Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to dear SPAM… yeah the internet Spam is celebrating their 30th birthday. Hope none of us get invited to the party, I’ve been deleting them everyday. Hope they removed me from their mail list after the birthday wishing.
Spam was an idea originated by Gary Thurek in 1978 to send an unsolicited advertisement to 393 Arpanet users. All these 393 e mail addresses were typed by hand!
Now, sent them to the junk!
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Awesome! The Burj Dubai tower is about to be completed. David Hobcote has taken and shared his excellent quality of the Burj Dubai, the pictures were taken from a bell helicopter with a canon 1Ds mark 3 digital camera. The under construction building which previously measures 512.m (1,680ft) tall has already beats the record of the 508m high Taipei 101 in Taiwan. At present, the Burj Dubai has reached the 16th steel level, it is now 688.1 meters tall.
Burj Dubai Skyscraper
• Height: ~ 800m – 950m
• Floors: ~ 160 – 189
• Construction start date: 2005, February 1
• Completion date: 2009, August 16
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The first generation iPod Nanos goes kaboom. Owner reports that his nano was plugged into his notebook, after 10 minutes charging, it starts emit a sizzling sound and in a little while it exploded open, spewing sparks and smoke. The issue has been reported to Apple’s customer service but still waiting for the official response and plan of action.
Other users also reported the similar cases with first generation nano. That will be dangerous if it caught fire in the middle of the night. One more shot after the break. Read more…
Automatic car wash looks easy, drives the car in and let the machine do all the cleaning. But not for this guy, he completely destroy the car wash. I hope there’s no one injured in this accident. Video after the break. Read more…
The 2008 Olympics in Beijing has magnetized thousands of tourists. Well known in China, the trishaw or tricycle, bringing tourists around the streets. But it looks like Mini was involved in this traditional Chinese transport. Obviously it is heavier than others standard trishaw, I wondered if that man give a higher charges if you seat on his leg-powered Mini.
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Their words flying around saying that the PSP add-on camera aka the Chotto Shot could overheat and spontaneously combust which means burst ~ caught fire. They believed it could melt off all your saves game in the memory stick as well. Hmm… Is that real? I have friends using it for a long time, it seems working pretty well. However, if it does burn, please do not forget to share with us.
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The China’s Olympics stadium also known as the “Bird’s Nest”, cost around $500 million and took 7 years to build. The stadium fits in 91,000 people and will host both of the opening and closing ceremonies, and also all of the athletic events for the 2008 Olympics.
Besides that, it has also inspired some Chinese villagers in Hangzhou city to make a smaller and cheaper version of the bird nest stadium. 10 bamboo master used 1,000 pieces of bamboos to build a Miniature Bird’s Nest stadium in the village. They have completed it in 2 weeks time. They also plan to organize some sports events in that nest such as beach ball, bow shooting, loop rolling, etc. Coo! Read more…
Alright, that’s a little “burn” when happen in big event. This picture was taken at the Beijing Opening Ceremony, encountering the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death).
“At the exact moment Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird’s Nest during the amazing torch-lighting climax, someone snapped this photo of our good friend the BSOD.”
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I love the date today 08-08-08. That’s about nine hours to go from now, to the Opening Ceremony of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad at the National Stadium in Beijing ~ yes, it’s on 8/8/08 at 8 p.m. because 8 is a symbol of prosperity in Chinese culture.
The ceremony officially will begin when Chinese President Hu Jintao is received at the entrance of the stadium by the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jacques Rogge, and by Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Olympic Committee (BOCOG).
Head to NBC for full story.
Alright that is crazy! As you know lots of gamer crazy of Grand Theft Auto 4, it even transform from non-gamer to a gamer. Blek 
Well, I’m not writing here to tell you guys about how great the game is but to tell you guys that one of the largest video game distributor has halted the sales of the GTA IV after a teenager confessed to robbing and murdering a taxi driver while trying to recreate a scene from the game. New Era Interactive said it had sent a note to all Thai stores, telling them to take off the game from the shelves after a 19 years old high school student confessed to killing a taxi driver with a knife he bought at a local branch of Tesco. Bangkok’s Police said that the youth “had wanted to find out if it was as easy in real life to rob a taxi as it was in the game.”
[via Neatorama]
