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64 Photos from this year's toy fair (Jan 7-20), covering everything from collectable vinyl toy to robots to DIY plush toys and alternatives for your next skateboard. ....click the link
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Sunday 16 March, 2008 04:24 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - The Cassini spacecraft which is studying the giant gaseous planet Saturn and its moons in a joint U.S.-European mission, flew as close as 30 miles from the surface of Enceladus (pronounced en-SELL-ah-dus) on Wednesday.
However, "an unexplained software glitch" occurred at a very bad time and prevented Cassini's Cosmic Dust Analyzer instrument from grabbing data for about two hours as it flew over the surface.
One of the main objectives of the fly-by was to analyze the density, size, composition and speed of particles erupting into space from the moon's south pole in a dramatic plume.
Whilst the analyzer malfunction was unfortunate, "The other four fields and particles instruments on the spacecraft, in addition to the ion and neutral mass spectrometer, did capture all of their data, which will complement the overall composition studies and elucidate the unique plume environment of Enceladus," NASA said.
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Saturday 15 March, 2008 12:08 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - China has overtaken the United States to be the world's largest Internet market by number of users, a research firm said on Thursday. The estimate by Beijing-based BDA was based on data from China Internet Network Information Center which indicated that the country's Internet users now totaled 210 million at end-2007.
"Based on these sources and the assumption that these markets have continued to grow in 2008 to date, at the same rates that they grew in 2007, we can conclude that China has by now comfortably surpassed the United States as the world`s largest Internet population," analyst Bin Liu said in a statement.
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Saturday 15 March, 2008 08:06 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - In Britain, researchers have developed a remote-controlled and almost silent miniature helicopter called “Microdrone”, that can capture images with both a video and an infra-red camera, thus helping the police to fight crime.
Almost 60cm (two feet) across, the tiny drone is armed to the hilt with crime-fighting technology, including a squirt-gun which can fire jets of a liquid called "SmartWater" , this can be then be identified by police.
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Saturday 15 March, 2008 04:03 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - with more and more people working from home, there is a huge market for nerds or computer Geeks who can keep this army of home workers "on line". One very successful company is called the "Geek Squad" - They claim they can help with almost any gadget, from iPhones to home cinema systems (and if they can't, they are sure to know a geek who can).
"We joke that our agents read manuals for stuff they don't even own," says the company's founder, Robert Stephens. "But that's actually what keeps them up on Saturday nights when everyone else is going out on dates. That takes a special kind of person."
The standard Geek Squad uniform is, black trousers, white shirt, black clip-on tie, white socks, black shoes plus a badge - gold and plastic, like a Toy Town policeman and its woe betide any Geek who doesn't adhere to these standards. If caught by the boss wearing colored socks, the punishment is push-ups and for or a more serious offense it might necessitate the tie being cut.
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Saturday 15 March, 2008 12:06 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - A DNA study suggests that nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago.
Those women left a particular DNA legacy that persists to today in about about 95 percent of Native Americans, researchers said. The women lived between 18,000 and 21,000 years ago, though not necessarily at exactly the same time.
The work was published this week by the journal PLoS One.
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Friday 14 March, 2008 10:04 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Chinese developed technology is being used for real-time monitoring of container shipments in the country's commercial hub of Shanghai. The e-tags are attached on the containers and will send warning signals if they are opened without authorization during the journey. If the pilot program is successful, it will be expanded so as to improve the fight against terrorism, stowaways and contamination of products.
Initially, 10,000 containers will be sealed with a special e-tag, which can be re-used on the shipping line between Shanghai and Savannah in the US state of Georgia.
China's container throughput reached a record 100 million TEU (20-foot equivalent unit) last year. And Shanghai handled 26.15 million TEUs, second only to Singapore across the world.
If an e-tag shows a container has not been opened on the jouney, it will help a cargo owner save the time he has to spend for Customs and quarantine checks at ports.
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Friday 14 March, 2008 04:01 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - An Indian grocer from Naya Ganj in Uttar Pradesh, northern India has claimed the World Record for the longest Ear Hair in the world. He has dense tufts of hair sprouting from his ears which have grown to an incredible 5.2in (13.2cm) at their longest point. The Guinness book of records has confirmed this as the longest ear hair in the world.
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Friday 14 March, 2008 12:04 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - A man was paid compensation after he was hit by a falling cat while dining at a restaurant in the Haidian district of Beijing, China
The man surnamed Bi was having lunch when a cat dropped from the ceiling injuring his neck and tearing his down jacket.
The restaurant owner discovered that the cat had been trapped in the ceiling during decoration work to the premises, and had clawed its way out.
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Friday 14 March, 2008 08:02 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - After stopping to buy more Vodka from a local shop in a village located in the Urals, a Russian tank crashed through a villager's house. Unfortunately for the tank crew, a villager had a mobile phone camera and footage clearly showed the tank hitting a corner of the house and a laughing, and seemingly drunk driver awkwardly stumbling aboard with two bottles of vodka.
