Monday, July 31, 2006

Dalian To Have Permanent Maglev Train

China's first permanent magnet maglev line that runs along 3 kilometers has been put on the schedule of construction and will soon be launched into operation in the development zone of Dalian. Permanent Maglev Levitation skills (of China's own intellectual properties) is the same as neither Japann's Superconducting Electromagnetic Levitation, nor Germany's Normal-conducting Electromagnetic Levitation. It has six following advantages.
  1. Energy-efficient, environment-friendly, low energy consumption and little noise production while running.
  2. High carrying capacity, equivalent to that of the current common train.
  3. Very safe as it integrates carriages with railway and has a powerful control system. Accidents such as derailment and crashes will never happen to the permanent maglev train.
  4. Lower cost of constrction compared to that of any foreign counterpart.
  5. Lower operation costs
  6. Land-sparing when building the railway for permanent maglev train.

Digg Account Auctioned on Ebay


Digg user Ontairo's Geekforlife ranking 73 out of about 445,000 (top 100) registered users put his account sale on Ebay.

Summer's Qingdao Beach


Huge crowded beachgoers were seen on Sunday at the beach of Qingdao, Shangdong, China. Anything wrong with One-Child Policy in China? No, I don't think so!

Windows Vista Speech Recognition Demo


Google To Update Blogger

Still so disappointed, the "categories" function seems to need quite some time to be added by Google:
  1. Create an enterprise Blogger version for corporate customers
  2. Let users limit access to their blogs by creating private groups
  3. Enhance photo uploading experience
  4. Intergrate tightly with Gmail
  5. Improve the overall service performance to get 95% users satisfactory
via Kenwong

Video: Blood Red Sandman

The best song of Lordi, the Finland Band being the winner of 2006 Eurovision song contest!

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Hilarious Blonde Antelope

I guess the unlucky blonde animal suffered its near-sighting!:-)

China's First Facial Transplant Patient

He is called Li Guoxing, from a remote village in Yunnan of Southwest China. His case is somewhat similiar to Isabelle Dinoire's, as the latter was ripped off her face by the dog, while Li was attacked by the black bear. Thanks to the bridging of Natural Conservancy, a US-based NGO, which studied the living conditions of black bears in Yunnan, Li was offered a chance to do transplant surgery in Xijing Hospital in northwest China's Shaanxi Province and then became the first successful face transplant operation in the country.

The Reteurs' picture posted here is a combination photograph shows Li's preoperative and postoperative images, taken on April 13 and July 28, 2006, respectively.

Funny Star Wars Spoof (video)

The first episode--Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager--of funny series to be produced by aspiring amateur filmmakers Aaron Yonda and Matt Sloan for Star Wars lovers. Ep2 is schedued on the comeing 1 August. via Wisblawg

Mark Cuban's HP Notebook Advertisment

A very nice commercial of Compaq nc6400 Business Notebook performed by the Dallas Mavericks boss for HP!

The Urban Subway Etiquette Guidebook

Are you breaching subway decorum?
Rules of the underground: (1) Knees may be no more than six inches apart. (2) If you can't control your offspring, watch as a stranger does it for you. (3) What did we say about checking out the girls? (4) The Post is only 25 cents—buy your own. (5) Holding the subway door makes everyone on the train love you. (6) As does loud music. (7) Lie down on subway only if dead.

Thursday, July 27, 2006

10000 Pushups Waive A Decade's Tuition Fee of Boy, 6

Something too many adults can not even achieve!
Lu Di, 6, flexes his muscles as other young kungfu students watch at a kungfu school in Central China's Henan Province July 26, 2006. According to school president Shi Yongdi, Lu did 10,000 pushups in three hours and twenty minutes four days ago. Since he shows so much promise, Shi says the school will waive his tuition for ten years.

Birthplace of Hurricanes

Apparently, the place is off the west coast of northern Africa.

