Reflections through Cyberspace

Whilst reading the news this morning, I came across this article about how a pub owner has started to accept goods and services in exchange for beers, hoping to attract customers who are struggling during the credit crunch. Who would have thought that such an idea would work? Apparently it did though!

The virtual tour of ancient Rome will allow one to retrace the footsteps of gladiators, philosophers, centurions and senators. All this can be done through Google Earth, and the 3D map is designed to give web users, students and historians a better understanding of how Rome looked centuries ago. There are more than 6,700 buildings [...]

Have you ever heard about chicken with black flesh and black bones? I had never heard about this breed of chicken, until today, when my colleague told me about them! I googled the term, and here’s the information I found on wikipedia:
The Silkie (sometimes spelled Silky) is a breed of chicken named for its unique [...]

Today I came across the list of World Heritage Sites.
The World Heritage List includes 878 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value. These include 679 cultural, 174 natural and 25 mixed properties in 145 States Parties.
I had a quick look at the [...]

From BBC News:
10 things we didn’t know last week

Never seen such a big Easter egg!!

Whilst reading the news this morning, I came across an article portraying some do’s and don’ts whilst on holiday. For instance one tip about Venezuela - If someone tells you they like your shirt in Venezuela, it’s customary to give it to them!! Imagine ending without a shirt, just because someone liked it!! And chewing [...]

Here’s an interesting story I came across whilst browsing news websites. This reminded me of some years ago, when I was still in secondary school, when my dream career was to become a pilot! I had even attended a course as an introduction for the Private Pilot License at the age of 16. Then due [...]

Have you ever considered investigating your family tree? Many people take genealogy as a hobby, and some take it really seriously. Genealogy is the study and tracing of families.
It involves identifying ancestral or descendant families by using historical records to establish biological, genetic, or familial kinship.
I remember a couple of years ago we went to [...]

Whilst reading skynews this morning, I came across this article about a ‘visual dictionary’ of the English language. The detailed map shows 53,463 nouns in English.  Each word is represented by a coloured square, created from pictures (nearly 80 million) generated by putting each word into Google Images as well as other search engines.
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