Dec 092007
 

The world’s most expensive phone number was auctioned for charity yesterday in Qatar for a stupid £1.5 million. The previous record holder was Chinese number 8888 8888, which sold for £270,000. The reason is because the number ’8′ sounds a lot like the word ‘rich’ in some places in the world.

The number in question, is 666 6666.

Why would anyone want this number? It is the number of the devil (apparently) and will mostly likely bring bad luck to whoever has it. By bad luck I mean people now know their number, so they will probably get hundreds of prank callers a day.

Here are some interesting 666 facts:

  • The first Apple Computer sold for $666.66,
  • The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is w – so www. shows how evil the internet is.
  • And Viagra has a molecular weight of 666.7g/mol.


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 Posted by at 11:32 pm
Dec 082007
 

A new trailer for Jumper has arrived on the internet, and is a vast improvement from the teaser trailer we got a couple of months ago. You can watch the trailer below:

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The film is about a boy/man, placed by Hayden Christensen, who learns he can teleport from place to place. There are shots in the trailer that show him in on the Sphinx in Egypt, Big Ben in London and the Colosseum in Rome. There is Samuel L Jackson who seems to be in every film made. He plays a villain type person in the film, who can prevent Hayden from teleporting. And with every Hollywood blockbuster there is the love interest, played by O.C. actress Rachel Bilson.

The film will be released in February so watch out for it. I would have expected it to be released sometime in the summer as a ‘summer blockbuster’ but it seems they want to get it out early so it has hardly any competition. If it were to be released a bit later it would have Batman, Iron Man and The Hulk to deal with. Yikes!

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 Posted by at 11:23 pm
Dec 072007
 

fogshowerI didn’t actually think about this until now, but showers are rather boring. You stand there while water is poured onto you. I have regular showers and I didn’t realise how boring it was, because I didn’t know there were alternatives. There is the bath but they are not convenient. My eyes have been opened a little after finding out about this…

The thing you see to your right is known as a ‘fog shower’ and was made by a student at Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana in Brazil. Normal shower heads consume 26 liters of water for a five minute shower. By creating a fog of microscopic water droplets, the Fog Shower consumes only two liters of water for a five minute shower. It also looks rather cool.

The Fog Shower reduces water consumption by creating a vapor flow with microscopic water droplets. The water is heated and sent under pressure to an ultrasonic vaporizer, and is then forced through perforated metal plates. An intelligent sensor system aims the water vapor in different angles, depending on the movements of the person showering.

I want one!

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 Posted by at 11:13 pm
Dec 062007
 

You would expect that if your wife wanted you to retire from your job, she would sit you down and talk to you about it. However, this is not always the case.

A woman in New York had marijuana in the house to ease her back pain, and decided to spike her husbands meal with it. The meal turned out to be meatballs. I am sure he enjoyed it, as would any meal ball loving person. Being a cop it is required that he have random drugs tests, and when it came to his he failed, and was fired after 22 years of service. The man, named Anthony Chiofalo has decided to sue to try and get his job back.

Mrs Chiofalo told investigators she had put enough marijuana for six cigarettes in her meatball recipe. She told the court that she just wanted her husband “not to die of a heart attack or get killed” while still in service. But she was fine putting drugs in his food? I wonder what words were exchanged when he found out that it was his wife ‘who dun it’.

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 Posted by at 11:59 pm
Dec 052007
 

Will Smith is a great movie star. He may play himself is almost every movie, but he is a ‘star’. He has gone from TV sitcoms to leading huge blockbusters such as I,Robot, Independence Day and upcoming I Am Legend. So you would think after all his years of playing the Hollywood game he would not break an important golden rule…don’t reveal the ending of your movie before it is even released.

Will Smith was in Tokyo at a press conference for the film, and randomly revealed the plot to the film, along with the ending. At one point, he even had film co-producer and co-screenwriter Akiva Goldsman shouting “Don’t give away the ending.” The reps who work for Warner Brothers had to ask the press not to reveal anything, as the film will be released within a couple of weeks.

Some people are wondering whether Will Smith actually made a huge mistake, or whether it was a publicity stunt. I mean it has people talking about it and the fact that the plot ‘could not be revealed’ makes me want to see it 5% more. The film itself is based on a novel, involving a virus that spreads and turns living things into vampire zombie things. Will Smith, however, is the immune action hero who has to find a cure and save the world. The trailer below gives you a better idea of what it is about, and Will Smith revealing the details would be rather devastating for the film, as it depends on mystery to get buts on seats.

The film is out in the UK on the 21st December. Personally, I will be seeing this and will be looking forward to a scene that apparently cost $5 million to make!

Here is the trailer:

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 Posted by at 11:22 pm
Dec 042007
 

Just looking down the list of top searches of 2007, you can see a huge difference between Google and Yahoo. Within the past few days they both announced what people had typed into their search bar the most, here are the results.

Google

1. iphone
2. webkinz
3. tmz
4. transformers
5. youtube
6. club penguin
7. myspace
8. heroes
9. facebook
10. anna nicole smith

Yahoo

  1. Britney Spears
  2. WWE
  3. Paris Hilton
  4. Naruto
  5. Beyonce
  6. Lindsay Lohan
  7. Rune Scape
  8. Fantasy Football
  9. Fergie
  10. Jessica Alba

It’s safe to say that Yahoo is a favourite with the teenage male market!

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 Posted by at 5:09 pm
Dec 032007
 

While browsing the interweb, I stumbled upon these rather cool images. It shows how games have represented water throughout the years, and it really shows how far the technology has advanced in a short space of time. It makes me wonder what we can expect in the next 10, 15 even 30 years. Here are a few:

1982: Flight Simulator 1

Flight Simulator

1991: Sonic The Hedgehog (Master System)

Sonic

1998: Half-Life 1/ Counter-Strike (PC)

HalfLife

2004: Far Cry (PC)

FarCry

2007: Silent Hunter 4 (PC)

SilentHunter

You can see the whole bunch more here

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 Posted by at 8:09 pm
Dec 022007
 

Everyone gets into a bit of debt at some point in their life. Sometimes this causes checks to bounce which can be a small wake up call that you need to do something. But imagine being told you owe $211,010,028,257,303.00. That is what what happened to a man called Joe Martins.

He decided to close his bank account, so he paid off the small debt he owed the bank, and got a big surprise when he opened the confirmation letter. Joe said “… I open up the letter and I look at it and I’m like, ‘No, you’ve got to be kidding me’. I didn’t know what to think. Obviously $211 trillion is a little above what I put in my bank account.”

$211 trillion is a huge amount of money, around 80 times what Bill Gates earns in a year. The bank have blamed a word processing error and are sending Joe an apology. I think he made the right decision closing his account, don’t you?

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 Posted by at 7:37 pm
Dec 012007
 

YouTube announced a while back that they are working on making YouTube videos appear in High Definition. The current player isn’t the best quality, however most of it depends on the original video that is uploaded. A problem with HD videos is that they take longer to load, just like the video below, take a look:

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The video quality is great but I think YouTube will need to sort out the streaming times. Although better quality is good, people do not want to be waiting 3 minutes for a 1 minute clip.

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 Posted by at 11:43 pm