Do you remember the movie “Face Off� I’ve watched that movie several times years ago and I find that a very good movie indeed. Castor Troy (played by Nicolas Cage) who plays the role of a terrorist switches faces with an FBI agent (played by John Travolta). The face transplant has just become a reality, according to the news I first saw today at Chicago Tribune.
The recipient of the face transplant is Connie Culp, who lost the midsection face from a gunshot in 2004. Her old gunshot face wasn’t a pretty sight.
While I was browsing over the web, I saw this old news at Physorg.com about that floating water bridge phenomenon. That floating water bridge was discovered by Elmar Fuchs and his team. The floating water bridge is generated with the help of high-voltage electricity: this is where water creates a long stream – these scientists had noted that the bridge could get as long as 25 millimeters.
I got this video that shows this interesting floating water bridge phenomenon. These scientists will still have to uncover the secrets of this incident. These wise guys think that “electrostatic charges on the surface of the water cause the water molecules to become highly ordered and form a microstructure that will remain stable.†For now we could all just be content to watch this one while those physicists try to figure out why this happens.
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Are you familiar with Yahoo’s Geocities? I had once tried out their site when I was still out from college and still learning HTML basics in one of the computer schools around the city. Yahoo’s Geocities was one of the first websites that I’ve tried out. I tried making some personal web pages that are hand-coded in HTML and uploaded these on the site. During that time, free web servers have one catch: they always run advertisements on the site.
The reason I discontinued using Geocities is that they had that awful pop-up when I load my page. I remember seeing a Geocities sidebar which consumed space on my 800×600 computer screen. I found better web hosts without any pop-ups and had minimal advertisements.
Over time, it is now common to see a number of web hosts offered free without any advertisements. Most web hosts offer more than the FTP functionality: there are now scripts that can be run to host a blog, an e-commerce website, or even a simple website built with a site builder. continue reading »
Some of you may have noticed that I had been reviewing several web hosting sites. Now my attention is now turned to Web Hosting Bluebook – another web hosting site with its own top web hosts to offer.
Unlike some of the other sites that I had mentioned here, Web Hosting Bluebook appears plain and simple. There isn’t anything more beyond their list of their best top ten websites. However, I was not disappointed at seeing each worded reviews: the reviews tackles the specific advantages and disadvantages of each web host in terms of features, price, reliability and support. An overview which describes the background of each web host is also mentioned. There’s also a summary which, to me, is an overall evaluation of the web host that’s mentioned. At the top of each detailed review, an outline of the main features is also mentioned, which is a good thing to the one who reads such reviews. Aside from the worded reviews, each web host has a table where it is evaluated according to features.
The reviews are not really the only things in the site. Look further up the navigation menu of the site and you will see a forum, a blog, some articles about web hosting, free WordPress themes, a newsletter subscription and even a page of hosting glossary.
The site seemed plain and simple, but for someone who simply looks for the best cheap web host service then this site is the answer.
The huge speakers that we currently use in our homes and work places will eventually be replaced with paper-like, flat, flexible speakers, according to this article at Wired. This flexible speaker uses a flexible laminate, which vibrates when an electrical signal is applied. Conventional speakers, on the other hand, uses varying magnetic fields induced by electrical signals to produce sound.
Unlike conventional speakers, this speaker produces highly directional sound. Scientists recommend using it in busy pubic terminals.
This technology is not expensive to manufacture, and these researchers are expecting that this will be available commercially by the end of the year.
