Can anybody interpret why the URL included in the text file here will go to JORDANBLOGS.com
I have included the URL in a text file because its long & WordPress Interface will mess the full characters of the address.
You need to copy the full address, as it is, and paste it in the address bar of IE (IE 6,7). This will not work with Firefox, Opera or Avant browsers.

The first correct answer will get a free token to JOOST
JOOST is per invitations only & I have some invitations left! Its a Peer2Peer High Definition streaming TV that has a lot of AD-Sponsored channels. The number of channels are increasing significantly. Quality is superb & bandwidth needed is a minimum of 1 Mbps.

Here’s an interesting little reminder that even supermodels don’t look like supermodels.

See the high resolution movie and an interactive “before and after” at campaignforrealbeauty.ca

Quoting one of the commenters on the video: “I don’t use Dove and never will - I’m a guy. However, anything that encourages young women to think of themselves as whole people instead of plastic models should be supported.”

I’ve been reading lots of theories on “Lost” TV series since season 3 started a few weeks ago, but this is by far the best theory I’ve read, and by “best” I mean that this is the one theory that answers the most “questions” and has the least “flaws”.

The more I read this board the more I’m amazed at how many people grasp for rational explainations within LOST. It seems that each time the writers show us the slightest hint of a scientific path through the supernatural jungle, most people are willing to run full tilt right down it. I just don’t get that.

* Do you really think Jack’s dad just up and walked away?
* Do you really think a black stallion lives on the island?
* Do you really think a Nigerian Beechcraft could reach the middle of the Pacific?
* Do you really think the polar bears are from Dharma’s “zoology” experiment?
* Do you really believe in nanobots???

The one thing very obvious to me is that the island will create anything (or anyone) that any of the main characters can think up. The island manifests whatever is desired, imagined, feared, or thought about. The island itself is responsible for these things - or rather, the characters are responsible for them through the power of thought or will.

THIS IS THE ONE THING THE OTHERS DO NOT WANT THEM TO REALIZE

Look at what’s happened so far:

Locke’s gained his legs back. From the moment he went to wiggle his toes they moved… simply because he believed they might. Locke is one of the very special people who somewhat understands that the island will grant him things (Rose is another). Do you really think he learned to hunt, track, slaughter and skin boars simply from shooting quail with his dad? Do you really think he can throw knives with deadly accuracy? Or is the knife-throw accurate because Locke believes? I think the later. All of Locke’s abilities come from his kinship with the island, yet some people still speculate about where he learned such awesome skills back at his job stocking aisles at Toys R’ Us.

Jack sees his father, who is obviously dead. Do you really believe this guy faked his death, crashed on the island, bolted his coffin, and is roaming around as part of some sort of sinister conspiracy? Or do you think maybe Jack sees his dad because his guilt has him thinking constantly about him and the island manifests him in the form of a vision just beyond his reach?

Look at Charlie. Thousands of miles from civilization, all a heroin junkie would think about is not having access to any heroin. And then suddenly a planeload of it miraculously shows up? Please.

Take Eko. He hears of a crashed plane on the island, and he wants very badly for it to be his brother’s missing plane. So badly that it becomes his brother’s missing plane. Wild coincidence? No. Self-fullfilling prophecy, courtesy of the island. And hey, didn’t Eko’s memories get scanned by the smoke monster right before they found the plane? Hmmmm.

Kate’s stallion is there because she unconciously willed it to be there. Claire thinks her baby might get sick, and so it does. Hurley’s having a tough time dealing with food and suddenly Dave shows up, easily plucked from his subconcious and manifested by the island. His numbers keep appearing because he keeps obsessing over them, not the other way around.

And then there’s Sayid, trying to escape a complicated life during which he was forced to do questionable things. Yet once on the island he inevitably finds himself having to do those same things yet again.

In short, I think the island makes all things possible. Think about this: Was there dynamite in the Black Rock before they needed it to blow the hatch, or was the dynamite suddenly there once they DID need it? And if they’d needed something else could it be possible Danielle would have told them that particular thing was in the ship? It’s a mind-fu k I know. But it’s still a question you have to ask yourself.

