10 heart-thumping, hair-raising, adrenalin-pumping experiences you wouldn’t want to miss. And you can win them for just Rs.1* each.
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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 Craft in Russia” , all the way to “Climbing the Great Pyramids in Egypt”
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 about to throw it away.”
Mrs. Farmer quotes “He’s had that stupid thing framed and hanging in the front room ever since before I knew him, and we’ve been married eight years. I kept trying to sneak it in to the trash, but he kept fishing it back out. I guess the last laugh’s on me, we’re going to Hawaii now.”
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
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 (20 nanometers thick - 0.0002mm).
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 court has also said that using thumbnail-sized images of pictures does not constitute infringement, even when the images are copyrighted.
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 animal carcass became entangled in its nets at a depth of about 300 meters (almost 1000 feet). As the massive creature, weighing about 4000 pounds, was drawn toward the ship and then hoisted above the deck, assistant production manager Michihiko Yano announced to the captain (Akira Tanaka), “It’s a rotten whale!” However, as Yano got a better look at the creature, he became less sure. About 17 other crew members also saw the carcass, some of whom speculated that it might be a giant turtle with the shell peeled off. However, no one on board could say for sure what it was..
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 (20 nanometers thick - 0.0002mm).
