At least 2 are viewable at Julien’s Auctions website:

The website had the following notes:

… As a radiology resident at Cedars [of Lebanon Hospital] a young doctor obtained these x-rays. When he taught at the school himself, he used these x-rays to ensure that students were paying attention. Monroe was said to have known about the x-rays and their use, about which she said “isn’t that sweet.”

It was reported by the BBC on 28th June 2010 that the set sold for USD45,000 recently at a movie memorabilia auction at Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, selling for much more than its USD3,000 pre-sale estimate.

She died in 1962 aged 36.

The company described it as:

… transforms the rear of the aircraft into the ultimate living space, providing an elevated outdoor viewing deck combined with a luxurious indoor space incorporating a state-of-the-art entertainment system and vast open plan galley.

Still, I’d agree that having a balcony on a plane seems rather pointless, because a plane can ever only land on an airport, hence the best view you could have while lounging around on the balcony are runways and airport buildings and smells of jet engines. And airports being airports, the noise around you would be so deafening that MP3 players would come in handy.

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Made of honeycombed recycled paper, virgin kraft paper and post-industrial wood waste.

Words alone cannot describe the coolness:

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Rearranging it looks like a good workout, as good as one of thosemuscle builders.

Here’s a video of people actually sitting on it:

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There’s the intriguingly named FlexibleLove Virgin 20 model that can sit up to 16 people (priced at USD549), which, starting from 25cm wide can be extended to 9 metres! It weighs 25kg and can support 1,920 kg; meaning the average weight of the 16 people can be 120 kg!

The cheapest model sells for around USD30.

How to order.

Some have described it in superlatives eg:

- the most important image humanity has ever taken
- the image of a millennium
- a humbling image: shows exactly how insignificantly small we are and how big the universe actually is
- anyone who understands what this image represents is forever changed by it

The telescope was pointed at a point in the sky equivalent to less than a 1mm x 1mm blob held 1 metre away; that is a tenth the diameter of the full moon as seen from Earth or one thirteen-millionth of the total area of the sky.

The point in the sky was selected due to its relative emptiness – eg, no stars visible, so that nothing from our galaxy, the Milky Way, blocks the view, so to speak.

The following is a photo with the region of sky selected i.e. the L-shaped outline:

The resulting image was astounding, for it demonstrated that “by looking at a patch of sky that appears to have nothing in it, and you stare at it long enough, you see an image full of galaxies.”

10,000 visible galaxies, in fact. Every single point of light in the picture was sure to be a galaxy:

Full resolution photo (18MB).

The following video drives the point home:

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Then she went on Facebook and poked Ms Hannah virtually.

Using screenshots of that person’s Facebook page as evidence, Ms Jackson was arrested on 25th September 2009, and later jailed for it, because the court order said she can’t “telephone, contact or otherwise communicate with the petitioner”, which of course can include Facebook.

This is probably the first recorded case of a person being detained for a poke, which allows “users to make themselves known to other users of the site without sending a message” and can be used to “flirt with people they do not know.”

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It works by making use of a two-layer filtering system with the end result being: only “clean” search results are displayed or none at all.

It has a 3-level rating system for words entered. The words “beer” and “pork” are at level 1, “drugs” and non-offensive sex-related terms are at level 2 while any vulgarities will be instantly slapped with level 3.

It is not clear whether reading up on slimming products like an apidexin review would also be considered “unislamic.”

Playing with it a bit, I have made some interesting observations:

- “marijuana” and “cannabis” are unrated – so not haram?
- “cocaine” is at level 1, and “heroin” at level 2 – that means heroin is a worse drug than cocaine?
- “britney” or “britney spears” is at level 1, but “Madonna” (with results showing the popular singer) unrated – that means Madonna is not haram while Britney Spears is?
- “gay” is at level 2, but “Elton John” and “George Michael” are unrated
- other celebrities I’ve tried: Pamela Anderson at level 1, Mariah Carey unrated, Beyonce Knowles unrated

I haven’t tried any other words other than English though.

The USA has 101 million users, beating 2nd placed UK far behind: a mere 22 million.

Four South East Asian nations are in the top 30: Indonesia (also 4th worldwide with 14 million users), the Philippines, Malaysia (almost 4 million) and Thailand.

The 2 most populous Asian nations, China is listed as having only 63,320 active user while India has 5 million.

This time last year, the only 2 Asian nations in the top 30 are Hong Kong and India, and the top nation, the US, had 27.8 million users.

Among the top 30 nations, the Philippines posted the highest growth in the last 6 mths at more than 200%.

