Archive for January, 2007
Global Warming: 2007 expected to be hottest year on record
Climate-change experts at the UK Met Office predict that 2007 is likely to be the warmest year on record globally, hotter than the current record set in 1998. The forecast points to the El Niño already established in the Pacific, that is expected to persist through the first months of 2007. Together with global warming due to fossil fuels this provides a high potential for record temperatures during 2007…
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Live on Camera: Space Debris breaks up in the Sky
Reporters from Live-TV station “Fox 31″ were quite surprised yesterday evening when one of their news choppers managed to capture the breaking up of space debris in the atmosphere. The “light show” that looked like meteorites – as NORAD has confirmed – was caused by the re-entry of a spent Russian science rocket. More information and a video at the…
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A Book for Latin Lovers is becoming a Bestseller
When UK Publisher “Short Books” brought out the first copies of a book for Latin lovers it thought a merely 4000 copies would be well enough. Since then it has become a top seller with unexpected high demands for the little book and they had to print a few 100,000 copies end of last year also to satisfy demands in the US reported to be beyond 250,000 orders already. The book with the title “Amo, Amas, Amat and All That: How to become a Latin Lover” is a primer for the “world’s most influential language” and…
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Fun: Selling Snow from Colorado
A bunch of jokesters have taken up the idea of the “Unassembled Snowman For Sale” and are selling “Colorado Blizzard” snow on Ebay. Offers range from organic, genuine snow from Blizzards, snow balls to own a part of the Blizzards. We have counted more then 50 sellers some with multiple offers currently online…
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Hello 2007
Hello and welcome back to Duvet-Dayz.com in 2007.We are currently planning to introduce a set of new features for this site within the next 14 days: Cleaning up the design of the site and some overdue repair of features that are not fully working in the moment. New features like Microformats and geo-coding of posts [...]