The Paris Hotel marqui in Las Vegas suffered a spectacular “Écran Bleu De la Mort” recently, according to pictures snapped by a vacationer. Photos show they finally got the system booted by morning, but that wasn’t very pretty either.
Nearly half of British men surveyed would give up sex for six months in return for a 50-inch plasma TV, a survey — perhaps unsurprisingly carried out for a firm selling televisions — said on Friday.Electrical retailer Comet surveyed 2,000 Britons, asking them what they would give up for a large television, one of the latest consumer “must-haves.”
The firm found 47 percent of men would give up sex for half a year, compared to just over a third of women.
You’ve seen these tech logos everywhere, but have you ever wondered how they came to be? Did you know that Apple’s original logo was Isaac Newton under an apple tree? Or that Nokia’s original logo was a fish?
Let’s take a look at the origin of tech companies’ logos and how they evolved over time.
Possibility isn’t limited by technology. And it’s certainly not limited by human imagination. What makes something impossible is the lack of cold, hard, cash. [For the rest of the article click here]
These happy characters are Peruvian anti-riot police, who are seen here parading in celebration of Peru’s independence day yesterday. Yes, they are terrifying. This makes Peru the latest entry in a long list of countries I will try to avoid rioting in. I’m still all about rioting in Canada and Sweden, however.
Below is the recently (2003) extended runway at funchal airport in portugal madeira. the original 1400m runway was notoriously short and, as a result, sometimes dangerous for landing planes. The runway extension won the iabse’s ‘outstanding structures award’ and rightly so: due to an obvious lack of land, engineers have supported the extension on 180 pillars, each 70m high. On the last photo you can see what seems to be a car park that now lives under the end of the runway.
Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill lost both his legs above the knees when a bomb exploded under his Humvee while on patrol in Iraq on October 15, 2006. He has 32 pins in his hip and a 6-inch screw holding his pelvis together.
Now, he’s starting to walk again with the help of prosthetic legs outfitted with Bluetooth technology more commonly associated with hands-free cell phones.
“They’re the latest and greatest,” Bleill said, referring to his groundbreaking artificial legs.