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Nick Burcher

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Founded in 2004, Facebook is now the world’s most popular social networking site, beating Myspace into 2nd place

Other interesting trivia:
- has 250 million active users as of mid 2009; compare that to 82 million in mid 2008
- 3.5% of the world’s total population is on Facebook
- there are 98 countries in the world with at least one Facebook user
- in July 2008, 11 countries had more than a million Facebook users, now that number has increased to 33

BIGGEST GROWTH RATE

From mid 2008 to mid 2009: 3000% in Indonesia.

COUNTRIES WITH MOST USERS

It should come as no surprise that the US has the most users: about 70 million.

ASIAN COUNTRIES WITH MOST USERS

Among Asian countries, Indonesia has the most user: >6 million, ranked 7th in the world; followed by the Philippines at no. 17 (>2 million), Hong Kong at no. 20 (>2 million), Malaysia at no. 21 (almost 2 million) and Singapore at no. 29 (>1.3 million).

DEEPEST PENETRATION

Iceland’s population is 320K and has >150K users, hence a penetration of 46%: that’s astounding, almost half the population is on Facebook!

ASIAN COUNTRIES WITH DEEPEST PENETRATION

Hong Kong’s population is 7 million and has 1.7 million users, hence a penetration of 25% (ranked 7th in the world): one in four Hong Kong people are on Facebook. It is closely followed by Singapore with 22% (ranked 10th in the world).

SHALLOWEST PENETRATION

China, with a population of 1.3 billion has apparently only 394K users, hence a penetration of only 0.03%.

MOST NUMBER OF FRIENDS/FANS/SUPPORTERS

Apparently the number of friends in Facebook is limited to 5,000, so I will concentrate on number of fans/supporters instead which is unlimited. At the moment Barack Obama has 6.7 million supporters and Michael Jackson has 10.2 million fans, leaving Vin Diesel (at 6.2 million fans) and Megan Fox (at 4.8 million) in his wake. The group “Facebook” has 5 million fans. The most popular game on Facebook, Mafia Wars has 4.1 million fans.

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Nick Burcher

QUICKEST TO ACCUMULATE FOLLOWERS

(i) Bill Gates joined Twitter on 19th January 2010; in less than 8 hours he’s had more than 100,000 followers.
(ii) Oprah Winfrey joined Twitter in April 2009; she quickly gained 100,000 followers.

MOST FOLLOWERS (WORLD)

As of now the following has more than 4 million followers:

Ashton Kuchter, Ellen DeGeneres and Britney Spears.

Another 2 has more than 3 million followers:

Barack Obama
Oprah Winfrey

213 users has 1 million or more followers.

MOST FOLLOWERS (MALAYSIA)

Aaron Lee is the undisputed champion, with more than 100,000 followers, leaving 2nd placed Kenneth Yu, with 50K+ followers, far behind. 14 Malaysia-based Twitter users have more than 10,000 followers.

MOST PROLIFIC (MALAYSIA)

Mellysssa Karina joined Twitter in April 2009 and already has racked up more than 40,000 updates.

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Twitter is the world’s:
- most popular microblogging site
- 3rd most popular social networking site
- one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide
- fastest growing site as of March 2009: 1,382% compared to Facebook’s mere 228%
- most prominent Ruby On Rails-developed web application

Other stats:
- It has 6 million unique monthly visitors (that’s about 200,000 per day).
- 5% of users accounted for 75% of all activity

MOST FOLLOWERS

As of now there are 3 twitter (tweeter?) users with more than 3 million followers: Ashton Kuchter, Ellen DeGeneres and Britney Spears.

Then there are 7 twitter users with between 2 and 3 million followers: CNN, Kim Kardashian, Ryan Seacrest, Shaquille O’Neal, John Mayer, Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama.

MOST TWEETS

Note: I read that only the last 3,200 tweets are searchable.

Probably the top tweeter is Foxnews with more than 126,000 tweets. In contrast, Ashton Kuchter has 3,000+ tweets.

Citroen Ami 6 (1961-1978)

Aurora safety car (original design 1950s)

Plymouth Superbird 1A (1970)

Top 4:

The ugliest car that ever roamed the streets of the world in the last 20 years could very well be the Fiat Multipla. It used to be widely used as taxis in Italy. The foglights are on the hump below the windshield.

Then there’s the Pontiac Aztec, a boxy monster that someone said looked like a Grand Am that some bully car punched in the nose and gave a wedgie to.

The Nissan cube could be the “squarest car on the planet”.

Chrysler PT Cruiser