Got this from a colleague today. It’s a visual representation of the 200 most successful websites on the World Wide Web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective, and displayed in the manner of the London Underground map.A clickable online version can be found here. Noticed that one “line” on the map is dedicated… Read More »
A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of RFK Stadium. Kitchens don’t have light switches. When entering a kitchen at night, you should open the fridge door and use that light instead. Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds – unless… Read More »
Based on the premise that a black screen uses less energy than a white one, Blackle – a customised Google search engine – claims to save energy simply “because the screen is predominantly black”. The idea for the site was born from a 2007 blog post titled “Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year”,… Read More »
All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets that reached up to the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds. If staying in a… Read More »
Several years ago when I visited Beijing, I remembered observing with a tinge of sadness the presence of a Starbucks joint within the Forbidden City. At that time, I already thought it was sacrilegious for a commercial entity to taint the Forbidden City’s historical significance. Good thing now the Seattle-based coffee chain has been banished… Read More »