Posted by Phoebe Chin on 04/15/08 in Useless Facts
While albinism is more commonly being referred to, to humans, believe it, there are out there albinic animals too. They might be strange but they are beautiful!
This photo of SnowFlake was taken moment before he died in Barcelona Zoo.
Fun Fact 1: There is a belief that a person or animal with albinism will become blind halfway through life. This is NOT true.
Posted by Phoebe Chin on 04/11/08 in Featured, Gadget, General
So Mother’s Day is coming. Forget about the conventional gift of microwave, card, flowers and cake.
Show your mom some love and make her the coolest mom this Mother’s Day with the latest, coolest gadgets made with a tinge of maternal instinct.
Crystal Rhinestone USB Optical Scroll Mouse
Perfect for working mom, so she can show it all off to her colleagues. Which women can resist a fully embellished, hand-applied crystal rhinestones scroll mouse?
Posted by Phoebe Chin on 04/3/08 in General
So is drinking an 8-ounce glass of water eight times a day help flushing toxins out of your body.
Two men said “No”.
Two kidney specialists at the University of Pennsylvania, Drs. Dan Negoianu and Stanley Goldfarb, did a research on human water consumption behaviour and found this amazing truth.
The specialists suggest that the water play no part in flushing the toxins out of your body. In fact, kidney is the one part of the human body that does all the work.
Posted by Phoebe Chin on 03/31/08 in General
The moon is a special place. We all know. But making the moon as a final resting place?
Celestis Inc. is all set to send human ashes to the lunar surface using robotic landers and this service could begin as early as next year.
Celestis Inc., president Charles Chafer said his company in collaboration with Odyssey Moon Ltd. and Astrobotic Technology Inc., will attach capsules containing cremated remains onto robotic landers and cremation capsules will remain on the moon with the lunar landers when the missions were complete.
Posted by Phoebe Chin on 03/26/08 in Featured, General
Log on to missbimbo.com and engage yourself with a whole new adventure of a becoming a bimbo or more specifically the most ‘bimbo-istic’ bimbo in the virtual world.
In the game, you do what it takes; be it boob jobs, taking diet pills, dating a rich boyfriend to become the most famous and beautiful bimbo in the ‘world’.
Posted by Phoebe Chin on 03/19/08 in Apple
Apple Inc. is approaching major music companies to offer their customers access to the whole iTunes music library absolutely free when the customers pay a premium for its iPods and iPhones.
A recent research showed that consumers would pay a premium of up to $100 for a lifetime of unlimited access to music of an iPods or iPhones, or a monthly fee of not more than $8 for a subscription model.
Posted by Phoebe Chin on 03/12/08 in Internet Companies
If you think moving from Yahoo and Microsoft’s mail to Gmail could save you from getting spammed, think again.
Report by email security vendor, MessageLab indicated that Gmail spam doubled last month; from 1.3 percent to 2.6.
Security vendors believe that the same group of spammers who cracked Microsoft’s Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart or CAPTCHA is responsible for cracking the Gmail’s filter system.
The spammers are believed to go to the extent of not only creating software to crack the security codes but also hiring employee to solve the codes all together.
Posted by Phoebe Chin on 03/11/08 in Internet Companies
Facebook users can now use movie clips from Paramount Pictures as Facebook Messages.
Paramount Pictures is teaming up with FanRocket to launch an application, “VooZoo” on Facebook that gives Facebook users access to view footages of thousands of movies; old and new to send to other users on the arguably No.1 social networking site.
The effort of the application is to virally market the upcoming movie releases through a button that appears after each clip is played. There was no revenue goal being set by Paramount for the new venture somehow.
Posted by Phoebe Chin on 03/7/08 in General
The Pentagon instructed all Defence Department bases and installation all over the country to stop Google Earth teams from taking panoramic views of the Pentagon and making detailed street-level video maps of U.S. military bases.
Michael Kucharek, spokesman for U.S. Northern Command, said that military officials raised reasonable concerns over security and safety of the base if the 360-degree, street-level video of the facilities is being viewed openly by almost anybody especially potential adversaries and endanger base personnel.
Posted by Phoebe Chin on 03/6/08 in Apple, Gadget
Nike Inc. and Apple Inc. is up for another hit after previous successful collaboration. Remember the wireless system embedded in selected Nike running shoes with a sensor that communicates with Apple’s iPod Nano?
This time, the companies want to send iPod right to the gym; approaching several gym equipment makers and fitness clubs, 24-Hour Fitness and Virgin Athletic Health Clubs to allow their members to plug their iPod Nano into cardio equipment.
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