I believe that there are no coincidences. I think everything you see is being placed into being by requirement, a la the island. I think the Others know this, which would explain why they’ve been so ‘mysterious’ with the 815 survivors. They don’t tell them the truth because doing so would give them near limitless power. They can’t tell them. It would interfere with whatever agenda the Others are currently trying to achieve.

Finally, I believe Walt had these powers all along - even before the island. His abilities are very akin to the island’s natural powers, and that’s why the Others wanted him.

Theory by: Vozzek

Source: TheoriesOnLost.blogspot.com

Just when you thought you’re not going to need to upgrade your new CPU for a while after all the new processors that came through-out the last 4 years, Intel releases a new CPU with basicly, processing power of two Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs built into one.

Basically, Intel packs two Core 2 Duo processors into one package. This poses several questions: How fast are four cores versus the not-exactly-a-weakling dual-core version? What will the heat dissipation and power consumption figures be like in a PC system with a quad core processor? Which applications can truly benefit from the increased core count? Is the current platform still sufficient? And finally, the question real enthusiasts are sure to pose: What can be expected in terms of maximum clock speed?

Source: TomsHardware.com

I have been utilizing Box.net service since around 1 year. The service is unique, although of the existence of other alternates but the reliability of this service & the continuous update to their offerings has gained attention & I really expect they will be enhancing the service to beat their competitors.

Some main advantages for this service are:

1. Ads-Free
2. Free 1 GB (If you invite 10 people, you will get an upgrade for free to 5GB account).
3. Blogs Support (WordPress, LiveJournal, TypePad and Blogger.com). This can be done using the “TO BLOG” option. Audio files will be embedded within a flash player, photos will display a thumbnail, and Other files can have a direct download link.
4. Java Uploader Window: Only drage and drop the files to the window & the file will be uploaded. You can give tags to the file & place it in its appropriate folder.
5. Tags support, which makes searching so easy.
6. Many other options like having files privilege & sub-users.
7. The ability to share files or folders.
8. The ability to use lite version which uploads any file quickly & give you the HTML code to use for viewing thumbnail or icon.
If you need such a service, Click on the logo here to make a 1GB free account for your personal storage or blog support.

As crazy and scary as it sounds, it’s true! Sam Ramjii, Director of Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab, has extended an invitation to the Firefox and Thunderbird developers asking them if they’d like to visit the company’s open source research center. Microsoft’s hopes are that, in a four-day span, the company can provide the open source developers with enough information to get the popular web browser running smoothly on Windows Vista.

Last Saturday, Ramjii posted a message in the newsgroup “mozilla.dev.planning” asking Mozilla’s Mike Schroepfer and any other Firefox developers if they’d be interested in visiting the Windows Vista Readiness ISV Lab. Ramjii said that he’s made a special exception for the Mozilla team since this isn’t how the lab invitations normally work.

More on this news at Arstechnica

Billed as the smallest dice in the world, each one measures 0.3 x 0.3 x 0.3 mm (for perspective, see the photo above showing one of the die next to a 0.5-mm diameter mechanical pencil lead). The tiny dice are painstakingly crafted one by one from BsBm (brass) in a 9 hour long fabrication process that relies on the latest in micromachining technology. Each one weighs 0.00016 grams and the pips measure 0.05 mm in diameter. While the 100,275 yen (US$870) price tag includes a special case and the cost of shipping, it does not include the price of the microscope you will need to make sure nobody cheats at the craps table in your flea circus casino.

Source: Tanomi.com

Take a look at this video game, which I have customized to view Amman Map starting from “King Hussein Sports City” area. The game shows a plane where the player can go up, down, left, and right using the arrows. (Down Arrow to raise the height of the plane, Up Arrow to lower it down)
It will show a virtual tour over Amman.
Please be careful before pulling down so low, as the plane will crash.

Click this link to start the game. Press the START button to start. Please don’t change the city selection, as another city will load.

Note: This game needs a reasonably fast Internet connection. (Above 128 Kbps)

One of Google’s worst fears may have been realised. The latest edition of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary includes the word “google” which means to use the well-known search engine to look for information on the web. The entry means that in addition to being a proper noun, the word “google” - without capitalisation of the “g” - is now a common transitive verb.

