So Siris was the brighest human who have ever excisted on this planet. Who were the dumbest then? The Darvin Awards has a great list of candidates.
The Darvin Awards is a site that (quote):"...honor those who improve our gene pool... by removing themselves from it. We commemorate the men and women who gave their "all" in an effort to improve the human species. Of necessity, the honor is generally bestowed posthumously...The Darwin Awards salute the improvement ofthe human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways."

Ever heard of William James Sidis? William James Sidis is arguably the brightest human who ever existed on our planet Earth.

Here is a partial list of William James Sidis' extraordinary capabilities and accomplishments:

1. Infant Billy listened to Greek myths read to him by Sarah (mother) as bedtime stories.
2. Started feeding himself with a spoon at eight months (after two months of trial and error).
3. Cajoled by Boris (father), Billy learned to pronounce alphabetic syllables from blocks hanging in his crib.
4. At six months, Billy said, "Door." A couple months later he told Mom he liked things, doors and people, that move.
5. At seven months he pointed to Earth's moon and called it, "moon." He wanted a 'moon' of his own.
6. Mastered higher mathematics and planetary revolutions by age 11.
7. Learned to spell efficiently by one year old.
8. Started reading The New York Times at 18 months.
9. Started typing at three. Used his high chair to reach a typewriter. First composed letter was an order for toys from Macy's.
10. Read Caesar's Gallic Wars, in Latin (self-taught), as a birthday present to his Father in Billy's fourth year.
11. Learned Greek alphabet and read Homer in Greek in his fourth year.
12. Learned Aristotelian logic in his sixth year.
13. At six, Billy learned Russian, French, German, and Hebrew, and soon after, Turkish and Armenian.
14. Calculated mentally a day any date in history would fall at age six. Absolutely fascinated by calendars.
15. Learned Gray's Anatomy at six. Could pass a student medical examination.
16. Billy started grammar school at six, in 3 days 3rd grade, graduated grammar school in 7 months.
17. At age 8, Billy surpassed his father (a genius) in mathematics.
18. Corrected E. V. Huntington's mathematics text galleys at age of eight.
19. Total recall of everything he read.
20. Wrote four books between ages of four and eight. Two on anatomy and astronomy, lost.
21. Passed Harvard Medical School anatomy exam at age seven.
22. Passed MIT entrance exam at age eight.
23. Intellect surpassed best secondary school teachers.
24. At age 10, in one evening, corrected Harvard logic professor Josiah Royce's book manuscript: citing, "wrong paragraphs."
25. Attempted to enroll in Harvard at nine.
26. In 1909, became youngest student to ever enroll at Harvard at age 11.
27. In 1910, at age 11, lectured Harvard Mathematical Club on 'Four-Dimensional Bodies.'

Thursday Apple introduced iTunes for Windows, and by that also iTunes Music Store. Here's a Win-user's first impressions of iTunes for Windows.
Who would have thought you should ever live to see Steve Jobs demonstrating Apple-produced software on a PC.

By the way....here...and here you'll find a few iTunes tips and tricks :-)

This one's for the Danes ;-)

I EDC-reklamen der for tiden kører på TV2, er der en gut som skal forestille at være en almindelig dansk EDC-kunde, der lige er flyttet sammen med sin kæreste. I reklamen siger han følgende: "Da min kæreste og jeg besluttede os for at flytte sammen, kontaktede vi EDC for at sælge VORES lejlighed" Citat slut! Bemærk at "lejlighed er i ental

Hmm...altså hvis de har besluttet sig for at flytte sammen, så er der vel ikke nogen "vores" lejlighed at sælge!?

Bare en tanke....

...Radar O'Reilly. Well you can find out by visiting this site. Hmm... I wonder what Eddie the Eagle is doing nowadays...check it out :-)

This is "Radar" 2003...





thanks to David Blangstrup for telling me about this site

US Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice confirmed in early 2001 that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had been disarmed and was no threat.

Quote (Colin Powell):"He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors."

The quote is taken from the official transcript released by the US Office of Foreign Affairs. The statement came at a meeting between Powell and the Saudi Foreign minister. See this link for the full transcript.

I'm glad Saddam is gone but..
Pro war or not,- it's pretty clear that the US goverment has some explaining to do.

Just my 2 cents

Well, it does look a little bit frightning, doesn't it. But what are the odds of you actually ending up in the belly of this fella'? Not very good! In fact you have a greater chance of being killed by a coconut falling on your head. In 2002, there were 60 confirmed "unprovoked" shark attacks in the world, resulting in 3 deaths! That means that you are 15 times more likely to be killed by falling coconuts than by a shark. Isn't three people, three too many and do we really need sharks anyway? Well, shark attacks are more a result of human patterns rather than shark patterns. Besides, sharks play an important role in the world's oceans. As top predators, sharks keep other species from overpopulating. Sharks also have a high resistance to many diseases and have value in biological research. Researchers are, for example, looking at sharks to find a cure for cancer, among other things.
Here's a few tips to avoid encounters with sharks:

Avoid splashing.
Don't go into the water while bleeding.
Don't wear shiny jewelry while swimming in the ocean.
Swim with other people.
Avoid murky waters where sharks seek out smaller fish for prey.
Don't swim at dusk, when sharks are more likely to be feeding.
Avoid looking like a tasty sealion :-)

Last Wednesday Roy from the Las Vegas duo Sigfried & Roy, almost got killed by one of his tigers. The tiger momentarily lashed out at his trainer (Roy), mauling him and then dragging him offstage. According to Sigfried the tiger was only trying to protect Roy from danger. Well I doubt it,- maybe that'll teach him not mess with tigers and not to keep them in captivity. Just my 2 cents....
CNN has a report on this....


