New patents may point to an idea of Apple to create an iWatch. But what exactly
could this gadget do? Will it be an iPhone reduced to the size of a watch or will
the iWatch only a smaller edition of an iPod? As integrated circuits allow smaller
and smaller devices, the iWatch might be a Mini-iPhone!

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Well… I have seen lots in my life so far but a sky full of tangling spiders…
well, I must admit that I will consider not living at one of these spots ever.
I usually have no arachnophobia but I don’t need one of these running free
in my home also. They usually meet a book or a glass for carryout.

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What sounds like a polt to a B-SciFi-Movie got real today. A meteor has hit
earth today in the morning. Parts have hit the ground at Lake Cherbakul.
The touchdown was so hefty that the shock wave has burst many windows
and hurt approximately 1000 people so far. Some videos show the meteor.

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Yes, I know, it’s boring to read again about some copyright infringement.
And yes I am also bored, too. But maybe this is a way to show why money
still rules the world and why people are willing about to give up their soul
for something that usually isn’t worth fighting for.

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The World Wide Web has lots of real useless crap on it, mostly spam! But
there alre also some gems out there which should be mentionned. That’s
why I take focus on Captain Campus’ blog today which will be a new source
for fun stuff filtered out for you. Welcome to the Blogger’s community, pal!

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If it comes to the mind of the Australian Health Organisation, birthday
candle blowouts in australian kindergardens are no longer recommended.
Reason for this is a study that points out that most of the infections of kids
occur at birthdays when the birthday child is blowing out the candles.

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When it comes to freaky, funny, useless or eyecatching gadgets, then they’re
mostly from asia. The newest gadget is a iRoomba for your smartphone or
tablet PC. Setting up the little cleaner, it cleans the suface of your tablet in
8 minutes or then smartphone in 4 minutes. For 15 US$ it is obtainable.

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Some people never learn when to behave. For instance when being at court
for a felony. In this case, a young girl was sentenced to a penalty fee of
5000 US$ for possession of Xanax and B.A.R.S. – both pharmaceutics are
categorized as drugs as they can make you dependent of them quickly.

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After 14 months it seems as if the small family cafe in Bonn, Germany finally
can stick to their logo without having to fear the wrath of the computer
and smartphone primus Apple. In October 2011, the owner of the small café
in Bonn got a not-so-friendly letter from Apple’s attorneys at law.

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The USA and Barack Obama have ratified an agreement to raise the debt
limit as long as needed without any upper limit. This way, the USA is trying
to ensure it’s full liquidity. However there’s some stale taste with this as the
actual 16.4 trillion DS$ debt equals 100% of the annual US economic power!

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Known usually from western films in silent situations, these rolling bushes
also known as tumbleweed, seem to have developed an ability to block the
road. This phenomenon is seen when the tumbleweed plants get mature and
detach from the roots. blown away by wind, they roll and spread their seed.

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Unbelievable: What looks like a plot for “Hidden camera: Fun with you” is in
fact the bitter truth for a clerk in Tel Aviv who parked her car on a free
parking lot. However the city authority of Tel Aviv was a bit consternated
about her parking there and decided to make her an official parking violator.

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It has been one of the most criticized traffic optimization projects: Stutgart
21, formerly known as the new central station allowing train pass through
instead of a terminus. Now it seems as if the projected costs of 4.5 billion €
cannot be stuck to and are recalculated to up to 6.8 billion €.

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If you ever wondered, what it’s like to play “Teacher”, then this game might
probably give you the chance to do so. I a fun way, that is! For once you
have to fool your fuzzy logic in order to recognize the errors in the given
texts. Your goal is to make the students and their essays a big fail.

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It seems as if Apple has an internal problem with the Spell checking routine that
is serving many programs in OS X to use the correct words. However a simple
string may crash exactly this routine as the string ends up in a procedure that is
not supported properly and thus crashing every application using Spell checking.

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So while the rest of the world has already been cartographed and also made
available with satellite images, North Korea was a simple plain white spot as
there were no satellite pictures allowed or cartographic material made in the
past. Now North Korea has also reached the digital cartographic age.

