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December 31, 2003
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Great Time For Heart Attack
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Dorothy Fletcher, 67, was flying to her daughter's wedding in Florida when she collapsed with chest pains.
A stewardess asked "Is there a doctor on board?" and 15 heart specialists stood up to offer help!
The doctors were en route to a cardiology conference in Orlando.
Talk about lucky (or maybe not?).
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The Wendy's Change Game is basically a method that this dude (who eats regularly at Wendy's) came up with in order to drive the Wendy's employees crazy.
The game is based on the following Wendy's policy:You know how they always have your change ready when you pull up to the window? Its some kind of company policy. Lets say your total is $4.38. That means your change is 62 cents, if you give them a 5 dollar bill, which is what they anticipate. By the time you hit the window, they have two quarters, a dime, and two pennies in their hand. You give them a 5, and they hand you the change.
What this guy does is try to surprise the Wendy's employees and make them have to calculate the change that they have prepared again.
For example, if the total is $4.38 then he'll give them $5.38 so they'll have to return all the change that they've prepared for him (two quarters, a dime, and two pennies) and give him a dollar bill.
The real fun starts when the employees start catching on and try to anticipate what amount he'll give them (so they may have a dollar bill, for example, also prepared).
He describes some of the tricks that he uses in order to try to trick them and "win" the game.
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December 30, 2003
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Google Zeitgeist (go figure how to pronounce that) shows what patterns and trends people are searching Google for.
You can see things like the most popular query, most popular retail store, most popular film, and other trends on Google.
There are also yearly summaries (including an archive) that show you different trends according to seasons (for example gift searches naturally increase during the holiday seasons).
There's some very interesting information there.
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December 29, 2003
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If you want to learn how to program with Visual Basic then try this great (simple) Visual Basic tutorial.
This tutorial will help you learn the basics of VB, starting from the very beginning (although it is not an introduction to programming so you probably need to know some programming in order to understand it).
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Anybody in the neighborhood for an aircraft carrier?
Then you're in luck cuz there's an aircraft carrier for sale on eBay!
They want $6,000,000 for it and here's why they say you should buy it:
Suggested usage: tourist attraction, ocean-restaurant, museum, amusement park, hotel-on-the-ocean, etc. If you anchor it in the harbor and use it as a tourist attraction during the day, and use it as an ocean-hotel during the night, it will be great ! (it has rooms to accommodate for 1,300 men), and you charge both admission fee and hotel rate. (say you rent the rooms for only $50 dollars. Per person, times 1,300 and only times 300 days a year, then it is $ 15 million dollars already ! In 20 years, that is an amazing $ 300 million dollars. Calculate for yourself. If you want to sell the vessel for demolition in about 20 years, the current price for steel on the demolition market is about 130 US dollars per ton. This vessel weighs about 16,000 tons. So you earn another 2 million dollars ! You do not even bother to count the income from admission fee from tourists or rent to restaurant or amusement park owners. You get the TOTAL investment all covered in the first year. But that is not all, the navigation instruments and satellite guidance system and other great instruments cost hundreds of millions of dollars when they were new. You can easily get a lot of money from selling the instruments. Now for a tiny fraction of the original price (which maybe over $ 5 billion US dollars) you can have this wonderful property all for yourself.
BTW: yesterday when I ran across this sale there were no bidders and today somebody placed a bid for the $6,000,000.
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December 28, 2003
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I used to play the fence game in high school (on a piece of paper).
Well, it took about a decade and now you can play it online.
The "easy" level is actually harder to win than the second level.
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December 27, 2003
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Nick Andreef's company uses homing pigeons to deliver digital photographs!
The company runs tours through a network of caves spread across a 20km radius. Many people like to buy pictures that are taken during the trip but do not have time to wait for photos to be downloaded and printed.
So they came up with the pigeon concept: caving guides take the memory stick from their cameras and attached it to a velcro pack on the pigeon.
It takes the pigeons about six minutes to return to the main office with the memory sticks.
"They can transfer three gigs over 20km faster than the Internet."
Mr Andreef also said that the pigeons are 99% reliable and "work for peanuts."
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December 26, 2003
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This flash site has many fun flash toys to play with.
The main theme is these cute bugs that do various things in the different toys.
Basically you just need to click on the red links at the left and play around with the toy that is loaded.
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December 25, 2003
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This site has a map of the US that helps you visually locate zipcodes.
What it does is light up the parts of the map that are relevant to a zipcode, while you are typing it.
As you enter more digits to the zip code the lighted area on the map decreases to light just the area for the current digits you have typed.
Very neat (and useful).
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December 24, 2003
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If you really want to get into the holiday spirit then get yourself a Santa globe mouse.
This is a USB mouse that has one of those liquid snow globes in it.
This thing comes from, but of course: Japan (they get all the cool things).
(Found at Gizmodo)
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This site has some impressive Yamaha motorcycle origami instructions.