Wax Shiloh Nouvel Shown In Museum

Hello Jolie-Pitt baby!
Shiloh Novuel Jolie-Pitt, the infant daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, is now immortalized in wax at New York's Madame Tussauds Wax Museum at the tender age of 8 weeks old, making her the first infant ever to be presented as a wax figure at the attraction.

Nestled in a woven bassinet and watched over by her famous parents, the wax Shiloh can be seen sleeping peacefully in a white t-shirt and blue pants while soft African lullabies fill her nursery.
Admission to the museum is around 30$. Visitors can get the chance to have their photos taken with the famous wax family, sure, this is not a free service, as $1 from the income of each photo will be donated to UNICEF!

Masterpiece Persian Carpet



It was taken from Wealth of Kings, Weaving Art Museum of rare and historical persian carpets!

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Video: Girl Swallows 3 Foot Balloons!

The girl's decision to do such things was admirable!

Video: First Working Prototype One Laptop Per Child System Demo


Lance Bass: I'm Just Happy I'm Gay!

The former N Sync heartthrob confessed to magzine People :
"I knew that I was in this popular band and I had four other guys' careers in my hand, and I knew that if I ever acted on it or even said (that I was gay), it would overpower everything."

"The thing is, I’m not ashamed – that’s the one thing I want to say. I don't think it's wrong, I'm not devastated going through this. I'm more liberated and happy than I’ve been my whole life. I'm just happy."
Artwork from circumlocutor via Capital Region People

Video: Natalia's Birth

Some first few impressive minutes of baby girl Natalia after she just came out of her mother's womb to this world!

Gay marrige in Washington State Remains Ban

Homosexual marriages in the state still have a long way to be acknowledged, as Washington Supreme Court uphelds the state's 1998 Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman and rules DOMA not violate State Constitution.

Three New Entertainmental Portable GPS

From the NYT:
The Alpine Blackbird G.P.S. system, left, can alert drivers to accidents and direct them around road congestion. The Navman iCN 750, center, allows users to take photographs and shows on a map were they were shot. The device will even guide a user back to a spot where the photo was taken. Some models made by TomTom, right, can play audio books and control iPods.

How Bureaucratic India?

I am sure you'd like to read the tale of  freelance writer--Scott Carney's trips to seven different police stations in order to process for a police report only with which American Embassy/Consulate can issue a new passport to him. ^_^

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

VIPN Black Diamond WM5 Smartphone of Limited Version

A smartphone to be made by Swiss IP phone manufacturer VIPN seems nothing special--a Windows Mobile 5 handset with quadband GSM, WiFi, 128MB of SD memory , a 2-inch display, and a 400MHz XScale processor, yet it is still very special--it has a titanium and black diamond cover with only limited 5 units in the world! So of course, you won't be stunned when told its price at a hefty $300,000!

PornoTube, Porn Sites' Web 2.0

It's dubbed as the porn clone of popular video portal Youtube, of which Adobe will possibly be pround because PornoTube also use shockwave video format!
YouTube has a clear policy banning porn, PornoTube has a policy that is just the opposite. PornoTube offers on demand Flash videos (our sponsor Adobe will be proud I’m sure) of user uploaded pornography, including video, audio and photgraphs. The site is surprisingly well designed and has social features like rating, commenting, etc. All videos are tagged and can be browsed via a tag cloud or by straight or gay content. There are RSS feeds for various categories. Videos can also be embedded into other sites.
Matblog has a sceenshot of such fuckaround!

I Love Beirut


(photo credit: Michal Dolezal of AP)
A supporter of the Lebanese Club in the Czech Republic shows her t-shirt inscribed 'I love Beirut' during a gathering of some two hundred protesters demonstrating against the Israeli military operation in Lebanon at Prague's Old Town Square Monday, July 24, 2006.
Source:Yahoo!News

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Google Mobile Maps & Personalized Homepage



Google Maps for mobile added real-time traffic information. What's too bad is that the data are currently included only 30+ major US metropolitan areas. It seems not too many points to know a traffic jam in New York while anyone like me who is not staying in USA. Anyhow, there must be some funs when reading like news, weather, Gmail, and everything else on the road once I set up my Google Personalized Homepage for mobile phone.

