Powered by Max Banner Ads Phones have been getting smarter and smarter these days and more functions have been added to them. Nowadays it seems like most phones have at least some rudimentary ability to surf the web and communicate by email. We’ve already seen the birth of a new industry from these phones [...]
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Powered by Max Banner Ads Ever wanted to look at a painting like Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” up close… REALLY close? Well now you’ve got your chance. I just saw an AP news story that talks about a 16 Billion pixel image of the famous painting now online.
I am not a hamster, curiosity [...]
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Powered by Max Banner Ads Here’s another example of why I can’t be considered an “average” guy. I happen to love Beethoven’s music. Along with Mozart, Chopin and most of the “Classical” composers from the last two or three centuries. What’s really sad is that these days you can ask people about one [...]
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Powered by Max Banner Ads I ran across another one of those terms that, while I’m sure it’s been around for quite a while, I personally haven’t run into it before. The word I’m talking about this time is “backrack”. Looking around shows that it’s actually a brand of cab guards, light brackets, rear [...]
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Powered by Max Banner Ads It’s interesting some of the things that people will do to language in order to make things easier to say. That’s one of the reasons that acronyms are so useful, they make it easier to say (or type) something quickly. Of course, there IS a problem.. with only [...]
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