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Dubai's Largest & Tallest Fountain
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As you would expect, the world's tallest fountain is in Dubai, next to the world's tallest building. Set on the 30-acre Burj Dubai Lake, the fountain shoots water jets as high as 500 ft (150 metres), equivalent to that of a 50-storey building. The fountain is 900 ft (275 metres) long and has five circles of varying sizes and two central arcs. It has been designed by California-based WET, the creators of the Fountains of Bellagio in Las Vegas and costed $217 million. The water show uses 6,600 lights, 50 colored projectors, and hundreds of servos, all computer controlled and synchronized with music. Article Here
Pizza in Space?
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Woo hoo. Am gonna get them pizza now! I wonder will it grow bigger since after China send some plant seeds into space they have grown to enormous size! --------- Quote begin ------------ BEIJING, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- China has carried nearly 1,200 species of seeds to space aboard its return satellites and Shenzhou- series spaceships, and have planted most of them in large scale. According to Chinese Society of Astronautics (CSA), China has conducted 11 times of space seed breeding experiments,998 species on return satellites and 200-odd on Shenzhou-series spacecraft. The seeds including grain and oil crops (47 percent), vegetables (18 percent), flowers, grass, mushrooms and insects. The experiment results show vitamin content of ... Link: http://www.greendaily.com/2008/05/14/china-grows-huge-food-with-seeds-from-outer-space/ --------- Quote end ------------
Have you ever bought anything from ebay?
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and think that their UI is just out of whacked! The above picture is a email that I get from Ebay telling me that my purchase has been shipped but it took me a good 10 seconds for me to figure that out. Maybe its just me and that I am blinded by the so many huge images on the email. Probably its also the fact that the 4 advertisement for other products has pictures and the one that I purchased has erms.. NO image. I can say that in the whole email there is only 2 key facts I'd be looking for. 1. recent updates to your order --- your item(s) has been shipped 2. in smaller font -- Shipped on Nov-15-2009 the rest is just pure junk. The image above is when you click the extra huge "GO TO ORDER DETAILS" button from the email, which takes you to the login/signup page (automatically to the order details if you're already logged on). Here again on the email you don't see anything you've never seen before, probably because there is nothing different then to when you fi...
A New Taskbar Clock
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1863564,00.asp Is there any way that I can get the Windows XP system tray to show the date as well as the time? If so, how can I make this happen? John D. Leith This is a frequent request from PC Magazine readers. Fortunately, it's quite easy to get the date (and day of week) displayed in the Windows XP system tray. First, right-click a blank spot on the taskbar and see if there's a check mark next to the menu item titled Lock the Taskbar. If so, click that menu item to remove the check mark. Now use the mouse to drag the top edge of the taskbar upward until it snaps to twice its normal height. When the taskbar is this high or higher, the clock displays three lines rather than one, showing the current time, the day of the week, and the current date. You also have more room for taskbar buttons representing active applications. Of course, doubling the height of the taskbar makes it occupy more screen space than before. You can configure the ta...