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WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.
It emerged that Facebook and Apple are paying for female employees to freeze their eggs so they can delay having children and keep slaving away for the tech giants.
An Post has issued these charming retro gaming stamps featuring some of the most iconic stars and games from the 70s, 80s and 90s. And just in time for the Christmas card period…
An artist has in the US has built a typewriter that can only type in Comic Sans. It must be destroyed…
This week Apple unveiled its thinnest tablet yet, with new burst mode, timelapse and slow motion video features. Snazzy.
We can’t stop laughing at these animations, which teach themselves how to walk. The results, however, are actually quite impressive.
The Verge reported this week that Facebook is introducing a new Safety Check feature which will allow friends and family to check you’re safe during a natural disaster. A user just has to hit the ‘I’m safe’ button and a news feed story will be generated automatically.
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Napoleon was actually average height for a man of his height. It was British propaganda that falsly alleged he was short.
He was probably an average age for a man of his age too!
Heard that the other day when abusing a mate.. Really took the fun out of it.. Ha
Lord Nelson was a short arse though.
*man of his time. Oops.
How different would the world be if Napoleon had won and defeated the Rothschild dynasty.
Rothschild still one of the biggest players in the world.
Derek, blaming the worlds problems on one family?
Over more than two centuries, the Rothschild family has frequently been the subject of conspiracy theories. These theories take differing forms, such as claiming that the family controls the world’s wealth and financial institutions, or encouraged or discouraged wars between governments. Discussing this and similar views, the historian Niall Ferguson wrote, “As we have seen, however, wars tended to hit the price of existing bonds by increasing the risk that a debtor state would fail to meet its interest payments in the event of defeat and losses of territory. By the middle of the 19th century, the Rothschilds had evolved from traders into fund managers, carefully tending to their own vast portfolio of government bonds. Now having made their money, they stood to lose more than they gained from conflict. The Rothschilds had decided the outcome of the Napoleonic Wars by putting their financial weight behind Britain. Now they would sit on the sidelines.”
Napoleon Dynamite good film
That hashtag is fantastic #smallmanswill
Thank you Paddy – I was proud of that one :)
A butcher, defeated by an Irishman.
He unwillingly left his willy to a Corsican priest and it now belongs to a lady in New Jersey who wants over $100,000 for it.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1988719_1988728_1988695,00.html
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