, here are the ten best fake technology and science Web videos. We’ll bet that if we hadn’t told you, one or two may have taken you in.”
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Battlestar Finale Rewritten

The writers had worked out what the arc in the back half [of the fourth season] was already… I think [the strike] actually benefited the show in some ways in that… we started to think about things that we could change, things we could make better. And when the strike was over… we wrote the […]

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

An elephant painting self portrait

And if you believe that I’ve got the Brooklyn Bridge to sell you.read more | digg story

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

6 Horrific Fashion Mistakes

Sometimes it seems Fashion is deliberately ugly, garish and unflattering. The French even have a word for it, “jolie laide” (a woman who is both beautiful and ugly). However there’s nothing beautiful about these 6 fashions.read more | digg story

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Guy gets mugged for a few bucks . . . offers his jacket too

Julio Diaz got mugged last month at knife point. Instead of running away, he gives the mugger his coat and buys him dinner!read more | digg story

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

CINEMABRUT 2008 : The FESTIVAL OF FREE and INDEPENDENT FILMS

CANNES (French Riviera) May 23-24-25.
Each year we organise an open film programming that leads to an awards ceremony in the final evening. We are calling artists, creators who want to participate to submit their films. We welcome both feature and short films in any length, and all genres including animation. This year the competitiread more […]

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Snake Bones (PICS)

Even they are alredy dead those snake maybe looks little scary don’t you think so. Some of those snake bones looks like theirs cousins fossils.read more | digg story

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Transformers 2 Filming Underway? Barricade Spotted!

Autobots, transform and roll out! read more | digg story

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Original 007 Sean Connery wants to be a James Bond Villain

It has been 25 years since he ordered a martini, shaken, not stirred.
But Sean Connery, who played James Bond in seven of the classic spy movies, has a sudden taste for a comeback - as a villain.
Preliminary discussions are said to have taken place between the 77-year-old actor and Bond producers…read more | digg story