In an attempt to bring the 7 Wonders Of The World up to date, the NewOpenWorld Foundation announced the New 7 Wonders Of The World back in 2007. Using Web based polling and Phone voting, 100 million votes were tallied and the winners were announced in Lisbon Portugal in a dazzling show at the […]
While North Americans debate on the dangers of Pit Bulls, Africans are contemplating something a little more extreme. I’m talking about Hyena guard dogs. An absolutely insane perspective on life in other parts of the world.
Update: Apparently the photos taken here are of African entertainers who travel around the Nigeria “with three hyenas, two pythons […]
Finding relevant information on Google has become harder and harder to do. Lately, I’ve found the first 10 pages of any Google search to be laced with the usual culprits, often quite ‘Spammy‘ in content. I often have to browse to the 40+ page to find relevant content.
Because of this, I’ve decided to give […]
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A couple of days ago, Google changed it’s favicon. A favicon is the little icon that appears to the left of your browser’s address bar.
Ordinarily, such a change is not worth mentioning, but coming from Google it’s worth taking note of.
It’s obvious that the new favicon is that of a lowercase ‘g’ , instead […]
Unless you’ve been in hiding for the last umpteen years, you have most likely heard of Mozilla Firefox. But did you know that Firefox is hiding something so incredibly deep and profound? Here’s how you can find it.
Open up Firefox and type the following into the address bar: about:mozilla
If you’ve dotted your i’s and crossed […]
It appears that Boomshuffle.com has run out of money and was purchased by imeem.com. As you may recall from an earlier post, Boomshuffle.com was a great place to get your music fix. With that said, I have gone ahead and created an account for imeem.com and was pleasantly surprised. imeem has more tracks to […]
The photo featured here is of the first SARAS prototype on its maiden flight in Bangalore in 2004.
When people think of airplanes, a few names come automatically to mind like Boeing and Airbus. But it appears that India wants to get in on some of the action with its own aircraft the SARAS.
The SARAS […]
The world’s first wave farm is in the testing phase 5 Km off the coast of Northern Portugal. The Pelamis, a Greek word for sea snake, is the brainchild of Dr Richard Yemm, Dr Dave Pizer and Dr Chris Retzler from Scottish Company Pelamis Wave Power Ltd. According to the company’s official brochure:
The machine is […]
Keeping up with all the latest trends, gadgets and gizmos can be overwhelming at times. Often to the point where technology burnout has completely fried our circuitry. We may take consolation in the fact that we modern humans are so much smarter than our pre-historic cousins. Or are we?
The assumption that evolution is a […]