The pictures of the results are quite outstanding (I wonder if they would really come out that way).
The site also has a section on how they created the origami.
Posted by Guy at 12:25 AM
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Presentation Helper does exactly that: it help you with presentations.
There are some tips and pointers on how to create and deliver a successful presentation.
Although the site is a bit repetitive, some useful points are made.
Posted by Guy at 03:21 PM
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You know how cellphone ring tones are becoming more and more popular?
Well, get this: for $2 you can actually download a silent ringtone for your cell phone.
The (good) idea behind this is that you assign the silent ringtone for people who you don't want calling you.
That way when they call you your phone won't ring out loud.
Good idea but I don't think you should need to pay for it, it should be a built in feature in your cellphone.
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December 22, 2003
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Here are some more excellent fonts.
The fonts on this site are really great and are organized by category (like Television fonts, wavy fonts, wooden fonts...).
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The future is here!
Sony is bringing us one step closer to the Jetsons with QRIO.
QRIO is a robot friend, along the lines of the Sony robot dog (AIBO), but much more advanced.
This thing moves like a real person, dances, responds to its surroundings (if you push it over it will stand up by itself)....
That site has some pretty amazing demonstrations of what QRIO can do.
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December 20, 2003
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Here's an old one: Trash Ball.
It's a simple game where you try to throw paper balls into the trash can while taking into account the wind created by the fan.
Simple and fun.
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December 19, 2003
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This fun site has many close up images of common objects.
Ok, sometimes the objects aren't so common but most of them are.
The idea is to see if you can recognize what the object is just by seeing a closeup of a small part of it.
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December 18, 2003
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Csszengarden demonstrates how powerful CSS is.
It shows you how the same site can be viewed differently just by changing the stylesheet that is used.
The results are quite amazing, you can barely tell that you are looking at the exact same page.
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December 17, 2003
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Today is exactly 100 years since the Wright brothers made their first flight.
It's pretty amazing how fast this industry developed: within 15 years nearly all elements of the modern airplane had been developed.
Here's a picture of their first flight near Kitty Hawk.
And for those who didn't check out Google today, here's their logo for this occasion:
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This version of Mini Golf is one of my favorite online flash games.
You can either play a single player game, play two players on the same computer, or play online against other people who like this game (although playing the online multiplayer requires an electrotank id, which is free).
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December 16, 2003
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This sounds like a dream: a wireless home theater.
No more having to struggle with cables from different ends of the room.
This Sony system uses infrared in order to connect the speakers to the receiver and also looks really cool (check out the picture on the site).
That large triangle thingy is the DVD player!
One thing though: it only sells in Japan (for now at least).
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December 15, 2003
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The T-Cube is an entire PC the size of an orange.
It's really small and really cool.
Check out this picture of it (warning: that's a large image).
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I had this idea a few years ago but never really got along to doing it.
This dude (Jason) posts a photo of himself every day, usually making a face.
It's interesting to see the pictures over time, especially since he cuts his hair and trims his beard.
Posted by Guy at 12:47 AM
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Guess what happens when Apple opens a store in Japan?
The longest line of people I've ever seen.
What's cool is that these guys stand so patiently, even in the rain.
I wonder where else in the world people would remain so calm for so long...
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December 14, 2003
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This goal of this simple game is to put the ball in the hole.
Sounds simple?
The catch is that the arrow keys change every few keystrokes (sometimes the up key moves the ball up and sometimes it can move it left...).
Very simple but fun.
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December 13, 2003
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Every once in a while I run across one of those fascinating facts pages (or emails).
This one has some new facts that I didn't see before.
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December 12, 2003
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Here are some instructions on how to build a paper Concorde.
I built one last night and it really does come out looking like a Concorde.
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Try out this cool flash movie trivia game.
It works in sequences of questions according to your previous answer.
For example if the answer to one question was "Pulp Fiction" the next question will be about Pulp Fiction too (till you get one wrong, then the sequence starts over).
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Just take a look at these eye webcams that are sold in Japan.
It seems like the Japanese are starting to design various gadgets like toys (this and the duck USB storage), probably in order to sell them to a wider audience.
(Found at Gizmodo)
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People will do just about anything.
This dude installed a 7" dash touchscreen computer with mp3, DivX player, and GPS, in his Audi.
That site has some pictures of the installation process.
The end result looks really cool.
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December 09, 2003
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Does the name Johnny-5 ring a bell?
Sounds familiar ah?
Johnny-5 is the robot from the Short-Circuit movies.
Turns out that Johnny Five has his own web site.
You can even buy a toy Johnny5 (if I remember correctly, in one of the movies somebody sold toy Johnny-5s).
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December 08, 2003
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Somebody actually built the Simpson's house to scale!
Check out the pictures of the outside and the interior (which is also taken straight out of the cartoon).
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You know how those little USB disk on key devices are popping up everywhere now?
Well check out the i-Duck USB disk (scroll down a bit to see the picture).
