July 4th, 2009 | Categories: Interesting Stuff

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See this wonderful paper craft art installation by a genius of the name of Wataru Itou, a young student of a major art university here in Tokyo. The installation is hand made over four years of hard work, complete with electrical lights and a moving train, all made of paper! Clearly, this man must have created one of the most stunning examples of Paper Craft in the world? At the exhibition you will also have the chance to see a…

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July 3rd, 2009 | Categories: Tech News

Facebook will again tweak its privacy controls to give its 200 million users simplified control over what they want the public and their friends to see. In the past months, Firefox has added multiple privacy controls that confused and angered its members.

Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly said Wednesday that Facebook will begin a series of tests to simplify choices. “With the test we’re announcing today, we’ll move toward simplifying these settings and putting them all on the same page,” Kelly…

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July 1st, 2009 | Categories: Tech News

Global Gaming Factory X AB, a Swedish software company, has agreed to acquire The Pirate Bay video-sharing Web site — whose owners are under fire for brokering copyrighted content — for nearly $7.8 million.

Pirate Bay is one of the largest video-sharing sites on the Internet. The site has more than 20 million visitors and more than one billion searches per month. The four Swedish men who launched the infamous Web site are behind bars. In April, the men were ordered…

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June 30th, 2009 | Categories: Tech News

Bowing to a request from the European Commission, 10 major device manufacturers have agreed to adopt a universal battery-charging design for their mobile handsets. Though the agreement only applies to mobile-device sales within the member states of the European Union, the standard is expected to have a far wider impact since the mobile-device market is essentially global.

Phone-charger compatibility will make life much simpler for consumers, noted EU Industry Commissioner Gnter Verheugen. “They will be able to charge mobile phones anywhere…

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June 29th, 2009 | Categories: Interesting Stuff

Are you looking for a list of the fastest animals on land, or the fastest animals in the air, and the fastest animals in water? We present a list below (with photos) of the fastest animals in the world. We know that the cheetah is the fastest land animal that can run to a speed of 70mph, but what about the fastest insect?

Fastest animals in the world

Fastest animal on land is the cheetah — can run 70 miles per hour (113 km per hour)

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Fastest insect…

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June 28th, 2009 | Categories: Amazing Stuff

Coca-Cola Russia released iconic sodas Coke, Fanta, Sprite in small 8-ounce cans.

Coca-Cola celebrated their 100th anniversary by releasing this centenary bottle. The bottle was made exclusively for Selfridges, a popular London department store. The centenary Coke bottle was made of glass with a bright shade of yellow, which is Selfridge’s signature color. Coca-Cola was written in red, with a red cap.

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June 27th, 2009 | Categories: Amazing Stuff

An ancient river bed that has lain unseen for 185,000 years has been uncovered by scientists mapping the parts of the English Channel in the run up to the 2012 Olympics.

The groundbreaking discovery was made during a two-year £300,000 project to map 500 square miles of seabed off the Jurassic coast in Dorset.

Using new and incredibly accurate mapping techniques, experts traced the river that may have once been used as a watering hole by woolly mammoths that roamed the area.

An…

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