Welcome to our “12 Facts of Christmas” Infographic for 2011. Just a little something to wish you a Merry Christmas, give you some fun facts to use at your office party and to say a big thank you for being so inspiring to work with in 2011. We hope you have a great Christmas and a prosperous new year!
The program included 20 unmanned launches, followed by two suborbital and four orbital flights with astronaut pilots. Early planning and research were carried out by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), but the program was officially conducted by its successor organization, NASA. Mercury laid the groundwork for Project Gemini and the follow-on Apollo moon-landing program.
It’s amazing the torture a family will put its members through come holiday time, especially when the memories can’t be erased thanks to some fool snaping a picture to document the humiliation for posterity. On the plus side, at least everyone who got one of these pictures in a holiday card got a good laugh.
Have you ever wondered how your daily used/favorite websites such as Facebook, Google, Youtube, Wikipedia, and Flickr look like when they were first launched? Below are the screenshots of the most popular websites while they were still in their earliest incarnations. With comparison to their design today, they have definitely evolved greatly and will continue to improve. While, Google had recently rolled out a makeover for all of its products & services in an attempt to unify its products & services.
Thanks to the waybackmachine internet archive, we’re still able to see some of the Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 pioneers looked in their earliest forms.
ATPWorldTour.com reviews the Top 5 comebacks of the 2011 season, beginning with No. 5:
Soderling, meanwhile, had battled back from a two-sets deficit twice before, most recently in 2005 at Roland Garros. “I tried not to think about the scoreline,” he said. “Instead, I tried to keep looking forward. I know I was playing pretty well. I served well. And if I could just start to move a little bit better, start to return a little bit better than the first two sets, I knew I had a good chance.”
Two games away from defeat at 5-5 in the third set, Soderling broke Hewitt for the first time to begin his comeback, and he broke the Australian at the end of a tight fourth set to level the match.
Cruising a luxurious superyacht with your own custom-built limousine onboard, ready for offshore jaunts, sounds like an experience fit only for royalty.
Likewise, lounging in your very own salon designed by one of the biggest fashion houses in the world could perhaps come with a lifestyle limited to supermodels.
Long and slender, the Blue Whale's body can be various shades of bluish-grey dorsally and somewhat lighter underneath. There are at least three distinct subspecies: B. m. musculus of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, B. m. intermedia of the Southern Ocean and B. m. brevicauda (also known as the Pygmy Blue Whale) found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean. B. m. indica, found in the Indian Ocean, may be another subspecies. As with other baleen whales, its diet consists almost exclusively of small crustaceans known as krill.
Most Popular Cars of the Future. If you have been keeping up with sci fi movies in the past few decades, chances are you have seen plenty of futuristic cars. Thanks to the advancement of technology, cars of the future are becoming a reality. This infographic by compareautoinsurance.com shows some cool futuristic cars available today:
Researchers have created a new metallic material that they claim is the world's lightest solid material. With a density of just 0.9 mg/cm3 the material is around 100 times lighter than Styrofoam and lighter than the "multiwalled carbon nanotube (MCNT) aerogel" - also dubbed "frozen smoke" - with a density of 4 mg/cm3 that we looked at earlier this year. Despite being 99.99 percent open volume, the new material boasts impressive strength and energy absorption, making it potentially useful for a range of applications.
While the iPhone may have stolen the show when comes to casual handheld gaming, the Sony PSP still has some great titles if you’re looking for advanced game play with rich story lines. Here’s a short list of some of our favorites. If you think we missed a great Sony PSP game worthy of this list then please leave a comment below.
The Sony PSP has been around for some years but it shows no indication of reducing in popularity. The fact is with new games for PSP while in the pipeline it’s going from strength to strength. 31 million PSP sales worldwide actually.
The Sony PSP is very much more compared to a great hand held games system but let’s face it the key reason you brought yours would be to play great games. The depth of colors and speed of action are an awesome experience and out do contrary helds easily.
I’m just thinking of several of my personal favorite games there are plenty of, We have pretty much every game designed for the PSP. Here’s my top 10 games for PSP.
The worlds most deadliest plants. The good news, most of the deadliest plants will kill you only if you eat them. If you wanted to find the Top 10 Most Poisonous Plants then you have come to the right place.
Some plants cannot be touched without a resulting rash. It goes without reason that if it causes a rash, then you should not eat it. But other plants look good enough to eat. These plants will kill you.
Get familiar with the plants in this list. Some you know. Some you heard of. It is most important that you recognize them and avoid them.
It’s all started from Christopher Huet, a talented manipulation master who wants to have some serious fun on the human’s head, and he did it very successfully by making it bigger, yeah, just bigger. And what really shocks is just by enlarging the head, it’s really enough to make one burst out laughing!
Another Big Headache. It’s all the fault of the fork! But what makes my head so big, by the way? (Image Source: Patrick Hoff)
