Thursday, December 29, 2011

Australian Crocodile Kills A Lawnmower


An Australian crocodile reacted badly when a noisy lawnmower invaded his space - he stole it, forcing keepers to make a daring rescue. Elvis, who lives at the Australian Reptile Park, lunged at the mower, grabbing it from operations manager Tim Faulkner and keeper Billy Collett. Pulling it under water, the five-metre saltwater crocodile "drowned" the machine at the park near Sydney.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Firm Handshake, A Way To Landing Your New Job

Developing a firm handshake is a vital to landing a new job, according to new research.

Experts say unemployed people often miss-out on landing a new position because they make a bad impression with the commonplace ritual.

And a study found that one in five people suffer from a 'limp fish' grip which means they are downgraded or dismissed in the first five seconds by interviewers.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

The End Of Google Ads By Flixya?

It is a really sad thing that Flixya has been banned from using the AdSense API by Google. Flixya, which is a "sharing" website got banned from using Google AdSense ads yesterday.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Marco Simoncelli Killed in MotoGP Accident

http://habaris.blogspot.com/
Simoncelli, 24, fell from his bike at turn 11 and skidded into the path of Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi, losing his helmet in the ensuing collision.

The race was immediately red flagged as Simoncelli lay motionless on the track and then cancelled altogether once the extent of the Honda rider’s injuries became clear. After being transported to the circuit’s medical centre by ambulance Simoncelli was pronounced dead due to “a very serious trauma to the head, to the neck and the chest”.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

The History of Emoticon

Did you know the emoticon is almost 30 years old? Twenty-nine years ago, Scott Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, first proposed a colon, hyphen and bracket as a way of conveying emotional meaning via plain text.