Microsoft is watching you! Or at least that is what they want you to let them do!
Two products in their new series are a teddy bear and a wall clock.
LONDON - Unemployed and love music? If so, a British school is offering teenagers a deal — take a summer course and bag an iPod.
Critics say handing out the players — which cost around 170 pounds (US$300; euro230) in Britain — to students embarking on the “Step Up for Summer” course at Bournemouth and Pool College amounts to bribery. (more…)
LONDON, England (Reuters) — Women who have difficulty reaching orgasm can blame it on their genes.
Like heart disease, anxiety and depression, scientists discovered in a study of 1,397 pairs of female twins that there is a genetic basis to female orgasm.
“We found that between 34 percent and 45 percent of the variation in ability to orgasm can be explained by underlying genetic variation,” (more…)
$1m for first America map. A 500-year-old map which was the first to use the word “America” is sold at a London auction for $1,018,000.
Source: Cnn.com
Malfourmed writes “The University of Melbourne’s Cinema Studies Program, School of Art History, Cinema, Classics & Archaeology is hosting a four day conference (and fancy dress ball and movie programme)
on superhoeroes and supervillains. (more…)
jefp writes “In November 2004, Microsoft’s second-in-command Steve Ballmer made some headlines by mentioning that Chairman Bill Gates was getting four million spams per day. At the time, I was dealing with a little spam problem of my own - I was getting around a million spams per day. I found it a little comforting that my problem wasn’t quite as bad as Bill’s. However, a couple of weeks later Ballmer corrected himself, saying he mis-remembered the stat and Gates actually gets four million per year. This means I was getting one hundred times as much spam as Bill Gates. I’ve written a tutorial explaining why I get so much crapmail and how I deal with it.”
Source: slashdot.com
shamowfski writes “CVS Corp on Monday began selling a disposable digital camcorder. The $29.99 pocket-sized camcorder was developed by Pure Digital Technologies Inc., a San Francisco-based start-up company. The camcorder weighs under 5 ounces and holds 20 minutes of digital video and sound. It features a 1.4 inch color playback screen and an ability to delete video, and it saves video on a memory chip instead of tapes.”
“The ugliest rack wins!”
The Swedish website PimpMyRack.se holds an contest in who has the ugliest rackspace. If you win, then you’ll get an new rack for €30.000!!!
See the sent in entries direct here
Look-alikes?!
Apparently the Belgian foreign minister De Gucht called the Dutch prime minister Balkenend this!
What can I say?? After all, this is what everyone in Holland thinks - but never says.
Source: nu.nl [In dutch]
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