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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats. A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed [...]

Here are two videos that are bound to make all the programmers and IT people really happy on this evening. Feel free to laugh, especially at the second one, which I think is really well executed, especially that Lady Gaga herself hasn’t thought of a Floppy-Disk-based dress (that’s if she could find some lying around). [...]

Hello Everyone! As you may have realized, our content has not been updated for around a week now- something which is agonizing to both Tom and myself. Truth be told, this lack of fresh content has been mainly due to a mix of Writer’s Cramp and getting ready to start our senior year of college next week, [...]

Since we haven’t done this in a while, we present you now with a list of random, funny, and bizarre facts we adopted from PHIL BRODIE BAND’S FUN PAGE You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily. The Chinese used fingerprints as a [...]

This is a continuation of the post we had up last week adapted from the fantastic Thrillist where we gave you a list of 22 random facts that you may or may not have come across in your daily life. We now present you with a few more for you reading enjoyment. Here goes The [...]

If you ask any Internet savvy user (but Microsoft users of course), everyone will tell you that Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are much better than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The IE team is now saying otherwise. With rumors of IE9 to be released soon, Microsoft’s IE team is saying that Internet Explorer 9 is months [...]

Here is a bunch of random facts that I’d like to share with you on this beautiful Sunday. They’re taken from this website Thrillist.com which is actually pretty cool and updated everyday. Read along for some pretty interesting fun-facts and my comments. 1-Neilasparophobia is the fear of aliens. That means you can’t get past the [...]

The following list is from one of my most absolute favorite websites Listverse since they publish a new list about everything and anything everyday. They tend to specialize in the bizarre and odd, and the following list is no exception. You can find the link to the site in our blogroll section. In the meantime, [...]