This guy thought: “Hey let’s do some copier prank” and promptly completed
his task. However he didn’t calculate several things in and so, his prank went
into a big disaster. First, he didn’t think of the load weight the copy glass
might carry and second, he underestimated his own weight.

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People need thrill, people need excitement. Our today’s fun activities allow
exactly this. But what happens if even the most secure technic begins to fail
for no known reason. The following video shows a 22-years-old australian
woman who survived a 350 ft plummet into Zambezi river.

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The weather in Switzerland could not be more different. While
villages in higher regions are almost cut off from the rest of the
country due to heavily snow-blocked roads, in other regions a
storm called “Andrea” brought rain and heavy winds.

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A team of engineers at the University of Illinois has developed a self-healing system that
restores electrical conductivity to a cracked circuit in seconds. Led by aerospace
engineering professor Scott White and materials science and engineering professor Nancy
Sottos, the researchers published their results in the journal Advanced Materials.

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The CES is just a few days ahead, but Broadcom already announced to release
WiFi-chips that are compatible to the all-new 802.11ac standard. So what does
that mean to you as customer? The first thing is that the fastest WLAN-routers
and dongles can handle 450 Mbit/s at most which means 50-80 Mbit in real.

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Driving can be difficult and yes, policemen can be annoying too if they pick
you out for no obvious reason. But totaling your car and possibly endangering
other’s lives isn’t an option then! The driver of the car in the following video didn’t
care about anything and drove into the traffic jam recklessly and totaled his car.

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Comets can be rarely seen and in the past, there were not many pics or even videos
available. However in the change of time, more and more equipment makes it possible
to catch these rare moments when extraterrestial events occur, such as falling stars.
A brasilian observatory has put such a timeshifting video online for your pleasure.

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It seems as if LG wants to bring new excitement into homecineasts’ homes
At least the newest addition of LG will let the hearts of many of us beat faster:
With a diamenter of 55 inches, a thicknes of only 4mm and a weight of about
15lbs (7.5 kg) the TV sets new records.

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Today I thought: Would it be possible to push the AI back into the utmost
edge field of a chessboard while maintaining 3 Queens and 8 Rooks?
Just for aesthetic reasons? I played almost 30 rounds to find out!
Mostly I ran into stalemate or checkmated it before my goal!

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It seems as if the new southern island GPUs are right on track when you read first reviews
about them. My favourite GPU test site Guru3D has checked on these and even managed
to do a Crossfîre scaling test with the new 7970 GPU. The results are promising and it
seems that the power consumption has been held in place or even dropped a little.

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After a real fancy night out. I am back to the business and keep this place busy as always.
Hope you all have enjoyed New Year’s Eve and slipped into 2012 without any problems.
My “night” ended at 06:30 and gave me the chance to get home with the public
transportation service and not by taxi (which is awfully expensive in Switzerland!)

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So that’s all for 2011 now. I will celebrate New years Eve with my family! So the
updates on this blog are probably a bit delayed! To all my loyal and truthful
readers I wish a happy new year, some happy hours spending the time at your
local clubs and/or celebrating with your beloved ones!

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The Ninth Circuit Court for Appeals in the USA has put down a lawsuit of many private
persons who have filed for a lawsuit against Cell network carriers who allow the NSA to
tap the line of customers without prior notice and without a definite suspected case.
It seems, the NSA still holds tight to their right to spy on innocent people!

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It seems the popular WPS technology has another set-back to deal with! While
the setup of WPA-based encryption is safe in most scenarios, the handling with the
long security keys can be a real hassle. That’s why the WiFi consortium brought out
WPS which lets one set up WiFi-Connections by simply pairing a device with a code.

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It seems as if the next-gen CPUs of Intel will be lithographed in 22nm structure size. Also
a new technology, called tri-gate transistors will be introduced. Instead of flat transistors
new three-dimensional gates will be used instead. With this technology, smaller structures
annd more transistor switches per mm² Die area are possible.

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So… Apple again. Rumors say that the new iPad 3 will be presented on February 24th, as
it is the birthday of Steve Jobs who passed away this year on October 5th. What’s most
interesting, is that there are also plans for a small form-factor iPad with a 7inch screen.
It’s probably only a rumor but hey, other companies have all sizes in their portfolio!

