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Time: The Millionaire Calculator
It’s Friday again and you have almost made it through this week. So if you’re asking yourself how much longer will I have to stay in this valley of misery – well here’s the Millionaire calculator.
It will most likely not help to cheer you up – but keep in mind, the 5 minutes you were using this little applet have just got you a bit closer to your target.
Anyway:
Best saving plan advice (“Dire Straits”)”…Get your money for nothin’ get your chicks for free…”
For a better understanding of the overall concept we recommend Virus Comix’ “Circle of Life”.
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Time waster: Proximity of Needs
A great way to watch time passing by and how beautiful mathematics can be visualized.
It is an interactive animation where you can change the parameters for the calculations and graphical simulation.
More information on the project page at…
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Games: Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy
If you enjoyed the Movie Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy then you will like this game. It is based on the classic text-adventure from Douglas Adams enhanced with some graphics and can be played entirely online at the BBC web site.
If you remember the old version, well this might also be a possibility to show your kids the kind of games you played when you’ve been their age.
Hint: The BBC shop still sells DVDs from their legendary series…
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Science: Time / Space continuum breaks open around the globe
Today, April 1st after various warnings raised by leading scientists during the last months, the selective opening of the Time / Space continuum could be observed at locations around the world.
Renown astronomer Gabriel Sunbreek had alarm bell ringing about 3 months ago when he together with his team for the first time discovered the brief opening of wormholes inside our solar system. Closely to Mars two of these phenomenons had opened up for about 5 to 7 minutes – enough to allow alien matter to enter our galaxy close to earth (in astronomical terms).
Together with colleagues he attributed the selective occurrence of breaks within the Time / Space continuum to global warming and increased pollution. The connection to the newly found wormholes is still being evaluated…
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Humor: The best 2008 April Fool Pranks
Good morning all you fools out there and yes we know it’s April 1st again.
Like always there will be hundreds of pranks pulled on web sites around the planet. We will create our personal selection of the best April Fool jokes from the ones we find browsing around the web or get notified about. Where possible we include screen-shots and additional information.
This post will be updated continuously throughout the day so check by a few times….
7 update(s) including this final update – 28 new pranks added with last update – 66 pranks in total so far.
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Shopping: Bear Stearns Memorabilia at Ebay
After the whole company went for a fire sales price to competitor J.P. Morgan many of the Bear Stearns employees that now fear loosing their jobs have started to part themselves from their valued memorabilia of the once highly reputable Wall Street firm.
When you search…
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