A 4.4 kilometers long cable car that runs from the 2,182m high Whistler Mountain to the 2,440m high Blackcomb Mountain is planned to be completed by December 2008.

The company hired to build the cable car, Doppelmayr of Austria, says it will set two world records, one for distance between two pillars supporting the cable – 3,024 meters – and one for height over a valley – 415 meters.

In the official website there is a very neat presentation highlighting these two record breaking features of the cable car.

As Vancouver and the Whistler-Blackcomb region have been selected to host the 2010 Winter Olympics, this is one of the many new infrastructures being constructed in the area.

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You will be amazed by the pictures of clouds and their incredible forms

Mammatus Clouds, or "breast-clouds"

Lenticular Clouds are often mistaken for UFOs

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In a press release today, Apple announced that they’ve sold 100 million iPods since it was first launched five and half year ago, in November 2001, making it the fastest selling music player. Apple has rolled out 10 different models of iPod spanning across 5 generations.

Apple Press Release

Steve Jobs : “At this historic milestone, we want to thank music lovers everywhere for making iPod such an incredible success,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPod has helped millions of people around the world rekindle their passion for music, and we’re thrilled to be a part of that.”

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Balthazar Napoleon de Bourbon, an Indian lawyer, is being feted as the long-lost descendent of the Bourbon kings who ruled France from the 16th century to the French revolution. He is alleged to be not only related to the current Bourbon king of Spain and the Bourbon descendants still in France, but to have more claim than any of them to the French crown.

Prince Michael of Greece, the cousin of (British) Prince Philip, this week published a historical novel called Le Rajah de Bourbon, which traces the story of Mr Bourbon’s first royal ancestor in India. Prince Michael believes Jean de Bourbon was a nephew of the first Bourbon French king, Henry IV. In 1560, during a voyage across the world, he turned up at the court of the Mogul emperor Akbar. It was the beginning of a long line of Bourbons in India, who centuries later would serve as the administrators of Bhopal and become the second most important family in the region.

Michael of Greece, who lives in Paris and is of Bourbon descent, believes his detective work on his newfound Indian “cousins” is more than just the latest whimsy in a history of attempts to uncover relatives of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

“If I am right then Balthazar Bourbon would be the eldest in the line,” he told the Guardian.

From his home in the Bhopal suburbs, Mr Bourbon, 48, said he would be glad to take a DNA test, but remained stoical about the “hypothetical question” of whether he was heir to the throne. Conscious of the bloody outcome for royals in France, he felt royal status could bring “trouble”, not to mention questions from skeptical historians. […]

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Well, what do you think?

Danny would be really mad at me!!

I have sent him an email with this link which will open the above page.

Well, this website is a great fun to make fun of each other and enjoy the lighter side of life.

Steps to go along

1. Type what you want seen in the URL of the page and the term in the search box.
2. Type what you want to appear in the “Did you mean” part.
3. Type what you to be highlighted in the “Did you mean” part.

The you are given the link you can view or send to somebody

Enjoy!!

Oh I nearly forgot : Google ‘No Match’ Message site is located here.

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Kitchen Computer

Hello! It is 1969, and my wonderful husband has bought me a Honeywell Kitchen Computer to help me with my cooking! It is a $10,000+ status symbol from the Nieman Marcus catalog. It will replace my unwieldy and difficult to use recipe box. How I love my Kitchen Computer! And my husband!

The Kitchen Computer is both stylish and functional. See its sleek lines, bright red accents, and handy built-in counter top? It matches my dress! And my lipstick!

… … What a piece of junk! What idiot thought this was a good idea? I hate my Kitchen Computer! I hate my husband! I’m going to divorce him and go get a job designing computers that don’t suck!

An article about kitchen computer in Dr. Dobb’s Jornal.

You can see it in person at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, currently housed next to the first production Google rack (in the background of the photos to the left of the Kitchen Computer).

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After trying for 30 minutes to bring two-week-old Woody Lander back to life, doctors decided there was nothing more they could do and called in his parents to say their tearful farewells. A nurse passed Woody to his heartbroken father and gently pulled a tube from his mouth so they could kiss him goodbye.

Then the miracle happened. The lifeless baby suddenly coughed and moved. Nurses immediately grabbed Woody back, re-attached the tubes and lifesaving equipment and he came back to life in front of his astonished parents. Woody is now 14 months old.

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The Girl Scouts of America built a site on MySpace to Sell Cookies. Well well, that is the new age kids.

On the site you’ll find pictures of the cookies and some of the cleanest, most fully-dressed pictures of people you’ll ever find on MySpace .

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Are you addicted to your computer? Can you live without your it for just one day?

The idea behind the Shutdown Day, a “global experiment” by Denis Bystrov and Michael Taylor, is to see if you can shut down your computer and last without it for 24 hours. So far, over 18,700 people had pledged to go without the computer for one whole day on Saturday, March 24, 2007. And about 3000 say they can’t do it !! (dated Feb 26)

Visit to cast your vote and tell what you are planning to do on that day. Link: http://shutdownday.org/

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