I came across this list of 50 things that everyone should know. Some interesting facts that range from our vocabulary to insects.
- The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
- What is called a “French kiss” in the English speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France.
Engadget has put together a great holiday gift guide for him and her. Some gifts I haven’t thought of, so who knows, you may just find the perfect gadget for your loved one!
For Her:
The Ex knife holder - You’re all hers now, why not encourage some of that brooding resentment towards the exes that came before you. As far as we know the Ex knife holder isn’t imbued with any voodoo powers, but in the off chance you should become an ex too, make sure you un-gift this one.
~$60 - Shop for the Ex knife holder
For Him
Palm Treo 680 - Colorful, functional, and cheap: if your guy is stuck in the 90’s with a Handspring Visor and cellphone module, now is the time to bring his efforts at convergence into the 21st century. The 680 delivers a color screen, full QWERTY keyboard, and compatibility with thousands of programs. And as the least expensive Treo to date, it won’t break the bank.
$449 ($199 with two-year contract) - Buy from Cingular
Read more about Her Gift Guide
Read more about His Gift Guide
Looks like a group of turkeys had gotten together at a Ramsey, NJ train station to catch a ride and “Escape their fate”.
“For a moment, it looked like the turkeys were waiting for the next outbound train,” said Dan Stessel, a spokesman for NJ Transit. “Clearly, they’re trying to catch a train and escape their fate.”
People surviving tragedy with extreme luck. An entertaining video of some people’s incredible luck.
PortableApps Suite 1.0 releases their new bundle of portable scripts for your thumb(portable)drive.
Available in multiple Editions for drives of all sizes, the package includes a menu, backup options, and a nice collection of apps!
The Standard Edition includes the menu, backup and icons mentioned above as well as ClamWin Portable (antivirus), Firefox Portable (web browser), Gaim Portable (instant messaging), OpenOffice.org Portable (office suite), Sudoku Portable (puzzle game), Sunbird Portable (calendar/task manager) and Thunderbird Portable (email client) and runs comfortably from a 512MB drive. The Lite Edition uses AbiWord Portable (word processor) instead of OpenOffice.org Portable and runs comfortably from a 256MB drive. The Base Edition allows you to pick and choose what apps you’d like to include.
Very nice collection of private apps for your thumbdrive.
Finally! A standard everyone can live with.
The three search engine giants (Google, Yahoo and Microsoft) announced that they will all be using the Sitemaps protocol to index sites all around the world.
And to help everyone out, Sitemaps.org instructs webmasters on how to go abouts installing an XML file for thier websites.
People who use Google Sitemaps don’t need to change anything, those maps will now be indexed by Yahoo and Microsoft.
I think this is hilarious. Rudy and Donald doing a skit back in 2000.
Rudy Giuliani for President!
Now with the recent release of Edgy here and gone, there’s new word on the next Ubuntu release - Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.
Feisty will go through a normal 6 month development from November 2006 to April 2007.
Comments by Mark Shuttleworth on the Ubuntu-Devel mailing list mention that Feisty is going to be a release that will surpass all previous developments. For one, it will be more focused on features such as multimedia enablement and desktop effects along with compatibility.
Shuttleworth said
“the main themes for development in this release will be improvements to hardware support in the laptop, desktop and high-end server market, and an aggressive adoption of emerging desktop technologies.”Ubuntu’s Feisty release will put the spotlight on multimedia enablement and desktop effects. We expect this to be a very gratifying release for both users and developers”.
“Edgy has been a wild ride, with some remarkable achievements (nothing like re-inventing and substantially improving on init!). Feisty will be a little more focused on features that are very visible to end-users,”
Here’s the line up on the dates:
December 2006
Dec 21st – Debian Import Freeze
February 2007
Feb 8th - Upstream Version Freeze, Feature Freeze
March 2007
March 8th – String Freeze
March 9th – Beta Freeze
March 22nd – Beta Release
April 2007
April 5th – Non-Language Pack Translation Deadline, Kernel Freeze
April 12th – Release Candidate, Language Pack Translation Deadline
April 19th – Final Release
Looking forward to that release, it should be very much geared towards being more user friendly right out of the box.
Google puts out another mobile app that supports 300 phone models. The new Google Maps for Mobile (GPS-Enabled!).
Of course, you still get all of the popular Google Maps functionality: real-time traffic, detailed directions, integrated search results, easily movable maps, and satellite imagery. So get yourself a Drift and just get lost! No matter where you end up, we’ll show you the quickest way out.
Love this commercial! IBM and Linux.
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