Cool Stuff on the Web

Here is a Japanese educational video, meant to teach you the basics of the English language… such as saying “I have a bad case of diarrhea”. :))

In 1800 less than 3% of the world lived in cities. Now, more than half of the world lives in cities, and by 2050, more than 2/3 of the world will live in cities.

The world is changing, we are changing…. cities are rising! What’s next? Find out more from this site: 192021.

Are you a creative person? If you don’t know, and you wanna find out, take this simple, cool test : Right Brain vs Left Brain Creativity Test. This test is a serious one, with methods pioneered by Dr. Roger Sperry’s research on brain lateralization, for which he won a Nobel Prize in 1981. It has 54 question and it should take you about 10 minutes. The results are quite complex, giving you cool information about your brain

How well do you know your world? Well, with The Traveler IQ Challenge game you will surely get an answer. You will have to point on the map the places you are asked to indicate.  The hints will help you, and I hope you’ll find the game fun and useful.

I wonder when the television will be swallowed by the Internet… With the acquisition of YouTube for $1.65 billion, and with the explosion of free tv online sites, I think we are quite close. Until then I recommend you to get familiar with this kind of applications that offer access to various tv channels for free… Here is one:

In Romania, there are a lot of people who use exclusively Google as their search engine. While I respect their point of view, and think that Google is very good, I believe that there are tools that, in some cases, can bring you better results.

I hope you’ve all heard of Del.icio.us, the social bookmarking web application. If you haven’t, Del.icio.us is just an online collection of favorite links. The interesting part is that you can search through others bookmarks. In many cases you’ll find sites that are really cool, and are not that high in Google’s hierarchy.

Those who use Del.icio.us are above average internet users, with very good skills in finding interesting information. So, Del.icio.us, depending on what you search, can offer you more high quality results…

  I hope you’ll enjoy this video as much as I did…

The first registered domain was symbolics.com on March 15 1985, by a company which designed and built special computer systems for developing and running object-oriented programs in LISP.

So, the first 15 registered domains are: SYMBOLICS.COM, BBN.COM, THINK.COM, MCC.COM, DEC.COM, NORTHROP.COM, XEROX.COM, SRI.COM, HP.COM, BELLCORE.COM, IBM.COM, SUN.COM, INTEL.COM, TI.COM, ATT.COM.