10 Daily Things

One of these is a photograph taken by the Hubble space telescope on December 17, 2002, featuring the variable star V838 Monocerotis. The other is the same photograph overlaid with a familiar logo. Can you tell which is which?

Below is another photo of the same star, from the Wikipedia entry on V838 Monocerotis. If the above photo has been photoshopped to look more like the Firefox logo, the editing seems minimal: it’s been rotated relative to the photo below, and some of the gas cloud may have been edited out around the “tail” of the fox.

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The Cool series has done quite a few watch phone for China market, this Cool G108 is one of their latest work. Using a RAZR style keypad in a ring layout, the G108 is a “clamshell” watch phone with a 1.5-inch display screen inside. The display screen can display 256k colors at a 128 x 60 pixel resolution. It isn’t a small size to wear it, but together with the clamshell design it allows the manufacturer to include more features like bluetooth receiver and 1.3 megapixel camera into the phone body. You can either use the speakerphone, or a bluetooth headset to make/receive phone calls.

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40 000 Crickets eat a whole head of lettuce in just one hour. In this video the process have been speeded it up to take just 1 minute and 22 seconds.

A compilation of some great commercials. Lay back and enjoy.