Top 10 Funny Yahoo Answers
Posted By Ben Goulding, 25 March, 2010 | permalink
#1 – CAPS LOCK IS STUCK FOR ME TOO
Top 15 Funny ChatRoulette Screenshots
Posted By Ben Goulding, 24 March, 2010 | permalink
Merton meets Ben Folds
Ben Folds is Chatroulette Piano Player?
Posted By Ben Goulding, 22 March, 2010 | permalink
By now I’m sure you’ve seen “Merton”, the piano playing guy on Chatroulette who has become an internet sensation for his freestyling on the the webcam-chat site.
Well, there has been much speculation that the mystery man might be Ben Folds due to his uncanny facial and voice resemblance. To clear things up, during one of his concerts in Charlotte, North Carolina, the real Ben Folds flipped open a laptop on the piano and started playing on Chatroulette.
(Youtube Link)
So now we know who the hooded piano player is. Actually, we don’t. “Merton” has since said “Not Ben Folds. Seriously. Ben is a much better pianist, and listen to the voice on the “Man in the Dark” part – totally not his voice at all. Besides, wouldn’t Ben cover more of his face to disguise his identity?”.
My brain is frazzled.
Oh, and here’s the original just in case you haven’t seen it yet.
(Youtube Link)
If You Printed Twitter…
Posted By Ben Goulding, 19 March, 2010 | permalink
Link (Thanks Andrew!)
Comments Off | Posted in: InternetTop 12 Funny Facebook Fails
Posted By Ben Goulding, 18 March, 2010 | permalink
Should Have Used a Spell Check
Data Transferred At 10Mbps Through Skin
Posted By Ben Goulding, 17 March, 2010 | permalink
Scientists at the University of Korea have found that skin can be used to transmit data. In fact, skin is a very good conductor of data as they were able to achieve a rate of 10Mbps using small, flexible electrodes – that’s certainly faster than my internet.
The scientists placed electrodes 30cm apart on a person’s arm and they found that the low-frequency electromagnetic waves pass efficiently through the skin with little outside interference.
Rather than wiring people directly to the internet, the team see health benefits for their technology.
It is difficult to monitor vital signs, such as blood sugar and electrical activity of the heart, in a person going about their everyday lives because it means either covering them in snaking wires connected to a recording device, or using wireless transmission.
It looks like this technology will carry on progessing and who knows – we could all be walking internets in the very near future.
2 Comments | Posted in: Sci/TechTop 5 Internet Millionaire Kids
Posted By Ben Goulding, 16 March, 2010 | permalink
#1 – Catherine and David Cook
Age at startup: 15 & 17
Company: My Year Book
Net Worth: $10 million
Bio: Catherine Cook, 15, and her brother David, 17, were looking through their high school year book when they came up with the idea to create a free interactive version online.
Catherine persuaded their older brother, Geoff, who was a budding internet entrepreneur at the time, to invest $250,000 in their idea. The site was launched in April 2005 and 950,000 members joined in the first year.
Fast forward 5 years, and the site has a net worth of around $10 million.
13 Comments | Posted in: Business | InternetEduard Trololo Khil Wants You To Write The Lyrics
Posted By Ben Goulding, 16 March, 2010 | permalink
(Youtube Link)
Eduard Khil, who has become a worldwide superstar overnight for his ‘Trololo’ performance, wants to sing the song again, but this time with lyrics – and he want you to write them.
Comments Off | Posted in: Entertainment | InternetHappy 25th Birthday Dotcom
Posted By Ben Goulding, 15 March, 2010 | permalink
The internet celebrates a landmark event today – the 25th anniversary of the dotcom domain name.
It was in March 1985 that we first heard of the term “dotcom”, when a Massachusetts-based computer manufacturer called Symbolics added dotcom to it’s name. In the same year, another five companies did the same, but the trend wasn’t really catching on.
Now, 25 years later, there are tens of millions of dotcom domains, Google’s crawler indexed its trillionth page of registered names in 2008 and there are 100,000 new dotcom names registered every day. It makes you wonder what it would be like if internet or dotcom had never boomed.
Want to see 100 oldest still-existing registered dotcom domains? Wikipedia has them listed here.
Comments Off | Posted in: InternetTop 20 Passwords To Use Online (Updated)
Posted By Ben Goulding, 12 March, 2010 | permalink
Online fraud is a growing problem around the world, with criminals stealing the personal data of innocent individuals and then using it to exploit those individuals so that they will gain something, be it money, ID etc.
One of the biggest problems though, is a flaw in the most basic of security checks that we all do – password strength.
Security expert, Imperva found that a third of people choose passwords made up of six or fewer characters, while 60% opt for passwords from a limited set of alpha-numeric characters.
Nearly 50% of users used names, slang words, dictionary words or trivial passwords such as consecutive digits, or adjacent keyboard keys.
With around 50% of people also using the same (or very similar) password for all the websites they use, there are concerns that they are unwittingly leaving themselves at risk of online fraud.
Here are the top 10 most common online passwords:
- 123456
- 12345
- 123456789
- Password
- iloveyou
- princess
- rockyou
- 1234567
- 12345678
- abc123
Update – Here are the most popular passwords ranked 11th – 20th.
- Nicole
- Daniel
- babygirl
- monkey
- Jessica
- Lovely
- michael
- Ashley
- 654321
- Qwerty
As well as ensuring that you don’t use any of these passwords, Imperva has a lot more detail on how to keep your passwords secure, so you are safe online. Click the link for more info.
