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6 Hugely Successful Products Originally Invented for Something Else

anacristina79 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:26:21 +0000

After these inventions were repurposed –often in wildly unexpected ways– they became famous, perhaps even civilization-alteringly so.

Source:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/115028

The ghost at the window: Dead owner ‘returns to haunt’ builders demolishing her beloved guesthouse

anacristina79 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:36:20 +0000

The eerie image appears to show the ghostly outline of a woman at the window of Meadowbank House, in Kendal, Cumbria.

Source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092092/Frances-Grimshaws-ghost-returns-haunt-builders-demolishing-beloved-guesthouse.html

xkcd: Sigh

anacristina79 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:30:20 +0000

h/t Binky “This is the Best XKCD ever!”

Source:
http://xkcd.com/1009/

Now THAT’S solar power! Woman claims neighbour’s energy-efficient windows melted plastic on her Toyota Prius

anacristina79 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:18:19 +0000

Heather Patron, of Studio City, California, bought a Toyota Prius and noticed within days that the plastic on her windows was melting.

When Toyota told her nothing was wrong with the car, she soon discovered that it was her neighbour’s energy-efficient window that was the cause of the melting plastic.

Source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2091846/Plastic-Toyota-Prius-melted-energy-efficient-windows.html

Anuntiomatic

anacristina79 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:00:37 +0000

Software Profesional que te Permite Publicar Anuncios Gratis en Miles de Tablones en Sólo 5 Minutos… Y con una Eficacia del 100%!

Le recomendamos plenamente comprar este producto dada la excelente puntuación y bajo nivel de devolución que ha conseguido. Sin duda quedará satisfecho con su compra….

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How to Make a Smoke Bomb

anacristina79 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:32:22 +0000

Sometimes you just have to escape from a sticky situation.

And when that happens, you need some kind of diversion to confuse people so they won’t come after you.

Source:
http://io9.com/5879485/how-to-make-a-smoke-bomb

I’ve slept with 1,000 men so far – I don’t care if people judge me!

anacristina79 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:30:37 +0000

People dont usually associate sex addiction with women, says retail manager Crystal, 42.

Were normally the ones accused of making excuses before the lights go off but with me its different. I think about sex all day.

Source:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2012/01/27/i-ve-slept-with-1-000-men-so-far-i-don-t-care-if-people-judge-me-115875-23721753/

Virtual Projection team puts iPhone writing on the wall (w/ video)

anacristina79 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:14:22 +0000

A collaborative team from the University of Calgary, University of Munich, and Columbia, have figured out a way to use a smartphone to project the phones display on to external displays nearby.

The team thinks of its technology approach, Virtual Projection, as “borrowing available display space in the environment.” Dominikus Baur, Sebastian Boring, and Steven Feiner are behind Virtual Projection. Feiner is Professor of Computer Science at Colu

Source:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-virtual-team-iphone-wall-video.html

Poles Take anti-ACTA Protests to the Streets

anacristina79 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:12:19 +0000

Thousands of people have joined anti-ACTA protests all across Poland this week.

Source:
http://torrentfreak.com/poles-take-anti-acta-protests-to-the-streets-120126/

The World’s Worst Privacy Policy

anacristina79 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:12:24 +0000

With the Internet up in arms about the most recent tweaks to Google’s fine print on privacy, it’s helpful to remember: It could be much, much worse.

Another search engine called Skipity, created last June and registered to one Andrew Corley, offers a refreshingly honest example of the privacy policy most [...]

Source:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/25/the-worlds-worst-privacy-policy/