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Archive for June, 2008

28 Jun, 2008

Ebola Cola’s Drink Of The Summer

Posted by: Shaun In: General

Hearing the news that Bill Gates had finally left Microsoft, I quickly turned to alcohol. On the brightside, I invented a summery drink which you can make yourself at home. It only takes two minutes and tastes of summer meadows.
First of all, choose yourself an appropriate beer. I chose Finkbräu, which is very cheap and [...]

Good evening readers, even if there are only a small handful of you out there. I keep putting off this post, but it was unavoidable and had to be done at some point. In this post, I’m going to discuss things concerning the website, take suggestions and hopefully steer us onto the correct track should [...]

27 Jun, 2008

Too much WoW can kill you.

Posted by: Andrew In: Science

Well, indirectly maybe.
Scientists have recently discovered that lack of vitamin D can significantly increase your chances of an early grave.  Here are a couple of Vitamin D facts for those who don’t know:

Vitamin D is formed in the skin when it is exposed to ultraviolet rays present in Sunshine.
Vitamin D is essential in Humans to promote the [...]

27 Jun, 2008

Bidding Bill Bye Bye

Posted by: Sk In: General| Technology

Bill Gates quits full-time job today. A short history of his achievements will hurt no-one - unless you have Vista, maybe.

25 Jun, 2008

World Register Of Marine Species Launches

Posted by: Shaun In: Science

Today, the Census of Marine Life launched a new website documenting the details of the millions of marine species known to man but they aim to index every single one of the marine species by 2010.
The indexers claim that many registers are incomplete or only focus on certain aspects of marine life and hope to [...]

25 Jun, 2008

Microsoft to support Xp through 2014

Posted by: Sk In: General| Technology

Microsoft’s second-latest OS will survive for some years more, covering the hole created by Vista.

Firefox 3 has been launched in a grand event a few days ago… but is it that great? It seems like there are problems

20 Jun, 2008

Mario Meets Markup Mushrooms

Posted by: Sk In: Design| Gaming| General

What happens when JavaScript becomes too big and starts to spit fire? Well, if you manage not to fall in the lava, then you’re on to the next stage!

19 Jun, 2008

Eat Up Your Lego Blocks, Children!

Posted by: Shaun In: General

Remember when we pointed out a few slightly bizarre products that spawned in Japan? Well, I don’t think it’s fair that we just marginalise the Japanese as being the culprits for strange stuff.
So, today we bring you something that is currently being distributed in America. Kellogg’s™ Lego® Fruit Flavored Snacks!
That’s right, Lego blogs you can [...]

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19 Jun, 2008

Reddit Goes Open Source

Posted by: Shaun In: General| Technology

At Ebola Cola, we’re fans of open source. If we were not then our server would be running Windows, think of the difficulties we’d experience in that system!
So here’s some great news for developers, Reddit is becoming open source!
For those not in the know, Reddit is a Digg-like website where users can choose their content [...]


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