Monthly Archives: April 2008

So celebrities were making sex tapes back in the old days?

Apparently,  even Jimi Hendrix had a thing for taping his sexual exploits.   Celebrity Cowboy has a roundup of the breaking news and commentary on the supposed Jimi Hendrix sex tape with links to TMZ, Gawker and others.

Oh To Be An Oil Company

Have do you ever wonder what it would be like to be a big earning businessman? You’re not the only one, that’s for sure. It makes me ponder my own significance when companies such as Shell and BP announce $14.3 billion in combined profit for the first 3 months of 2008. I wonder: do these [...]

Abandoned Hotels: Not Where You Want To Stay!

Have you ever pulled up at a hotel and thought that it looked so decrepit that it was in actual fact abandoned? I’ve been there, but have yet to see anything as bad as these abandoned hotels. I would say, however, that many popular holiday resorts frequented by Europeans such as Costa Adeje in Tenerife [...]

Who’d Have Thought? Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions!

Neatorama have a cool but rather strange post detailing 5 inventors killer by their own inventions. The list includes Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov, William Bullock, Otto Lilienthal, Thomas Midgley, Jr. and Franz Reichelt.

New Dark Knight Posters

It’s more than eerie and positively weird, but there are new Dark Knight posters out now.

Ontario Goes Full Bore For Solar Energy

Ontario decided to subsidise solar energy in that energy produced from solar could be sold for 42 cents per kilowatt. They thought that contractors would  build 88 kilowatts worth of solar-generated energy but now have 400 megawatts under contract. Build it and they will come, sort of.

Annoying Things About Star Trek

Well I’m not sure about you, but I am quite partial to Star Trek. Voyager is my favourite series although I am fond of the later Next Generation. However, there are things about the show that frustrate me, namely the drone-like behaviour of characters and the notion that The Federation save humanity. Here’s some more [...]

What’s The Best Web Conferencing Software?

As a telecommuter I frequently had to make trips to clients just to show them a mockup of something new, a list of changes etc. It gets a bit tedious after a few times, and more than time wasting. However, there are ways round this problem: web conferencing. But there are all sorts of flavours [...]

XP Just Won’t Go Away

The launch of Vista has been far from perfect, some might even say disastrous.  In fact, PC makers including Dell, HP and Lenovo are exploiting loopholes in their license agreements to continue to offer XP to customers. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Apple’s computer sales are growing 3 times faster than those of rival [...]

India Launches 10 Satellites

In another sign of the shift in power from west to east India successfully launched 10 satellites in one go, a world record previously held by the Russians with 8.

Freelancing: How To Be Successful

Working for ‘the man’ suits a lot of people down to the ground: you do your work, you get paid ad infinitum. For others though, it’s a completely different story. Freelancers as they are known, work for themselves on an hourly or per project basis. It’s much more flexible but it’s also very unreliable, so [...]

What a surprise. Turns out the ever str …

What a surprise. Turns out the ever strong-charactered, steroid using Roger Clemens had a 10 year affair on his wife.

A small square in an unpopulated region …

A small square in an unpopulated region of an African desert could power the entire world. It’s true.

Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair Scandal

So 15 year old Miley Cyrus takes our culture beyond another breaking point: since when do 15 year old girls even simulate nudity in national magazines? The response from housewives and soccermoms has been, understandably, nothing short of virulent.
While Miley Cyrus claims to be embarrassed about these photos, questions are now emerging as [...]

Any car lover knows that the quintessent …

Any car lover knows that the quintessential American sports car is the Corvette. Check out this awesome article with pictures of every model of Corvette to ever exist.

Wall Street Journal Declares Democratic Nomination for Obama

The Wall Street Journal declares: Democrats have a nominee and his name is Barack Obama.
Of course, the Clinton machine will keep on churning in futility.

Is There a Drowning Epidemic?

Are young male college students being systematically drowned?  2 detectives think they’ve got proof.

When you think of Florida, you think of …

When you think of Florida, you think of places like Orlando, The Keys, Ft. Lauderdale, and Miami. But the fastest growing area in Florida is actually the Northern Panhandle Gulf Coast region.

we love bad celebrity tippers

Celebrities are flawed like everyone else. Just ask photoshop. Or even better, the waitresses who got bad tips.

Need Excitement On Vacation? Try Swimming With Sharks!

When you take a break from work you probably imagine yourself lounging on a sunny palm-fringed beach, powder white sand below, a gentle tropical breeze blowing and a freshly made cocktail to keep things cool. That’s perfect for me, but apparently there are people who would rather do something more adventurous. According to reports one [...]