Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Monday, 30 July 2007
Blackle is the New Google
For those worried with energy consumption and all its downsides… When your screen is white, being it an empty word page, or the Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it consumes only 59 watts. So
a man named Mark Ontkush wrote an article about the energy saving that would be achieved if Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of page views, according to his calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year
would be saved. In a response to this article Google created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but with a lower energy consumption, check it out: http://www.blackle.com/
Monday, 16 July 2007
You Know You Enjoy the Booze a Little Too Much If....
You inform the arresting officer that gravity is the only law you feel compelled to obey.
Crying in your beer increases its alcohol content.
You’ve invented a Sesame Street drinking game so you can spend more time with your kids.
You regularly shout constructive criticism to the winos holding cardboard signs on street corners, e.g.: “It’s too political! You’re alienating half your demographic!”
Your friends accuse you of “acting weird” whenever they meet you sober.
You’ve convinced your boss that your cologne is called “Eau de Cheap Scotch.”
You can identify most of the bars in town by the underside of their barstools.
Bouncers have a special headlock named after you.
You’ve stepped on your own fingers.
Everyone thinks you’re bilingual.
Your birthday is a holiday in Scotland.
You buy a lamp because you need a hat.
You drank so much beer last night you single-handedly wore out a fresh urinal cake.
You refer to grapes as “wine eggs.”
You’d never steal a fellow drunk’s drink, but you do occasionally “adopt orphans.”
You can order a beer in 17 different languages but don’t know how to pronounce “Perrier.”
Absolut wants to run an ad featuring a picture of your liver in the shape of a bottle.
These and a whole lot more wise words found at Modern Drunkard Magazine!
Saturday, 14 July 2007
Friday the 13th Javelin Accident
This guy is either really unlucky or he pissed off Tero Pitkämäki (who is, if that is the case, the greatest Javelin chucker of all time!!)
The accident took place during the Golden League games in Rome.