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    The World’s Most Expensive French Fry

    Posted on Friday, September 26th, 2008 by thinkdj

    A unique ‘limited edition’ french fry called the “Lincoln Fry” contains the profile of Abraham Lincoln (sort of!) and has appeared in a McDonald’s ad in the 2005 Super Bowl. It has  been auctioned on eBay and was sold to the Golden Palace Casino.
    The proceeds of nearly $22,000 went to the Ronald McDonald House Charities, [...]

    10 things to do before you die – eBay

    Posted on Monday, March 3rd, 2008 by thinkdj

    10 heart-thumping, hair-raising, adrenalin-pumping experiences you wouldn’t want to miss. And you can win them for just Rs.1* each.
    #Bid on one/more experiences #Track the bidding action and raise your bid
    ebay.in has come up with a new auction – 10 things to do before you die. It starts with “Co-pilot a L39 Combat Air [...]

    $9214 ebay bid for AOL 1.0 Startup disk

    Posted on Monday, February 25th, 2008 by thinkdj

    Todd Farmer of West Chester, PA, sold his AOL 1.0 startup disc for over $9,000 in an online ebay auction this week.

    Mr. Farmer explains, “that disc served me well. It’s a 5 1/2″ floppy, double-sided, double-density with all the original packaging. This bad boy wasn’t free for me or anybody back then, so I wasn’t [...]

    Tokyo skyline from 1969-2004 in 10 seconds

    Posted on Sunday, December 30th, 2007 by thinkdj

    Witness the progress of Tokyo’s Shinjuku from 1969-2004. That’s right.. A man took photographs of Tokyo’s Shinjuku from 1969-2004, that’s over 35 years.. and made it into a 10 second clip.. This view is of Tokyo’s Shinjuku ward from 1969 – 2004. Here it is

    Bible on supersmall chip

    Posted on Thursday, December 27th, 2007 by thinkdj

    Researchers in Israel say they have succeeded in putting a version of the Bible on a chip smaller than a pinhead. Its 300,000 words in Hebrew were inscribed on a silicon surface at the Haifa Institute of Technology. The 0.5sq-mm (0.01sq-in) nano-Bible was written on a silicon surface covered with a thin layer of gold [...]

    Google wins over Perfect 10’s copyright infringement case

    Posted on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 by thinkdj

    Adult magazine Perfect 10 earlier filed a copyright infringement claim against Google alleging that Google was crawling the Perfect10.com website and created thumbnails of copyrighted images that were later displayed in Google Image search results.

    Google did store the thumbnails but argued that image thumbnails were protected under the copyright doctrine of fair use.

    Now a [...]

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