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It seems as there are still some truck drivers underestimating their rig’s
abilities. In this movie, the driver seems to have taken the curve with too
much speed resulting in his cargo containment to drop off the trailer and
slide over the intersection towards to wating cars and a motorcyclist.

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Seems as if cell providers in the USA had it with their “cheating”  customers.
According to a new law that will be active from January 26th 2013, SIM-
unlocking is considered a felony and will be punished after a trial period of
90 days. Penalties of 2500 US$ or even up to multiannual imprisonment!

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China is one of the countries with the highest poulation density. But not
only poor people are living next to each other on small room. A new bulit
villa village in Lingshui, Hainan (China) has been built in only two years.
Over 1000 new villas are ready to be rent by wealthier citizen of China.

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So Tina Turner finally has decided to get the swiss passport and also become
swiss citizen. Living for over 20 years in Küsnacht (Zurich), Tina Turner has
enjoyed the decent respect she got in Switzerland. No picturehunters at her
doors waiting for a shot. And swiss fans didn’t bother her every time.

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If there are really touching videos on the web, this is probably one of them.
A dolphin is swimming very close to a diver group distinctively signalizing
that it has something that hurts and hindering it from proper swimming.
By time one of the divers has recognized the reason… and could help!

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When marriages don’t work well anymore, it usual that wife and husband
talk to each other and try to find a solution together to solve any issues. In
this case however the wife of a british man has decided to registerat a dating
site and revealing details about her marriage the man did not find funny.

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Travelling can be dangerous. Especially into regions not as evolved as the
modern industrial states. In this case, a british housewife has to fear the big
consequences of smuggling drugs. What’s perfidious, is the fact that the
woman got oppressed to smuggle the drugs as her children were threatened.

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Ain’t no good day for Serena Williams as she got kicked out of the
tournament by a 19-years-old player. When she lost the game, she decided
to destroy her racket. Seems as if she can’t cope with losses. A dropout in
a tournament is annoying, sure, but short tamper is not the right path!

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It seems as if the USA have only one option to evade the debt crisis. Allow
more debts. The republicans have proposed, that the debt border line shall
be expanded with no limit until May, 18th to buy more time to find a way out
of the debt crisis. Is this the right way? Interesting is another passus.

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Impatience. Companion of our modern time. Rush hour, hurry, stress… they
all belong to the impatience that causes lots of trouble. The harmless things
are barging, the harming things range from some pain over to severe injuries
up to death as the worst thing to happen because of impatience.

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The winter is sort of strange. The temperatures are barely below zero degrees
celsius and thus it is raining black ice. What males it so dangerous, is the fact
that you don’t expect extreme weather conditions. But what looks like rain,
quickly turns into a thick shell of ice. The result: Extremely slippery floors.

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The iPhone 5 was not the big hope Apple has seen it initally. Sales of the
next-Gen iPhone are rather mediocre. And this has already been reflected
by the Apple stock shares as they have lost about 20% of their highest value.
Apple has to do something to be back on tracks. Is the iPhone 5S the answer?

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There are lots of crazy news to read these days. But when it comes to absurd
things (things, normal people won’t do, usually!) then it makes me think what
could have moved person XY to do such a silly thing. In this news the
person has died shitting between platform and train and fell into the track.

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machines can be nasty during operation. in this case, an escalator in the New
York subway system went berzerk and just switched the direction while
people were on it. The chaos was programmed. But not only the direction
change was a problem, also the speed of the scalator changed to faster.

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…or: “Hey Windows, you know what you’re running on, eh?”. When a user
tried to flash the ROM of his Windows smartphone, the phone suddenly asked
for an installation media. The problem is: Windows 8 comes on a DVD. So how
do you get a DVD recognized by the smartphone?

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Interesting to read these kinds of News as they’re very uncommon. A young
woman in sweden hijacked a public transportation vehicle and drove it off
the tracks leaving a big demolition behind. While the track was secured with
a bumper, the train was so fast that it crashed into a house 25 metres behind.

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