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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Warren Buffet who is worth $44 billion will be giving away 85% of his fortune to charities – like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. From Wikepedia – Mr. Buffet has indicated that he opposes the transfer of great fortunes … Continue reading
Bill Gates plans to withdraw from day-to-day duties at Microsoft Corp., so he can focus on his charitable foundation while others run the company he co-founded and guided to industry dominance and vast personal wealth. Source: komo news | Gates … Continue reading
A 440 pound German man barely had any injuries after being run over by a Volkswagen Polo. Hehe, kinda like the Blob in the X-Men. Source Have a nice day
A meteorite that hit Norway has an impact comparable to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. This is very exciting, I’ve always been interested how powerful a decent-sized meteorite could be. Though it would suck if it was several miles … Continue reading
This is very good news. Intel will cut the prices of its products by up to 60% to reclaim market share from AMD. Here are some interesting quotes from the article. Customers of Intel Corp. said the world’s biggest computer-chip … Continue reading
A lyrebird is a ground dwelling bird in Australia. It is known for it’s amazing ability to imitate sounds it hears. It can imitate the calls of other birds. It can even imitate more “artificial” sounds, from camera shutters to … Continue reading
Found this on Blogger.com. Some nice drawings of stuff. Reminds me of those new Disney films Here are some samples: Click here to go to Juananimation Blog.
I found this on digg.com. As quoted from the source: “SQL Injection” is subset of the an unverified/unsanitized user input vulnerability (“buffer overflows” are a different subset), and the idea is to convince the application to run SQL code that … Continue reading
2Advanced Studios just released a new design for their website. Very cool. It has some sort of step-pyramid, which looks very cool. Better navigation and kick-ass ambient background music. You must see to appreciate. Words are not enough to describe … Continue reading
The RIAA is targeting Youtube and Google Video. Noonebutme writes: In its ever-increasing battle against Internet piracy, the RIAA is always looking for new ways to prevent people from listening to music without authorization. The newest way to share music … Continue reading