iPod Nano owners in screen scratch trauma - link

Trouble is that a few scratches will quickly make the colour screen all but useless for viewing album art and photos stored on the machine. In which case you might as well have bought the cheaper, screenless iPod shuffle, hmm?

“I found that my black 4GB Nano scratched within minutes after peeling off the protective wrapper and wiping it with a cotton T-shirt. I put it in a pocket just once and it was inside the soft case that came with my third-gen iPod,” comments poster number 188 in that monster Apple thread.

2GB iPod Nano costs $100 to make - researcher - link

The 2GB Nano retails in the US for $199. Of that, iSuppli reckons, less that half - $90.18 - goes on components. Chuck in $8 per unit labour costs, and Apple’s margin is a whopping $100.82.

较早些就看见有forum上上载用了没两天就伤痕累累的ipod nano。Apple真的靠华丽外表来吸引人，真正的价值和耐用性还是差很多。

where-next.com - an interactive “game” where you stick an icon on a world map representing how you think the next strike will be perpetrated (suicide bomber, car bomb, etc, etc). Here’s the blurb from creators Molleindustria:

Where-next.com is an exciting gambling game. The most accurate prediction on where terrorists will attack next, wins. The definition of terrorist attack stands here for a war action aimed at any civil target on any location that’s not already involved in any kind of “official” war or so intetend by U.S. administration. Thus comnsider a peaceful territory where there could be at least 10 random civil victims within 48hrs (missing people will not be included).

The person guessing the right technique used (a bomb attack, a suicide bomber, chemical weapons, etc.) and getting the closest location of the attack, will be contacted by e-mail and will receive the exclusive where-next.com T-shirt, showing the place and the time of the attack. A new game will start after every successful attack and the previous bets will be cancelled.

Build up ur happiness on others’ miserable. This world really sick. :wallbash_tb:

Melissa Theuriau

整天看她报新闻就好了。。。。

The millenium seemed to spur a lot of people to compile “Top 100″ or “Best 100″ lists of many things, including movies (by the American Film Institute) and books (by the Modern Library).

Mathematicians were not immune, and at a mathematics conference in July, 1999, Paul and Jack Abad presented their list of “The Hundred Greatest Theorems.” Their ranking is based on the following criteria: “the place the theorem holds in the literature, the quality of the proof, and the unexpectedness of the result.”

The Hundred Greatest Theorems

世界上很多非常聪明并且受过高等教育的人，无法成功。就是因为他们从小就受到了错误的教育，他们养成了勤劳的恶习。很多人都记得爱迪生说的那句话吧：天才就是99％的汗水加上1％的灵感。并且被这句话误导了一生。勤勤恳恳的奋斗，最终却碌碌无为。其实爱迪生是因为懒的想他成功的真正原因，所以就编了这句话来误导我们。

好激励我们这群懒人的一段文章 :tongue_rolleye_ee: 。但我还是搞不清楚这“马云”是何等人物，如何和yahoo扯上关系。

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