Video: Crazy Frog Brothers

Will there any brothers to challenge the duo in the video who brought a lot of fun already?

Video: Scary Giant Girl Doll


Sony Ericsson's SO902iWP+ Waterproof Cellphone


Sony Ericsson created a phone for those who easily drop their phone in the toilets, :-)! It is waterproof (yes! waterproof, not just waster resistant), so don't scare any chance to get the handset wetted. One can't be any better to listening the music using its MP3 player while taking a shower?

Jerry Slocum's Puzzle Collection

This polyhedron is a highlight from more than 30,000 private collections of the puzzle enthusiast, Jerry Slocum, a retired engineer and ex-vice president of Hughes Aircraft. He donated his special possessions to the Lilly Library of Indiana University, and an unprecedent exhibition of puzzles is set to be convened next week! Don't miss this expo, as it is learned that there is an ancient Chinese general's masterpiece (a version of 65 intertwinned Chinese rings) which would nearly take 18,446,744,074 billion steps to solve, “Assuming one move every second, that would be 56 billion years, or four times the age of the universe”.

(picture credit: Michael Taylor of IU via New York Times)

Video: Shopping Cart Madness At 70mph

Hit to watch how some guys get a buzz out of being rammed by a shopping cart at speeds more than 70 mph!

Monday, July 24, 2006

WX920, China's Asexual Marriage Website

www.wx920.com, a unique online marriage broker for asexual people including those who can not have sex and homosexuals in China!

Link to Reuters' report

Mexican Beverage Tequila Set Record-breaking Price

Tequila, the traditonal drink of Mexican farmer and laborers, is normally priced at not more than $10 a bottle, but once it is decorated with a gold and platinum casing, it can be sold for a whopping $225,000!

Sunday, July 23, 2006

Google Testing New Homepage Design


Instead of Groups and Froogle links on top of the search box, Google Video has been seen there.

Hummer Winblad Odds

Venture capital firm Hummer Winblad Venture Partners' co-founder, Ann Winblad (oh, just know she is actually the girlfriend of Microsort founder Bill Gates for 3 years in 1980) was suspected to order her staffs to dump emails related to the Napster copyright infringement lawsuit.

picture crop from SBS

Hotel Box on Pure Nomade


We know, ladies normally have the addictions to do purchase on (un)necessary accessories (e.g. fragrance, shoes & spectacles) and get their room stuffed, while not know how to tidy up. Take it easy! Danish designers Lilian Adler and Soren Berg's Hotel Box which is measured at H*W*D=15cm*47cm*30cm with a mere 200~ 250g is tailored for you gals! It could be towed away when not in use, and put at display when requested. Don't worry its capacity, each box can carry a load of 5kg!
The "Hotel" box concept is a brand new product to the market. It is neither a box, nor a piece of furniture, but all in between. It is made of the finest quality paper ware from the United Kingdom. You buy them collapsed and sealed in plastic folio. Whenever you need them you take them out, fold them into boxes, zip them with a pair of rubber bands, and they are ready to go. They can safely be stacked in up to 10 feet towers fixed through a center screw at the top of the box and they can be set up as shelves crawling along the walls by using some joints supporters, and all in between. Finally a dust lid is snapped into place through the opening in front, making this the window for display.
via Re.

Insane Face Piercings



Link to see more pictures.

