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miercuri, 12 octombrie 2011

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The Caring Owl
Extremely Disappointing Facts About Pop Music
Kardashian Wedding Vs. Average Wedding (Infographic)
Siri Assistant on iPhone 4S Gets Real World Demo
The Simpsons Graffiti

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 01:03 PM PDT

An amazing thing happened in South Africa, a young man picked up a wounded owl and sheltered her at his home. As soon as the owl recovered and began flying she also returned to her hunt. After a short-while she started bringing home mice, offering them to all of the residents in her new home. Could that be gratitude? A way of saying thanks to her saviors?

Source: owlpages

Extremely Disappointing Facts About Pop Music

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 11:55 AM PDT

There is a cool new post from Buzzfeed.com with disappointing facts about pop music as compared to some classics. The article points out some facts like Led Zeppelin, REM, and Depeche Mode have never had a number one single and Rihanna has had 10. While the article is not that serious, it does make you long for the good old days.

Creed has sold more records in the US than Jimi Hendrix

Led Zeppelin, REM, and Depeche Mode have never had a number one single, Rihanna has 10

Ke$ha's "Tik-Tok" sold more copies than ANY Beatles single

Flo Rida's "Low" has sold 8 million copies – the same as The Beatles' "Hey Jude"

The Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" is more popular than any Elvis or Simon & Garfunkel song

Celine Dion's "Falling Into You" sold more copies than any Queen, Nirvana, or Bruce Springsteen record

Same with Shania Twain's "Come On Over"

Katy Perry holds the same record as Michael Jackson for most number one singles from an album

Barbra Streisand has sold more records (140 million) than Pearl Jam, Johnny Cash, and Tom Petty combined

People actually bought Billy Ray Cyrus' album "Some Gave All…" 20 million people. More than any Bob Marley

The cast of "Glee" has had more songs chart than the Beatles

This guy exists.

That is all.

Kardashian Wedding Vs. Average Wedding (Infographic)

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 11:15 AM PDT

Cool infographic that compare the Kardashian wedding to an average American wedding, threw in a bunch of fun facts and stats to provide a good perspective on just how massive the wedding was.

Click on Image to Enlarge.

Source: brilliance

Siri Assistant on iPhone 4S Gets Real World Demo

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 10:30 PM PDT

Stuff has posted an impressive real world demo of Siri, the voice-controlled personal assistant on the new iPhone 4S. Despite plenty of background noise, Siri works as intended, opening up websites, sending emails and text messages, checking the weather, setting up wake-up times for the alarm clock, and doing currency conversions all via simple voice commands. And these commands aren't robotic 'yes' and 'no' or single word commands you might be used to with automated answering services, instead these are natural-sounding sentences.

Source: slashgear

The Simpsons Graffiti

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 08:40 PM PDT

One of our favorite TV families just got a little more street cred. How cool are these Simpsons graffiti pieces from all over the world? The image of Homer breaking through a wall by Nakor is my favorite. While most of these other murals come to us from Vancouver, in honor of Vancouver's 2010 Winter Olympics,

Nakor - Warsaw, Poland