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The 10 Most Loathsome People In America, 2007

This list was too good to pass up. I hope you enjoy it.

1. George W. Bush

Charges: Is it a civil rights milestone to have a retarded president? Maybe it would be, if he were ever legitimately elected. You can practically hear the whole nation holding its breath, hoping this guy will just fucking leave come January '09 and not declare martial law. Only supporters left are the ones who would worship a fucking turnip if it promised to kill foreigners. Is so clearly not in charge of his own White House that his feeble attempts to define himself as "decider" or "commander guy" are the equivalent of a five-year-old kid sitting on his dad's Harley and saying "vroom vroom!" Has lost so many disgusted staffers that all he's left with are the kids from Jesus Camp. The first president who is so visibly stupid he can say "I didn't know what was in the National Intelligence Estimate until last week" and sound plausible. Inarguably a major criminal and a much greater threat to the future of America than any Muslim terrorist.

Exhibit A: "And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it."

Sentence: Dismembered, limbs donated to injured veterans.


6. Rudy Giuliani

Charges: 9/11 Tourette's syndrome, compounded by compulsive lying. Despite the '93 WTC bombing, didn't act to put all first responders on the same radio frequency and chose to house his Emergency Command Center on the 23rd floor of WTC 7. Giuliani Partners consulting firm routinely did business with a Qatar ministry run by royal Abdallah bin Khalid al-Thani, a man whose farm has seen guests the likes of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and Osama bin Laden. Wooed mistress and future wife with an NYPD chauffeur and trips to Southampton on NYC taxpayers' dime. Ruined the prospect of a Times Square tug-job.

Exhibit A: Stages phone calls from his wife during campaign stops-to show 'em he's got family values. Family values apparently do not include rudimentary put-it-on-vibrate cell phone etiquette. Invoked 9/11 to explain this.

Sentence: Victim of the next 9/11, which consists of two radio-controlled hobby planes smashing into his face.


3. Hillary Clinton

Charges: Began in politics as a teenage Nixon supporter -- that's twisted. Moved on to corporate law, representing Wal-Mart and bravely defending Coca-Cola from disabled employees. Married out of ambition. Failed miserably as the first lady of health care. Has spent whole of senatorial career as a hawk and a panderer. Would have no shot at becoming president if she didn't just happen to be married to one already.

Exhibit A: Has deftly avoided the flip-flopper label -- by never, ever answering a question directly or committing to a position in the first place.

Sentence: Victim of vast right wing conspiracy to shove a brick up her ass.



4. Michael Vick

Charges: Abusing, strangling, electrocuting and murdering a promising NFL career -- and some dogs. Reinforces noxious stereotypes about both jocks and black men. Inspired Whoopi Goldberg to express an opinion.

Exhibit A: Makes millions for throwing ball, decides to invest in gambling on dog fights. How much dumber do people get than this?

Sentence: Slathered in barbecue sauce and set loose naked in a PETA-operated shelter for vicious dogs.









5. William Kristol

Charges: Bears the burlesque Cheshire grin of a sophist born with a large silver spoon jammed sideways in his mouth. A second generation neocon raised in the tradition of Straussian perception management and myth creation, Kristol is basically lying about everything -- always -- and he knows it. Whether at the helm of Rupert Murdoch's Weekly Standard, appearing on Murdoch's Fox News Channel, or co-founding the disastrous Project for a New American Century, Bill is arguably the most egregious media hawk of a generation. Seems to have suffered no ill impact to his career or prestige despite having been completely wrong about everything to do with Iraq and Iran, and actually laughs about it with obnoxious frequency.

Exhibit A: "First of all, whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it's a good idea. I'm happy that the President's willing to do something bad for the kids."

Sentence: Corners of mouth torn apart by metal hook towing mules and face stomped by high-heeled elephants.


