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How Android managed to scare me

Fri, 26 Dec 2014 19:26:24 +0000

Precedent 1

Two years ago, I went to Poland to visit a friend who was there for his Erasmus program and there he met a Slovenian girl. English level in Poland is quite low and, in addition, we were in Bielsko-Biała, which is not exactly the capital, so we managed to get understood primarily via the Slovenian girl and the similarities that apparently exist between Polish and Slovenian languages.

One day, we were waiting for the bus to go to Auschwitz and it was quite rainy, so we went into a bar in the deepest Poland that had one of those machines that you put coins so you can choose which song you want to hear. We pay the price and chose Black Betty by Ram Jam and Africa by Toto. And nothing happened, no music was played at all. And trying to complain to the owners of the bar was impossible because, of course, they speak no English at all. So we let it be and just waited until it stopped raining.

It sounds like...

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:17:01 +0000

Have you ever though "I heard this song before"?

Rob Paravonian's Pachelbel Rant

Source: Musiqueando.org

And what does science say about that?

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:21:02 +0000

You probably have heard some popular belief with a supposed scientific base of the type of humans use only 10% of their brains, you can kill somebody dropping a coin from a tall building, hair and nails continue growing after death or water drains backwards in the other hemisphere.

Surely that you have heard more than twenty, but twenty are solely those that a recently published document (a little lacking in references) tries to solve.

Top 2006

Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:44:37 +0000

The Simpsons - 6x09 - Homer Badman

We would hope people want to drink Diet Coke more than try experiments with it.

Susan McDermott, Coke spokeswoman

Finally, it wasn't Pop Rox what makes Coke explode as the urban legend says. It's Mentos, as probed in one of the most seen videos. Cause the year is ending, so, as expected, we are getting those "the most..." lists. And then we have the most popular videos, the most important scientific discoveries, the funniest viruses, the most relevant undisclosed news or top searches in Google, Yahoo and AOL.

Google Zeitgeist 2006

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:38:02 +0000

Source: Logoogle.com

Google Zeitgeist 2006, the analysis of the most frequent searches in Google, has just arrived. So, we have that the most usual it is to go to Google in search of other specific webpages, such as Bebo in the first place, MySpace, Metacafe (yes, before YouTube), Radioblog, Wikipedia or Mininova.

About people and organizations, the most wanted is fictitious: Borat. Hizbullah also has known to gain the attention of the internauts, like Paris Hilton that is the most looked for in... news! (isn't there more interesting news?).

Hex counting

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:48:55 +0000

In the latest comic strip of Raulito el friki the hexadecimal numeration is mentioned and some readers are sorry not to dominate it. Here comes the explanation.

The decimal numeration begins with 0 and when the 9 -the last symbol- is reached, the next is 0 and we carry 1 to add it to the following more significant digit; i.e., if we add 1 plus 9, the result is 0 and we carry 1 for the following digit.

Riddle

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:18:44 +0000

It's a thing
You hold it when you use it
It is colorful
It may be found on a desk
It's probably made of plastic
It doesn't have face
It sometimes burns
It sometimes gets really hot
It sometimes produces heat
It produces light
I doubt that you give it as a gift
I doubt that you use it at work
It contains liquid
It's sometimes black
You can't open and close it
It can fit in an envelope

Do you give up?

Prime minister wanted

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:00:00 +0000

The military cabinet that have taken the power in Fiji through the fourth coup d'état in twenty years getting the disapproval from the United Nations and a suspension from the Commonwealth has published an advertisement in the newspapers offering jobs in the Government, including the prime minister.

If you haven't criminal records, have not been declared bankrupt, and have a minimum of ten years working experience, congratulations, you can be a candidate for minister in Fiji and you have until Tuesday at 14:00 to send them your curriculum.