According to Forbes.com Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world (after being on top for 13 years). That honor now belongs to his friend Warren Buffett who can attribute his recent surge of Berkshire Hathaway stock to an increase of $10,000,000,000 in the last year! Warren BUffett now has an estimated fortune of $62 billion.
Meanwhie Bill Gates fortune only increased $2 Billion from one year ago so he is now worth $58 billion and is ranked third richest in the world. Bill Gates would have been as rich–or richer–than Buffett had Microsoft not made an unsolicited bid for Yahoo! in Febuary. Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helú has also surpassed Bill Gates fortune. Carlos is now ranked as the world’s second richest person with a net worth of $60 billion.
Here is a list of the top 25 richest people in the world. Each person is listed by Rank followed by their name, citizenship, age, net worth in billions (thats 9 zeros!) and country of residence:
1 Warren Buffett United States 77 62.0 United States
2 Carlos Slim Helu & family Mexico 68 60.0 Mexico Read the rest of this entry »
I have been shopping for a new hosting provider and after comparing all the different companies out there I decided to go with Host Gator. They have tons of hosting services, awesome hosting prices and most importantly they are a dependable hosting company. I recently signed up with a no-name hosting provider because of the awesome hosting prices and impressive list of benefits but within the past couple weeks my site has gone down at least 4 times a week and now I am not getting any response from tech support. If I can offer one word of advice it would be to stick with a larger (reputable) hosting company.
If you are shopping for a hosting provider check out Host Gator:
I have always loved Google for their great products like, Picasa, Google docs and Gmail. However, this time they have really outdone themselves. Just when I thought they couldn?t get any better they go off and invent a time machine! Apparently you can now send emails into the past. Simply create your email, enter in your desired delivery date and BAM it disappears into the space/time continuum! Great Scott!
It?s called “Gmail Custom Time” but I prefer to call it “The Google Machine.” Don?t ask me how they do it, and don’t ask Google either. All you need to know is that it “utilizes an e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality (see Grandfather Paradox).”
At this point you probably this is too good to be true. Besides, everyone knows that you would need to have a 1980?s Delorean that is capable of hitting speeds of 88MPH in order to go back in time (not to mention the flux capacitor and 1.21 Gigawatt).
Well, this aint no joke Marty! Google is now allowing Gmail users to send a maximum of 10 emails per year into the past. Did you miss an important deadline (perhaps your anniversary)? Were you supposed to email your report by 6pm but ended up being too hung over to get out of bed before noon? Well, now you can fix all that! No need to be on time or honest any more! Simply enter the date you want your email to show up in the recipient?s inbox, select whether you want it to show up as ?read? or ?unread? and Google will take care of the rest!
Thinner and lighter than a typical paperback the new Amazon Kindle is a groundbreaking new reading device that allows you to store and read all your books and newspapers on one device. The Kidle only weighs 10.3 ounces and uses a revolutionary electronic-paper display which provides a sharp, high-res screen that has the look of real paper.
The kidle doesnt sync to your computer and it has no cables. Instead, it wirelessly connects to Amazon (using EVDO technology like cell phones) to allow you to shop the Kindle Store and dowload books, newspapers, magazines… There are almost 100,000 books available (for a price of $9.99) as well as many top U.S. newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post; top magazines including TIME, Atlantic Monthly, and Forbes?all auto-delivered wirelessly (in less than a minute, no matter where you are)! In addition you can surf many of the most popular blogs including:
BoingBoing, Slashdot, TechCrunch, ESPN’s Bill Simmons, The Onion, Michelle Malkin, and The Huffington Post…
The Kindle can hold over 200 books, has a battery life of about 2 to 8 days (depending on wireless usage) and best of all, you do not have to pay any monthly service fees to connect online.
At $399 the Amazon Kindle is still a bit too expensive for most people (as most new technologys are) but hopefully this will help lead to an economy that doesn’t rely as heavily on paper!
If you’re not familiar with google adword its a great way to attract potential customers and drive traffic to your site. Adwords allows you to create your own advertising campaign and target people that are using google to search for products or information. Adwords can be used on any budget because it will allow you to set up a campaign and cap it at X dollars per day). It will even help you decide which keywords to use, it will allow you to choose exactly were your ads display and it will estimate how many clicks and page views you will get for specific key words or phrases! The best way to test it out is to sign up for a goolge adwords account and give it a try. You don’t have to spend more than a few dollars and you will start to see trackable results right away! Click the link below to give it a shot:
For those of you that are unfamiliar with the Arial Atom, it is basically a super sized street legal go cart that?s faster than most $500,000+ exotic sports cars. This amazing machine weighs only 1,400 pounds and produced between 200 and 300 horsepower (depending on which model you get). This combination makes for a power to weight ratio that is more impressive than almost every other supercar. For more information on the Arial Atom you might want to check out my previous post about the original Arial Atom racecar.
CREWKERNE, England ? It’s hard to believe that the Ariel Atom could be improved upon since it is such a pure, bare bones, racecar. Difficult as it might be the third generation Arial Atom 3, just released in England has a number of small changes, all geared towards making this minimalist street legal go cart from hell even faster.