They're a nice couple though Sigfried & Roy ,- aren't they....Don't know what James is doing there...

FIRST OF ALL: I take absolutely no responsibility for the content of the following link. If you decide to follow the instructions on THIS page, and build yourself a Orange Gun, you do so at your own risk.




Although the tutorial is in danish, it's so loaded with pics on how to construct the gun, I belive it's pretty easy to follow the instructions.
This is what you need to build the gun:

1. Chamber:55 cm 110*3,0 mm PVC-U downpipe.
2: Pipe: 75 cm 75*2,8 mm downpipe
3: Plug.
4: 110 mm -> 75 mm reduction ring.
5: 110 mm Socket.

- Siliconespray.
- Longnecked lighter.
- Thick gloves (fireproof)
- Hairspray
- Lightergas.

Check-out the picture section on how to discharge the orange gun!! Do not discharge the gun in urban areas,- shooting distance: 200 meters!!

AND DON'T FORGET: I take absolutely no responsibility for the content of the following link. If you decide to follow the instructions on THIS page, and build yourself a Orange Gun, you do so at your own risk.

OpenOffice is suite of programs quite similar to the well-known Microsoft Office. But there's one big difference,- OpenOffice is free!

OpenOffice is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.
Working in OpenOffice is easy, but installing the program is not as easy as we're used to. OpenOffice does run on the OS X Unix kernal, but it requires a "window server" called X11 to do so. X11 isn't an integrated part of OS X and you must therefore install it before you'll be able to use OpenOffice.

Getting OpenOffice to run on your Mac therefore requires to steps:
1. Installing X11
2. Installing OpenOffice

Before we start out I have to inform you that you're installing and running X11 and OpenOffice at your own risk!

Let's get to it!

1. Installing X11

First we need to download and install X11. There's a number of X11 versions for the Mac OS, but recently Apple released their own version of X11 and since it's fast, stable and easy to install we'll use Apple's version. X11 can be found at the Apple website. This link will take you right to the X11 download site.
Installing X11 is easy. When your download is done just doubleclick the installer icon. It's probably somewhere on your desktop! When the installation is done you'll find a X11 icon in your Applications folder. You've now installed a window server. Try and start the program by doubleclicking the X11 icon. If you see a terminal-window looking something like this:



then everything was installed as it should.

Now, that was the easy part! Let's go to step.

2. Installing OpenOffice

OpenOffice comes as an 164 mb diskimage and you can download it here: OpenOffice

You start the installation by doubleclicking the installer icon as you normally would, but as opposed to most program installations you're actually installing 4 programs: OpenOffice and 3 small programs all needed for OpenOffice to run. Because of this quardruble (whoa!) installation, you'll need to type in your administrator password several time.

3.Running OpenOffice

After you've installed OpenOffice, you'll notice that a new folder has been added to your Applications folder: OpenOffice 1.0 (or OpenOffice 1.0.3). If you open it you'll find an AppleScript with which you can launch OpenOffice. If you use this script OpenOffice will start really slow and additionally, the script might not even be able to launch X11 (Notice: X11 must run before you launch OpenOffice). Luckily there's another nifty way to startup OpenOffice: Add OpenOffice to the X11 "Applications" menu.

Here's how it's done:

-launch X11 and go to the menu "Applications"->"Customize"
- press the "Add item" button and type in "OpenOffice" in the "Name"-field (Note: it doesn't really matter what you type)
- in the command field you type in: "sh/Applications/OpenOffice.org.1.0/program/soffice" (without the exclamation marks). This is under the assumption that your OpenOffice folder is named OpenOffice.org.1.0 and that it is located in the Applications folder!!
- press "Done".

Now try to launch OpenOffice by accessing the Applications menu and select "OpenOffice"

Please notice that OpenOffice takes a while to start and your mac might seem to be unresponsive,- but eventually you'll see the "OpenOffice Splash screen". If nothing happends within the first couple of minutes , you might have to check the settings in the "Applications/Customize" menu. (Sorting out the settings can be a little tricky and even the smallest misspelling in the "Command"-part can mean
that the program won't start.)

You should now be able to run OpenOffice on your Mac

From now on all you have to do to run OpenOffice is:
1. Launch X11
2. Go to the "Applications" menu in X11 and choose "OpenOffice"

All credits to Martin Bredthauer