To quote Google: “We also face risks associated with our trademarks. For example, there is a risk that the word ‘Google’ could become so commonly used that it becomes synonymous with the word ’search’. If this happens, we could lose protection for this trademark, which could result in other people using the word ‘Google’ to refer to their own products, thus diminishing our brand.”

Source: TheAge.Au

Personally, I think that if the word “google” indeed becomes a word of all dictionaries as a verb, I think it should be kept as a trademark for Google because they deserve keeping the trademark they created and became so widely used all over the world, I think it just proves how successful Google are.

We are all falling in love with Google’s Non-Stop Ideas and It became really a difficult task to keep monitoring whats new with them. I will write some of the latest development.

For Worldcup 2006, the event which caught our attention and became a daily addiction, Google has launched a gadget which will preview live scores in the Main Google search page. This is available on Google Desktop Beta on http://desktop.google.com/plugins/i/gd_soccergadget.html.

(To Download the Dynamic Excel World Cup 2006 Schedule, click here )

Many have spoken last week about Arabic Gmail, which will target Maktoob.com Email users for sure. Now and next is the Google Arabic News, which was launched yesterday 14-6-2006. The Site is automatically scanning 150 news sources & being updated many times per hour.

For Photos Community War, After Yahoo!’s Flickr being on the top of this category, Google is preparing Picasa Web Albums which is still in Beta stage and owners of GMAIL accounts can register for signing up to the beta now.
For the new in the Google Books, Google has added a new section called Google Shakespeare. Of Course this site is a perfect place for all Information about this writer especially for the people who study english literature.

The address to this service will be http://www.google.com/shakespeare

Press Release: http://ww.urchin.com/press/annc/shakespeare.html

In Google Video, Google has added a new section called Shakers & Movers. It contains the latest trends up and down for the latest videos added, categorized in each country of the world.

For Google International Zeitgeist during the latest available month, the charts shows the top 10 search terms for each country or community. These charts can give an interpretation or mirror of each country’s interests. For example, most searched term in Google UK was eBay and for Turkey was sohbet which means chat in turkish language and for Norway it was Ronaldinho. I am sure that June’s release of this page will be covering a lot of Worldcup topics & search terms.

In the end I would like to highlight a great new extension for Firefox Browser which is done by Google, Google Browser Sync. An extension that allows the user to sync all browser related items like bookmarks, history, Cookies and saved passwords – across your multiple computers. It also allows you to retain open tabs and windows across different machines. All what you need is a GMAIL account to run this extension & to allow the sync/restore anytime you need it.

For the lovers of Picasa Photos Software, Google recently has launched the Linux version of Picasa on this URL.

Update 19-June-2006: Google has launched Google Spreadsheets as part of Google Labs.
P.S: Thanks to Google Official Blog for some ideas which helped brainstorm this post.

Finally I received my Window Live Mail Beta invitation, I’d been wanting to try Windows Live Mail for a while now. I signed up for beta over a month ago. Yesterday, finally, I received an invite. Cool.

What are my first thoughts? It’s pretty good. Why only “Pretty Good?” It’s still just e-mail - nothing revolutionary. Windows Live Mail looks like a consumer version of Outlook Web Access, a web based e-mail application that’s part of Microsoft Exchange. There’s a lot in Windows Live Mail that should be standard with any web based e-mail application. However, I should also say that it’s a much more powerful platform than Hotmail. Faster and the interface is much better, even uploading the attachments is faster which is nice. Microsoft has previously announced that the Live Mail will be replacing Hotmail as soon as they finish all testing.

I know many of you already have a gmail account with 2.5+ GB of email space, but for those who are waiting for GMAIL to get public “which doesn’t seem to be happening anytime soon” there is another signing-up technique “other than regular email invitations”.
You will receive your invitation code via your mobile phone if you were living in one of the countries below:

Sorry! Those are all the countries that this mobile invitations service is currently available in..
Click here to go to the mobile invitations page