Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Licked.in | funny bytes, some real, some not so real!

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Licked.in | funny bytes, some real, some not so real!.

Real naughty stuff here. And giving away $1 for a nice small story.

Why Skype is so popular?

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

Very simple… they do just what they are supposed to do! Provide instant messaging. And, they are best advised to stay that way. Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger and the like are great deals, but most of the people who have the need of IMs have more than one account on those systems. We think no further elaboration is needed ;)

Amazon sensitive to drought

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

A report says the Amazon is “surprisingly” sensitive to drought. What’s so surprising? Any tropical ecosystem will be sensitive to drought. The surprising part actually is that a tropical ecosystem should come to a drought like situation, engineered by us insensitive humans.

Ape plans ahead like humans

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Researchers are fascinated by a chimp, who carefully collected rocks and hurled them later at zoo visitors, confirming that apes can plan ahead just like us humans.