Mar 21
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Mar 21
Not since Donald Duck faced off against Daffy Duck in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? has there been such an epic piano battle as Japanese pianist Yoshiki squaring off against a holographic version of himself.
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Mar 21
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And there they go.
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Billy Joel didn’t seem too sure at first.
One imagines he’s a man of the old school: the dusty piano stool, the fool sitting in the corner talking into his beer.
He may be slightly less of a man for gizmos and apps.
Somehow, Jimmy Fallon, ever the boyish enthusiast, talked him into singing along with an iPad app called Loopy. This allows you to layer one track over another, so that you, too, can make like “Bohemian Rhapsody” (say).
Instead of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Fallon chose the “Boeem-a-weh” song. Yes, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
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This article was written on June 21, 2007 by CyberNet.
Ever since the Internet took off, there’s a whole new set of words that we’ve had to add to our vocabularies so that we understand what’s being said. For example, you go to a web page and receive the following error message:
- “Not accepting cookies.”
For someone who only knows cookies as a sweet round shaped treat, this error message will leave them scratching their heads. For those of us who understand Internet lingo, we know that a cookie is a small piece of data sent from a web server to a web browser, and stored locally on a user’s machine. Simple, right?
Recently, Britain’s were polled and asked what they thought were the most irritating words to come from the Internet that would cause them to want to bang their heads on a keyboard. As you can imagine, there were a whole slew of words. Here are the top ones that made the list:
- Folksonomy
- Blogosphere
- Blog
- Netiquette
- Blook
Other words like cookie and wiki also made the list. Now I have to admit, I haven’t really seen the words folksonomy or blook thrown around too much, but they must be common if they were included on the list. Folksonomy is defined as a web classification system, and a blook is defined as a book based on a blog.
These words are used so much that even dictionaries have considered adding them. In fact, Collins English Dictionary has gone as far as including some of the words “inspired by cyberspace” with their ninth edition of their dictionary. Cyberspace itself could even be added.
For someone who is new to the Internet, the new lingo and acronyms are enough to keep them from coming back for more. I’ve gotten used to most of the terms and acronyms, but are there any that just drive you crazy?
Source: Marketing Pilgrim
Copyright © 2014 CyberNetNews.com
Mar 21
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Mar 21
A woman removes the parachute from her just-landed "jaffle," a toasted sandwich popular in Australia.
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Waiters are so last century. These days, sushi is flown to your table via a quadcopter and beer is dropped out of the sky from an octocopter. Now, a new pop-up restaurant in Melbourne, Australia, has added another, albeit less high-tech, method of food delivery: sandwiches that parachute several stories down to customers waiting on the street.
The novel nosh drop is the brainchild of David McDonald and Adam Grant, who make the toasted sandwiches, called “jaffles,” after people order and pay for them via PayPal on their Web site. The customers then stand on an “X” on the sidewalk and wait for their meal to drop down like mana from heaven. The locations change, and customers are kept up to date via Facebook. The company is fittingly called Jafflechutes.
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Mar 21
It is not uncommon to find a globe in a home, as some of us tend to have one either for decoration’s sake, or to use it as some sort of educational tool. Now that Sudan has split into both North and South Sudan, it would be interesting to see whether new globes produced reflect the existence of the world’s newest nation. Well, if you have plenty of dough in your pocket but have no idea on how to spend it, how about settling on the $13,000 World’s Most Detailed Globe? It has been called the world’s most detailed globe for a very good reason – because it comes with a whopping 28,000 place names.
Majority of the globes out there in the market have listed down 4,000 locations thereabouts at the most, but measuring 32″ across, this virtuosic achievement in cartography is capable of holding enough detail in order to spark any geography lover’s imagination. We are talking about places such as the Scottish county town of Ayr all the way to the Isthmus of Kra in Thailand, in addition to Panama’s Las Perlas Archipelago. The World’s Most Detailed Globe is a floor-standing globe that ends up as a focal point of any library or captain’s quarters, and it comes grandly cradled in a handcrafted mahogany frame.
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