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This article was written on January 11, 2008 by CyberNet.

Fun Friday

Canstruction is about two major things: construction and charity. It’s a design/build competition where engineers, architects and others come together to construct structures made entirely from cans of food. That’s right, all of the images you see below are creations made from cans of food– full cans of food. Now here’s where the charity portion comes into play – after the competition is over, all of the cans of food that were used to build the structures are then donated to aid in the fight against hunger. Cool, huh? These competitions are held all across the United States and in some locations in Canada — so see if your city participates, check this link. Below you’ll find some of the structures I came across while browsing their site that caught my eye. I think you’ll agree that they are all pretty impressive!

–Lion & Lamb–

–Cathedral–

–Champagne Bottle–

–Chinese Take Out–

–Dragon–

–Eagle–

–Hour Glass–

–Yellow Submarine–

–Japanese Teahouse–

–Hot Dog–

–Snake–

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This article was written on April 25, 2008 by CyberNet.

Fun Friday

It’s hard to imagine what life was like before the Internet, isn’t it? I’ve been using it for more than half of my life, but today’s generation of kids grew up with it. Those are the kids that don’t even know the difference between life before and after the Internet came along, but I’m sure you can remember the differences, like…

1. Balancing your checkbook required waiting for your statement to come from the bank because there was no online banking access
2. Along the same lines, if you wanted money to be transfered from your checking to your savings account or visa-versa, you had to physically walk into the bank to do it instead of quickly logging into your online account…
3. You actually knew all of your friends in “real-life.” There weren’t “virtual” friends or people you call friends but have never met
4. To communicate with friends and family who lived far away, you hand-wrote letters and mailed them through the Post Office
5. Google and Yahoo didn’t exist which meant researching was done with the help of books
6. You received the weather forecast on TV, from the newspaper, or even over the phone…
7. Planning a vacation meant going to see a travel agent to have them arrange the flight, tours and hotel stays
8. You called 411 or used a phone book to look-up telephone numbers
9. Finding out who won a sporting event that you missed meant waiting for the next day’s newspaper to arrive at your doorstep
10. There was no way to track a package that was being delivered to you via UPS or FedEx, you simply had to be patient
11. When you had something you wanted to sell, you ran an ad in the newspaper and hoped someone in the area would be interested because there was no eBay or Craigslist
12. Finding out the show-times for movies at the local theater meant calling their pre-recorded message and listening through the whole thing to hear what movies were playing and at what time, or just showing up at the theater and seeing what was playing
13. To get human interaction, you went to physically visit your friends instead of chatting in forums or leaving messages on message boards
14. Keeping an account of what was going on in your life meant writing it out on paper with a pen or pencil instead of keeping an online blog or journal
15. Watching a home-video or sharing it with friends meant you needed a VCR, there was no YouTube or other video sharing services
16. Buying music required going to a physical store and purchasing a cassette tape or a CD and playing it in your Walkman or Boom-box, there was no iTunes
17. Talking to multiple friends at the same time required that you be in the same room, this was what life was like before instant messaging…
18. No one had heard of the terms “Identity Theft” or “Phishing”
19. The only way to pay bills was to mail them or maybe pay using a check over the phone because online bill-pay wasn’t an option…
20. Finding a book at the library meant searching through the little cards in the card catalogue and not using an online system

After looking through this list, it really makes me thankful at how far we’ve come! I can’t imagine needing to wait for a newspaper to arrive to get the news or needing to walk into a Travel Agent’s office to plan a trip. Even worse is the thought of physically mailing all of my communication between friends and family, we really are spoiled with email, aren’t we?

This beginning part of this Chris Pirillo video is kinda humorous and fits in well to today’s topic, so take a look:

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This article was written on May 30, 2008 by CyberNet.

Fun Friday

We decided to revisit riddles again after our first round posted back in February. Once again, there are fifteen riddles with the answers at the bottom of the page. Have a great weekend!

Riddles

1. I have keys that open no locks, I have space, but there is no room. You can enter, but you can’t go in. I am…
2. It has no top or bottom but it can hold flesh, bones and blood all at the same time. What is this object?
3. A 10 ft. ladder is attached to a ship. Each step is 1 ft. apart. If the water is rising 1 ft. per hour. How long will it take to cover the ladder?
4. I’m as small as an ant and as big as a whale. I’ll approach like a breeeze but can come like agale. By some I get hit but all have shown fear. I’ll dance to the music though I can’t hear. Of names I have many of names I have one. I’m as slow as a snail but from me you can’t run. What am I?
5. What gets whiter the dirtier that it gets?
6. Take away my first letter and I am unchanged; Take away my second letter and I am unchanged; Take away all my remaining letters and I am still unchanged. What am I?
7. What kind of animal would you hate to play cards with?
8. One man shows another, the portrait of a gentleman and tells him: “I have neither brothers nor sisters, but this man’s father is the son of my father.” Who is the man in the painting?
9. A snail is at the bottom of a 15 meter tree. He tries to reach the top. Each day he manages to climb 4 meters, but during the night, while he sleeps, he slips back 3 meters. How many days will he need to reach the top?
10. What are the two longest words in the English language that can be typed using only your left hand on the keyboard?
11. What is harder to catch the faster you run?
12. I can sizzle like bacon, I am made with an egg, I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg, I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole, I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole. What am I?
13. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
14. I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
15. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour?

Answers

1. A computer keyboard
2. A ring
3. Never. As the water rises the ship rises.
4. I am a shadow…
5. A chalkboard
6. The postman or a mailbox
7. A cheetah.
8. The gentleman in the portrait is the son of the man who is speaking.
9. Well, after 11 days, he will have climbed 11 meters, so on day 12, he will reach the top.
10. Stewardesses and Reverberated
11. Your breath
12. A snake.
13. Charcoal
14. Fire
15. The letter M.

And just for fun… How many legs does this elephant have?

Sources: Here, Here, and Here

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This article was written on March 21, 2008 by CyberNet.

Fun Friday

When people get tattoos, often times there’s a special meaning behind the design whether it be a symbol for good luck, or the name of a family member. Apparently video games, video game characters, and computer and Internet companies hold special meaning to some people out there and so thanks to them, we have a nice collection of geeky tattoos for your viewing pleasure…

Mario Tattoos

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Apple Tattoos

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Microsoft Tattoos

(the second is the blue-screen of death message)

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Zune Tattoo

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Google Tattoos

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Firefox Tattoos

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Sonic the Hedgehog Tattoo

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NES Controller Tattoo

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Atari Tattoo

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Just Plain Geeky Tattoos

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