OMG these are truly a special breed of man...I almost fell off my chair...
Friday, 26 November 2010
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Real men don't compalin - Great Pepsi advert
Some great Wednesday humour from Pepsi. Shows real men doing silly things that end up in accidents, but don't complain one peep. Tag off line is basically Real Men don't complain.
Made me roar with laughter in a otherwise dull office this morning adding to my wierdness status
Made me roar with laughter in a otherwise dull office this morning adding to my wierdness status
Monday, 22 November 2010
A very young Einstein...found this interesting
" 'The people of Ulm are mathematicians' was the unusual medieval motto of the city on the banks of the Danube in the south-western corner of Germany where Albert Einstein was born. It was an apt birthplace on 14 March 1879 for the man who would become the epitome of scientific genius. The back of his head was so large and distorted, his mother feared her newborn son was deformed. Later he took so long to speak that his parents worried he never would. Not long after the birth of his sister, and only sibling, Maja in November 1881, Einstein adopted the rather strange ritual of softly repeating every sentence he wanted to say until satisfied it was word-perfect before uttering it aloud. At seven, to the relief of his parents, Hermann and Pauline, he began to speak normally. By then the family had lived in Munich for six years, having moved so Hermann could open an electrical business in partnership with his younger brother Jakob."
"In October 1885, with the last of the private Jewish schools in Munich closed for more than a decade, the six-year-old Einstein was sent to the nearest school. Not surprisingly in the heartland of German Catholicism, religious education formed an integral part of the curriculum, but the teachers, he recalled many years later, 'were liberal and did not make any denominational distinctions.' However liberal and accommodating his teachers may have been, the anti-Semitism that permeated German society was never buried too far beneath the surface, even in the schoolroom. Einstein never forgot the lesson in which his religious studies teacher told the class how the Jews had nailed Christ to the cross. 'Among the children,' Einstein recalled years later, 'anti-Semitism was alive especially in elementary school.' Not surprisingly, he had few, if any, school friends. 'I am truly a lone traveller and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart', he wrote in 1930. He called himself an Einspanner, a one-horse cart."
"In October 1885, with the last of the private Jewish schools in Munich closed for more than a decade, the six-year-old Einstein was sent to the nearest school. Not surprisingly in the heartland of German Catholicism, religious education formed an integral part of the curriculum, but the teachers, he recalled many years later, 'were liberal and did not make any denominational distinctions.' However liberal and accommodating his teachers may have been, the anti-Semitism that permeated German society was never buried too far beneath the surface, even in the schoolroom. Einstein never forgot the lesson in which his religious studies teacher told the class how the Jews had nailed Christ to the cross. 'Among the children,' Einstein recalled years later, 'anti-Semitism was alive especially in elementary school.' Not surprisingly, he had few, if any, school friends. 'I am truly a lone traveller and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart', he wrote in 1930. He called himself an Einspanner, a one-horse cart."
"As a schoolboy he preferred solitary pursuits and enjoyed nothing more than constructing ever-taller houses of cards. He had the patience and tenacity, even as a ten-year-old, to build them as high as fourteen stories. These traits, already such a fundamental part of his make-up, would allow him to pursue his own scientific ideas when others might have given up. 'God gave me the stubbornness of a mule,' he said later, 'and a fairly keen scent.' Though others disagreed, Einstein maintained he possessed no special talents, only a passionate curiosity. This quality that others had, however, coupled with his stubbornness, meant that he continued to seek the answer to almost childlike questions long after his peers were taught to stop even asking them. What would it be like to ride on a beam of light? It was trying to answer this question that set him on his decade-long path to the theory of relativity."
Author: Manjit Kumar
Title: Quantum
Publisher: Norton
Date: Copyright 2008 by Manjit Kumar
Pages: 34-35
Title: Quantum
Publisher: Norton
Date: Copyright 2008 by Manjit Kumar
Pages: 34-35
Friday, 19 November 2010
Russian transformers??
This is so cool - a slight rustic version of the Transformers but cool nontheless...
Facebook Facts
1. Facebook has over 500 million users.
2. If Facebook were a country, it would be the world’s 3rd largest country.
3. An average Facebook user spends about 55 minutes a day on the site.
4. An average Facebook user spends about 6.50 hours a week on the site.
5. The average Facebook user spends 1.20 days a month on the site.
6. Facebook’s translation application support over 100 languages.
7. There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages).
8. Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events.
9. Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month.
10. More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
11. ** In a sample survey of 2884 people across 14 countries, Facebook is studied to have the highest penetration. The top 3 sites include Facebook (51%), MySpace (20%), and Twitter (17%).
12. **Over 300,000 users translate the site through the translations application.
13. **Over 150 million people engage with Facebook on external websites every month.
14. **Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites are integrated with Facebook.
15. **There are over 100 million active users accessing Facebook currently through their mobile devices.
Source:
*Online sample survey of 2,884 consumers spread over 14 countries between the age of 18 to 55 years old by Online Media Gazette.
