China is going through one of the most dramatic changes the world has ever seen. As an effect, the people of China are asking questions such as "How do face this kind of transition?" "How can I be an individual?" and "How do we get through this chaos?" Caused by the experimental period in China between 1949 and 1976, this "new China" has exploded with inspiring awe and intriguing creativity.
One man, Liu..... [ more ]
Category: People, August 2009
Forget Twitter. The new kid on the block is Woofer. Woofer is almost identical to Twitter, except the fact that it requires you to post no less than 1400 characters.
Why Woofer? Well, Woofer set out to be a fun off-shoot of Twiiter, with the main goal of advertising their main site called ShuffleTime. Their version of a tweet, a woof, must be 1400 characters long and has no character limit. They tell you..... [ more ]
Category: Internet, August 2009
Impressing your friends is never easier than right now. The internet provides such a plethora of knowledge. Just a word and a few clicks and you know everything about that word. To pump up your knowledge even further, here are 28 random facts that you probably do not know, but might find interesting to know.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents ..... [ more ]
Category: Fun, August 2009
The quality of writing on the internet has dropped considerably over the years. Why? Are we not teaching our children enough about grammar? Is the schooling system faulty? Or is everyone just getting really, really lazy? I vote for the last of the three.
Every since Scott Fahlman, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, decided to type the first emoticon, the world has given up trying to display ..... [ more ]
Category: Technology, August 2009
Why settle for less when you can have more? Apparently, losing war in a video game is not enough punishment for the player, so TN Games made a vest that lets you feel the action while it's happening
Right from their site:
The FPS Vest is an impact-generating device designed to enable you to feel the game's action for the ultimate gaming experience. It contains eight active zones that simulate the directio..... [ more ]
Category: Technology, August 2009
How do you get your lettuce dry after washing it? I encountered this problem today, and I was determined to solve it. However, I did not just want the age-old method of using a spinner to dry it. You know, those salad spinners where you push the button down and the contraption spins. Yea, no. I absolutely hate those things.
So I did some research on Google and found a few very interesting ways.
- Use a sala..... [ more ]
Category: Food, August 2009
This story is by Cara Buckley.
It was every subway rider's nightmare, times two.Who has ridden along New York's 656 miles of subway lines and
not wondered: "What if I fell to the tracks as a train came in?
What would I do?"And who has not thought: "What if someone else fell? Would I jump
to the rescue?"Wesley Autrey, a 50-year-old construction worker and Navy veteran,
faced both those questions in ..... [ more ]
There is a new, devious product coming out in the next year or so, called Google Wave. Something new by Google? That's not news. But what is news is what Google has put into this new "device."
What they call the Google Wave is a "new model for communication and collaboration on the web." Made by the same guys who made Google Maps, Lars and Jens have put together a team to build a way of communicating in ..... [ more ]
Category: Technology, July 2009
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