Yep, thats odd and so are a lot of the other “Coolest 35 Facts You’ve Never Heard” over at Anxus.com.
Here are three more:
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar (no, I don’t know what they are).
All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on “4:20”.
Almonds are are a member [...]
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Is someone on your Christmas shopping list both a gadget geek AND a green products geek and/or hippie?
If so, good news! Greendaily.com has put together a list of the “6 best green gadgets for Christmas” (tongue twister, watch yourself).
Pretty neat stuff! Check it out here.
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According to AppleInsider, some MacBook and MacBook Pro users are experiencing a problem that seems “shuts down the keyboard at unpredictable intervals until either resolved on its own or else by restarting or waking the system”.
When this happens the trackpad and external keyboards seem to continue to function normally.
Though Apple has released a .1 update to [...]
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Sometimes job fairs get crowded. In the good old days before the dot com bust crowds were expected here in good ol Silicon Valley
But like this?
No, never like this.
They’re not seeking shelter from some pandemic outbreak that is turning the citizens into flesh eating zombies. Nope, it’s a job fair.
You can check out a few [...]
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BBC News is reporting that a 390 million year old fossilised claw belonging to an 8 foot sea scorpion has been found in a German quarry.
The claw itself measures 46cm, which is just over 18 inches.
The story suggests that “spiders, insects, crabs and similar creatures were much larger in the past than previously thought”.
You can [...]
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Like deals but not so found of research?
Gizmodo has you covered. They’ve gone through the ads and come up with a where, in their opinion, the best deal is depending on what you are looking for.
For example, say you’re looking for a camera or a camcorder. According to their research these are worth looking at:
Best [...]
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Like Star Wars, video games and the Nintendo Wii?
Want a lightsaber of your very own to defend your home from sith invaders (or become one, I guess—your call)?
Then head on over to play.com and check out the Wii Light Sword. Snap in your Wii remote controller and when the on button is pressed the 22 [...]
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Have you ever wondered what the lobby scene from the first Matrix movie would be like if there was a Bollywood knock-off?
Well, wonder no more and get your browser over here.
Pretty well done as far as knock-offs go…
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Apparently a new, web-only ad from Apple has been seen on several large sites, including News.com, Engadget.com and PCMag.com, pitting poor PC against Mac.
The ad is actually two seperate, a banner at the top and another ad on the right side.
To check out a Flash video of the ad in action yourself, go here.
Poor Vista…it [...]
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According to Ars Technica, Warner Brothers Total HD format, first announced at the 2007 Consumer Electonics Show, is “on hold”.
For those that don’t know but care (just a little), the Total HD format was to be one DVD sized disk that on one side would have HD DVD content and on the other Blu-ray.
Wanting to [...]
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