Ludicrously Expensive Celebrity Homes
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson: Neverland Ranch has got to be one of the most famous properties out there. Michael Jackson doesn’t own it any more, of course, not since the foreclosure. But this longtime haven of his is sure to fetch a pretty penny when it goes to auction in mid-May. Supposedly there’s $46 million in escrow right now as one of the bids. There’s no telling which celebrity with buku bucks might want to pay for this infamous property. 
Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes
Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes: This couple loves collecting expensive homes so that they can have a few nice places to choose from when trying to escape the press. They own a 6-bedroom home in London that cost nearly $5 million and includes a greenhouse and a sports pavilion. They also have a nice home in Telluride, Colorado. But the real attention-getter is the $35 million home in Beverly Hills. Of course, now that we have seen what Cruise is really like we care less about Cruise’s wealth and look forward to his next video interview.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger: The bodybuilding actor who governs California is currently living in a ‘temporary’ home in Brentwood that cost him over $11 million. It’s 13,000 square feet in size and includes a screening room, a gourmet kitchen and a gym. Of course, the governor also has to spend a lot of time in the state capital for work; he doesn’t own a home there but reportedly pays $65,000 per year for a hotel suite.
Donald Trump
Donald Trump: Is it any wonder that a man famous primarily for being rich is the owner of a mansion that is one of the most expensive in the world? It’s located in Palm Beach, Florida and is on the market for $125 million. This 62,000 square foot behemoth has a library, home theater, wine cellar, fitness studio, 7 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms and a 100 foot long swimming pool. In other words: not subprime.
Bill Gates
Bill Gates: The Washington state property of tech genius Bill Gates was worth over $135 million at the last estimate back in 2005. Property taxes alone cost him over $1 million annually. The multi-million dollar home includes an underwater music system and a personal shower room for the pool. It’s been the site of numerous gatherings for influential people in the tech industry and the U.S. government.
Little Spice for your brain
Early to bed early to rise makes people suspicious.
If practice makes man perfect, nobody is perfect, why practice?
If quitters never win and winners never quit, what fool came up with," Quit while you are ahead"?
How is it possible to have a civil war?
Junk is something you have kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.
Diplomacy is an art of saying "Nice Doggie!" till you can find a rock.
If man evolved from monkey and apes, why do we still have monkey and apes?
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
If you got into a taxi and the driver started driving backward, would the taxi driver end up owing you money?
If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?
Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?
If olive oil comes from olive, where does baby oil come from?
How do you get off of a non stop flight?
Why the third hand on a watch is called the second hand?
If it's zero degree outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
Is boneless chicken considered to be invertebrate?
Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of bottle?
If 'con' is the opposite of 'pro", what is the opposite of progress?
Why be difficult when with bit of effort you can be impossible?
Swearing was invented when as a compromise between running away and fighting.
Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half a life to learn from yours.
The 'Google Phone'
T-Mobile's G1 is a little late to arrive (Apple's iPhone 3G has already been on the market for two months), but it's still pretty cool. A tad heavier and narrower than the iPhone, the G1 features a petite keyboard, a handy trackball, and a higher-resolution, three-megapixel camera (versus the two-megapixel camera on the iPhone). Along with its Google-designed browser, the G1 features a more powerful version of Google Maps with a built-in compass and 360-degree photos. And Gmail users get instantly notified when new messages arrive in their inbox, instead of having to check manually. The G1 goes on sale October 22 for $179 ($20 less than the iPhone) and will be available in white, brown or black.
T-Mobile's G1 will go on sale Oct. 22 for $179. It is the first mobile phone to run the Google operating system, Android.
Mythbusters Draws Mona Lisa Using Paint Balls
MythBusters first showed how a CPU drew a smiley face one paint ball at a time and then proceed to show how a GPU used parallel processing to draw an actual Mona Lisa drawing in 80 milli seconds. Add a slow motion version at the end and you get a sensational technology demonstration.
MonaLisa Illusion
Can you figure out which one is the real Mona Lisa painting upside down?
Things look fine when recognising Mona Lisa upside down. After turning it the right way up, our brains perceive that Mona Lisa looks terrible. Why was it so difficult to recognise the altered Mona Lisa when the paintings were upside down? Your mind is not familar with the way an upside down face should look like and therefore didn’t noticed the oddness of the painting. 
World's Fastest Computer
Scientists unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer on Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise. The computer, named Roadrunner, is twice as fast as IBM's Blue Gene system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which itself is three times faster than any of the world's other supercomputers, according to IBM. To put the computer's speed in perspective, if every one of the 6 billion people on earth used a hand-held computer and worked 24 hours a day it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner computer can do in a single day. The interconnecting system occupies 6,000 square feet with 57 miles of fiber optics and weighs 500,000 pounds. Although made from commercial parts, the computer consists of 6,948 dual-core computer chips and 12,960 cell engines, and it has 80 terabytes of memory.