The upgraded Ariel Atom 3 chassis now offers Bilstein 10-way adjustable shocks and new motor mounts both of which cut down on vibration and allow for a much smoother ride (without jeopardizing road feel). New diagonal side rails result in 3.9 inches more elbow room and 2.4 inches of hip room inside the cockpit. Ariel also lowered the seating position (helping to improve comfort and lower the center of gravity). Engine choices include normally aspirated and supercharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder units, delivering up to 300 horsepower.
The Ariel Atom managed to win the title of the fastest car in the world on the 0-100 mph-0 sprint. Autocar took 29 of the fastest cars in the world, and the Arial Atom set a record time of 11.35 seconds. It beat all of its competitors, including: a Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera, Brooke Double R, Porsche 911 GT3, Roush Ford GT 600RE and the Mercedes CL63 AMG just to name a few…! Not to shabby for a car that costs less than $100,000.
In order to make this article “premium posts” worthy I decided I would share a way to buy “Dom Perignon” at a discount warehouse club store without being a “card carrying club member”. If I remember correctly, a bottle of 1998 Dom Perignon at Costco is about $100 while the same bottle of Dom Perignon will cost you upwards of $130 at most other stores.
Please note that in addition to Dom Perignon, this will work for all types of alcohol! So, if you rest assured that in most areas, this trick also applies to all top shelf liquor, booze, beer and wine as well!
So, if your one of those people that loves “sticking it to the man” or if you’re the type of person that enjoys causing “a scene” in public, and you like being “that guy” that holds up the line while the clerk calls for a manager (over the loud speaker), than this experiment is for you! Thanks to a little-known state law that dates back to the 1930s, (when Prohibition was repealed); nonmembers can purchase alcohol without paying a membership fee. These laws state that applicants for a license to sell booze must “serve the public need and protect the common good.” In other words, alcohol is an invaluable and essential item that must be readily available for purchase by the general public with no membership restrictions! HaHa
Taking advantage of this deal depends on where you live, and at which discount club you shop. This should work at BJ’s Wholesale Club, Costco and Sam’s Club. For example, if you live near a Costco than membership is not required for purchases of alcohol in the following states: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Read the rest of this entry »
Just when you think you understand how physics and chemisty works someone goes and does something like this:
In an recent (accidental) discovery, an inventor was able to actually set saltwater on fire by exposing it to electromagnetic rays! Yup… they set water on fire! In fact, it is now believed that some day in the not so distant future the burning of water might become an alternative source of energy.
It all happened less than a few months ago when John Kanzius, a Washington County native, was attempting to desalinate ocean water with a generator he developed to treat cancer. During his experiment he noticed an unexpected flash in the test tube. Within a few short days John had reproduced this unexpected result and had the saltwater (which was exposed to radio frequencies) in a test tube burning like a candle. This recent, ground breaking discovery has sparked scientific interest and there is hope that someday the world’s most abundant substance (saltwater) might be able to function as a clean fuel (among other things).
The basic idea behind this new discovery is that the precise radio frequency weakens the bonds holding that hold together the constituents of salt water (sodium chloride, hydrogen and oxygen) and releases the hydrogen witch is then flamable and once ignited can burn continuously while exposed to the RF energy field. The flame’s temperature burns at an amazing 3,000+ degrees Fahrenheit and generates a tremendious amount of energy. Still it is not known if the energy output from the burning hydrogen is Read the rest of this entry »
If your a fan of “The Office” than join Michael Scott in: Michael Scott’s Dunder Mifflin Scranton, Meredeth Palmer Memorial, Celebrity Rabies awareness fun Run, Pro-Am race for the cure!
On the other hand, if you’re not willing to run 5,000 miles, but you do want to show your support for Rabies awareness then you can buy a “Support the Rabid” bracelet (in order to raise awareness to the fact that there is a cure for rabies)!
Below is a short clip from the Fun Run Episode of “The Office”:
You can also click on the link below to find some other amazing Office gifts (including a “Shrute Farm Beats” and “Dunder Mifflin Support the Rabid” tee shirt)!
P.S. I just ordered a couple bracelets and looked everywhere for them. They cost about $5 at the NBC store which was cheaper than anywhere else. Let me know if you find them for less, but they were selling on eBay for almost $15… Ouch!
Barabus Sportscars (a specialty engine and vehicle manufacturer) recently unvailed what is being hailed as the worlds fastest steet legal car. The Barabus TKR produces 1005 horsepower and the automaker says is capable of doing zero to 60 mph in 1.67 seconds! Even crazier is that the car has a reported top speed of 270 mph (almost 20mph faster than the Bugatti Veyron). The powerplant in the Barabus TKR is a 6.0 liter V8 twin-turbocharged engine with dual intercoolers. The car has a full carbon fiber body and chassis. It appears as though the automaker will sell the car for about $500,000 and there will be between 300 and 400 produced within the 3 year production run.
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