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Gadgets, Technology, Public speaking and IT from an undergraduate's perspective.

Found the Funniest T-Shirts on Earth

Recently I’ve been seeing ads for this company called BustedTees, so I popped over to check them out. Well, I thought I’d seen every kind of funny t-shirts around, but I was proven so wrong after I took a look at BustedTees’ catalogue. They have some seriously funny and witty tshirts. Check these out:




I particularly like the one that says “you’re handsome” in reverse! I couldn’t figure it out at first, then I realised it. The person wearing this tee would have to look in a mirror to see the message the right way! Heh. That got me for a second. A nicely designed site, a smooth and very intuitive, customer-friendly checkout process, and great prices make BustedTees one of my favourite online stores.

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Climate Change Worries? Want to Go Green?

Concerns over the environment, and the push to go green has grown exponentially over the years until everyone’s talking about it these days.

In my opinion, I think one of the ways to reduce greenhouse gases is to have people give up their passion for fast cars for the situation to change. It’s just not possible to have a significant reduction in carbon emissions if everyone drives a ton of steel around everyday.

Even with advances in technology, nothing beats personal contact, so personal mobility is still a important and critical in a modernised society. Sometimes taking public transport just can’t cut it — but driving alone in a car, much less a big car, also doesn’t justify it’s use. Why not travel around in a smaller car? This requires a wee bit of change though, and seeing how hard it is to change mindsets, this change may probably only take place over a couple of generations.

That said about smaller cars, I thought the Mini was a small car until I found out about the 1964 Peel P50. I love this clip where Jeremy Clarkson takes a look at the Peel — a great idea for a great car. And mind you, this was way back in the 1964! I laughed at 7:17 haha :D

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Think Microsoft Paint Sucks? Wait Till You See This

I used to think that Microsoft Paint was just a bare-bones basic image editing software that couldn’t really serve much use — clunky and under-featured. Until I saw this video. Then I thought maybe the problem lay with me :D

Just look at how this guy does it — it’s AMAZING. He/she completely reproduces the Mona Lisa, and in under 3 hours!


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Cool and Geeky Mountain Dew Christmas Tree

Wow….check out this Christmas tree made out of Mountain Dew cans. Even the “star” is a Mountain Dew plastic bottle!

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Windows XP PHP Bug / Easter Egg?

I just stumbled upon this accidentally! I realised that contact us pages are more exposed to spam bots and whatnot when you actually name the contact us page as contact.php or something similar. So I tried naming the file con.php. Works great on the server, but something interesting happened on my Windows desktop.

File cannot be created because it exists -- it exists?

Apparently con.php cannot be created, copied or moved on to a Windows desktop for some reason. I’ve tried this on two different computers, both running Windows XP, and I got the same result.

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