You might think that you’re the ace at sudoku, now that you can complete all the daily sudoku puzzles in the news. But just wait until you compete with others online on this logic game that swept the globe away.
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If you’ve never solved a sudoku puzzle before in your life, check out this website to learn how it’s done. Even if you have math-phobia, do not worry since sudoku has absolutely no maths involved at all, even though you might panic with all the numbers.
I was never too fond of my chemistry classes during high school. One of the reasons was because of my disappointment when I realized that chemistry wasn’t all about making bubbly fluorescent concoctions or blowing up chemicals as shown on the TV. All the hands on experiments that we had seemed too ’safe’ to be interesting. This great chemistry class in UK though, proved me wrong and demonstrated how classroom chemistry can also be interesting and dangerous - as long as enough safety precautions were taken to ensure the experiment was under control.
The chemistry teacher tried to illustrate the difference between heating up liquid and powdered milk. Applying a flame to liquid milk didn’t do anything much to it except turn it into a warm beverage, however with just a small spark on the powdered milk, it instantly combusted into fumes. The dynamic ignition of the milk experiment surely would have left a strong blast in the students mind on the impacts of a large surface area for chemical reactions.
Read the full news article here and view a slide show of some shots taken from the chemistry class here.
Halloween is still a few days away, but there has already been some stirring of underworld activity here in Toronto. Last Sunday was the annual Toronto Zombie Walk , in which hundreds to thousands of people …. er zombies got their early chance to roam downtown Toronto showing off their coolest costumes and makeup. Entering their fourth year, the zombie march has become a huge success, just look at those ghoulish grins on all of them and you will know what I mean.
The dead roam amongst us. The zombie cop looks as if he just moved here from Raccoon City.
A mob of undead punks.
Zombies on rampage. It must have been quite a scene from the inside.
They’ve even invaded Kensington Market!
Till death do we part…
Seems like Waldo’s here to join the party as well.
Just slightly more than a week after Microsofts’ official launch of the Internet Explorer 7 as previously posted at retrochronix.com, the Mozilla Firefox team also decided to debut their Firefox 2.0 to match up with the competition’s browser hype. While most of the new features showcased by Internet Explorer 7, Firefox already had them since its previous releases, the Firefox’s 2.0 upgrade does not come as just a repackaged version of its old browser.
The newest release of Firefox fixed up a few usability issues from its old browser allowing an easier way to close tabs, a way to resume previous browsing sessions, support for Javascript 1.7 for Ajax fanatics out there as well as better add-ons and extensions management. It seems as if IE7 has caught up to the standards of web browsing in the web 2.0 era, but still, I can’t get past their weird usability decision of placing the address bar at the very top.
I’ve been braggin for quite a while to go somewhere north to have a glimpse of an Aurora, since it’s truly an amazing wonder of nature. This video here shows a whole time lapse of an evening sky with an Aurora, and it’s taken in taken right here in Canada (British Columbia though). It would be awesome if we could see something like that here in Toronto.
