Yay..

And so, GCSE exams begin..

Monday -> Maths
Tuesday -> English Lit.
Wednesday -> Biology.

Fun huh?

Morning Coffee

Hello, tech support how may I help you.

Oh well…. Thanks to: Gene

Well.. there we go then.

One fan asked whether Albus Dumbledore, the head of the famed Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, had ever loved anyone. Rowling smiled. “Dumbledore is gay, actually,” replied Rowling as the audience erupted in surprise. She added that, in her mind, Dumbledore had an unrequited love affair with Gellert Grindelwald, Voldemort’s predecessor who appears in the seventh book. After several minutes of prolonged shouting and clapping from astonished fans, Rowling added. “I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy.”

Full article: http://www.newsweek.com/id/50787

Enjoy I guess…
Joe

Someone posted this on NamePros and I just had to share it! Its nearly a year old though..

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A Croatian woman was left with a severely burned anus after a lightning strike which entered through her mouth left her body through her

bottom.

The lightning reportedly struck Natasha Timarovic’s building as she was cleaning her teeth – with her mouth to the tap, sending the current through her body.

And as she was wearing rubber-soled shoes, the lightning bolt was unable to earth through her feet – so it took the next easiest route, and came out of her rectum.

What Natasha Timarovic’s bottom may have looked like

It then earthed itself via her moist shower curtain.

‘It was incredibly painful, I felt it pass through my torso and then I don’t remember much at all,’ Timarovic said.

A medic told local news station 24 Sata: ‘Instead of earthing through her feet, it appears the electricity shot out of her backside… if she had not been wearing the shoes she would probably have been killed.’

The medic described the incident as ‘bizarre, but not impossible.’

— (source: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=20883) —
I just found this so funny… yet weird at the same time!

Joe

Here’s something interesting:

Your next laptop could have a continuous power battery that lasts for 30 years without a single recharge thanks to work being funded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. The breakthrough betavoltaic power cells are constructed from semiconductors and use radioisotopes as the energy source. As the radioactive material decays it emits beta particles that transform into electric power capable of fueling an electrical device like a laptop for years.

Although betavoltaic batteries sound Nuclear they’re not, they’re neither use fission/fusion or chemical processes to produce energy and so (do not produce any radioactive or hazardous waste). Betavoltaics generate power when an electron strikes a particular interface between two layers of material. The Process uses beta electron emissions that occur when a neutron decays into a proton which causes a forward bias in the semiconductor. This makes the betavoltaic cell a forward bias diode of sorts, similar in some respects to a photovoltaic (solar) cell. Electrons scatter out of their normal orbits in the semiconductor and into the circuit creating a usable electric current.

The profile of the batteries can be quite small and thin, a porous silicon material is used to collect the hydrogen isotope tritium which is generated in the process. The reaction is non-thermal which means laptops and other small devices like mobile phones will run much cooler than with traditional lithium-ion power batteries. The reason the battery lasts so long is that neutron beta-decay into protons is the world’s most concentrated source of electricity, truly demonstrating Einstein’s theory E=MC2.

The best part about these cells are when they eventually run out of power they are totally inert and non-toxic, so environmentalists need not fear these high tech scientific wonder batteries. If all goes well plans are for these cells to reach store shelves in about 2 to 3 years.

(source: http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-betavoltaic-10.1.html)