Recent Posts Tagged With 'offbeat news'

• The World’s Most Expensive French Fry

  Posted on Friday September 26th, 2008 at 13:17 in offbeat news

  A unique ‘limited edition’ french fry called the “Lincoln Fry” contains the profile of Abraham Lincoln (sort of!) and has appeared in a McDonald’s ad in the 2005 Super Bowl. It has  been auctioned on eBay and was sold to the Go...

• 10 things to do before you die - eBay

  Posted on Monday March 3rd, 2008 at 11:10 in offbeat news

  10 heart-thumping, hair-raising, adrenalin-pumping experiences you wouldn’t want to miss. And you can win them for just Rs.1* each. #Bid on one/more experiences #Track the bidding action and raise your bid ebay.in has come up with a new aucti...

• $9214 ebay bid for AOL 1.0 Startup disk

  Posted on Monday February 25th, 2008 at 02:11 in offbeat news

  Todd Farmer of West Chester, PA, sold his AOL 1.0 startup disc for over $9,000 in an online ebay auction this week. Mr. Farmer explains, “that disc served me well. It’s a 5 1/2″ floppy, double-sided, double-density with all the ori...

• Tokyo skyline from 1969-2004 in 10 seconds

  Posted on Sunday December 30th, 2007 at 00:01 in offbeat news

  Witness the progress of Tokyo’s Shinjuku from 1969-2004. That’s right.. A man took photographs of Tokyo’s Shinjuku from 1969-2004, that’s over 35 years.. and made it into a 10 second clip.. Here it is...

• Bible on supersmall chip

  Posted on Wednesday December 26th, 2007 at 22:42 in offbeat news

  Researchers in Israel say they have succeeded in putting a version of the Bible on a chip smaller than a pinhead. Its 300,000 words in Hebrew were inscribed on a silicon surface at the Haifa Institute of Technology. The 0.5sq-mm (0.01sq-in) nano-Bibl...

• Google wins over Perfect 10’s copyright infringement case

  Posted on Tuesday December 4th, 2007 at 23:10 in business news, offbeat news

  Adult magazine Perfect 10 earlier filed a copyright infringement claim against Google alleging that Google was crawling the Perfect10.com website and created thumbnails of copyrighted images that were later displayed in Google Image search results. ...

• Sea-monster carcass?

  Posted on Saturday December 1st, 2007 at 11:56 in offbeat news

  Recently came across the old news of Plesiosaur Carcass Netted in 1977. I found it quite interesting and appealing too.. On April 25, 1977, a fishing vessel named the Zuiyo-maru of the Taiyo Fishery Company Ltd. was trawling for mackerel about 30...