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So this was it for this year’s christmas. Another 366 days for the kids to count down until
christmas 2012. You know, they foretell that on December 20th, 2012 the world will go
down as the mayan calendar has said. Do you believe in such ancient forecasts or do you
think they’re just bad tales such as other world’s end scenarios in the past?

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So… did you all get your awaited presents? I bet most of you did and most of you opened
them yesterday evening unlike the usual tradition. But hey, that’s the impatience of today’s
kids! I wonder what happens if you tell your kids to wait until December 25th to open their
presents. How do you handle christmas present time? Do your kids open them today?

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I hope you all enjoy christmas with your beloved ones and are not staying at home alone!
I wish you some pleasant, quiet, relaxing and soothening days for your convenience. And
remember to all the people you know. Let them known that you think about them and if it
is only a shortmessage from your cell phone!

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And with it I am signing off for a quiet 4 days with my beloved ones! So whenever you
comment on something or your registration needs to be unlocked, you have to wait till
December 27th.
Until then enjoy the quiet time. You will read prepared posts in the upcoming days!

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Do you feel the christmas spirit yet? No? Well here in Berne, snowfall keeps on and
making the landscape white. Just as one would wish for christmas. But on the other
hand it worries to see that the temperatures increase again and letting the snow melt
before christmas will arrive. This year’s winter is a bit odd in my opinion.

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It seems as if also my blog cannot be spared form plugin issues.In this case it was the newest
release of FancyBox for WordPress which is, in my opinion, a cool plugin to pep up the blog
especially when using lots of images in a post or page. So what did I do to get the newest
version to work properly. The author posted a tweet asking everyone to default the settings,

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So for all of you winter-loving people, here comes the new ultimate iPad!
Although it is not the way, most people have expected the new iPad that is sort
of overdue, the concept and design are by far superior to the classic models that
are currently out. Imagine what crazy stuff you can do with that thingy!

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So it is winter… finally! Every year the people are hoping for snow for christmas here in Bern.
This year it’s a bit late as the last two days were the only days where we got 10cm of snow!
Although show is a synonym for delayed traffic, cars, busses, trams, no matter what, people
should usually know how to prepare for it and try to reduce delay times as good as possible.

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As I have written just this saturday, today the stock papers of Zynga had to proove theirselves
on the market today. And the start wasn’t that good! Actually, Zynga is at 9 dollar per share.
Their deepest dip was at 8.8 dollar per share and thus 6% less than the opening value!
Okay, the NASDAQ didn’t have a good start either but it seems there’s some doubt around!

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As of today, it seems, as if AMD is trying to bring you the new graphics chips earlier then
planned. So are the 77xx series for entry-High-Level gaming. Their chip called ” Cape Verde”,
the 78xx series “Pitcairn” adress High-performance gamers and the flagship, 79xx series
“Tahiti” are dedicated to the enthusiast users. AMD plans to bring them cards out for x-mas!

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Well, today Zynga had to profile itself with the stock market enter they have fulfilled these days.
At a rate of 10 dollars per share, they issued 100 million shares which brought 1 billion dollars
into the pockets of Zynga, creator of Farmville & Co. Such games you play usually on Facebook.
So how will the stock perform? On monday we will see if the stock is still up to code!

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Well… Christmas is in the Go and if you thought, They’re giving Apple a break
(or vice versa), then you’re definitely wrong. Samsung again tries to raise three
more lawsuits (in total 7 then) to even up with Apple, who claim 6 lawsuits
against Samsung at the moment. The patents are very trivial!

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In early 1940’s first attempts to create Stereo sound have
been made by Disney, the real stereo sound has been
attempted to broadcast in 1940’s too however with mediocre
success. The first really usable results came up in 1969.

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Cats are tricked by a laser and try to chase it, dogs can be tricked with a throw
move of a wood branch, other animals can be tricked by various actions. In
this video it’s a bearded dragon (a genus of lizards) that is being tricked by a
video game called ant chase where you have to tap on virtual insects.

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An architecture office in Rotterdam has released information
about a new skyscraper prtoject in Asia. The Building looks like
a smaller version of the Twin Towers from New York. The small
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You all know these Cards you need to have in order to activate your cell phone.
While the first cards had a size of 85.6x54mm, as the phones of earlier times
were ridiculously big and heavy, modern smartphones happen to need smaller
and smaller cards. The current smallest factor is Micro-SIM.

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