“One year in 40 seconds” is the title of the video below. Eirik Solheim took several pictures with his camera from the same spot for one year. Here is the amazing result..

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Google search stats:
1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) – approximate number of unique URLs in Google’s index (source)
2,000,000,000 (two billion) – very rough number of Google searches daily (source)
$110,000,000 – approximately amount of money lost by Google annually due to the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button (source)
24,400 – number of people employed by Google (December, 2008)
68,000,000 – the average [...]

This is a brilliant and very easy idea. There are some ideas that can be too easy that nobody thinks about them. Umbrella Today is one of these ideas. It is a very simple website. The user just put his or her Zip Code (US only) and asks if he has to take his umbrella. [...]

Holiday shopping guide
The decisions you make with your hard-earned money this year will have more impact than ever before. So put your money where your mouth is.
Here are a few ideas to consider from Seth’s Blog:
1. Buy handmade items from people you like.
2. Don’t buy gift cards. It’s lazy and sort of dumb.
3. Don’t buy [...]

Finally! This is the new President. A historic day for all the Americans! A historic day for the whole world! Yes, we did!

Barack Obama, gave a great speech in front of 200,000+ people in Hyde Park, Chicago,IL. He appeared in front of the people, that were waiting for hours there, with his family…

Obama thanked Sen. [...]

I have to share this submission for a booze-related non-gadgety Weird Combo of the Day, which we get more often than not. What are these people thinking? Are the people in charge of product synergy more than occasionally enjoying the products they’re synergizing? Perhaps. Or it could be that in Shanghai reader Charles’ neighborhood, they’re [...]

Yoono, the slick browser plugin that serves as both a social network aggregator and media hub, has announced its impending support for Internet Explorer which will be available on November 7th. In conjunction with the the new version, Yoono is also announcing integration with both imeem and MySpace, as well as a powerful new widget [...]

Today at 8pm was live the 30minute Obama’s ad. It was the most expensive ad in the history. This ad was on the air simultaneously in the channels FOX, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, UniVision, BET  and TV One. The cost of this ad was approximately $3-$5 millions!

Visit the Breathing Earth and see how many babies are born and how may people die every second…
You can also see statistcs and facts for each country. For example, in US every 7.3 seconds a new baby comes to life and every 12.8 a person dies.
In India a new baby is nborned every 1.3 seconds!!!
All [...]

Nakheel announced that they will build the tallest skyscraper in the world. Nakheel Tower,will be built in Dubai, and its height will be 1200 meters!!! Responsible for the construction will be an Australian company (Woods Bagot) and the total cost will be $61 billions! The tower will be ready in 10 years!
Besides this tower there [...]