Want to cancel your AOL account? Hopefully you are not easily intimidated. This phone conversation reveals the dire and desperate desire of one man’s need to keep his company’s customer.
The Aqueon fireplace by Heat & Glo actually uses regular water to create fire. Ordinary tap water (preferably distilled) is supplied to the fireplace through a pipe or tank, a 220 volt electrical service then separates the hydrogen and oxygen atoms through electrolysis, the Aqueon ignites the hydrogen, and ta-dah, fire! The oxygen is then added for color and brightness, while the rest is released into the room. It doesn’t require venting because it doesn’t produce any harmful emittents like carbon monoxide — just water vapor. And the whole thing is modeled to look like an artistic sculpture of a candle flame.
Link - www.heatnglo.com
Cheese lovers can now watch cheddar mature 24 hours a day on the internet.
West country farmers set up the Cheddarvision website featuring a 25 kg block of cheddar, reports ITN.
Farmer Tom Calver said: “How many other cheeses do you know of on the internet that have their own webcam and a live feed to the internet? I don’t think many.”
The highlight of the day on www.cheddarvision.tv is at around 10am when the cheese at the Somerset dairy is turned.
Watch Now !!>>>http://www.cheddarvision.tv/
From “Businesscardland.com”:
Choose from one of the designs below to start making your free printable business cards. Once you’ve chosen your design, you will have the option to pick “full bleed” business cards, which will create business cards that print to the edge of the card and work with Avery 8373 and other brands of paper that have 8 cards per page.
Or pick the “no bleed” option to create business cards that have 10 cards per page such as Avery 8871 and 8371 Business Card Papers.
After you create business cards using the online business card maker, you will be able to save your free printable business cards in PDF format to print at home, at a copy shop, or have them printed by a commercial printer. Unlike most free business card software, this business card maker is flash based, which allows you to create business cards online on both a Mac and a PC.
For full information:
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy being sued for online music piracy accused the recording industry on Tuesday of violating antitrust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats.
In papers responding to a lawsuit filed by five record companies, Robert Santangelo, who was as young as 11 when the alleged piracy occurred, denied ever disseminating music and said it’s impossible to prove that he did.
Santangelo is the son of Patti Santangelo, the 42-year-old suburban mother of five who was sued by the record companies in 2005. She refused to settle, took her case public and became a heroine to supporters of Internet freedom.
The industry dropped its case against her in December but sued Robert and his sister Michelle, now 20, in federal court in White Plains. Michelle has been ordered to pay $30,750 in a default judgment because she did not respond to the lawsuit.
Robert Santangelo and his lawyer, Jordan Glass, responded at length on Tuesday, raising 32 defenses, demanding a jury trial and filing a counterclaim against the companies for allegedly damaging the boy’s reputation, distracting him from school and costing him legal fees.
His defenses to the industry’s lawsuit include that he never sent copyrighted music to others; that the recording companies promoted file sharing before turning against it; that average computer users were never warned that it was illegal; that the statute of limitations has passed; and that all the music claimed to have been downloaded was actually owned by his sister on store-bought CDs.
Santangelo also claims that the record companies, which have filed more than 18,000 piracy lawsuits in federal courts, “have engaged in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud the courts of the United States.”
The papers allege that the companies, “ostensibly competitors in the recording industry, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and public policy” by bringing the piracy cases jointly and using the same agency “to make extortionate threats … to force defendants to pay.”
The Recording Industry Association of America, which has coordinated most of the lawsuits, issued a statement saying, “The record industry has suffered enormously due to piracy. That includes thousands of layoffs. We must protect our rights. Nothing in a filing full of recycled charges that have gone nowhere in the past changes that fact.”
Link - www.1010wins.com
Like the “10 Minute Disposable Email” email service link I posted , detailing disposable email addresses you can create and dictate when they expire, Craigsnumber is a disposable telephone number service.
And it’s free..
Basically, all you do is go to Craigsnumber, click the link, and you will be instantly assigned a telephone number. This is your ‘disposable’ number.
Enter the length of time, from one hour to one month, you want this number to exist. Then enter your real telephone number in the appropriate box and all phone calls to your assigned number will be forwarded to your real number for the designated length of time.
Want to use a phone number in a newspaper ad, but don’t really want to use your real number? Create a disposable number to publish in the paper (or online), and it will expire at your chosen time.
What about all the web forms that want a telephone number, won’t complete your request without one, and you don’t want to give out your ‘true’ number? Use a Craigsnumber…
Personally, I can think of a dozen different uses for a disposable number.
Check it out…
If you’re planning on popping the big question this Valentine’s Day and money’s no object, the Tropicana is offering a decadent package that will include limousine service, a hotel suite covered in rose petals, dinner for two at Red Square, dessert at Brulee and — for a total cost of $15,000 — the Trop will throw in a grand celebration dinner at Wellington’s for when it’s time to brandish the ring. Brandeis Jewelers will offer a ring of up to $10,000 in value. Brulee at The Quarter will offer a brownie of $1,000 in value. According to a spokesperson, “It is a decadent, dark chocolate brownie topped with 24 carat gold leaf … served with a St. Louis crystal atomizer containing 1996 Quinta do Noval Nacional — a very fine, very rare port wine.” For more info — or to find out if you can get 10 brownies instead of an engagement ring — call Tropicana Media Services at 340-4029.
They say don’t ask and don’t tell. But you have to see this.
“For anybody who is not familiar with a jet engine, a jet fan blade should be perfectly smooth. You might want to think twice the next time you fly on a Chinese Airline.
