Halo 3 going to break records!

Well, it is official for now, Halo 3 broke the records for the first day of sales! Generating around $170 Million, just to compare Spider Man 3 (the movie), holder of the first position in the entertainment industry did $150 Million on its first day :)

Still Halo 3 will have to beat other chumps in the gaming business, check out this story for the top 10 in the gaming industry!

Bush's UN Speech Full of Fone-eh-tick Pronunciations for World Leaders

One could look at it as the guy can't remember names and is doing his best to not offend others by mispronouncing their names. However, this is the President of USA, we all have more expectations of him. It's sad to see that he needs help pronouncing words. What else does he need help with?

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Microsoft Is in Talks To Buy Facebook Stake - WSJ.com

Microsoft & Google are fighting over a 5% share in Facebook. Is Mark Zuckerberg lucky or cursed?

Would you cash out and quit while you're ahead and let the big companies duke it out?

Microsoft Is in Talks To Buy Facebook Stake - WSJ.com

Landscape photos, landscapes with a soul

landscape photos

This site has some amazing landscape photos. I've seen a lot of interesting photos, but I didn't find a single photo that was just OK.

Its worth checking out.

http://www.outdoor-photos.com/

New satellite to sharpen Google Earth | CNET News.com

If you've toyed around around with Google Earth, I'm sure you find it cool.  Will we see in a few years a Google Satellite being launched?

New satellite to sharpen Google Earth | CNET News.com

YouTube - MotoGP Estoril 2007 Toni Elias

watch carefully around 52nd second. Toni going into right hander, passing Milandri, sideways, rear tire lifts off ground, and still makes the pass. Pure Magic.

YouTube - MotoGP Estoril 2007 Toni Elias

in-flight WiFi

Genius, pure genius. Alaska Air claiming that by 2008 they'll have WiFi on their planes. Think of the possibilities:

• no more boring re-run episodes of obscure British shows
• no more lies from the front cabin, you check delays for yourself and find out if the airport is closed for fog, or the captain took a wrong turn at Albuquerque
• That presentation you were going to work on when you arrived at 9pm, done!
• watch plane crashes on youTube.com and scare the person next to you

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/alaska-air-hoping-to-add-in-flight-wifi-in-2008/

Michael Schumacher & Ayrton Senna

If you're a fan of either drivers, this article is awesome. The article reveals a lot of inside private conversations. It shows you the psychology of both drivers and gives you a glimpse of how racing used to be 15 years ago.

http://www.itv-f1.com/Feature.aspx?Type=James_Allen&PO_ID=40645

McLaren: GUILTY!! banned & fined

Team Vodafone McLaren Mercedes have been found guilty of espionage. They have been stripped of their 2007 constructors points and banned from stepping on the podium, and fined $100 million.

This one is will be remembered in history, more on the story:

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2007/9/6767.html

http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=40651

Led Zeppelin: 20 million in 1 day

So yesterday the news broke out of the upcoming Led Zeppelin reunion concert. The concert is a fund raiser for a charity. To get tickets, you need to register at the charity's web site. I guess they weren't ready for 20 million people to rush in ONE day.

Their network crashed and I'd imagine they're scrambling for more bandwidth to accommodate.

20 million in one day, Guardian put it best "Whole Lotta Love for Led Zeppelin"

LED ZEPPELIN, in concert 1 more time!!

We all say that we like music. But what I consider the definition on that is that if you would devote 5 minutes of a day to listen to a song, then you really like music. This is different from people that would:

1. tolerate music
2. have music running as background noise
3. use music to cover construction sounds
4. work in an un-insulated cubicle next to someone that DEOS like music
5. born deaf

If none of the above applies to you, then you must at least like Led Zeppelin. Therefore, this piece of news is huge, massive, colossal, gargantuan....

I never thought I'd live to see the day when Led Zeppelin would be performing live again. Now I have to figure how to be in London on November 26.

This could be one of the best concerts EVER. It is at London's 02 Arena, and the concert benefits Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund.

http://www.ledzeppelin.com/ for more info

Nathan Sawaya the Lego Artist!

