xiaonei.com, China
Click on image to visit site. Site looks like below as of right now, July 11, 2008.
vkontakte.ru, Russia
Click on image to visit site. Site looks like below as of right now, July 11, 2008.
hainei.com, China
Click on image to visit site. Site looks like below as of right now, July 11, 2008.
Kootali, India
Click on image to visit demo site. This company sells software to create Facebook clones! Demo Site looks like below as of right now, July 11, 2008.
[Via Reuters] About 12000 students sitting for their GCSE music exams had the answers (accidentally) printed at the back of their question papers! Wish some of us had the same luck! 
And it is has been running almost continuously. Someone calculated the light bulb to have clocked in over a million hours!
More at www.centennialbulb.org.
Also check out the live “Bulb cam” there.
Yes, such a contest exists and has been held in the Finnish town of Savonlinna, for the last 7 years!
This year’s event, held last Saturday (26th August) had 100 contestants from countries like Canada, Russia, Belgium; and Finland ofcorse.
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A friend has moved house earlier this week. His bank, UOB, sends him an address update form…
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The nice people at the Institute for Posttayloristic Studies in Austria have come up with an interesting(?) work around for people who want to watch the world cup but only have access to telnet. A stream of the World Cup in ASCII!
Imagine yourself feeling elated for securing an air ticket for a 2 hour 35 minutes (1987 km) flight for just US$66 (in a country where regular airfares are in the US$400+ range for the same route). Read the rest of this entry »
Like as if giving me a 4 Million Euros wasn’t enough, Bill Gates is now going to pay me US$245 for every person that I send this email to; and if they forward it someone else, I get another US$243! Ain’t he soo sweet!
Doing a bit of Math, if I send it to just 5 people and each of them send to 5 people each, I receive US$7300! Wow!
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[Via Slashdot] Apparently, the radiation of two mobile phones during a 3 minute call is sufficient to boil a large free range egg.. in just 3 minutes!
