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I've covered remote virtual desktops in the past, but another one has sprung up and looks alot more promising. DesktopTwo is a desktop which runs in your web browser. The whole interface is coded in Flash, and it offers some interesting features. 1GB of free storage, an RSS reader and an impressive flash implementation of OpenOffice. It’s still in beta at the moment, but it’s free to sign up.

DesktopTwo [Via: Hongkiat]

I've been having problems with my Inspiron overheating lately, so I might give this a go . Pat Dori, a disgruntled customer who phoned Dell 19 times eventually decided to take the company to court for 'failing to adequately address the problem'. He had the legal papers delivered to a Dell kiosk in a shopping centre, and not surprisingly, no one from Dell turned up in court. Mr. Dori won the case by default, and won $3000 and a ruling allowing the repo depot to close the kiosk and seize everything there if the judgement wasn't paid. Dell decided to settle out of court.

Via : Engadget

Probably not the best idea, these Lego shaped gummies are an accident waiting to happen. What's next, gummy razor blades?

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This futuristic looking LED watch actually tells the time. The conecpt seems pretty simple, but to get the cool guy effect, you have to be able to read it without pausing to work out the time, which I don't quite have the hang of. At $125 (£65), it's a pretty expensive gimmick.

You've probably heard some of these before, but here they are anyway…

In the 1400′s a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb".

Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only…Ladies Forbidden"…and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language .

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone

Coca-Cola was originally green.

The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king in history:
Spades – King David
Hearts – Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds – Julius Caesar

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Q. What is the only food that doesn’t spoil?
A. Honey

In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase……… "goodnight, sleep tight."

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts… So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them "Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down."It’s where we get the phrase "mind your P’s and Q’s"

Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.

Via: DimWitty.com

An artist from Montreal, Canada, plans to build and launch a giant 300metre long Banana into space, the project that is called the Geostationary Banana over Texas, and the goal is to float the Helium filled Banana over Texas for just one month. So why would anyone want to float a giant banana in space? The 'goal' of the project is to promote contemporary art, but wouldn't the money be better spent on helping the homeless or building something that would last a bit longer?

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Chester cathedral at sunset, took about six hours in Photoshop to make.

Download (1920×1200 / 1600×1200) @ deviantART

In a rush to buy a stamp? Tape the right amount of postage to the front of it and the US postal service will deliver it anyway. They didn't bother stamping it either, so it doesn't cost you anything.

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I've just released iZeit v1.7, a calendar written in PHP. One of the things I added to this version was JavaScript forms created on the fly to replace image links. There was a problem recently with Google Web Accelerator, which preloaded all links on the current page so they'd load faster when they were needed. That might sound like a good idea, until you get a page full of delete links that use variables passed via the GET method. Creating a form on the fly and submitting it using POST looks nicer, is alot more secure and isn' subject to Google's interfering web accelerator. Instead of using the href of an anchor, you use an onclick event in the anchor instead.

‹a title="Delete Category" onclick="var f = document.createElement('form');
f.style.display = 'none'; this.parentNode.appendChild(f);
var h = document.createElement('input'); h.type = 'hidden'; h.name = 'act'; h.value = 'admin'; f.appendChild(h);
var h2 = document.createElement('input'); h2.type = 'hidden'; h2.name = 'setadmin'; h2.value = 'delcat'; f.appendChild(h2);
f.method = 'POST';
f.action = 'index.php';
f.submit();
return false;"›
‹img border="0" src="delete.gif" alt="Delete category" /›‹/a›