Here’s a cool facebook trick

I usually avoid trying thingies like this on facebook, thinking they’re a waste of time and not working, but for some reason I tried this one, and it works! It creates “magic circles” following your mouse pointer.

Press up arrow, up,down,down, left,right,left,right,b,a,enter key then right click. Then press up then down & magic circles will appear! 😀

One small correction: I’ve got a comment for this on Digg and the guy says:

old. and that last “rightclick+up+down” is completely unnecessary.

Do you know other cool facebook tricks (that work)?

Man's best friend

Whether it is or isn’t man’s best friend, the dog is certainly among the best and most faithful animals there are (competing with horses and dolphins 😉 ). Don’t know about you, but I’ve always preferred them to cats!

Below is a cute video showing a soldier returning from Afghanistan and the reaction of his canine friend. It’s almost as if the dog was crying of happiness, she almost went crazy! You’d probably never see a cat do something like that. 😉

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Coffee, most expensive ice cream, and the gastronomy capital

Coffee cupHere are some interesting facts about food and drink:

  • The coffee industry is the second in annual profit (after the oil industry) earning over 55 billion euros!
  • Boiled crabs become red due to a chemical reaction of a protein substance in their crust.
  • French city Dijon is considered the capital of the world gastronomy due to the fact that an international culinary fair takes place in this city every autumn.

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Ever seen a drop of water bounce?

water dropHere’s a great video that shows how a drop of water actually behaves, shot at 2000 frames per second and displayed 67 times slower. When the drop hits the water surface, it’s not completely connected to it, because there is a thin layer of air between the two bodies of water, but as the air is pushed aside, an important part of the drop merges with the water surface, and the rest bounces. And this happens all the time until the drop is completely dissolved! Isn’t it amazing?

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Google Wave demo in a Pulp Fiction style

Google Wave screenshotHere’s a new Google Wave demo in a Pulp Fiction style. In my previous post about Google Wave, “Google Wave is coming. Are you ready for it?” you can find a bit more info and an hour and a half long video about this new internet revolution. Enjoy finding out about it in this way more interesting way. Though it might be a bit too fast 😉

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They say it's a joke, but, is it?

sljivovicaA biology teacher wished to demonstrate to his students the harmful effects of alcohol on living organisms. For his experiment, he showed them a beaker with pond water in which there was a thriving civilization of worms. When he added some alcohol into the beaker the worms doubled-up and died.
“Now,” he said, “what do you learn from this?”

An eager student gave his answer.
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Piano stairs at Stockholm metro

A giant piano keyboard lays on the stairs of Stockholm’s Odenplan metro station.

”Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator and feel better” is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers. Few people actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to take the stairs over the escalator by making it fun to do?

Volkswagen’s “Fun Theory”

So what’s the result? See for yourself:

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The largest house in the world

If a castle can be called a house in the biggest one lives the British queen Elizabeth II (on the throne since 1952). Windsor is one of the most important castles of the English royalty. A 45.000 square meters castle with over one thousand rooms stands on a five hectares ground. This castle holds two other records: it is the oldest in the world and in continuous use since William the Conqueror (1066-1087). Windsor has been reconstructed and redesigned several times according to its owners’ style.

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