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Winter: Ice hotels around the world
Since 17 years now a temporary hotel is build from ice every winter in Sweden. The ICEHOTEL is situated in the village Jukkasjärvi, 200 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden. It started off with an Igloo and developed into a hotel with more than 60 rooms and suites each different from the other. With the exception of the beds, the entire hotel is made completely out of ice blocks – even the glasses in the bar are made of ice. The ice is made from water…
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Fun: Best explanation for star ratings
We found this funny explanation of star ratings as used on many web sites: * – German Teacher** – Patronizing Police Officer*** – Daytime TV Presenter**** – Overweight, spoilt 8-year-old***** – John Wayne seen on the web
Myths: What computer code does in movies but not in reality
Whenever you see a computer in a Hollywood movie it always makes some sound or when you see the (in)famous hacker working on it, always something on the screen is moving. “Drivl.com” has put together a list of 10 “Myths” that are continuously used in movies but don’t compile happen in real life. The list includes the following…
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Christmas Shopping ideas: Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings
There are seemingly still some copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s silk screen print of “Trout’s Tomb” available. Two links for those of you that don’t know who “Kurt Vonnegut” or “Kilgore Trout” are…
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Search Engines: Pageranks and the Incredible Lightness Of Being
Yahoo has just released its “Top searches of 2006″ list, leaving us with the impression that people are using it only to find information on Brittney, Shakira or Paris Hilton…
…Recently the “American Mathematical Society” has featured an article with an in-depth explanation of the type of mathematical operations behind Google’s search engine pagerank. The story with the title…
…Encourage by the article we had a look how our so far most popular story (Top 10 time waster games) is ranked with Google. It turned out that Duvet-Dayz.com has a pagerank of 3 (out of more then 1 million pages)…
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Coffee Mugs for the political conscious
US shopping site “Uncommon Goods” has two types of coffee mugs that use image changing effects to visualize a message. (Global warming mug / Bill of Rights mug)…
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