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A unique list of actual homicides that happened during the 90s. Some of these are really quite inventive.

20. Alex Mijtus, 36 years old, was killed by his wife, armed with a 20 inch long vibrator. Mrs Mijtus had had enough of her husband’s strange sex practices and one night during a prolonged period of “fun” she snapped, pushing all 20 inches of the vibrator into Alex’s anus until it ruptured several internal organs and caused severe bleeding.

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A set of 50 advertisements that stand out from the rest. Each of these is unique and creative. Collected over a 5 month period.

50, 49 Braun Shavers

48, 47 The Washington Zoo

46, 45 Honda Auto Parts

44 Animal Rights

43, 42 Eukanuba Pet Food

41, 40, 39 Chambre 69 Dildos

38 Durex Lubricant

37, 36 Club Med Vacations

35, 34 Music Inside

33, 32 Ariel Bleach

31, 30, 29 An Art Studio

28, 27 Blood Donations (in India, I believe)

26 Anti Smoking

25, 24 Animal Rights

23, 22, 21 HUMO Magazine

20 Post-It Notes

19 Generic Condoms

18 Sony PSP

17 Cooking Utensils

16 Milk

15 BMW Mini

14 Relpipe Pipes

13 Car Wax

12, 11 Telefonica Long Distance Calling

10 Perrier

9 Tampax Tampons

8 City Sport (anti-steroids

7 Some Type of Orange Juice

6 Mercedez

5 Wonderbra

4, 3, 2, 1 A set of ads for Puma Store:

Source: MoronLand

13) When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to have read, “It won’t leak in your pocket and embarrass you.” The company thought that the word “embarazar” (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so the ad read: “It won’t leak in your pocket and make you pregnant.”

12) Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American campaign: “Nothing Sucks like an Electrolux.”

11) Clairol introduced the “Mist Stick,” a curling iron, into Germany only to find out that “mist” is slang for manure. Not too many people had use for the “Manure Stick.”

10) Coors put its slogan, “Turn It Loose,” into Spanish, where it was read as “Suffer From Diarrhea.”

9) Pepsi’s “Come Alive With the Pepsi Generation” translated into “Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back From the Grave” in Chinese.

When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as in the US, with the smiling baby on the label. Later they learned that in Africa, companies routinely put pictures on the labels of what’s inside, since many people can’t read.

7) Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called Cue, the name of a notorious porno magazine.

6) Frank Perdue’s chicken slogan, “It takes a strong man to make a tender chicken,” was translated into Spanish as “it takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate.”

5) When American Airlines wanted to advertise its new leather first class seats in the Mexican market, it translated its “Fly In Leather” campaign literally, which meant “Fly Naked” (vuela en cuero) in Spanish.

4) An American T-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the Spanish market which promoted the Pope’s visit. Instead of “I saw the Pope” (el Papa), the shirts read “I Saw the Potato” (la papa).

3) The Dairy Association’s huge success with the campaign “Got Milk?” prompted them to expand advertising to Mexico. It was soon brought to their attention the Spanish translation read “Are You Lactating?”

2) General Motors had a very famous fiasco in trying to market the Nova car in Central and South America. “No va” in Spanish means, “It Doesn’t Go”.

1) The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as “Kekoukela”, meaning “Bite the Wax Tadpole” or “Female Horse Stuffed with Wax”, depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent “kokoukole”, translating into “Happiness in the Mouth.”

source: MoronLand

Microsoft is doing what Linux and Mac OS have been doing for years - a small and efficient kernel. The next Windows, code named Windows 7 spots a kernel called MinWin with a disc space of 25mb. This could spells the end of a bloated windows system. A much more reliable windows in the future?

“A lot of people think of Windows as this really large, bloated operating system, and that may be a fair characterization, I have to admit.”

“[So] we created what we call MinWin. It’s still bigger than I’d like it to be, but we’ve taken a shot at really stripping out all of the layers above and making sure that we had a clean architectural layer there.”

While you should draw no conclusions about how Windows 7 might actually run or what it will look like when it arrives in 2010 or so.

Here you go, Windows Server 2008 delay for a couple of month and won’t be made available until early next year. This could be a sign for all corporate user to upgrade their machine from Windows Xp to Vista as soon as the service pack 1 hit is release. For those that are still clueless, Microsoft Windows XP user would not be receiving any technical support or security updates in the year 2010, and Windows 7 will undoubtedly be delay for some apparent reason.

Microsoft published almost no details earlier this week with its announcement that Windows Server 2008’s release to manufacturing (RTM) date had slipped from late this year into early next. Only vague explanations of needing to meet high quality standards were given, leaving most in the dark. Does the delay mean that Windows 2008 development has hit some kind of snag, and could more delays be coming?

Source entagmag

Windows 7 (previously codenamed Blackcomb, then Vienna) is scheduled to be the next major client version of Microsoft Windows, expected to be the successor of Windows Vista. Sources indicate that Windows 7 should be finished in the second half of 2009. The client versions of Windows 7 will ship in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, even though the server counterpart (which will succeed Windows Server 2008) will be exclusively 64-bit.

Microsoft is maintaining a policy of silence concerning discussion of plans and aspirations for Windows 7 as they focus on the release and marketing of Windows Vista, though some early details of various core operating system features have emerged. As a result, very little is known about the feature set, though public presentations from company officials have disseminated information about some features.

The video you are about to watch might be fake. I just wanted to share it. Enjoy!

Some pictures which might also be fake:

When choosing a new operating system, the first thing many people ask is, "What will it help me do?" In answer, much of this site shows you the great experiences Windows Vista helps you have. The second thing many people say is, "Prove that it’s better." In particular, many of you have asked about performance and safety improvements. The following information provides specific proof that Windows Vista is faster and safer.

• The majority of Windows Vista-based PCs boot in less than a minute, which can be an improvement over Windows XP boot times. And the new Windows Vista sleep and resume features can bring your PC to life in a snap—in fact, the vast majority of all Windows Vista-based PCs resume from sleep in less than 6 seconds.
• PCs running Windows Vista that are equipped with 512 MB memory experience a performance boost of up to 40 percent with Windows ReadyBoost. Just plug a USB flash drive into your computer, and Windows Vista will automatically start using it to speed up memory access to important data.

• Out of the box, Windows Vista performs as well, or better, than Windows XP on common home and business tasks.
• Windows Vista users generally experience 20 percent fewer application "hangs" than those running Windows XP
• Superfetch helps your computer adjust to your schedule, so your apps are ready to go before you even launch them. Use Microsoft Outlook every morning? Superfetch will serve it up just in time for breakfast. Play the same game every night? Superfetch gets your computer ready for the next big win. Waiting less means you can do more
• Based on their first 180 days of availability, Windows Vista has been shown to have fewer vulnerabilities than Windows XP or MacOS X 10.4. PCs running it are 60 percent less likely to be infected with viruses, worms, and rootkits than PCs running Windows XP SP2. Windows Vista-based PCs are over 90 percent less likely to be infected than systems running Windows XP without a Service Pack. And the experts agree: "Windows Vista is arguably the most secure closed-source OS available on the market."
• The more people use Windows Vista, the more they like it. So dig in and learn even more about the new features in Windows Vista. Once you’ve tried it, you’ll see

Source: Microsoft Windows Vista