6. John Hagee

Charges: A fat, submoronic pastor who is literally trying to bring about the end of the world, Hagee is the leader of the peculiar movement of Christian Zionism, whose basic plan is to get Israel full control of Jerusalem, setting the stage for world war and Armageddon, so Hagee and his flock can ascend to heaven while the Jews, Muslims (especially the Muslims) and everyone else can suffer and die in the wreckage. But lest you get the idea Hagee is an earnestly insane man of the cloth, it turns out he's also paid himself in the millions, first from his non-profit TV station, which he cleverly turned into a tax-exempt church. So maybe Hagee is just another charlatan, but his message is still the most dangerous he could possibly preach.

Exhibit A: "I deserve every dime I'm getting."

Sentence: Banished to hell for being a shitty tipper.



7. Mitt Romney

Charges: America's first clip-art presidential candidate, Romney is a strange mixture of game show host looks and android charm. A true flip-flopper, Romney's ability to turn on an ideological dime is unparalleled, but his excuses are so inauthentic that even Republicans have trouble suspending their disbelief.

Exhibit A: "You can't have freedom without religion, and you can't have religion without freedom."

Sentence: Strapped to the roof of his family car, which his dog attempts to drive across the country, but crashes horribly (because dogs can't drive, of course). Romney's flesh burns off in the ensuing fire, revealing him to be a standard protocol droid set to world domination mode. Narrowly edged out of primary race by Huckabee.



8. Lou Dobbs

Charges: Obvious, intensifying xenophobia and distrust of the yellow and brown races, possibly exacerbated by Mexican wife. Whatever useful message Dobbs once had about economic populism and the deleterious effects of globalization and cheap labor on American wages has long been tainted by his obvious animosity towards foreigners, specifically Mexicans and the Chinese. Every installment of his hour-long broadcast on CNN is dominated by reports about the "menace" of foreign imports, be they illegal immigrants crossing "our broken borders" to spread disease and rape our women, or poisonous products from "communist China." Proof that Dobbs is a venomous yellow journalist shithead can be seen in his reaction to media criticism of a segment on his show in which it was erroneously reported that there had been a sudden upsurge in leprosy cases, totaling 7,000 in just three years, the source of which was a lawyer who had also said in speeches that Mexican immigrants tend to molest children. In truth, there had been 7,000 cases of leprosy in the past thirty years. Dobbs was confronted several times with this fact -- first he strongly defended his numbers, then strongly denied ever having used his numbers. A real journalist admits his errors. Dobbs is an ass.

Exhibit A: Sharply criticized the use of Mexican flags in immigrant demonstrations, then denied the obvious double standard of that comment by going on to say that he would have the same problem with Irish flags at the St. Patrick's Day parade, and, in fact, that he was against St. Patrick's Day. Yeah, sure, Lou.

Sentence: Stuffed with Green Cards; turned into amnesty pinata.


9. Nicole Richie

Charges: Not a brick house. Not mighty mighty. Vastly easier than Sunday morning. Her criminal exploits, attended by hollow contritions, do inestimable harm to drug legalization efforts; while inexplicably adding nothing to the forced-sterilization debate. Quite possibly a reason the terrorists hate us.

Exhibit A: "I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal."

Sentence: Sealed neck-high in the outhouse foundation of a popular Mexican Spring Break destination. Jaws propped open.




10. Mike Huckabee

Charges: What's worse, a calculating politician pretending to be a devout Christian, or a genuine heartland preacher who didn't come from no monkey? Huckabee is both -- a Southern Baptist who rejects Darwin, wants to give everyone a gun and thinks people with AIDS should be quarantined, and a seedy, corrupt politician who's never seen a payoff so low he won't stoop to pick it up. Democrats see Huckabee as easily defeated in a general election, but they shouldn't be so sure -- Smooth talking preachers tend to do well in this country. Huckabee is well-spoken, kind-faced, and the opposite of wordly -- he's Obama for hicks.

Exhibit A: "I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives... I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ."

