31
May
Some people tend to collide with the U.S. government
in a harsh way. This guy for instance got a real hard penalty
as he has stolen prime ribs valued for 30 (thirty!) US$. Now
you may ask what lets the U.S. government judge so hard
for meat at this compared low value…
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30
May
The weather has somehow strange flows. While in 2012
the May-weather has spiked into 30-degrees regions,
in 2013 the tmperatores have mostly stayed below 15
degrees celsius which is far below the average medium.
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29
May
Why not? Colin Furze has finalized what no other has done before. He
built the world’s fastest mobile toilet. Not a camper toilet. No, a real on!
Complete with toilet paper holder, an automatic water flush and paper
holder. 16 HP are accelerating the fast shitter to 88 kmph!
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28
May
When big LED signs with “Stop” on it aren’t enough, then you have to
take a step further to warn drivers when they’re acting wrong and are
subject to cause damage to buildings and infrastructure. Australia
found a new yet spectacular way to do so.
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27
May
Arm wrestling can be hard and extremely power-draining. When
men do arm wrestling, all goes quick and dirty (mostly). But when
two women are arm wrestling, well… it can get loud and funny.
I bet some of us ask theirselves now: What are they thinking…
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26
May
While laughing at a cool Garfield strip where Jon gets hit by a
lightning and sobbering about it to Garfield, the young man in
the following video had much more luck, then exprected. Why?
Watch the video and you’ll have the answer with no doubt!
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25
May
It’s not often that you see officers let their fists speak prior to
using their gun. In this case, the “officer” was a short-tempered
woman who ordered the witnesses of an accident on a mall
ground not to take pictures or film the accident.
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24
May
Now the statistics are official: Rendezvous bern 2012 has attracted no
less than 500’000 spectators have seen the lightshow that illuminated
the federal parliament building in Bern in 2012 and 2011. In 2011
330’000 people have watched the lightshow. A good result!
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23
May
I am very patient when it comes to erroneous products. I usually
seel the way of least resistance to get to the goal. But when there’s
something I don’t like much, then it is getting joked on by
companies. Gigabyte is one such who lost my reputation!
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22
May
Microsoft’s new console is now finally presented to the public.
The XBox One as it is officially called, combines Media Player,
Media Center, Game console and social media hub into one
tiny box. Due to so many infos, it is best to watch the video.
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21
May
The new XBox is a long-awaited successor for the already aged XBox 360.
While Sony has already presented details for the PS4 and Nintendo
brought the WiiU to the gamers last christmas, Microsoft is a bit on the
slow line and has to show something now.
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20
May
As if the gray weather wouldn’t be annoying enough, the weather
forecast for the upcoming days isn’t as thrilling as expected. Snow
down to the flatlands isn’t what one is expecting towards June!
So hopefully the weather will change soon again!
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19
May
One may ask: Apple, quo vadis? Since Apple is harshly struggling with
the actual market’s demands and still barely holding the line (as the
stock share price of 436 US$ shows), Apple is now targeted by the IRS
for hiding billions of taxes from the U.S. government.
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18
May
Since the demand for more and more data space is ever so high, HGST
and Western Digital seem to have an answer for that issue also. As of
June 2013, customers will be able to fit 9.5mm high HDDs at 2.5″ form
factor into their low-profile notebook and still benefit from 1.5 TB!
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17
May
The update into WordPress 3.5.1 ran without problems so far, however
some bugs were annoying me. One of them was the missing ability to
drag widgets from the widget table to my sidebar. First I suspected the
theme to be the culprit, but no! On other themes it didn’t work either!
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16
May
I am off my computers for several days so if there are some posts between
today and May, 20th, they will probably have no images within as I am
armed with my iPad only and thus have no possibility to add videos and
limited capacity to add pics. But from May 21st, I’ll be back completing them!
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15
May
Today, the building got it’s spire mounted and is again the tallest building in
New York since the Twin Towers collapsed on Sept 11, 2001. The building’s
height of exactly 1’776 feet is a tribute to the Independence Year of the USA. A
camera team has recorded the spectacular view from the lifted spire.
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14
May
…or when a 7970 Radeon HD burns up for unknown reason! Today I got
my second 7970 back from warranty repair. With Crossfire in mind, I
returned home to put in the puppy into my rig. Ran some benchmarks
here and some quick SimCity gaming there when it suddenly happened…
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13
May
It seems as if the spying on users in the USA is still ongoing and proceeding.
A confidential document has stated, that the FBI has scanned and read
E-Mails of suspected persons without prior notice. That is a severe breach
with privacy. The article is linked here.
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12
May
The times of cheap RAM seem to be over, as memory manufacturers have set
their priorities to manufacture memory products for mobile devices.
Therefore, manufacturers of otebooks like ASUS and Acer are already
complaining about higher memory prices.
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11
May
AMD has shown a detailed block diagram of it’s newest GPU family. So does
the “Volcanic Islands” family with “Hawaii” as the flagship GPU comes with
4096 Stream units on 16 computing units. With 256 texture units, 64 ROPs,
assisted from 4GB RAM with 512bit interface, the speed my raise significantly.
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10
May
If you’re searching for a good present for your father, maybe this one may
come in handy. Two american guys have invented it to circumvent the
forbidden transportation of alcohol in cars. Shaped like an iPhone, they
can now enjoy their beverage without getting in trouble with the police.
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09
May
Or: Things you shouldn’t do at a baseball game, especially when
you’re there with your girlfriend. This or a similar sentence would
be useful for this boy who thought, his call was more important
than his girlfriend and their debute on the Jumbotron…
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08
May
Adobe has announced to bring out it’s newest version of their software
suite only as Pay-by-use-software. They underline the actuality of the
software and the new features, that will become available. While some
cheer for the new features, there might be some unhappy users.
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07
May
Seagate, known for it’s classic hard drives seems to have it, being the
Loner not to deliver SSD drives. As of today, Seagate announces the
release of it’s 600-series SSD drives, which are available in 120, 240
and 480 GB capacity, equipped with MFC 19nm chips from Toshiba.
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06
May
Well, since today you’d better reconsider your thoughts and plans. According to
the french government, the french border control has all rights to search your
PDA for evidence (whatever it could be) without prior suspect. As this might
be a serious break with the right of privacy, the experts are alarmed.
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05
May
Another year gone. 32 years. However nothing to be worried about. Have a
nice day and party, Pianoman! Enjoy the day and all the best for the new
bithday year. May all your wishes, plans and dreams come true! And cheers
to another year of party, fun and blogging!
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04
May
When it comes to SciFi and good thrillers, one can catch my attention fast.
In this case, a good friend of mine has pulled my attention showing me a
trailer about a little device with only one button. But pushing this button
has a far-reaching consequence. The Apple and the snake.
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03
May
Although copyright infringement isn’t okay, the current lawsuit, SABAM
(Société d’Auteurs Belge – Belgische Auteurs Maatschappij) is set
against Belgacom, Telenet and Voo. SABAM underlines that the named ISPs
are responsible for the reducing income of media sales.
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02
May
For once it is not a private person being sued by the big media labels for
copyright infringement such as illegally downloading movies or music.
This lawsuit is about Warner Brothers being sued for using the “Nyan
Cat” and “Keyboard Cat” trademarks in the Scribblenauts game!
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01
May
As posted last month, here’s now this months’ Garfield Top 15.
Again here are 15 assorted strips from the various garfield comics over
the years! Have fun and good laughing minutes while watching/reading
them. For more comics, simply scroll down this page.
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