No one quite understands the term "striking it lucky" better than 16-year-old BreAnna Helsel. The Michigan teen survived being struck by lightning and went on to win $20 in the lottery the next day.
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and physical activities.
The makers of Listerine will donate $1 for every click up to
100,000 leading up to and through the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
All you have to do is click
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Q: How much sleep is ideal?
A: Studies show that people who sleep between 6.5 hr. and 7.5 hr. a night, as they report, live the longest. And people who sleep 8 hr. or more, or less than 6.5 hr., they don't live quite as long. There is just as much risk associated with sleeping too long as with sleeping too short. The big surprise is that long sleep seems to start at 8 hr. Sleeping 8.5 hr. might really be a little worse than sleeping 5 hr..
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Scientists unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer on Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.
The technology breakthrough was accomplished by engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM Corp. on a computer to be used primarily on nuclear weapons work, including simulating nuclear explosions.
The computer, named Roadrunner, is twice as fast as IBM's Blue Gene system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which itself is three times faster than any of the world's other supercomputers, according to IBM.
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The last time Teddy Bacon saw his expensive gold watch it was sinking down into the harbour in Gibraltar. That was in 1941, and the watch had slipped off his wrist when Lieutenant Bacon threw a line to shore from his ship, HMS Repulse. After two divers failed to find his lost treasure, the young officer gave up on ever seeing it again.
But 67 years later, it turned up on his doormat - still ticking.
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filmmakers, dancers, singers, producers, musicians, actors, entrepreneurs, designers, footballers, activists, celebrities, students and a florist getting together to make an anti-racism national unity song and music video. nobody would be paid. yet they were enthused. not because they were high on speed. only because they love Malaysia. @ http://www.malaysianartistesforunity.info/
There are currently 20 files available for free download.
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A recent newspaper article did some editing, taking away bordering and edging on an image of the logo -- and the result was the image of a pig, reported NewsChannel5's Tracy Carloss.
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Computer monitors in standby mode will soon save far more energy. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has developed the world’s first monitor that requires no electricity at all in idle mode. The innovation is based on a new switch in the monitor that shuts it down entirely when the computer signal is absent and turns it on again when the signal reappears.
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Traveler’s Digest, a magazine for travelers, has made a list of countries and cities where world’s most beautiful women live.
Sweden with its capital, Stockholm, is the most attractive place to go for male tourists, the authors of the research believe. The abundance of beautiful women in the city gives you an impression as if you have found yourself in a reality show about top models.
In addition, Swedish women are very friendly and well-educated. They speak English with the British accent, so many might take them for British ladies. It is worthy of note that Sweden, as well as other Scandinavian countries, are one of the safest countries in the world for tourists.
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The real reason your company’s computer guy doesn’t want to work on your personal PC. A lot of us computer guys just don’t work on personal PC’s. "But why not?" you ask. A computer is a computer right? If it’s broke you can certainly fix it and maybe make a little money on the side. It shouldn’t take you long, you’re an expert.
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A spokeswoman for the Phoenix Mars Lander mission says a hacker took over the mission's public Web site (http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/) during the night and changed its lead news story.
Spokeswoman Sara Hammond says a mission update posted Friday was replaced with a hacker's signature and a link redirecting visitors to an overseas Web site.
Hammond says the site hosted by the University of Arizona has been taken off line while computer experts work to correct the problem.
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How does it feel to have the same name as a company that's wildly popular with millions of people? Ask Ralph Girkins of UTube. That's UTube, as in Universal Tube—the heavy equipment refurbishing company outside of Toledo, Ohio. Not the Internet rage YouTube—the Web site millions of people log into every day to watch and post home videos.
Before YouTube, Girkins says, there were about 1,000 real customers visiting utube.com each month. Today, he says, there are about 150,000 people a day typing "u tube" the wrong way, and winding up on his site. Can you imagine their ads revenue potential?
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The 100million rupiah, or nearly RM35,000, up for grabs amounts to a fortune in Indonesia. Those who managed to snatch a few notes took home more than they could earn in a month.
The money was dropped by author Tung Desem Waringin as a stunt to promote his book on business motivation. With the cash bundled in bills of 1,000 and 5,000 rupiah (RM0.35 and RM1.70), he set off in the light aircraft to fly over a football stadium in Serang, 40 miles from the capital Jakarta.
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If you thought you worked long hours, consider 39-year-old Lee from South Korea. A civil servant at the ministry of agriculture and fisheries, Lee gets up at 5:30 a.m. every day, gets dressed and makes a two-hour commute into Seoul to start work at 8:30 a.m. After sitting at a computer for most of the day, Lee typically gets out the door at 9 p.m., or even later.
By the time he gets home, it's just a matter of jumping in the shower and collapsing into bed, before starting the whole routine all over again, about four hours later. This happens six days a week, and throughout almost all of the year, as Lee gets just three days of vacation.
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The video footage of what appears to be an extraterrestrial being peeping through the window on an American citizen living in Denver was released recently during a news conference organized by the residents of Denver in an effort to convince people that UFO sightings need to be treated much more seriously.
The video which was allegedly shot in 2003 by a man called Stan Romanek from Colorado, who claims that he had more than 100 alien contacts, including alien abductions. The grainy video shows someone or something approaching the windows of Romanek's house, apparently to get a better view of the interior.
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The comcast.net front page was replaced by a greeting from hackers on Wednesday night (28 May). The defacement was removed around two hours later. The defacement was claimed by hackers calling themselves KRYOGENIKS Defiant and EBK.
As a result of the attack Comcast subscribers were unable to access their email or other services through the portal for more than two hours. Comcast is the second biggest ISP in the US and a major provider of cable TV services.
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One of Brazil's last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border. There are more than 100 uncontacted tribes worldwide, most of them in Brazil and Peru.
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Japanese scientists say they have used cutting-edge technology to create a noodle bowl so small it can be seen only through a microscope.
Mechanical engineering professor Masayuki Nakao said Thursday he and his students at the University of Tokyo used a carbon-based material to produce a noodle bowl with a diameter one-25,000th of an inch.
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Banning workers from using the internet for personal use could actually be hitting productivity because staff need a break to help reduce stress, according to a new report.
A study of 1,700 employees by computer games firm PopCap Games showed that people felt refreshed if they had an "ebreak" during the working day.
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Babies younger than six months old should never be given water to drink, physicians at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore remind parents. Consuming too much water can put babies at risk of a potentially life-threatening condition known as water intoxication.
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Firefox wants to set a world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours and will occur on Firefox 3 launch day.
All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy.
They don't have a definitive date for Firefox 3 yet, but it should be in June.
Japanese pop show recreates the We Are the World recording session. Sit Back, Relax, & Enjoy the Show!
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You've been watching television all of your life, and all of a sudden, along comes HDTV. HDTV doesn't need to be an incomprehensible morass of technical terms, jargon, and marketing hype, because at heart, it's pretty darn simple: HDTV is a better picture.
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In Japan, Avielan Company has developed software for a virtual fitting room called Awaseba that lets you create an online mannequin of yourself. To use it, you upload a photograph of yourself in a specific pose - face forward, standing straight, with your arms at your sides a little out from your body. You then have a virtual you to click and drag clothes onto.
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A SWISS man died when he fell from a hotel balcony during a spitting match with a friend, a Swiss newspaper has reported. The daily Blick said the 29-year-old man took a run-up from inside the room so he could spit further, but lost his balance and plummeted 6.4m to the street below.
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