Category: Uncategorized

  • Giant helicopters

    Giant helicopters

    The world’s biggest helicopters: Via AerospaceWeb.

  • I prefer the ZunePhone

    YouTube link to the ZunePhone ad

  • The worst SciFi movies

    Science-Fiction produced both the worst and the best. Today, let’s look at the worst with the help of ForeverGeek that collected the Top 10 WORST Sci-Fi Shows EVER! w/Videos. That is so bad that’s it’s admirable!

  • Is your dentist up to the task?

    Is your dentist up to the task?

    Maybe. But the dentists found by JustElite.net are doing their best… link

  • Google and numbers

    Personal research: What are the web sites best ranked for a Google search on the first figures? The results are… interesting: 0 : en.Wikipedia.org (Google search) 1 : en.Wikipedia.org (Google search) 2 : w3.org (Google search) 3 : 3.co.uk UK telephone operator (Google search) 4 : channel4.org TV channel (Google search) 5 : five.tv TV…

  • 101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed

    101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed, a strange list for software developers. Thanks to CodeSqueeze.

  • 1 million people living in a 4-km-high tower

    1 million people living in a 4-km-high tower

    After all, even the most cool-headed men can sometimes appear identical to the most futuristic Sci-Fi authors. The promoters of a mad Japanese project make it obvious with this tower (should I say “sky-scrapper”?) of 13,000ft high that could welcome no less than a million souls. A tower that Taisei Construction Corporation (TCC) intends to…

  • Oil reserves, a world map

    Oil reserves, a world map

    The Sietch blog publishes an interesting map of the world where country sizes are proportional to the size of their underground oil reserves. Colors can also point to the big users of oil (headed by the United States of America) which are also the big CO2 producers. Why do you believe that every country in…

  • Craziest captchas on the web

    Craziest captchas on the web

    We find more and more of these graphic checks that are supposed to protect a web site against the programmed automatons. the idea is to ask a question that (intelligent) human beings can answer and a (silly) automaton will not. But sometimes, the author of the web site goes a little too far and you…