Year of the Metal Tiger (Updated): Chinese New Year 2010 Celebration and Festival – This year, the first day of the Chinese New Year has landed on February 14th (which also happens to be Valentine’s Day). Chinese New Year is China’s most important holiday, a joyous occasion complete with days of feasting, giving gifts, decorating, [...]
Year of the Tiger 2010: Chinese New Year of the Tiger – Kung Hei fat Choi to everyone! Happy Chinese New Year celebration. As the celebration of Chinese New Year begins, fireworks display are rampant to welcome the New Year. This new year 2010 is the Year of the Tiger for Chinese people, particularly Year [...]
Have you heard the creature Mothman? Or is there such creature as a Mothman? According to Wikipedia, the Mothman is a creature reportedly sighted in the Charleston and Point Pleasant areas of West Virginia from November 12, 1966, to December 1967. Below is a picture of a Mothman creature:
Most observers describe the Mothman as a [...]
The students of North Carolina State University in Raleigh North Carolina started a race in 2004, it started with only ten (10) participants but last 2009, 5,500 runners joined.
The student-operated race held annually (not affiliated by the Krispy Kreme company) which is for the benefit of North Carolina Children’s Hospital will be held this February [...]
The mystery behind Sistine Chapel Ceiling Painting by Michael Angelo is a hot topic these past few hours. After Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing posted about the Brain on the Sistine Chapel, everybody got curious about it. The painting of the Creation of Adam is very similar to a brain. Not the entire painting, only [...]
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There are questions posted in various forum sites about 011110. If you know how to convert binary to decimal, you can quickly determine that 011110 is equal to 30. But what does it means? Does it mean something? January 11, 2010 is another palindrome day and philosophers and other nerds are thinking of something behind [...]
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According to the History Channel in their January 3 episode, an island named Apocalypse holds clues relating to the Mayan apocalyptic predictions. These predictions are somehow similar to the events that happened in the movie “2012″. If by any chance that the Apocalypse Island indeed holds the clues to these Mayan predictions, where can we [...]
Isaac Newton and the apple drop phenomenon on the Google doodle. If you’ve noticed the new Google homepage today wherein an apple drops in your screen after a few seconds when the Google page is loaded, then you’ll be curious why the apple dropped. Others find it funny, while others are thinking deeply what’s the [...]
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Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer’s Edition is known as the “gaming bible” because of the facts that it can give to some hard-hitting questions about gaming. The book will be released on January 4, 2010 and it will cost $14.99 for the full book.
Here are some facts that are taken from the book:
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The word palindrome is derived from the Greek palíndromos, meaning running back again (palín = AGAIN + drom–, drameîn = RUN). A palindrome is a word or phrase which reads the same in both directions. It doesn’t necessarily be a word or phrase, it could also be numbers just like our date today in month-day-year [...]
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