79 year old woman robs a bank

September 11, 2006 at 9:58 pm (Humor)

A 79-year-old woman was arrested in Chicago after she tried to hold up a bank at gunpoint.

She wore a white visor that read “princess” and black sunglasses when she tried to hold up the bank with a toy gun. The Chicago Sun-Times says she could be the oldest woman ever charged with bank robbery in the city.

Read complete story @ Ananova

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Nokia facts

September 11, 2006 at 9:44 pm (Uncategorized)

Nokia LogoThere are some interesting facts/trivia on Wikipedia regarding Nokia, so read it and know about one of your favorite handset company of the world. The facts include:

  • The “Special” tone available to users of Nokia phones when receiving SMS (text messages) is actually Morse code for “SMS”.
  • The ring tone “Nokia tune” is actually based on a 19th century guitar work named “Gran Vals” by Spanish musician Francisco Tárrega.
  • Nokia is currently the world’s largest digital camera manufacturer, as the sales of its camera-equipped mobile phones have exceeded those of any conventional camera manufacturer.

Read more @ Wikipedia

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YouTube Stats

September 11, 2006 at 9:35 pm (Internet, Media)

Do you wanna get an idea about the size of the famous YouTube videos site:

  • YouTube hosts over six million videos, growing at about 20 percent every month.
  • The videos take up 45 terabytes of storage — about 5,000 home computers’ worth.
  • The total time spent watching YouTube videos since it started last year is 9,305 years!
  • The content requires several million dollars’ worth of bandwidth a month to transmit.
  • The most popular items get an especially large percentage of the traffic.
  • The words “dance,” “love,” “music” and “girl” are all exceedingly popular in video titles.

Get the details @ Computers.net

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You cannot board a plane wearing Arabic text

September 11, 2006 at 9:19 pm (Politics, Religious)

shirtAn architect of Iraqi descent has said he was forced to remove a T-shirt that bore the words “We will not be silent” before boarding a flight at New York.

Many oppose such behavior… and one guy has also prepared a T-shirt that promotes “I am not a terrorist” in Arabic. You can get those t-shirts and wear them as much as you can.

Read the news about being stopped at airport @ BBC
I am not a terrorist t-shirt @ Its not all bad

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