From simple Legos... Yes the ones we used to play with when we were kids Nathan went to develop something that might become an art form :)

Check out the art of the brick museum!

Apple Offering Credit for Upset iphone customers :)

And who doesn't like a $100 credit!

Apparently, the new price cut on iphone has caused a big stir among customers who already bought the handset a couple of months ago!

This caused a rebellion and hordes of angry customers went to the streets and started wrecking cars, destroying shops and burning tires... The national guard went to the streets as the police couldn't handle the riots... And soon it was martial law all over the world...

Why oh why!!!

Ok that part was my imagination... So forget about it...

The true story is basically, as customers became upset Apple is giving them $100 credit.

In a letter on the company website Steve Jobs said: "Our early customers trusted us, and we must live up to that trust with our actions in moments like these."

Further details of how the refunds will work are to appear on the website this week.

Nice move if you ask me :)

The HAKA!

A friend of mine showed me this today...
The All Blacks are known for this ritual. It is really impressive. Makes you wonder what their opponents felt after seeing them :)

Respect for the All Blacks!

Kimi Raikkonen Monza Accident

If you are an F1 fan you must have seen this crash last Saturday... Luckily Kimi went out of it with a neck pain. With that in mind he managed to get 3rd place on Sunday.

Congrats for Kimi :)

The accident incase you missed it...



Update... Due to some copywright the movie was removed from youtube :(

Zain the X MTC

It is sad when a rebranding goes bad in several ways... What is worse is when someone discovers that the new brand name means D**K in some foreign language...

A brief history, the company called MTC is a telecom provider in several countries across the Middle East and Africa. They rebranded and revealed their new brandname a couple of days ago "Zain". The whole rebranding took a couple of years and many leaks and scandals and yesterday it ended with someone discovering that "Zain" means "D**K" or "P**IS" in Hebrew...

Well at least this is what those websites say...

http://www.youswear.com/index.asp?language=Hebrew
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Zain+B’ain
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=zain

You can find more details here...

Indian Jones IV

Oops! Or is it?

Well Shia LaBeouf let it slip at the MTV's Video Music Awards that the official title for Indian Jones IV is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull! Apparently, it is one of six recently reported titles revealed in a Motion Pictures Association of America Title Registration Report.

LaBeouf goes "So I've been sworn to secrecy by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas not to tell you the title of the next Indiana Jones movie. What the hell, I'm 21 and we're in Vegas, baby, so here it goes. The official title to the next Indiana Jones installment: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."

Later on the title has been confirmed on the official Indiana Jones website. The movie opens on May 22, 2008.

UK's anti-gadget rules

2 years in prison for texting or fiddling with a gadget?? Communist Russia wasn't this oppressive. What's a techno-file to do in the UK? its a bit harsh I think. I've done the occasional swerve whist texting, but isn't that supposed to train us for future accident avoidance maneuvers?

Internet People!

Found that on youtube today, loved it :)
So here goes with a special dedication for all of you out there!

Google Earth Flight Simulator

Ok the latest Easter Egg from Google!

This is the find of Marco Gallota, I think he was playing around Google and bam! He hit the jackpot :)

Apparently, Google has hidden in the latest version of GE a flight simulator. What for I don't know, no one knows, and no one from Google said anything until now...

But the application is there and it runs and works very well :) Ok I crashed like 20 times already, but no one said it is going to be easy, heck no one said it is there at the first place!

All you have to do to try it out is download the latest version of GE, start it up, move around in GS and then hit Ctrl+Alt+A (or if on OS X hit Command+Option+A) then you will get a popup where you select the type of plane you want to use. Currently two choices, either an F16 or an SR22 (which is easier as much slower) and from there on go and discover :)

Read the full story on Macro's blog...

Pit Bull

Well, I don't know what you think about dogs in general, but many fear them while many like them... Some have ten around them others can't stand next to them...

I want to talk here about the Pit Bull, who is deemed like the worst kind and in the states latelly many groups are trying abolish as a pet.

Doing some research on the subject will highlight that the Pit Bull is one of the safest dogs to be around... Actually, you are most likely to be bitten by a cocker spaniel than a pit bull. Ok they do look mean, but come on we are the one's who have been training them as fight dogs since 1000 years!

