July 19, 2007

Random Links - 14

The earth is feeling moon-envy tonight... as a 60th moon of Saturn is discovered by Cassini

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Holy f----

The body of a hit-and-run victim was found under a parked car this morning on the Northwest Side, nearly eight hours after Chicago police began looking for a possible victim. A passerby saw one of the man's limbs protruding from under the car shortly after 6 a.m., almost four hours after his wife had reported him missing and eight hours after police received a call about an accident in which a pedestrian had been hit by a vehicle

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Don't u want to be her? Especially to download all those movies in 2 seconds. Will need a new hard-drive within a minute(s), won't we!:)

Swedish woman has fastest residential Internet connection


She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed. Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world.In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer..

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Elsewhere in the world,

China hits 162 million Internet users
.. with an increase of 31.7 percent since June 2006! (For perspective..3 years ago - in mid-2004, the # had grown at 34.5 percent to reach 79.5 million ...which means 4 years ago it was half the current number.

And although 162MM sounds like more or less the same number of people on the internet as the US perhaps (300MM population.. I'd imagine 50-60% on the internet? Maybe 70%?)....consider this.. China's internet penetration rate is still at 12.3 percent, which is below the global penetration rate of 17.6 percent!

In any case, 162MM people is a lot of people. No wonder the Chinese Government wants to put all sorts of controls on the internet (#1 rule for dictators: control the flow of information) and even wants to attempt to "cleanse" it!


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Bon Jovi doesn't want to be a identified with a drink.. :)

What's with people taking other people's names to ply their trades... I already wrote earlier about this case... Shakespeare didn't think of these scenarios when he write: "Whats in a name?", did he? :))
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Naked volunteers wanted for glacier photo

Meanwhile in Brattleboro, Vermont a rucus over public nudity!
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Former spammer: 'I know I'm going to hell'

"Ed," a retired spammer, built a considerable fortune sending e-mails that promoted pills, porn and casinos. At the peak of his power, Ed says he pulled in US$10,000 to $15,000 a week, storing the money in $20 bills in stacks of boxes.
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