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Asus Transformer Dominating the Android Tablet Market!

from http://enbeeone3.com/

It’s no secret we’re big fans of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer. First off, it’s $399. Second off, it can have up to 16 hours of battery life with its awesome Keyboard dock option. Thirdly, it’s display blows the pants off the Motorola Xoom. Forth, it can be turned into an awesome mobile gaming powerhouse, and connects to PS3 and Xbox controllers. And so on, and so forth.

Anyway, according to Taiwanese English news site Digitimes, the Asus Eee Pad Transformer is a huge hit, and has, so far, managed to ship over 400,000 units since its launch. This makes it the best selling Android tablet in the world currently. Plus, Asus was caught off guard with the sort of demand that presented itself, and retailers and online stores have been reporting stock outages and sell-outs for months now. Potentially, Asus could have sold as many as one million – had they produced enough in time.

Mama Asus didn’t raise no fool, folks. Asus is a very unique company, and has played the razor thin margin game before. They pretty much invented netbooks, and were hugely successful with that, even when every competitor on the planet got involved. It’s their nimbleness, their rapid product development cycle, and their hunger that keep them going. They’ve been doing so well in fact that they’re rumored to be launching one of the world’s first quad core Tegra 3 devices, and are innovating in tons of other cool areas like with their Padfoneconcept.

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Great Street Photographer discovered

To  some of you this maybe old news, but I just come across this video of a previously undiscovered photographer from the mid 20th century: Vivian Maier was a nanny and in her off time walked around Chicago taking pictures of people and things....a street photographer. A young man purchased some items Read more

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Radiation Dose Chart

Thanks to Randall Munroe at xkcd for this chart:

Sources: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part020/ http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/tritium-radiation-fs.html http://www.nema.ne.gov/technological/dose-limits.html http://www.deq.idaho.gov/inl_oversight/radiation/dose_calculator.cfm http://www.deq.idaho.gov/inl_oversight/radiation/radiation_guide.cfm http://mitnse.com/ http://www.mext.go.jp/component/a_menu/other/detail/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2011/03/18/1303727_1716.pdf http://blog.vornaskotti.com/2010/07/15/into-the-zone-chernobyl-pripyat/ http://dels-old.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/rerf_final.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert

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First Look: Adrianne Palicki as Wonder Woman

Here's the first image of Adrianne Palicki in costume as the new Wonder Woman. David E. Kelley‘s new TV series is evidently going for the ‘Sexy Wonder Woman' Halloween look. See the full image after the break.Getting the costume right is one of the difficult factors in putting Wonder Woman... via First Look: Adrianne Palicki as Wonder Woman.

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Super Full Moon - NASA Science

March 16, 2011: Mark your calendar. On March 19th, a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It's a super "perigee moon"--the biggest in almost 20 years. "The last full Moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993," says Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory in Washington DC. "I'd say it's worth a look." Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon's orbit. It is an ellipse with one side (perigee) about 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other (apogee): diagram. Nearby perigee moons are about 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser moons that occur on the apogee side of the Moon's orbit. "The full Moon of March 19th occurs less than one hour away from perigee--a near-perfect coincidence¹ that happens only 18 years or so," adds Chester. Super Full Moon - NASA Science.

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4.5 Trillion Dollars

4,500,000,000,000 is a HUGE number! To put it in perspective let's look at in a few different ways: 4,500,000,000,000 is the number of cigarette butts littered each year 4,500,000,000,000 is the amount of natural gas discover recently in Argentina 4,500,000,000,000 is the amount of euros the EU has approved for aid to the banks 4,500,000,000,000 is less than half of the total outstanding debt held by the public 4,500,000,000,000 is the total wealth of the Forbes list of billionaires 4.5 trillion dollars belong to 1,210 people! The Forbes list broke records this year for the number of billionaires and the total worth. Moscow has more billionaires than any other city, the BMOC gained 20.5 billion dollars this past year, Facebook has spawned 6 billionaires and a Russian internet investor is the youngest billionaire (by 8 days over Zuckerberg) at 26 years old! Just think what you or I could do with just a small fraction of the wealth these 1,210 people have! If they were to give away one million dollars to people until it was all gone, there would be 4.5 million new millionaires in the world! Would those 4.5 million people be able to make the same changes in the world as the 1.210 could? I doubt it.....human nature would cause us to spend that money on things for us and/or our families not on the things that would benefit millions more people. Take Bill Gates fro an example.....Bill would be the number one on the list had he not given away $30 billion dollars to his non-profit foundation. Others on this list have given untold amounts of money to help people across the world. Still, just think how much new computer stuff you or I could get with just a small fraction of that money!!

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