Sentence: Just as he's about to win the GOP nomination, a freak gust of wind catches Huckabee's excess skin and carries him out over the Atlantic, where he drifts for hours before God appears to him, tells him He's a Unitarian, and sends him to hell.

source: buffalobeast.com


First Russian MIPS-Compatible Microprocessor

Recently I was involved into the practical part of microprocessor's course, included into our department's masters program, where I served as TA. Well, in fact, not just TA, but the entire 2x2 hour course was developed and teached by me and my friend.

The primary goal of this classes was to make students familar with our national processor boards, produced by NIISI (research institute of systems development). Theses boards include our first MIPS R3000-compatible KOMDIV32 microprocessor with technological sizes of 35 microns, "PRIME" boot monitor and various peripheral devices like speaker, uarts, light diods and so on. The processor runs at 90 MHz clock.

KOMDIV32 microprocessor

The board still very buggy and has a lot of features hardcoded and/or hardwired, but pretty usable. Especially interesting looks PRIME boot monitor, that can handle almost all development task, including but not limited to downloading executables via FTP/TFTP/NFS or Z-Modem, dumping/writing memory and working with FLASH memory. The board has two modes of operation - depending on switch setting it can either go to PRIME on boot, or start executing the code located at the start of flash memory. This feature has shown itself to be very handy in development.

KOMDIV32 board

The development kit was also accomplished by the proprietary OS2000 real-time operating system, which seems to be an evil mix of FreeBSD 4.x and VxWorks source code. E.g. their second stage boot loader fully resembles VxWorks loader, though with a lot of parsing bugs. Similary, the kernel object archives contains files like ipfw.ko with full debug info and CVS id's, although it seems to not use it:-) The operating system claims to be POSIX-compatible, though I had no enough time to check it fully. The course was featuring work with some multiprogramming APIs like POSIX threads and message passing, but unfortunately very few studens were able to understand this fully due to lack of C programming experience in past.

We were using FreeBSD as a host enviropment instead of NIISI-recommended Red Hat Linux. All the SDK software was ported to FreeBSD with a little effort (thanks to SDK developers - the didn't used bash/gawk/etc feature much). However, we used their proprietary GCC-based compiler (GPL violation?) under Linux emulation to compile target source code. Probably, gcc's mips target can do that too, but I didn't tried that.

One funny bug we were experiencing - the BSP we got with board was not fully compatible with it, thus it was producing a continuous high-frequency beep after startup. This way we could always say when yet one student managed to get his board running OS2000:-) Although a little room with 8 beeping boards looked slightly crazy...

A good project will be to try to run FreeBSD/mips on these boards and use it as a basis of course, but the lack of documentation and OS source code makes this nearly impossible. Hopefully, they'll understand soon that distributing a research OS without the source code in 21th century is a no-way.

Teen Awarded Almost $3M After Escalator Accident

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Thirteen-year-old Kevin Lou has had five surgeries on his right hand since the accident occurred while he visited his grandmother in China at age 4.

A Worcester Superior Court jury on Thursday awarded the damages to Lou after his family's suit against escalator manufacturer, Otis Elevator Company.

The jury also awarded Lou's parents $250,000 each.

A spokeswoman said Otis was disappointed by the verdict and will likely appeal.

Lou can't grasp objects since the accident, which happened after his hand slipped through a gap between the escalator and its side panels.

Lou's father said he'll use the money for surgery to improve the function of his son's hand.


Puma Roma 68
Many sneaker companies have turned to past releases from many ages ago for inspiration of present models including Puma who will be re-releasing the original Roma 68.
Roma 68 features suede and an overall simple and casual, look, which is anything but a bad thing. The Puma Roma68 will be releasing at Hanon Shop next month. If you want to buy this model in Romania you should do it online on Eastbay and if you need more detailed information we recommend Adidasi Noi .