I found that edit on youtube, really good one!

Are we going Google?

Looking around one sees Google in many things these days. You have the search engine, the gmail, the blogs, the groups, earth, sky, ......................................... and now they are talking about the gphone and God knows what will come after that... So what is going on!

Well, they are doing it very well I have to admit. There isn't one google thing I tried and didn't like until now. There isn't a google thing that I tried and said I don't need as well.

I don't know, but I have this feeling google is winning not only the internet race, but anything related to technology race.

By the way did you hear about google brain? It is an idea on how google would look like in around yr 2020... Worth checking out :)

Soon we might start seeing google cars!

Ipod New Generation

Yesterday was the day!

And as usual a great speech by Steve Jobs revealing a new generation of ipods...

Many new products and services being released... Imagine your own ringtone maker that allows you to cut a piece of any song on itune and change it into a ringtone and sync with your iphone...

Check the keynote here and get a look at what you are going to buy soon :)

Digg.com Arc, it's alive!

http://labs.digg.com/arc/

Tryout this link and see how new stories accumulate attention. At first it looks like just an animation, but in reality, this graphical represenation is driven by us, users, clicking on news articles. It is almost like a living organism, it never stops.

BEOWULF

Interested in checking out a cool new 3D movie still in production... Well this one promises to be good...

BEOWULF the trailer!

A Concept Car; Audi Cross Coupe Quattro

Ok another Audi story!

Their new concept car, Audi Cross Coupe Quattro! Hopefully once they launch it they will give it a different shorter name... Anyway this one is smashing, just look at it! If this isn't sexy what is!!!

I want to call this the converging vehicle!

Well what else would you call a car that is a mixed sports car, SUV and a coupe with 4 doors :P

Anyway will have to wait a year to give it a try, they predict the launch in mid 2008.

Phillipines Prison Dance School

Ok, this is a strange one... but really GOOD one!

Apparently this prison in the Phillipines created a dance program to keep the inmates busy and fit.

Check out this report and then check out the link to the remake of THRILLER!

Mastercard Tap and Go!

Mastercard has launched a new service which it called PayPass and basically it is a card where you tap and go :)

Imagine you are taking the buss and instead of paying by cash or anything you just take your card and tap it on a device and tadam you have paid!

This is starting in the UK and will be limited for payments under 10 pounds.

Check it out at the paypass website!

Energy Saving Google

The find of the day!
Someone out there did some calculation and came out with this result:
"... If Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of page views,
according to calculations, 750 megawatts/hour per year would be saved."

In response Google created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle,
with the exact same functions as the white version, but obviously with lower energy
consumption.

Check it out press here and go black!

Mario Bassil: Kaleb Neni

very funny, very smart, mario bassil is hilarious. Great critique of lebanon and current political situation. Love the play on words.

World Map game

If you think you know geography, try this game. Post your score (be honest)

http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/worldmap/worldmap.html

igoogle

I am just in love with it... First day I used it I was like... Ok like everything else there... Then I customized it... Added the widgets I need... Added the clocks of different countries... Added tabs on different subjects... Suddenly I found myself doing everything from it...
I guess this thing really is wroth it!

Well Done iGoogle!

Twisted Metal

Ok, tumbled by that one while I was checking some new TV commercials... I was watching and watching and wondering what brand is that!

After watching it, don't forget to check this website, pretty good work!

Gmail The Movie

Who else could have done it... A simple graphical icon (the envelope) now means Gmail!

Latest UFO sighting!

Well, real or not, it is still nice to see. This is said to be filmed in Haiti.

2008 Audi S5

A new coupe by Audi!

I will only say that this baby has the looks, the speed (354-bhp 4.2-liter V-8 coupled to a 6-speed manual), and does 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) acceleration in just 5.1 seconds.

This baby ROCKS!

Daily Show: America To the Rescue

thank you John Stewart, you make us sane

cellphone wallpaper

http://www.320by480.com/
this site has some reaaaally cool cell phone wallapaper. As with all the iPhone mania going on, they say these are for iPhone, but they work for any phone really.