Merry Christmas from Google

Here is Google’s logo from today.

The meaning of the 12 days of Christmas

These are the origins of the gifts of the 12 days of Christmas song from BBC-

• A Partridge in a Pear Tree – Jesus Christ
• Two Turtle Doves - The Old and New Testaments
• Three French Hens – The three virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity
• Four Calling/Collie Birds – Four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
• Five Golden Rings – First five books of the Old Testament
• Six Geese-a-Laying – Six days of creation before God’s rest on the seventh day
• Seven Swans-a-Swimming – Seven gifts of the Holy Spirit
• Eight Maids-a-Milking - Eight Beatitudes
• Nine Ladies Dancing – Nine fruits of the Holy Spirit
• Ten Lords-a-Leaping - Ten Commandments
• Eleven Pipers Piping – Eleven faithful disciples
• Twelve Drummers Drumming -Twelve points of belief in the Apostles’ Creed

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The 12 days of Christmas will cost your true love more this year

w00t the word of the year in the US.

Our language is constantly evolving- here is proof-

Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster Inc. said “w00t” — typically spelled with two zeros — reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging.

It’s like saying “yay,” the dictionary said.

“It could be after a triumph or for no reason at all,” Merriam-Webster said.

I enjoy the website www.woot.com that sells exactly one item per day at normally good prices. (subject to stock availablity)

“w00t belongs to gamers the world over. It seems to have been derived from the obsolete ‘whoot’ which essentially is another way to say ‘hoot’ which itself is a shout or derisive laugh,” Think Geek said on its Web site.

Source: Reuters

Google Transit- a new service of Google Maps

I just came across a nice new feature on Google Maps. It is possible in some cities to plan a route on public transporation. Unfortunately, it is not possible here in Charleston, but we are behind the power curve. The image below shows an example from my former highschool to my grandma’s house-

You can access this map online at http://tinyurl.com/26dq3r

The 12 days of Christmas will cost your true love more this year

PNC Advisors is the firm who calculates the price of the 12 days of Christmas every year. That includes everything from the partridge in a pear tree to the French hens to the 12 drummers drumming. Everything costs more due to rising gas prices and avian flu. This year it will cost your love $18,348.87 for the gifts, or $72,608.02 with repeating gifts (364 items). (think of the words of the song and you are repeating some of the same gifts daily. This gives you the inflated price.)

Here are the new 2007 prices for the 12 days of Christmas-

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Most expensive car accident

I just came across this on another blog, and I thought it was pretty interesting. This car- a French made Bugatti Veyron, was involved in a horrific accident which destroyed the car. The insurance loss tops £ 800,000 ($ 1.6 million).

Businessman Kumar Soni is facing the prospect of writing off his £830,000 Bugatti supercar after a horrific accident saw it spin out of control, crash into a vehicle driven by a pregnant woman and smash into a hedgerow.

The French made model crashed on Sunday afternoon near the £3 million Surrey home of the car’s 41-year-old owner.
Yesterday insurance assessors were left examining what remained of the supercar – capable of reaching a top speed of 253 mph – and deciding whether the vehicle could be repaired or is destined for the breakers’ yard.
It is not known who was behind the wheel at the time of the crash.

But neighbours of the wealthy Soni family claiming the accident had caused a furious row between Kumar Soni and his younger brother 39-year-old Ajay, prompting speculation the owner of the rare car was not the driver.
It is thought the vehicle was only delivered to the family home last week.
Photographs taken immediately after Sunday’s accident show Ajay Soni inspecting damage to the car along with a family friend.
The car left the road on a 40mph stretch of the B375 road near Chertsey, Surrey shortly after 3pm on Sunday afternoon.
Locals told yesterday how the low slung car had been driving repeatedly through Shepperton before heading for the B road as a heavy rainstorm began.
The sleek Bugatti Veyron – one of only a dozen such models in the UK – had been hand-built at the company’s French base in Alsace and is as powerful as a Formula One car.
The eight litre 1,000 horsepower engine beneath the bonnet is capable of taking the vehicle from 0-60 in just 2.5 seconds.

Source- Auto Blog Show

World’s Largest Swimming Pool

I saw this blog post a little while ago, and I finally got around to translate it. The largest swimming pool in the world is in Algarrobo, Chile.

The largest outdoor swimming pool in the world is at the San Alfonso Del Mar resort in Chile. It is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest pool with .5 mil in length and nearly 20 acres. The swimming pool has 60 million gallons or the equivalent of 6,000 normal backyard pools.

According to a site called oh gizmo, the largest pool cost close to 1.5 billion dollars to build and its maintenance costs are $4 million per year.

Besides swimming, it is possible to kayak, sail, dive and use the ferry service that transports guests from one end to the other of the resort.

The UN is a very bad organization

…made up of foreign countries that don’t want to be free.

The UN doesn’t like the Constitution and is trying to destroy American freedom. Our clever friends from Brasco don’t believe the lies of the UN. If you believe in the things the UN says, you have never experienced the fun of a gun.

This statement was taken from a coloring book by an organization here in the United States called Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (America’s most aggressive defender of firearms ownership).

See the coloring book for your self here- Making Firearms Safety Fun and other important lessons in life. (I wonder if this is a joke)

Translated from Portuguese- Bender Blog

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