Nokia 888 Mobile Phone
A personal mobile communication device which lets you be free and fun. It is light, and cool and most important You can change the form of the body and the color. And you can do the same by sending an e-motion to your friend. The bracelet-like 888 is envisioned to use a liquid battery, feature speech recognition, a flexible touch screen, and a touch sensitive body cover. You can put it into your pocket, or put on your wrist when you want to make a video call on the go, you can roll it and make it smaller. If you want to talk like a normal telephone, there you have your telephone shape. More about this concept on Informatii Telefoane. I hope to see this phone by the end of this year but I'm not holding my breath. If you are in Romania and you want to buy cheap phones we recommend 123gsm.ro and Marketgsm.ro .

RIAA Sends Out Fake News Clip To TV Stations

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The RIAA wants you to know that everyone loses with pirated products, so they've put together a fake news story and sent it out to TV stations around the country—maybe it will show up on your cash-strapped local news over the next few days, if you're lucky. We're torn, though, on posting this because it's being leaked (promoted?) heavily by the video news release (VNR) company that produced it—we want you to scoff at it with us, but keep your bullshit "stealth marketing" sensors up.

Our favorite line is one of their warning signs that you might be buying a pirated product: "Compilation CDs that could only exist in the dreams of a music fan." In other words, "A product you would actually want, that is equal in value to what we're charging you for it."

"RIAA Fake News!" [LiveLeak]

iPod Enabled Umbrella

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If you take the time to develop an umbrella with an iPod and speakers embedded in the handle, chances are you live in an area that sees more than its fair share of rain. In this case, the seller comes from Seattle WA. In addition to the iPod, "Rain Pod" creator Tom Dukich adds an extra musically themed touch to the canopy of the umbrella in the form of drawings made with permanent marker. The item is currently available on eBay with a starting bid of $50. All proceeds will go to 826 Seattle, a group dedicated to developing children's writing skills.

Ford Announces Focus RS Performance Model For 2009


Ford of Europe is confirming its plan to deliver an exciting all-new, high performance Focus RS model for launch in 2009. A design image released by the company today hints at the exciting direction the new model is taking.

The new Focus RS will be based on the dynamic new Focus ST. It will be developed by Ford Team RS, a specialist team led by Jost Capito who, as previously announced, is being appointed to the new role as Vehicle Line Director for Ford of Europe Performance Vehicles from Jan. 1, 2008.

“With two consecutive Manufacturers’ World Rally Championship titles under our belt, the time is right to create a new Focus RS,” said John Fleming, Ford of Europe’s President and CEO. “With the Fiesta and Focus ST models, Jost and his team have proved already that they can deliver exciting and practical performance road cars. The success of these models, combined with Jost’s experience in motorsport and Ford of Europe’s positive business results, mean that we now have a credible business case for a no-compromise Focus RS roadcar for more enthusiastic drivers.”

The basic concept for a new Focus RS has been under development within Ford Team RS under Capito’s leadership for some months already. Now that the programme has been given the “green light,” Capito and his team will be concentrating fully on this programme.

“We have reviewed our technical options and worked closely with the Design team on how the car might look, and I’m very excited by the results,” said Capito. “Now with the programme going ahead, the hard work really starts as the small team working on the project takes the car from prototype to production.”

Ford of Europe will not reveal any of the technical details of the new Focus RS until closer to launch in 2009. The company plans to show a concept version of the car publicly for the first time in mid-2008.



Puma Roma 68
Many sneaker companies have turned to past releases from many ages ago for inspiration of present models including Puma who will be re-releasing the original Roma 68.
Roma 68 features suede and an overall simple and casual, look, which is anything but a bad thing. The Puma Roma68 will be releasing at Hanon Shop next month. If you want to buy this model in Romania you should do it online on Eastbay and if you need more detailed information we recommend Adidasi Noi .


