What $1 Million Will Buy You In Real Estate Around The World

Interesting how many more luxuries $1 million can buy in other countries..

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Nasa and Google form cosmic union

Google and Nasa work together to brings detailed 3D images of the Moon and Mars to web users.

"This agreement between Nasa and Google will soon allow every American to experience a virtual flight over the surface of the moon or through the canyons of Mars," said Nasa administrator Michael Griffin.

The two organisations said they will now collaborate in a variety of areas including adding data collected by Nasa to the online mapping tool Google Earth.

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Xmas shopping: It's war, so don't go unarmed!

It's war out there. Christmas is rearing its head like a big, ugly pimple on the butt of your peaceful holiday - and there are presents to be bought...

Don't go unarmed. Take this knowledge with you and prevent pre-Christmas breakdowns and alcohol-fueled rages...

1. The item you want is probably gone already. Don’t trust internet inventory locators, they’re always wrong. Call the store and ask someone. Most stores, even during the holidays, will begrudgingly hold something for you if you can get there fast enough.

2. All bets are off. Don’t turn your back on the spoils in your cart and expect it to remain untouched. Someone else wants that poop-herself-pretty-pretty-princess. She who has her hands on it last, leaves the store with it.

3. Bring cash, and bring extra. Almost every holiday season my store’s card services went down after being overloaded with requests. Card processing will time out, and writing checks runs you the risk of having your eyeballs clawed out by the impatient lines behind you.

4. You won’t find a parking space, so don’t bother trying. Just take the spot in the middle of nowhere, it will take you less time to walk to the store than it does to sit in your car pissing off everyone trying to get around you.

5. There won’t be anyone to help you. The nearest salesperson is teetering on a ladder, getting the last thingamajic and whatchamacallit from the store’s highest display, for a moth-ball scented old bag who’s “just looking.” Know what you want and where it is.

6. If a store does offer free gift wrap, you don’t want it, and you’re a jerk if you get it. This means you’re pulling away staff from the salesfloor and cash registers, potentially inciting a riot. And if you’re getting something oddly shaped or oversized, they’re not going to be able to wrap it any better than you would, it’s still going to look like a blob of crumpled up gift-wrap. Just go home and stick whatever it is in a gift bag, besides it’s easier for your stuffy sister-in-law when she regifts.

7. Always ask for a gift receipt first, even if you don’t want one. You never know when you’ll need it, your tastes aren’t infallible and you don’t want Aunt Ethel to know how cheap you are, and the cashier will have to get a manager to reprint one for you.

8. Get out of there. As soon as you’re done, leave the store, sprawlmart, or ye olde mall towne immediately. You never know who you’re going to run into. One unfortunate Christmas Eve I fell prey to a local weather girl gone investigative reporter spotlighting last minute shoppers, and my whole family got a sneak preview of their gifts on the ten o’clock news.

Tips courtesy of: Resist Media

No more light loo reading: FHM US closes its pages

It’s a sad day indeed.

FHM have announced the end of their US publication.



The wonderfully wacky tribute to T&A will however continue to exist online

Hurray

Source: Cherryflava via AdAge

Want to live longer? Toss back a few cocktails

Alcohol in moderation may extend life span, researchers find

Not that I needed an excuse anyway… (might help to convince the wife, though…)

Moderate drinking may lengthen your life, while too much may shorten it, researchers from Italy report. Their conclusion is based on pooled data from 34 large studies involving more than 1 million people and 94,000 deaths.

According to the data, drinking a moderate amount of alcohol — up to four drinks per day in men and two drinks per day in women — reduces the risk of death from any cause by roughly 18 percent, the team reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

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Israeli Online Gambling Tycoon Bids $1B for peace

Apparently money can’t buy you love – but can it buy peace? So desperate is one Israeli millionaire for an end to the hostility between his country and the Palestinian territories that he’ll scrape together a billion dollars to make it happen.

Avi Shaked, 53, said he would give an initial installment of $100 million to the Palestinians if their prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh and Israel’s Ehud Olmert began talks.

Shakes quickly became one of Israel’s wealthiest men through 888 Holdings, a conglomerate of gambling Web sites such as 888.com, Pacific Poker and Betmate.
He reportedly has a group of financiers who will put forward the money as soon as some sort of accord is reached.


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At last - a Viagra ad worth looking at...!

Source: Kottke.org

Garage door openers threaten Homeland security!

Government radio frequency also handles 50 million remote control units

DENVER - What do remote-control garage door openers have to do with national security?
A secretive Air Force facility in Colorado Springs tested a radio frequency this past week that it would use to communicate with first responders in the event of a homeland security threat. But the frequency also controls an estimated 50 million garage door openers, and hundreds of residents in the area found that theirs had suddenly stopped working.

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