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    Sea-monster carcass?

    Posted on Saturday, December 1st, 2007 by thinkdj

    Recently came across the old news of Plesiosaur Carcass Netted in 1977. I found it quite interesting and appealing too..
    On April 25, 1977, a fishing vessel named the Zuiyo-maru of the Taiyo Fishery Company Ltd. was trawling for mackerel about 30 miles east of Christchurch, New Zealand, when a large [...]

    MySpace Hoax drove teen to suicide

    Posted on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 by thinkdj

    Megan Meier, a Missouri teen , had committed suicide by hanging herself at age of 13 last year. Recently, her parents learned that the boy she’d been corresponding with on MySpace (the one who unexpectedly began calling her a fat slut and said “the world would be a better place without you”) [...]

    The Ubuntu naming convention

    Posted on Friday, November 16th, 2007 by thinkdj

    Guess there is an alphabetical naming convention for Ubuntu releases. The very first two releases were named Warty Warthog and Hoary Hedgehog (remember ?). Then came Dapper Drake (6.06), the first long-time support release. Then, the Edgy Eft (6.10), followed by Feisty Fawn (7.04) and the now, the Gutsy Gibbon (7.10). Also, the next release [...]

    Google indexes just 0.02% of world’s information

    Posted on Thursday, November 8th, 2007 by thinkdj

    The Berkeley’s School of Information Management Systems calculated how much unique information was produced in 1999 and again in 2002 (measuring the volume of unique data created in the world each year saved to film, disk, optical, and paper).
    The 1999 study estimated that about 3,000,000 TB of unique information were produced that year.
    The later study [...]

    The world’s fastest home internet connection

    Posted on Sunday, November 4th, 2007 by thinkdj

    Sigbritt Löthberg, 75, Karlstad Sweden has a 40 gigabits per second connection ,which is the first time ever that a home user had such bandwidth to play with.

    With a 40gbps line, about 1,500 high definition HDTV channels can be simultaneously delivered or a full high definition DVD can be downloaded in just two seconds !
    This [...]

    Second Life Gets its first Lawsuit

    Posted on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 by thinkdj

    “Second Life” is a wildly popular virtual world, where members can create animated proxies of themselves called ‘avatars’, and build homes, run businesses, and deal in virtual products and properties, all in exchange for real money (Linden dollars).
    A group of 6 virtual retailers have filed a real-time law suit against a man [...]

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