Nokia 888 Mobile Phone
A personal mobile communication device which lets you be free and fun. It is light, and cool and most important You can change the form of the body and the color. And you can do the same by sending an e-motion to your friend. The bracelet-like 888 is envisioned to use a liquid battery, feature speech recognition, a flexible touch screen, and a touch sensitive body cover. You can put it into your pocket, or put on your wrist when you want to make a video call on the go, you can roll it and make it smaller. If you want to talk like a normal telephone, there you have your telephone shape. More about this concept on Informatii Telefoane. I hope to see this phone by the end of this year but I'm not holding my breath. If you are in Romania and you want to buy cheap phones we recommend 123gsm.ro and Marketgsm.ro

Tell Us What You Really Think About Politicians

I'm so sick of politicians bs, this pic is perfect for all of them.

Corporate oil giants scramble to plunder Iraq’s energy reserves


When Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki finally sent the so-called “oil law” to be passed by the parliament in July, George Bush phoned to congratulate him personally. Maliki’s failure to push the legislation through had been a source of growing frustration and anger in Washington for more than a year. The law was needed to legitimise one of the main aims of the illegal US invasion of Iraq—to allow foreign corporations to assume control over the country’s state-owned energy resources on the most lucrative of terms.

Bush’s congratulations—made on behalf of the major oil corporations and their share-holders—were premature however. The rival Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish factions of the Iraqi ruling elite have still not agreed on the legislation due to their bitter and increasingly intractable differences over how to divide the revenues that would flow to the Baghdad government. Five months after the law was sent for ratification, it is still tied up in debates within a parliamentary committee, with few indications as to when, or in what form, it will to be passed.

Top 15 Tips For Better Sleep

Sleep hygiene is used to create proper daily habits that encourage sleep and minimize daily habits which interfere with sleep. Sleep hygiene is considered to be the cornerstone of many treatment plans for insomnia. Making the following changes can help virtually anybody with sleep problems:

1 Avoid using caffeine and/or nicotine 4 to 6 hours before bedtime since they are stimulants.
2 Avoid alcohol near bedtime since it results in fragmented and lighter sleep.
3 Avoid a heavy meal before bedtime and limit liquid intake in the evening as this can lead to nocturnal awakenings due to the need to urinate – this is especially true for the elderly.
4 Avoid exercising near bedtime.
5 Avoid/limit noise and light – this can be solved by wearing earplugs, or using window blinds.
6 Avoid temperature extremes e.g. too hot or too cold – this can be solved by using an electric blanket or using an air conditioner.
7 Go to sleep only when sleepy.
8 Use the bed or bedroom only for sleep and intimacy.
9 Avoid taking naps during the day.
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Set a regular wake sleep time schedule and stick to it even if you have very little sleep the night before.
11 Exercise multiple times throughout the week, but not close to bedtime.
12 Engage in relaxing activities (e.g. yoga, fishing, etc.).
13 Do relaxing activities before bedtime (such as listening to soothing music, reading, etc.).
14 Avoid or reduce the amount of challenging activities that you do in the evening.
15 Try to entertain pleasant thoughts before going to sleep.

First Pics Of The New X Files Movie Sequel


That's right late 90's nerds, The X-Files are back! Director Chris Carter is up north in Vancouver shooting the X-Files Movie sequel with David Duchovny, Amanda Peet, Gillian Anderson and rapper turned actor, Xzibit. Check out the photos of some of the cast shooting a scene last night for the first day of shooting. X-Philes get ready, because Mulder and Scully are coming back next summer to a theater near you!

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source: flynetonline.com


Puma Roma 68
Many sneaker companies have turned to past releases from many ages ago for inspiration of present models including Puma who will be re-releasing the original Roma 68.
Roma 68 features suede and an overall simple and casual, look, which is anything but a bad thing. The Puma Roma68 will be releasing at Hanon Shop next month. If you want to buy this model in Romania you should do it online on Eastbay and if you need more detailed information we recommend Adidasi Noi .