** Statistics from Facebook press office.
YouTube Facts
1. The most popular YouTube video – Justin Bieber, Baby ft. Ludacris has had over 374,403,983 views.
2. ** YouTube receives over 2 billion viewers each day.
3. ** 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube by users every minute.
4. ** 70% of YouTube users are from the United States.
5. ** More than half of YouTube’s users are under the age of 20.
6. ** To watch all the videos currently on YouTube, a person has to live for around 1,000 years.
7. ** YouTube is available across 19 countries and in 12 languages.
8. ** Music videos account for 20% of uploads on YouTube.
2. ** YouTube receives over 2 billion viewers each day.
3. ** 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube by users every minute.
4. ** 70% of YouTube users are from the United States.
5. ** More than half of YouTube’s users are under the age of 20.
6. ** To watch all the videos currently on YouTube, a person has to live for around 1,000 years.
7. ** YouTube is available across 19 countries and in 12 languages.
8. ** Music videos account for 20% of uploads on YouTube.
Source:
** Statistics from YouTube press centre.
** Statistics from YouTube press centre.
Thursday, 18 November 2010
The state of local Russian Airlines
When you next time decide to take a local flight across the Russia don’t be surprised to board an airplane like this. Don’t you know that the sticky tape is the best way to put pieces of the plane together? At least for this particular plane...
Russian Windows Vista Advert - So funny!!
In some far of Russian city they advertise Windows Vista on lavatory pans in the public toilets of the city. The sign reads “Windows Vista – the digital future starts here”. Hahaha so funny since Vista was such a drastic fail, well in hind sight the perfect place to advertise it then...
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Mary Meeker's Awesome Web 2.0 Presentation About The State Of The Web
Predictions are mobile to become HUGE!!! USA, Russia, Brazil, India and China the worlds Top Internet Markets - they account for 46% of all Internet users!! INSANE - this up 21% Year on year - 1.8 Billion Global Internet User worldwide...The full presentation can be found in the link below.
First Russian Super Car
It is hard to imagine a more emotional and futuristic GT-class coupe, than the Marussia В2. Its expressive and challenging nature could be seen at first sight. Only having sat behind the wheel of this vehicle you will be able to estimate and experience the potential and the power of its performance characteristics in full.
The powerhouse of the thoroughbred racing potential of the aggressive Marussia В2 is the unique Marussia-Cosworth 2,8 litres and 420 h.p. engine. It is also a source of true comfort while driving along the public roads.
Every detail and each shape bending of the coupe are just the muscles, and everyone of them works for speed and power. Therefore, you will not find any iota of the Marussia В2 excess weight; and when horsepower into kilograms converted, its power becomes really a cosmic one.
The dynamics and power of the Marussia В2 inspires respect, and the futuristic and flash design draws a sight by the singularity. One can hardly find any other coupe capable to brag of a menacing letter "M" in the silhouette.
[sic] from the website...http://www.marussiamotors.ru/en/
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Monday, 15 November 2010
Abandoned Russian Polar Nuclear Lighthouses
The Russian Northern coast is a vast territory that runs for a few thousand miles and all the coastline is inside the Polar Circle. Long polar winters mean that there is no daylight at all, just one day changes another without any sign of the Sun rising above the horizon. So essentially there is only polar night for 100 days of the year.
This Northern coast, has always been used by cargo boats as a short cut to travel from the Eastern part of Russia to the Western part. Now this trip can be made fairly easy with the appearance of all the satellite navigation equipment like GPS and others that is readily available today, however during the Soviet Era none of this was available.
So, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union decided to build a chain of lighthouses to guide ships finding their way in the dark polar night across the uninhabited shores of the Soviet Russian Empire. So a series of lighthouses was erected. They had to be fully autonomous, because they were situated hundreds and hundreds miles aways from any populated areas. After reviewing different ideas on how to make them work for years without service or any external power supply, Soviet engineers decided to implement atomic energy to power up these structures. So, special lightweight small atomic reactors were produced in limited series to be delivered to the Polar Circle lands and to be installed in the lighthouses to power them. These small reactors could work in the independent mode for years and didn’t require any human interference, so it was very handy in the situation like this. It was a kind of robot-lighthouse which calculated the time of year and the length of daylight, from which it automatically turned on its lights when it was needed and sent radio signals to nearby ships to warn them on their journey. It all looked and ran like something from a sci-fi book and they most probably were for their time.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the unattended automatic lighthouses did the job but after some time they collapsed. Mostly as a result of the hunt for metals like copper and other stuff which were performed by looters. They didn’t care or maybe even didn’t know the meaning of the “Radioactive Danger” sign and ignored them, breaking in and destroying the equipment. It sounds creepy but they broke into the reactors too causing all the structures to become radioactively polluted.
Now these derelict lighthouses stand abandoned across the great northern coast of Russia causing great pollution to our environment, sad that man in all its infinite wisdom and cleverness can create such technology but in the same instance cause such great harm...
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