The army promised to pay compensation and excused the incident by saying that the tank must have been broken and fallen behind a column heading off to a test site for exercises. Earlier it also said that the vehicle slid on melting ice.
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Friday 14 March, 2008 04:01 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - A spurned Chinese wife set fire to more than 400 cell phones owned by herself and her husband after he walked out on their marriage, a news agency reported Friday.
Overcome with despair, the woman gathered up their entire stock of more than 400 new mobile phones, reportedly valued at more than 300,000 yuan (USD42,000), and set them on fire, before walking out of the house, the report said.
The couple had owned a successful retail phone business in Weifang, the Eastern province of Shandong. However, their shaky relationship hit rock bottom when her husband left her.
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Thursday 13 March, 2008 08:08 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - At this weeks Champions League soccer game between Real Madrid and AS Roma -A man pretending to be Oscar-winning American actor Nicolas Cage fooled Real Madrid into thinking he was the real actor and enjoyed red carpet treatment.
The lookalike, was in fact Italian television presenter Paolo Calabresi, who watched Wednesday's game from the exclusive directors' viewing area at the Bernabeu. Following the game he was taken into the team dressing room to meet the players.
And for the record - Roma won 2-1 and will progress to the Champions League quarter-finals with a 4-2 aggregate victory.
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Thursday 13 March, 2008 04:07 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Apple plans to bring gaming to the iPhone, allowing developers to use the relevant SDK and APIs for free.
The news came straight from CEO Steve Jobs.
The "first official game" for the iPhone will be Touch Fighter. You'll use the iPhone as if it were a steering wheel to control a spaceship. Apparently the game took just two weeks to develop.
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Monday 10 March, 2008 12:08 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - There is a joke currently going around Russia - which has Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev waking up in the Kremlin in 2023 with a vicious hangover.
Putin to Medvedev: "Which of us is president and which of us is prime minister today?"
"I don't remember," Medvedev replies. "I could be prime minister today."
"Then go fetch some beer," Putin says.
The point being that it is really Putin who is still in charge and it is all a big sham - maybe some part of the humor is lost in the translation ????
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Monday 10 March, 2008 08:01 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Researchers at Durham University, England believe that student under achievement can be due to poor working memory rather than low intelligence. The researchers have developed a checklist -- the Working Memory Rating Scale -- as well as tools to help teachers identify and help children who may have this problem, which researchers said is probably genetically based.
"From the various large-scale studies we have done, we believe the only way children with poor working memory can go on to achieving academic success is by teaching them how to learn despite their small capacity to store information mentally," lead researcher Dr. Tracy Alloway of Durham University said in a statement.
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Monday 10 March, 2008 04:12 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - More than 4,000 robots are currently deployed on the ground in Iraq, and at October 2006, there were over 400,000 flight hours clocked up by unmanned aircraft.
At the moment, there is always a human in the loop to decide on the use of lethal force. However, this is may change with the US giving priority to autonomous weapons -
robots that will make the decisions on where, when, how and who to kill.
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Monday 10 March, 2008 12:11 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Democracy the Russian way saw elections where more than 109 million Russian citizens were eligible to vote.. There were 96,000 polling stations across the country's 11 time zones.
The Central Election Commission said turnout two hours before the last polls closed was over 64 percent, similar to the last presidential election in 2004.
Vladimir Putin, barred by the Constitution from serving three consecutive terms as president stepped down. The new president, Dmitry Medvedev has said he would propose making Putin his prime minister - an offer Putin has said he will accept.
Medvedev hailed high voter turnout of 67 per cent on Sunday as a 'mandate of confidence,' Elections should be so easy .....
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Sunday 9 March, 2008 08:10 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - AUSTINTOWN, Ohio — Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton is quoted as saying "I'm not interested in just talking," she also said "I'm interested in action.". Now that's no way for a politician to behave - any successful person in public life will tell you that lots of talk and little action is the best way. Maybe thats why she's in trouble. Now Obama on the other hand.....
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Sunday 9 March, 2008 04:09 PM |
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RESTAURANTS charging inflated prices for wine could be doing their customers a favour. A study has found that people who pay more for a product do enjoy it more.
The researchers discovered that people given two identical red wines to drink said they got much more pleasure from the one they were told had cost more. Brain scans confirmed that their pleasure centres were activated far more by the higher-priced wine ....click the link to read more
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Tuesday 15 January, 2008 10:10 AM |
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(Be careful what you say and how you say it - it could be misinterpreted)
Once upon a time, in a work place, not unlike yours, a Plan was devised to improve the way of the workings. Presumptions and assumptions were made, but many of these were without substance and when the Plan was presented to the employees, a darkness came across their faces, they mumbled and grumbled and held a mass meeting.
From this meeting there was unanimous feedback and they all said "this Plan is a crock of s@#t and it stinks".
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