Nokia 888 Mobile Phone
A personal mobile communication device which lets you be free and fun. It is light, and cool and most important You can change the form of the body and the color. And you can do the same by sending an e-motion to your friend. The bracelet-like 888 is envisioned to use a liquid battery, feature speech recognition, a flexible touch screen, and a touch sensitive body cover. You can put it into your pocket, or put on your wrist when you want to make a video call on the go, you can roll it and make it smaller. If you want to talk like a normal telephone, there you have your telephone shape. More about this concept on Informatii Telefoane. I hope to see this phone by the end of this year but I'm not holding my breath. If you are in Romania and you want to buy cheap phones we recommend 123gsm.ro and Marketgsm.ro .

What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?


Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? It’s because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.

  • In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
  • 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
  • 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
  • 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
  • >60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
  • >60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
  • >60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better.

source: healthbolt.net

Toyota Builds Violin-Playing Robot, Taking Jobs Away From Violin-Playing Humans

With seventeen articulation points in each arm and an uncanny ability to play Pomp and Circumstance, technology has finally produced a robot to replace the Asian child.

Toyota hopes to use these guys to help people by the next decade.

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“We began to use industrial robots in our factories in the 1980s that have been perfected over time to be capable of working on several car models or carrying out different tasks,” said Toyota Motor Corp. chief executive Katsuaki Watanabe.

“Now we want to accelerate the development of robots that make a contribution to society, drawing on our knowledge and innovation in the field of automobiles,” he told a press conference.

The new robots come three years after Toyota unveiled a trumpet-playing robot — its first humanoid machine — in a bid to catch up with robot technology frontrunners such as Honda Motor Co. and Sony Corp.

Makers of robots see big potential for their use in Japan, where the number of elderly people is rapidly growing, causing labour shortages in a country that strictly controls immigration.

Source: AFP.

$1B In Military Equipment Missing In Iraq


Tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, crates of machine guns and rocket propelled grenades are just a sampling of more than $1 billion in unaccounted for military equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces, according to a new report issued today by the Pentagon Inspector General and obtained exclusively by the CBS News investigative unit. Auditors for the Inspector General reviewed equipment contracts totaling $643 million but could only find an audit trail for $83 million. The report details a massive failure in government procurement revealing little accountability for the billions of dollars spent purchasing military hardware for the Iraqi security forces. For example, according to the report, the military could not account for 12,712 out of 13,508 weapons, including pistols, assault rifles, rocket propelled grenade launchers and machine guns.

The report comes on the same day that Army procurement officials will face tough questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding their procurement policies. One official, Claude Bolton, assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology has already announced his resignation on the heels of sharp criticism of army contracting. Bolton’s resignation is effective Jan. 2, 2008. The Army has significantly expanded its fraud investigations in recent months.


The evolution of sneaker stores in Romania, in general, has grown to be a more sophisticated entity. What are some of the things You can find at Adidasi Nike - Adidasi Haine ? Adidas, Bobbito’s quick strikes, All-Star Af1’s, Crocs, Nike, Puma, Supremes, Air Max’s, A variety of different packs including the back to school, anything supreme or premium, Air Jordan, just come in and check it out..

Nokia 888
A cell phone which lets you to morph into any design you wish, roll it, bend it, clip it, whatever. It is light, and cool and most important You can change the form of the body and the color. The bracelet-like 888 is envisioned to use a liquid battery, feature a touch sensitive body cover, speech recognition, a flexible touch screen. It looks like there is a ready market for the phone if Nokia is able to move it from concept to mass-market commercial product. More about this concept on Telefoane. I hope to see this phone by the end of this year but I'm not holding my breath. If you are in Romania and you want to buy cheap cell phones I recommend Magazin Telefoane and Telefoane Samsung .

Oil prices tumble to $88 a barrel

NEW YORK - Oil prices fell but managed to close above $88 a barrel Tuesday as traders reacted to mixed signals about whether OPEC would decide to increase production during its meeting this week.

