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Congratulations to Paula Seling and Ovi who won the 3rd place in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. I linked the winning song too, but I think we could have actually won this year. The good things is that unlike previous years, the best songs ended at the top, even if the preferences order differs from…
Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken. On in other words, this is one of the most funniest presentations I’ve ever seen.
Finally I managed to scan some printed pictures from Seattle. During the party at the Experience Music Project, some of us had some fun on stage. Here is the proof of performing “We Will Rock You” on stage. From left to right, ovidiucucu, gstercken, Marc G, me, VictorN and Brad. And this time VictorN, Marc…
As it became a tradition, Google made a few April Fool’s Day jokes. Here is a list of the best ones: Virgle, http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html AdSense for conversations, http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/04/introducing-adsense-for-conversations.html GMail Custom Time (this one rocks!), http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html Google Calendar Wake up Kit, http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/new_wakeup.html Google Books Search Smell, http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2008/04/google-book-search-now-smells-better.html Google Weblogs, http://buzz.blogger.com/2008/04/announcing-google-weblogs-beta.html Google Talkabout, http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-talk-goes-green.html Microsoft did a very…
There is a very interesing fiction story by Cory Doctorow published on radoronline.com called SCROOGLED. It’s about Google going evil and allowing the US Department of Homeland Security to use Google information for catching “bad guys”. A US version of “political police”, a 21st century version of Stasi and other oppressive security organizations. Or if you like,…
Today we celebrate 30 years since Star Wars, A New Hope was released. It is estimated that 1 billion people have seen the movie. Here are my favorite lines from the saga: Obi-wan “Use the Force, Luke”. Leia: “I love you”. Han: “I know!” Vader: “I am your father.” Luke: “No. No. That’s not true!…
I just came across this great site, http://www.mintrubbing.org/, the “official site” of Romanian Mint Rubbing Association. Mint rubbing is: mint rubbing (from Romanian “a freca menta”) – time and life management technique developed in Romania and practiced by millions of people worldwide. This site is dedicated to provide you all the resources need to put…