It comes in pink, yellow, and grey.
It's harder to stuff in your pocket but it sure is cuter than the regular models that you usually see.
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December 07, 2003
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The next Internet sensation, after the Star Wars Kid, is here.
I don't think they have a name for him yet so let's call him Photoshop Boy.
(That site is getting quite a bit of hits so be patient if you can't access it.)
Photoshop Boy is a photo of a boy who was "dressed up", using Photoshop, in different scenarios (like as Batman or on the poster of Basic Instinct).
Keep your eyes open for this dude.
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Here's a great story about the usefulness of the Internet.
When this dude was pulled over by a cop he knew he was in trouble since he didn't renew his car registration.
He explained to the cop that he didn't get around to renewing the registration and the cop told him he had no excuse especially since you can register online.
This gave the dude an idea and he quickly used his cellphone to call a friend who has a computer connected to the net.
While the cop was writing him up his friend registered his car online!
When the officer returned with his ticket he told him that the car was now registered and the officer immediately confirmed it on his onboard computer.
Cool ah?
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December 06, 2003
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This page may not be the complete history of the Internet, but it most definitely comes close.
It contains a breakdown of major events according to years (starting from 1960).
The amount of hacking activities over the years is quite amazing.
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December 05, 2003
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Importing and exporting bookmarks to and from your UpSave account and Internet Explorer has been improved.
Not only has the process become more reliable but the usability has been improved.
You can read more about the UpSave improvements or login to your UpSave account and go to the "Tools Page"
Basically all you need to do now in order to upload your IE favorites to your UpSave account is click on "Import Explorer Favorites to your UpSave account" and in order to export your UpSave bookmarks to your IE favorites just click on "Export UpSave bookmarks to Explorer Favorites" (all this from the Tools Page after you login to your UpSave account).
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December 04, 2003
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For all the origami lovers: you can now create your own Nintendo characters origami.
Just print out the pictures, fold on the lines, and you have paper models of your favorite characters.
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December 03, 2003
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A family in Washington thought that somebody was playing a joke on them when they kept finding a stray dog inside their car.
So they set up a video camera in order to catch the prankster but instead discovered that the dog would let himself in!
Click on "Slideshow: Dog Opens Door" in order to see pictures of the dog opening the car door and letting himself in.
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No this isn't a post about those pictures of a snake that crawled into somebody's computer (if you haven't seen those pictures then you haven't missed much), it's a post about a(nother) version of the game snake.
The fun thing about this version of snake is that you play against the computer, racing for the apples that you collect.
I didn't really understand when the game ends though (it just ends after a while, I don't know why).
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There's an excellent article in Globes about how some Israeli start-up companies are operating without raising money from VCs.
These entrepreneurs are trying to cut costs wherever possible and work efficiently in order to build the company without going to venture capital.
One of the methods that they use to cut costs is use open source software (instead of "paying a $5,000 a month license fee to Oracle") and by utilizing people online instead of going to professional design and translation firms.
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Musicians For Filesharing
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You know how the "music industry" hates file sharing since it "robs the artists" (and the RIAA has gone so far as to sue the fans who use file sharing networks)?
Well some top musicians are coming out and saying that they like file sharing networks because they are a "way for kids to taste the album" and some even refer to P2P as "the new radio that could be used as a great promotional and distribution tool, if only the industry would allow it".
I wonder when the "music industry" will understand this?
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December 02, 2003
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I guess somebody had a bunch of old keyboards lying around and thought "what can I do with all these keys?".
The result: keyboard key necklaces.
Pretty cool idea (for geeks at least).
I would probably go for a F1 necklace (I'm guessing that the Esc, End, and Del keys are pretty popular).
Posted by Guy at 06:09 PM
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Here's something that will come in useful (especially for all the "poor souls" who are stuck with the metric system):
Did you know that you can easily convert different measurement unit by using Google?
It's easier than you think.
All you need to do is write something like "40 feet in meters" in Google's search box and you have the result.
I also tried "cm in inches", "lb in kg", "mile in km", "100 degrees celsius in fahrenheit", and there are probably a lot more (here's some more information about Google's calculator).
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What do you think happens when Walmart starts selling a DVD/VCR combo for only $30 (which is a pretty amazing price)?
STAMPEDE!!
A 41 year old women was seriously injured when she was trampled by a crowd of bargain hunters at a Central Florida Walmart.
She got to the store with her sister at 3:30am in order to buy the DVD/VCR at 6:00am (along with a lot of other people who were waiting there).
When the store finally opened, shoppers grabbed for the item. People started fighting for the DVD player and pushed her to the ground, knocking her unconscious.
She was airlifted to Halifax Medical Center.
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December 01, 2003
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Feel like refreshing your driver's ed course?
Now you can do it online with the driver's ed game.
Take a few lessons till you master the exercises and then go for the exam (watch out the examiner is strict...).
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