A new U.S. intelligence report concluding that Iran halted its nuclear weapons development program in 2003 also weighed on prices.

Light, sweet crude for January delivery fell 99 cents to settle at $88.32 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract traded as high as $89.98 and as low as $87.34 during the session.

12-yr-Old Relies On World of Warcraft Knowledge To Fend Off Real Life Moose Attack




This is the kind of story that you know can't be made up, it's just too bizarre. And it's in Norwegian, so I'll just have to take it at face value. Here's the basic rundown: The boy and his sister were taking a shortcut through the woods on the way home from school when they came upon a moose who got aggressive. The kid started shouting to distract the moose while his sister ran away and when faced with a very irate and very large mammal did what he had done many times before while playing his Hunter in World of Warcraft. He fell over and feigned death. Eventually the moose lost interest and toddled off.

source: razorwire.warcry.com

The Man Who Allowed Bill Gates To Become The Richest Man In The World


Most of you probably never heard of Gary Kildall. Maybe that's due to a single bad decision Gary made - if he decided otherwise he might be a rich and famous man today, and nobody would know about a certain Bill Gates.

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Gary Kildall, born in 1942, was a computer scientist, pioneer and entrepreneur. In 1973 he he developed the first high-level programming language for microprocessors, called PL/M, as well as one of the first operating systems for personal computers, called CP/M. He then created his own company, called Digital Research, to market his new OS.

To allow using CP/M on various hardware platforms, Kildall invented a method to implement hardware specific code in a single library - the BIOS concept was born. Within the next few years, the CP/M BIOS design allowed CP/M to became the most important operating system for computers. By 1981, at the peak of its popularity, CP/M ran on 3000 different computer models and DRI had $5.4 million in yearly revenues.

In 1980, IBM was designing it's new Personal Computer to challange the popular home computer systems Apple and other companies were offering. A small company called Microsoft was due to ship a BASIC interpreter for the upcoming IBM PC, and their founder Bill Gates suggested to license CP/M as standard OS for the new PC.

But then, Gary made a huge mistake. A meeting with IBM had been arranged, but Gary decided to deliver software using his private airplane and missed it.

Instead the IBM representatives met with Gary's wife Dorothy, who managed the company's business affairs. IBM requested the signature of a non disclosure agreement (NDA), but Dorothy refused this on the advice of her attorney. Apprently the IBM managers were frustrated about the results as they quickly needed an OS for their machine, they returned to Bill Gates and asked him to find another OS for them.

A few weeks later, Gates decided to license a CP/M clone from Seattle Computer Products (SCP). IBM shipped the CP/M clone as PC-DOS, and Microsoft shipped it as MS-DOS. So finally CP/M had made it to the IBM PC, but Gary Kildall and his Company Digital Research didn't have any influence on he future development anymore. Instead, it was Microsoft who became the most important OS company in the world, only by marketing a non-official CP/M clone under their own label.

And how did the story end? Digital Research's influence waned during the 1980's, and Novell acquired DRI in 1991 - a deal that made Gary a wealthy man, although he didn't have much time left to appreciate it. On July 8, 1994, Kildall sustained an injury at a Monterey restaurant and refused treatment. Three days later he died. The circumstances of the injury remaining unclear, an autopsy did not conclusively determine the cause of death.

In March 1995, Kildall was posthumously honored by the Software Publishers Association for his numerous contributions to the microcomputer industry and Bill Gates called him "one of the original pioneers of the PC revolution" and "a very creative computer scientist who did excellent work."

source: kirps.com


The evolution of sneaker stores in Romania, in general, has grown to be a more sophisticated entity. What are some of the things You can find at Adidasi Nike - Adidasi Haine ? Adidas, Bobbito’s quick strikes, All-Star Af1’s, Crocs, Nike, Puma, Supremes, Air Max’s, A variety of different packs including the back to school, anything supreme or premium, Air Jordan, just come in and check it out..