Hacker Building Secure IM ScatterChat to Breakthrough Censorship

The IM currrently available for Windows and Linux was builded by the Cult of the Dead Cow (or CDC, once wellknown for their famous Back Orifice spyware trojan in later 1990's) for non-technical human rights activists and political dissidents operating behind oppressive national firewalls:
ScatterChat is a HACKTIVIST WEAPON designed to allow non-technical human rights activists and political dissidents to communicate securely and anonymously while operating in hostile territory. It is also useful in corporate settings, or in other situations where privacy is desired.
Let's have a look at Tectonic's introduction as to this brand new messenger
The instant messenger client is based on the Gaim IM client, but uses the anonymous Tor network and offers end-to-end encryption for both chat and file transfers. According to the site, "ScatterChat uses 2048-bit ElGamal and 1024-bit DSA for encryption setup and authentication. For each new conversation, ScatterChat generates a new 256-bit AES message key, a 256-bit SHA-1 HMAC key, a 256-bit nonce, and a 256-bit AES file transfer key. It is immune to replay attacks, supports Perfect Forward Secrecy, and features limited message deniability properties."
via digg Links 1 & 2 to Boing Boing

Saturday, July 22, 2006

Israel Needs Bombs


As the country urges USA to hasten the delivery of satelite and laser-guided bombs. When will the crisis originated from Hezbollah's unconsiderably captures of two Israeli sodiers end?

Mozart Wife--Constanze Weber's Only Photo Found

The original daguerreotyped photograph taken in 1840 when Weber was 78 was only discovered recently in the Bavarian town--Altoetting archives in Germany.

The print is one of the earliest examples of photography in Bavaria. The daguerreotype was taken at the home of the Swiss composer Max Keller, whom Constanze used to visit regularly.

Mozart and Constanze had six children in their nine-year marriage. Only two of them survived past childhood.

The daguerreotype shows Constanze at front left, next to Max Keller. His wife Josefa is on the right. Behind them are (from the right): their daughters Josefa and Luise, Max Keller's brother-in-law Philipp Lattner and the family's cook. They are outside the Keller family's house.
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Raw CSS Examples

If you are a CSS learner/keener who ever wonna improve your webpage designing skills, pmob.co.uk offers100+ css demos together with free tutorials, it is noteworthy to have a reading!

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Where Human To Live In 2025?

Scientists from Columbia University have developed maps to project population density in spatial detail for the year 2025.

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Video: Computer Simulation of Zidane Headbutting Materrazi


Homemade F1 Car

REUTERS/Claro Cortes Iv
My nationals' F1 dreams come true!
Zhao Xiuguo drives a homemade model of Formula One car in Tangshan, Hebei Province, some 180km (113 miles) east of Beijing July 21, 2006. Zhao Xiuguo and his brother Zhao Xiushun built the car from scrap metal and said that they wanted to design and build the first Formula One racecar in China.

Video: Israel War On Lebanon

Msoubra uploaded this video to Youtube:
Listen to the horrifying blasts of israeli bombs exploding in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. This video brings back haunting memories from the 82 israeli invasion of Beirut - I was then only 4 years old - But the lasting impact of these blasts has never left me.. For those lucky enough to have not experienced a war during their lifetime, it may appear to you that you understand all about it by watching CNN, BBC, or reading the papers.. This video is an attempt to give you a more realistic sense of how terrifying a war can be on innocent civilians.. and kids, just like me, 24 years ago!


Compact 4-Rooms-In-1 House

If you are a young white-collar who don't need too much space because of having to still focus on your career, then this new conceptual 4-in-1 house is ideal for you.

Designer Luigi Colani has created a space-saving house with a six square meter cylinder inside that contains a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. The cylinder rotates left or right bringing the room you want into view of the main living room. There's a separate toilet and a small hallway, and everything is controlled with a remote.

Video: Cool Solara

Gizmodo reviewed how the bluetooth technology has been applied on a fine automobile.

Why Israel Won't Stop Bombarding Lebanon?

Here is a very explicit graphic answer! via

Friday, July 21, 2006

What Two 72-Years-Old Granny did

Wang Xiaobei, from Shandong Province in China could pull a four tonne truck loaded with people, with her teeth to 10 meters, as shown above and another? Ok, she can drive her car and lead police on 2-county chase.

