August 2009
“every minute, ten hours of video is uploaded to YouTube”
– The First Video Uploaded to YouTube
Disney to Buy Marvel Entertainment for $4 Billion →
danhacker:
“The Walt Disney Company said Monday that it would buy the comic book giant Marvel Entertainment for about $4 billion. Under the terms of the deal, Marvel shareholders will receive a $30 a share in cash plus about 0.745 Disney shares for each Marvel share they own. The boards of both companies have approved the deal, which was valued at $50 a share.
With the acquisition, Disney will...
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KFC Double Down Chicken Sandwich Loses the Bun →
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Win win
Filed under: Fast Food, Food News
KFC is currently testing the Double Down. Photo: KFC
Why bother with the bun? That’s the premise of KFC’s…
Using iPhone Satnav Apps While Driving Is Actually... →
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FAIL!
I hope you didn’t drop a whole heap of coin on a proper satnav application for your iPhone – turns out that in Australia, using your smartphone as a GPS…
Sharks and Cats
Why do some people have a shark over their image and others have cat ears and whiskers?
New Languages in Google Translate →
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You can not Google translate into Irish!
Google’s machine translation service added 10 new languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay,…
Tech Support Cheat Sheet →
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excellent!
Tilt →
Tilt is very nice series of photos by Romain Laurent, these are my favorites.
Tilt →
Tilt is very nice series of photos by Romain Laurent, these are my favorites.
Sand Boarding →
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Nice!
Video gamers 'older than thought' →
A US study suggests the average adult video game enthusiast is 35 years old and more overweight and less healthy than average.
Mathematics of a Zombie Attack →
Here is the abstract of a new paper in Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress.
Zombies are a popular figure in pop culture/entertainment and they are usually portrayed as being brought…
Why I Read The Internet For Twelve Hours A Day →
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of course… neurological!
by Patrick Appel
Turns out it’s neurological:
[Washington State University neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp] says that humans can get just as…
Watchflight patterns on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Underwater Rugby →
Underwater rugby is pretty simple, teams of 12 (of which 6 can be in the water at a time) battle to get a ball into two metal baskets, set at opposite sides of the pool. The ball is filled with a…
gifparty:
Scientists Extract Oxygen from Moon Rocks →
davereed:
Apparently the process is even feasible in terms of power-requirements
[h/t hilker]
