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Windows XP was released 15 years ago, in 2016. The new millennium is more than a decade old. Pierce Brosnan last acted as James Bond 14 years ago. It's been 15 years since 9/11. The Matrix came out 17 years ago, Keanu Reeves is 51 today. Mother Theresa and Lady Diana have been dead for 19 years. Macaulay Culkin is 35 today. Home Alone came out over 25 years ago. Terminator 2 is 25 years old. Edward Furlong who portrayed kid John Connor is 38 now. Sean Connery is 84 years old and retired. The youngest Spice Girl is 39, the oldest Backstreet Boy 43, Gwen Stefani is 45, Madonna 52. The first Harry Potter book came out 19 years ago! The first season of F.R.I.E.N.D.S was aired 21 years ago! Arnold Schwarzenegger is older than Independent India. He was born in June 1947. Kids born in 1998 can legally drive, drink and vote this year. Facebook has been around for 12 years. Jurassic Park is older than Justin Bieber. Bryan Adams' cult song Summer of 69 was released 31 y...

Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde creates real clouds inside indoor spaces. The pioneer of this technique has been on the headlines with quite an impressive amount of audience worldwide. BBC correspondent Anna Holligan went to meet him to see how he creates his own clouds. Using a smoke machine and a spray to generate fine mist or droplets, he says, the trick lies entirely in timing. It turns out that these delicate clouds exist for a short time, maybe ten seconds or less - just enough to photograph them! Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!

Over three hundred years ago, Sir Isaac Newton clarified our understanding of dynamical processes by formulating has famous three laws, which read as follows: Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it. The relationship between the mass of an object  m , the acceleration of the object  a , and the applied force f is  f = ma . For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. We have all engaged in discussions where one person tires to change another person’s opinion. On rare occasions, these attempts may be successful, but in general they are not. According to Peter Sturrock, an astrophysicist at Stanford University and Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics, his experience leads him to offer for consideration and discussion the follows reformulation of Newton’s laws: Opinions tend to remain in a state of stagnation unless acted upon by an external argument. The rate of c...

This article originally appeared on io9 on this page. In Star Trek lore, the first Starship Enterprise will be built by the year 2245. But today, an engineer has proposed - and outlined in meticulous detail – building a full-sized, ion-powered version of the Enterprise complete with 1G of gravity on board, and says it could be done with current technology, within 20 years. "We have the technological reach to build the first generation of the spaceship known as the USS Enterprise -– so let's do it," writes the curator of the Build The Enterprise website, who goes by the name of BTE Dan. This "Gen1" Enterprise could get to Mars in ninety days, to the Moon in three, and "could hop from planet to planet dropping off robotic probes of all sorts en masse –- rovers, special-built planes, and satellites." Complete with conceptual designs, ship specs, a funding schedule, and almost every other imaginable detail, the BTE website was launched just...

This post is taken from an issue of PCWorld of 2009, probably March. I think its relevance, today, is more than ever. So here it is, to save you tons of hassles: Are you tired of having to register on a free website just to read a news article or view some pictures of your relatives? Rather than registering on such sites (and risking a barrage of annoying spam), many people forget about the news item or put off seeing how their nieces and nephews are doing until their next holiday. But I have an easy way to get members-only content without enduring the hassle of signing up for an account. Whenever family and friends send me links to registration-required sites, I turn to BugMeNot (bugmenot.com) to slip past most of these requirements. BugMeNot is a free site that stockpiles user-generated account log-ins and passwords so that users don’t have to provide their own personal info. Go to the BugMeNot website and type in the URL of the site that you’d like to log in to. BugMeNo...

This rant was originally written for the  Wharton Undergraduate Journal . This is a tribute to the nice guys. The nice guys that finish last, that never become more than friends, that endure hours of whining and bitching about what assholes guys are, while disproving the very point. This is dedicated to those guys who always provide a shoulder to lean on but restrain themselves to tentative hugs, those guys who hold open doors and give reassuring pats on the back and sit patiently outside the changing room at department stores. This is in honor of the guys that obligingly reiterate how cute/beautiful/smart/funny/sexy their female friends are at the appropriate moment, because they know most girls need that litany of support. This is in honor of the guys with open minds, with laid-back attitudes, with honest concern. This is in honor of the guys who respect a girl’s every facet, from her privacy to her theology to her clothing style. This is for the guys who escort their d...

If you can pronounce every word in this poem correctly, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Chaos  (1922) Dearest  creature  in  creation Studying English  pronunciation ,     I will teach you in my  verse     Sounds like  corpse ,  corps ,  horse  and  worse . I will keep you,  Susy ,  busy , Make your  head  with  heat  grow dizzy;     Tear  in eye, your dress you'll  tear ;     Queer , fair  seer ,  hear  my  prayer . Pray , console your loving  poet , Make my coat look  new , dear,  sew   it !     Just compare  heart ,  hear  and  heard ,     Dies  and  diet ,  lord  and  word . Sword  and  sward ,  retain...