Daughter Who Surprised Mom With Birthday Visit Sues Parents

I guess the woman possibly is an unemployed.
Carriel Louah, 25, visited Darlington, Wis., to surprise her mother on her birthday in January 2005. But the next morning, she was injured when she slipped and fell on her parents' driveway. She filed suit against her parents earlier this year.

The daughter said that a letter from her mom apologizing months after the fall proves that her parents knew they had a defective gutter for years and did nothing about it.

She's seeking more than $75,000 in damages for medical bills and lost wages.
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Unique Antique Condom

To claim it unique is not only because it is the world's oldest condom (dating back to 1640), but also it is reusable (who is able to to recycle nowadays' latex ones?)
[It] is completely intact, as is its orginal users' manual, written in Latin.The manual suggests that users immerse the condom in warm milk prior to its use to avoid diseases.

The antique, found in Lund in Sweden, is made of pig intestine and is one of 250 ancient objects related to sex on display at the Tirolean County Museum in Austria this summer.

Video: German Coastguard Learning English


Underground Tunnels of Russian Streets

When striding in the streets of Russian, you are possibly on the top of so spacious and bright tunnels. I can't help think them as products of Cold War, aren't they?

玻利维亚有条死亡之路

North Yungas Road,又名El Camino de la Muerte是在上世纪三十年代在Chaco 战争期间,由巴拉圭犯人建在玻国北部Yungas地区,以之的极其危险而闻名遐迩。这条落差达3270米全程约60公里非常狭窄而又缺乏缓冲车道的蜿蜒山路,到处覆盖了碎石,以致每年大概有100名路人在此路上驾驶因事故而失去性命。在1983年,这里发生了在玻利维亚历史上最为严重的交通事故,一辆满载100乘客的巴士失控而坠入峡谷。你敢在这里驾车吗?我是不敢哦!

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Thursday, July 20, 2006

Antique Abacus


From the website:
A woman presents a Bagua (the Eight Diagrams) abacus of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) in Huizhou County, east China's Anhui Province July 17, 2006. This abacus can be used for both calculation and entertainment. A special calculating tool in ancient China, the abacus has gradually faded away from people's life at a time when computers prevailed. In Huizhou, however,abacuses can still be found almost everywhere.
See also instrumental abacus, windows abacus, ring abacus and decoration abacus

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Big Sunglasses


Obviously, it's not an actual spectacle! The huge sculpture was seen at the ART'FAB international exhibition dedicated to european women.

Better Not To Piss In Diaper

"Baby doesn't like it (diaper), neither does an adult."
China's first spaceman/taikonaut, Yang Liwei entertained his curious audience in a recent semilar on Chinese space technologies.

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Miss Malaya, A Dog Girl

Oh, no! Miss Malaya is not Miss Malaysia or any lady from the Southeast country--Malaysia where I am staying in. She is a lady from Ukraine. Her boyfriend split a relationship with her after he knew she can bark, whine and four-footed run...
Miss Malaya is a feral child, one of only about 100 known in the world. The story goes that, when she was three, her indifferent, alcoholic parents left her outside one night and she crawled into a hovel where they kept dogs. No one came to look for her or even seemed to notice she was gone, so she stayed where there was warmth and food — raw meat and scraps — forgetting what it was to be human, losing what toddler's language she had and learning to survive as a member of the pack.

A shameful five years later, a neighbour reported a child living with animals. When she was found, at the age of eight in 1991, Oxana could hardly speak and ran around on all fours barking.
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Gay Games


Hi men what are you doing?
Athlete Kathy Brennan (R) of Washington, D.C., helps to apply tanner on Forrest of Ferndale, Michigan, before the Physique competition during Gay Games VII in Evanston, Illinois, July 18, 2006. REUTERS/John Gress
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