Quicklinks Catchup

The problem with the internet is that there is so many goodies out there and little titbits of random information... Here's a few quick links for your surfing pleasure:

The Chinese man who bought a MiG fighter on eBay wants a refund.

Have you noticed search results being a little crap as of late? Think about this: Google makes money of the advertising on the search engine. If the user have crap results, what elese are they going to click on?The advertising.

Congratulate Disney for not renewing their contract with McDonalds to promote Maccas products using Disney characters.

According to some reports, the chinese government is raising the price of waribashi (disposable wooden chopsticks) in an effort to protect their forestlands. Every year, throughout the world, billions of these disposable chopsticks are thrown away. The price hike is part of China’s larger plan to totally ban the production of waribashi completely. The waribashi is widely used in Japan, Chinese waribashi is 50-200% cheaper than it’s Japanese counterpart.

CPU overclocked to 7.104Ghz! - CPU cooled with liquid nitrogen has set an overclocking record.

This neat utility that lets you run apps like Skype and firefox from your flash drive on any computer. Similar concept to my previous post on Portable USB Applications.

A work around hack to shut off your computer with an SMS message

Get Addicted to this new google tool called Google Trends. Basically shows you trend lines of the number of searches for certain keywords and attempts to link peaks and troughs to news articles.

Can you Concentrate? This guy can't.

And finally, if you're into blogging... don't forget that rambling is no no when you blog.

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