The crop circles have returned, with a vengeance. Conspiracy theorists are having a “field” day regarding a new crop circle that has shown up at a barley field in Oxfordshire. Instead of leaving just boring circles, the creators have tapped their inner creativity and created a massive, 600-foot jellyfish crop circle. Previous crop creations have appeared in the form of birds, butterflies, and even the first 10 digits of pi (3.141592654). Karen Alexander, a self-proclaimed croppy, says this one is “absolutely huge — roughly three times bigger than…most crop patterns, and extremely interesting. People have been aghast at the size of it. It is ...
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It finally happened. The Global Language Monitor announced today that Web 2.0 has beaten Jai Ho , n00B and Slumdog as the millionth English word or phrase. It has officially now been added to the codex of the fourteen hundred-year-old English language. Web 2.0 is a technical term, of course, meaning the next generation of World Wide Web products and services. It’s rather ironic, given that Web 3.0 is now pretty much here. In any case, Web 2.0 has crossed from technical jargon into much more common usage over the last six to twelve months. Two terms from India, Jai Ho! and slumdog finished ...
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53-year-old Rachel Wilder has put a GPS device on her son. How old is he, you may ask? Five? Seven? Ten? No, Harry Wilder is nineteen years old is about to begin a business management course at Oxford Brookes University in England. He is also about to take a long trip to Australia, Thailand, and South Africa. He is Australia at this moment…along with his Traakit , which allows lets mommy dearest pinpoint his location to within 15 feet. “I can tell which street he is in so I can make sure he doesn’t wander into any dangerous areas,” Mrs. Wilder told the Telegraph ...
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Talk about a letdown. The Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa has reached a settlement with a guest for an undisclosed amount after a slot machine "malfunction" led the man to believe he had won a $166 million jackpot on Sunday. William Seebeck had been playing the $4 slots at the casino and, after spending roughly $80 on a Bally Ultimate Party Spin, Seebeck thought he had struck gold. After an hour of whooping it up and thinking about how he would spend his millions, however, casino officials informed him that the win was the result of a malfunction and they denied him the ...
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The Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa. It may be the most beautiful car ever made. A 1957 Testa Rossa has just sold for an unbelievable $12.1 million. Ferrari only built 22 Scaglietti-designed Testa Rossas between 1957 and 1958. It featured a 300 horsepower V12 engine and Testa Rossas won 10 of the 19 races they entered between the years 1958 and 1961. Behold…the 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa… Related articles by Zemanta 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa: Vintage Ferrari Expected To Break World Auction Record [1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa] (jalopnik.com) Ferrari History on the Block (nytimes.com) More Hot Posts: Digital Point’s Shawn Hogan Sued ...
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