Nokia 888
A cell phone which lets you to morph into any design you wish, roll it, bend it, clip it, whatever. It is light, and cool and most important You can change the form of the body and the color. The bracelet-like 888 is envisioned to use a liquid battery, feature a touch sensitive body cover, speech recognition, a flexible touch screen. It looks like there is a ready market for the phone if Nokia is able to move it from concept to mass-market commercial product. More about this concept on Telefoane. I hope to see this phone by the end of this year but I'm not holding my breath. If you are in Romania and you want to buy cheap cell phones I recommend Magazin Telefoane and Telefoane Samsung .

Bank Tells Man He Owes $211 Trillion

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--- $211 trillion is more than 70 times the entire federal budget ---

It’s one thing to bounce a check and it’s another to be so far in the red Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Donald Trump combined couldn’t come close to bailing you out. A Cobb County man got a letter from his bank with that very shocking news.

“And I open up the letter and I look at it and I’m like, ‘No, you’ve got to be kidding me,’ said Joe Martins.

Martins said he recently closed an account at Wachovia Bank and made good on an outstanding check. He just got a letter about the closure and his negative balance -- $211,010,028,257,303.00. That’s $211 trillion.

The letter includes the clarification, “no cents.”

“I didn’t know what to think. Obviously $211 trillion is a little above what I put in my bank account,” said Martins.

$211 trillion is more than 70 times the entire federal budget.

Still, the letter said Wachovia was reporting him to an agency that rates risky bank customers.

“I don’t own $211 trillion but because it is automated and reported to check systems, I assume it will be reported to my credit at some point,” said Martins.

He said Wachovia had made mistakes on his accounts before so he called Channel 2 first. Wachovia blamed the letter on a word processing error and the office of the president is sending a letter of apology.

“They tell me it’s going to be resolved but I’m not sure that it will,” said Martins. “I closed my account today.”

Since it is a closed account it is now safe to say the dollar figure in the letter matched the account number.

Martins said Wachovia told him late Friday afternoon they never did report him for his negative balance. Wachovia vice president David Oliver told Channel 2, “We can certainly understand how our recent correspondence with Mr. Martins about his account would be cause for great concern. I can confirm that there will be no adverse effect on Mr. Martins’ credit report related to the letter he received. Also, I can confirm that this was an isolated error specifically related to his account.”

wsbtv.com

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The evolution of sneaker stores in Romania, in general, has grown to be a more sophisticated entity. What are some of the things you can find at Adidasi - Haine ? Adidas, Bobbito’s quick strikes, All-Star Af1’s, Crocs, Nike, Supremes, Air Max’s, A variety of different packs including the back to school, anything supreme or premium, Air Jordan, just come in and check it out.

Vertu Ascent Ferrari
To celebrate Ferrari's 60 th anniversary, Vertu (division of Nokia) and Ferrari has partnered together to create the special edition Vertu Ascent Ferrari 60 phone
which would retail in Nokia stores in London, Paris, Hong Kong and Singapore for a whopping price of 18000 E. We found it at Telefoane and Telefoane Mobile with a price tag of 5750E.. Ah, let's talk about the leather, shall we? Apparently it's been tested against lipstick and petrol. Why ? Anyway you can find out more about this amazing cell phone on PhoneOne

The Nina Ricci show in 1'st of march was the best, silky pants, velvet frocks, vintage-inspired beaded embellishment and long train accents. The show inspire a very romantic mood despite a few sharp-shouldered jackets that appeared on the scene. Here si a "trend alert": matchy match is back. Think same colour frock and footwear. If you are a fashion victim here are "must haves": short gloves with brooch accent and silk pleated harem pants witch you can see at Haine Lux or Adidasi Puma. The hair and makeup message had an ethereal/Victorian tingle with crimped sections of loosely styled locks, overall everything was fabulous.