The ‘Sci/Tech’ Category

Science and technology stuff.

Gardens in the sky – amazing 3D animation

Here’s an amazing 3D animation of what gardens floating in the sky might look like, if humans ever developed the ability to defy gravity. Definitely not your typical potted plants.

By Paul on 21/11/2009Comments Off

Why News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch is not a senile old man

Number of pages, or bits of content from News Corp owned web properties indexed in Google’s main search index as of 9pm EST, Monday, November 15 2009.
1. From Myspace.com – about 181,000,000
2. From americanidol.com – about 744,000
3. From AskMen.com – about 159,000
4. From Fox.com – about 83,300
5. From FoxSports.com – about 594,000

By Paul on 16/11/2009Comments Off

Elf Yourself flash mob takes over NYC (Video)

The Elf Yourself viral campaign sponsored by OfficeMax just keeps going and going… On November 3rd, hundreds of flash mob elves took to Union Square for a surprise performance to the delight of hundreds of spectators. Pretty neat!!

By Paul on 14/11/2009Comments Off

How to safeguard yourself against twitter phishing scams (and much more)

1. Never click a link in a DM (Direct Message), even from someone you trust. Other people you know may have had their accounts hacked and not even know someone, or some thing is using their DMs to spread spyware or malware. Resist the urge to click links.
2. Sign out of Twitter’s site using the [...]

By Paul on 14/11/2009Comments Off

Underwater tiger

If you’ve ever tried to give your cat a bath, you probably found out that most cats don’t like water, but when food is involved they’ll do just about anything. The photo below is a white Bengal tiger diving for a piece of food at the San Francisco zoo. Amazing pic.

Picture © Westley Hargraves/Barcroft Media [...]

By Paul on 13/11/2009Comments Off

Digg announces new Trends service and DiggTV

Digg announces new trends service and digg TV

By Paul on 13/11/2009Comments Off

How to get more links and traffic to your site

I won’t try to rehash write about how to build links to your site or blog here because there are a lot more qualified people writing better stuff than I could, like Lynn Terry over at her internet marketing blog, Clicknewz.com.
Lynn has an extremely informative link building series happening right now and if you want [...]

By Paul on 13/11/2009Comments Off

NASA confirms water on the moon

It’s been known for a long time that hydrogen is abundant in the polar regions of our moon, but until today, it wasn’t known for sure that that hydrogen was in the form of water ice.
On October 8th, ‘09, NASA ‘bombed’ the bottom of a permanently shadowed crater near a polar region of the moon [...]

By Paul on 13/11/2009Comments Off

Believe it or not, this chocolate brownie pie is a candle!

Would you believe that scrumptious chocolate brownie pie pictured here is actually a scented candle?

By Paul on 13/11/2009Comments Off

Water on Earth may be extraterrestrial in origin

An interesting and plausible theory that water on earth was not formed by volcanic gases like previously thought, but by huge balls of ice thrown off by the larger planets in the outer solar system billions of years ago.

By Paul on 12/11/2009Comments Off