UNCONVENTIONAL WORLD RECORDS

How would you like to earn RM8.8 million PER MONTH (23 million euros per year) playing football? (more…)

Just like the other American Idol, students at the Georgia Institute of Technology try their best to impress in front of a panel of critics who decides their fates.

The difference is, they don’t sing to impress. (more…)

According to a survey by Jupiter Research and marketing firm iProspect, people would give up on page 3 if they couldn’t find what they were looking for.

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Forget “Gam Gajah”, Duck Tape or whatever, I want my caulobacter-crescentus glue!

It can withstand a force felt by a quarter with more than three cars piled on top of it! That’s two to three times more force than the best currently commercially-available glues can handle.

And it works on permanently wet surfaces.

Possible application: as a biodegradable surgical adhesive.

Scientists trying to make it have encountered a practical problem: how to take it off. It sticks to absolutely everything, including the tools used to create it, and cannot be washed off.
ref:

yahoo.com

Justin King is one of those guitarists that make you stop to admire his God-given talent, but I think he’s still very much unknown in this part of the world. His name is not even listed in allmusic.com.

I was forwarded saw his “Larivee videoclip” tonight. I was even more amazed than when I first saw JerryC’s (the Taiwan guitarist) music. (more…)

I got an email forward that warns that answering a cell phone while it is being charged can electrocute the user.

As clarified by urbanlegends and hoax-slayer.com: (more…)

Finally, Wile E Coyote catches the Road Runner.

as reported by soccernet.

So it comes back to the question of living within your means. This not only applies to Joe Public on the street earning RM5,000 per month working as a drone in mid-management in KL. (more…)

My mom frantically called me last night to watch National Geographic’s coverage on the above.

The central controversy regarding it is that the document paints Judas Iscariot in a positive light, and describes him as obeying God’s command in handing over Jesus to the authorities for the salvation of the world. In other words, the documents says that Judas didnt do it on his own accord, nor the Devil’s.

Catholic.org asked Legionary Rev Fr Thomas D. Williams, Dean of Theology at the Regina Apostolorum university in Rome for his comments on the issue.

The gist of his replies: (more…)

interesting discussion at /.

amongst others, attempts to answer the question:

“is it worth pursuing a computer science degree, and beyond, nowadays?”