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Video: Chocolate Love
One for the night or Saturday morning depending wherever you are on this planet.
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Gadget: TeddyTaurus
If you liked to play with Teddies when you were younger and believe been seen with one at your age might not be such a great idea – here a two options:
A fried of us a while ago – always in the evening – was having a small white teddy bear looking out from one of the pockets of his jacket. Believe it or not – great success with the girls. Maybe it was the type of the bear.
The other option is more for home use: The TeddyTaurus.
Made by the great German toy company Steiff, the TeddyTaurus is most likely the first…
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25 Years MS Windows
It’s now 25 years ago since the first version of that thing called MS Windows started to infest became available for the new IBM PCs.
When you think back – that long ago – we were sitting and trying out that new interface provided to us on a PC the price of a small car today. And yes it was only black and white and it crashed and crashed and crashed (could be the applications), so most of the time we went back to a green shimmering monitor running Lotus 123 – latest after 15 minutes.
Actually it’s only 23 years ago because it took quite some time between the announcement and becoming available for sale. We started using it when MS persuaded us with an Alpha version of MS Windows 3.0 / 3.1 a few years later. If I recall it right that Alpha arrived on about 20 of these new 3.5″ floppies (each costing about 10 times as much as a DVD today). As time goes by…hmmmmmm…
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Life: Academic Salaries
Another proof who the most important or at least the most appreciated people are in many academic institutions.
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Time Waster: Whiteboard PONG
If you have too much time in the office on your way to redundancy here’s one potential possibility to pay yourself the bonus you definitely earned in time.
Australian 3D design studio Eness has found a way to play the classic game of Pong on a regular whiteboard.
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Time: Sunday Afternoon Feast
Four short clips for a quiet Sunday afternoon. Some funny ones, one that might make you think plus some music too.
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