A pilot for a Chinese carrier requested permission and landed at FRA, (Germany) for an unscheduled refueling stop. The reason became soon apparent to the ground crew: The Number 3 engine had been shutdown previously because of excessive vibration, and because it didn’t look too good. It had apparently been no problem for the tough guys back in China: as they took some sturdy straps and wrapped them around two of the fan blades and the structures behind, thus stopping any unwanted windmilling (engine spinning by itself due to airflow passing through the blades during flight) and associated uncomfortable vibration caused by the suboptimal fan.
Note that the straps are seat belts….how resourceful! After making the “repairs”, off they went into the wild blue yonder with another revenue-making flight on only three engines! With the increased fuel consumption, they got a bit low on fuel, and just set it down at the closest airport (FRA) for a quick refill.
That’s when the problems started: The Germans, who are kind of picky about this stuff, inspected the malfunctioning engine and immediately grounded the aircraft. Besides the seat belts, notice the appalling condition of the fan blades. The airline operator had to send a chunk of money to get the first engine replaced (took about 10 days).
The repair contractor decided to do some impromptu inspection work on the other engines, none of which looked all that great either. The result: a total of 3 engines were eventually changed on this plane before it was permitted to fly again.”
Bill Gates makes a TV appearance the night before Windows Vista is released. Today, 01/30/07, is the official public release of Micrsoft’s new operating system “Vista”, which is the first “major” release from Microsoft in 5 years.
The Mosquito is one of the worlds lightest manned Helicopters that has been designed and developed over the past 10 years to deliver performance, reliability and ease of flight. Ken Armstrong of Kit Planes Magazine said that the “Mosquito is convincing - it’s as close as you can come to real flying with almost no means of support, and the view is at least as good as a bird”. He also said that “Flying the refined Mosquito was the most fun I’ve ever had with a Helicopter!”. .
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Norman Larsen, president and head chemist at the Rocket Chemical Company, developed a water displacement formula on his fortieth try, naming it WD-40.
The aerospace industry needed a product to eliminate moisture from electrical circuitry and to prevent corrosion on airplanes and Atlas Missile nose-cones. The newly developed WD-40 worked so well, engineers working at the Rocket Chemical Company began sneaking it out of the plant for home use on squeaky doors and stuck locks.
WD-40 became available to the public in 1958, and in 1961, a sweet fragrance was added to overcome the smell of the petroleum distillates. In 1969, the Rocket Chemical Company was renamed the WD-40 Company, after its only product. The WD-40 Company makes the “secret sauce,” then sends it to packagers who add the solvent and propellant.
In 1964, John Glenn circled the earth in Friendship VII, which was covered with WD-40 from top to bottom.
The WD-40 Company went public on the NASDAQ exchange in 1973. The initial 300,000 shares, available at $16.50, closed that same day at $26.50.
WD-40 makes over a million gallons of the “secret sauce” every year.
WD-40 can be found in four out of five American homes.
No one knows he’s on a cell phone (funny commercial)
Macao surpassed the Las Vegas Strip to become the world’s biggest gambling center in 2006, according to industry analysts and government figures released Tuesday.
Fueled by a casino investment boom and the millions of Chinese visitors flooding in, Macao said its gambling revenue had soared 22 percent in 2006, to $6.95 billion. A Portuguese colony that was returned to China in 1999, Macao is the only place in China where gambling is legal, and last year it attracted more than 22 million visitors, mostly from China
Las Vegas has not released its full-year statistics but the vaunted desert strip trailed Macao in the final months of last year and analysts estimate that revenue on the Strip was about $6.5 billion in 2006.
This year, Macao may take in $8 billion in gambling revenue, according to industry analysts, up from $2 billion in 2001. Macao is still behind the entire state of Nevada, which in 2005 reported close to $12 billion in gaming revenue. “Whether or not Macao passed Las Vegas last year is just a headline,” said Harry Curtis, a gambling analyst at JPMorgan. “The fact is, as we stand today, Macao is going to be a bigger market than Las Vegas. And by the end of the decade it could be twice the size of Las Vegas.”
Hoping to cash in on the city’s gold rush, some of the world’s biggest casino operators, including Las Vegas tycoons like Sheldon G. Adelson, Steve Wynn and Kirk Kerkorian, Read the rest of this entry »
Documentary about some of the richest people of the middle east and how they live.
Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu:
Engineer, Design Engineer, Inventor, 2,300 Patents, 3,218 Inventions
Invented the floppy Disk, the CD, Digital Watch
Yoshiro Nakamatsu makes many bold claims to fame. His resume lists him as one of the five greatest scientists in history, alongside Archimedes, Michael Faraday, Marie Curie and Nikola Tesla. But he prefers to be known as the inventor of the floppy disk, the CD, the digital watch and a grand total of 3,218 inventions at last count.
Such a feat would make Nakamatsu the world’s most prolific inventor, well ahead of Thomas Edison, who logged 1,093. Nakamatsu’s unconventional mind has made him a celebrity among tinkerers, academics and bureaucrats alike. Dozens of awards from such sources plaster the walls of his office, situated in Akasaka, one of the most expensive office districts in Tokyo, and conveniently located a short walk from the Japanese patent office.
A visit to Nakamatsu’s “laboratory” begins with a video pastiche of his achievements, honours ceremonies and television appearances, played on a giant flat screen set among a jumble of inventions in one corner. One sequence shows him welcomed to the United States by President George Bush. Squashed under the documents, diagrams and models stacked deep on his desk lies his latest award, the Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, awarded for outstanding service to the community. The sprightly 73-year-old’s inventive streak showed itself when he was 5 years old. He created an automatic gravity controller for a model plane that he says makes autopilot possible. His parents took up a family friend’s advice to patent the device. The patent has expired, and he earns no royalties from autopilot systems. But subsequent patents have made Nakamatsu a wealthy man. Read the rest of this entry »