Category: Current
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How many times can you fold paper? How about 13?
Students Attempt To Fold Paper 13 Times Doesn’t paper folded enough times create a stack that reaches to the moon? Well it doesn’t here. However you would need a suitcase to carry it around if you wanted to protect yourself against being taken short. (It is toilet paper after all.) The students at St. Mark’s School…
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Changing Text Styles on Windows 7 Sticky Notes
Windows 7 comes with Post-it® style Sticky Notes which can be stuck all over the desk top. Although you can change the background colour from a context menu and format the text from within the application, using Ctrl+Shift+[various keys] as per the Microsoft Instructions, the text style and colour can’t be changed from within. However…
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A Little Bit of Banksy Does You Good
You can find a selection of work by Banksy over the years in this little celebration of his “War on London.”
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Cleaning Mouldy Washing Machine Parts
Introduction Every two weeks I am reminded that I should be cleaning the washing machine filter and every four weeks I am reminded to attack any mouldy washing machine parts. Well today (Tuesday when the machine is not usually required) was the day for both. So you’re in for a full description.
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Excel Body Weight Templates To Record Your Weight
“Happy New Year! In 2012 I resolve to lose weight (again).” Well I resolved to lose weight every year since at least 2005 and some years I succeeded. One tool I require for this is a spreadsheet to accurately record of my weight. I use Excel for this and I’ve produced some Excel Body Weight Templates…
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Invisibility Cloak? Here’s A Man Really Wearing One
“Harry Potter, Predator – eat your hearts out.” Here’s a man wearing a real invisibility cloak. Can You See Chinese Artist Liu Bolin Hiding Inside His Invisibility Cloak In This Picture? Adopt the art of the Chinese Artist – Liu Bolin and you too could hide from the boss by wearing a real invisibility cloak.…
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A Counterfeit Microsoft DVD Crops Up Again
Another Counterfeit Microsoft DVD Remember how a few days ago I told you how I found I had a counterfeit Microsoft DVD. (See that post here). Well another one bought from another Amazon re-seller has proved to be counterfeit. It’s one I bought to install on the computers of a friend soon after I bought the first…
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Bonobo Chimp Lights Fire and Cooks On It
Bonobo Chimp Lights Fire! Kanzi a Bonobo chimp lights fire AND cooks on it! Isn’t it amazing what apes can do these days. I’d like to see a video. Click here to see still photos of Kanzi, the Bonobo chimp, on the Telegraph website. I particularly liked this comment on photo 10 “An old Congolese tribal legend…
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My Office Pro 2010 DVD’s Counterfeit
Introduction Well, after 13 years on the Internet it looks like I have eventually been stung. I just found my Office Pro 2010 DVD’s counterfeit after two years. It looked fine and installed well on two PC’s (the package declares it is suitable for three PC’s) and it was activated on those two PC’s in August 2010. It was purchased from…
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Stig of Bus Drivers In Saltburn-By-The-Sea
Stig of Bus Drivers Controls The X4 This must be the Stig of bus drivers getting his bus up this steep hill in one go without sliding all over the place. He did it in these snowy winter conditions on 9th November 2010. This is miraculous driving of the X4 service single deck bus shown here going up…
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iPods Magically Used In A TED Lecture
The Magic of Truth & Lies on iPods From Marco Tempest This video shows Marco Tempest conjuring with three iPods. He does it synchronised with the images on their screens to make it look as if those images move from one phone’s screen to another. Occasionally he introduces some real artefacts into the process so it…
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Bike Riding Robots Are Helped By Gyroscopes & Cameras
Watch This Video of Bike Riding Robots Watch Murata Girl and Murata Boy. They use stabilizing gyroscopes and camera technology developed by Murata Manufacturing, a Japanese electronic components company. These are bike riding robots which perform some amazing riding skills without falling off their bikes. Murata Girl is the one on the monocycle. Near the end of the video Murata…