Comments Off | Posted in: InternetTop 10 Strangest Things Sold On eBay
Posted By Ben Goulding, 9 March, 2010 | permalink
#10 Ad Space on Forehead – A man auctioned off 30 days of ad space on his forehead to be used as a billboard.
Andrew Fischer, from Omaha, Nebraska said: “The winner will be able to send me a tattoo or have me go to a tattoo parlour and get a temporary ink tattoo on my forehead and this will be something they choose, a company name or domain name, perhaps their logo”.
The auction reached $322.
17 Comments | Posted in: InternetWhat was the First Image on the Internet? (WFOTD)
Posted By Ben Goulding, 8 March, 2010 | permalink
It is said that the first image ever published on the internet was a promotional photograph of Les Horribles Cernettes – a parody pop group, self-labelled “the one and only High Energy Rock Band”, which was founded by a secretary of the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) when they attracted his attention by stepping on stage during the “CERN Hardronic Festival”, singing “Collider”.
Comments Off | Posted in: InternetTop 10 Funniest Google Search Suggestions
Posted By Ben Goulding, 8 March, 2010 | permalink
The Google Suggest tool is a great tool that shows you suggestions that Google thinks you are searching for, as you type. However, Google’s somewhat unusual sense of humor often comes out with the suggestions it comes up with. Here are the top 10 funniest Google search suggestions.
1. I like…
Yeh, me too. Personally, I think it’s the best way to impersonate a dinosaur.
Spam Email (WFOTD)
Posted By Ben Goulding, 5 March, 2010 | permalink
Gary Thuerk was the world’s first e-mail spammer. He wrote the first ever spam email which was sent out on May 3, 1978 to a network of government and university computers.
In total, 600 unwilling people received his email, which was publicizing open houses in Los Angeles and San Mateo. The reaction from the net community to the email was fiercely negative, but Thuerk’s spam did generate some sales. In fact, Thuerk estimates it led to $12 million in sales.
Since then, spam emails have grown in numbers, with 90% of all e-mails sent today considered as spam. Estimates suggest that as many as 200 billion spam messages are sent daily, and it’s all thanks to Gary Thuerk.
1 Comment | Posted in: InternetFuneral Being Held For Internet Explorer 6 Today
Posted By Ben Goulding, 4 March, 2010 | permalink
More than 100 people, dressed in funeral attire, are expected to attend the funeral of Internet Explorer 6 today. The aging web browser’s offspring have taken over from their father in recent years, leaving ie6 a dead browser.
The funeral is meant to be a tongue-in-cheek event, hosted by Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado. Guests will gather round a coffin, carrying a ‘body’ with an Internet Explorer 6 logo as the head. They will then share remembrances.
Here’s what ‘Robert’ had to say about the browser:
“IE6, where do I begin? You were so trusting, sometimes to a fault. I’d tell you I’m going to miss all the hours we spent patching holes in your code, but I’d be lying. There is and was so much redeveloping to do because your younger counterparts are much less credulous. Do you remember your 0-day in January? I lied to you; I actually did want to spend the holidays with my family. I hope heaven is hacker free.
R.I.P my friend”
Will you miss Internet Explorer 6, or can it rot in hell? Let us know your experiences with the browser.
2 Comments | Posted in: InternetCodeOrgan Turns Websites Into Music
Posted By Ben Goulding, 22 February, 2010 | permalink
CodeOrgan is a very clever website that allows you to turn any website into music. You simply type the URL of any site you want and using a very complicated algorithm, CodeOrgan turns it to music. It’s a very cool website, although not totally accurate, as it didn’t play ‘I’m Too Sexy’ when I typed in pigjockey.com. Oh, well.
Anyway, here’s some more details on how it works:
Internet For Kidz!
Posted By Ben Goulding, 22 October, 2009 | permalink
(Youtube Link)
Learn everything there is to know about the internet with this guide for kids. Oh man, that theme tune’s going to be in my head for days now.
Comments Off | Posted in: Internet | Sci/TechThe Biggest Threats To Our Youth
Posted By Ben Goulding, 7 October, 2009 | permalink
Photoshop + Image Recognition = PhotoSketch = Win
Posted By Ben Goulding, 7 October, 2009 | permalink
PhotoSketch has got to be the coolest program that I have ever come across. It’s a piece of software created by five Chinese Computer Science and Technology students at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore, that uses Photoshop and image recognition technology to create a picture based on your sketch.
Here’s how it works:
“Step 1. Draw the outlines of the figures you want in your picture – anything from seagulls to a Mercedes, whatever tickles your fancy,
Step 2. Add labels for each of the items, as well as for the background.
Step 3. PhotoSketch will then find real-life images to match your doodles and put them together in a Photoshopped image that will make your jaw drop.”
Here’s an example in which a cheetah and a motorcyclist have been sketched with a desert background. PhotoSketch then gets to work and conjures up a mind-blowing picture.
Before:
After:
This video explains how it works.
(Vimeo Video)
Wow, just wow!
Via Mashable
Comments Off | Posted in: Internet | Sci/TechDo You Know What A Web Browser Is?
Posted By Ben Goulding, 6 October, 2009 | permalink
While many of us may think we know what a web browser is, do we really have a clue? Google tries to explain what a web browser is and then sends an employee out to Times Square, New York, to find out if the general public know what they’re talking about when it comes to browsers. The results are astonishing!
(Youtube Link)
(Youtube Link)
Via Mashable
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