Happy New Year and Best Wishes for a wonderful year 2008 !!
See the nice Google Logo for 2008. This a TCP/IP cable. TCP/IP was adopted by ARPANET on a January 1 (in 1983). ARPANET gave birth to Internet this same day.
The Ask Office in Pisa, Italy is not a joke.
Employees (that come from Italy, France, Lithuania and Hungary) are working in a 14th century Tuscan palace in Pisa.
Director of Pisa Office Antonio Gulli explains the choice of Pisa:
“Pisa has one of the most prestigious Engineering and Computer Science Universities in Europe. Therefore, Ask has access to much talent for both our local and remote offices. In addition, Pisa is located in Tuscany, a region loved by many people for the food, the wine, and the quality of life. Pisa is connected with New York JFK by a 7-hour direct flight and the airport is 20 minutes walking distance from the office.”
Pisa’s Office is former Palace Gambacorti, on Corso Italia. It was built in the 14th century and was the home of the Gambacortis, Pisa’s most powerful family. Henry VII stayed in the palace, as did Charles IV of Luxembourg.
“The new office is GORGEOUS even for Italian standards”
Check these photos, I guess you will like to apply for a job:
After 1 month of full blogging for this new Blog, Abry.biz is now receiving about 75,000 page views for one month (and 50,000 unique visitors).
So I am starting now to sell advertising spaces at very small prices. These prices should increase in the next months with the growing audience, so consider to advertise right now at frozen prices for 4 months!
Check this:
For other type of advertsing, please contact me at vincentabry @ gmail.com
Google put online its Zeitgeist 2007 for USA and Global.
Zeitgeist 2007 shows the most searched terms in Google Index during the year.
Fastest Rising (Global)
Fastest Rising (U.S.)
Fastest Falling (global)
(*) featured in 2006 fastest-rising list
Melina Salazar is a waitress in Luby’s Cafeteria and during 7 years she served food to the cantankerous but loyal 89-year-old Walter Swords.
When the old man died he let $50 000 tip and a 2000 Buick to Melina Salazar.
The man was really appreciating his favorite waitress.
Here are the final results of the UFC 79 Nemesis.
Here is a Wii Sports Accident. This was done with a Baseball Bat.
Hey guys, please be careful, your mother is not far…
This kid needs to work on his batting grip a bit more. Watch this funny accident.
Here is the video of the Magic Milk.
See the magic effect of milk mixed with some colors.
After milkshakes, this is probably the coolest thing ever done with milk.
There is good MMA fighting tonight: Liddell vs Silva and St-Pierre vs Hughes at 10:00 PM ET, 7:00 PM PT
Website: http://79.ufc.com
There is also the Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou – Lyoto Machida light heavyweight duel
Valerie Begue was told she can keep her title of French Queen despite publication of indecent pics.
22 years old girl is from French Island of Reunion, in Indian Ocean.
She will be allowed to be Miss France 2008 but she won’t be allowed to compete for Miss Universe 2008 or Miss World 2008.
This patient must be stunned after leaving the ambulance so quickly.
I hope for him that he was not too injured before.
This kind of methods can easily wake up everybody…
Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn (Mystic River, 2003) and his wife Robin Wright Penn are divorcing after 11 years of marriage. He began a relationship with Wright in 1990.
The divorce papers were filed on Dec. 21. Robin Wright cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split.
Sean Penn married RobinWright in 1996. They have two teenagers: Dylan Frances, 16, and Hopper Jack, 14.
Wright Penn is best known for her roles in “The Princess Bride” and “Forrest Gump”.
Sean Penn’s first marriage was with pop star Madonna between 1985 and 1989.
Jessica Simpson’s movie Blonde Ambition was a flop for its release this week end in Theatres.
The movie was released on 8 screens in Jessica’s State of Texas. Numbers are pretty scary: an average of $48 per screen on friday for a big total of $384. At 8$ the ticket that means that 6 people paid to see the movie in each theatre!!
And that’s a total of 48 people who saw Blonde Ambition. It is considered as one of the worse scores ever for the Cinema Industry.
The film should be already in DVD format next month, january 22th!
Ok Jessica, may be the DVD release will be better 
Vidéo Trailer Blonde Ambition:
Here is the secret revealed: Why and How Reddit works or how a post makes the frontpage.
This secret was initially revealed on a Digg’s story but I suspect the image below to be actually the explanation of Digg Algorithm.
Warning: this is humor, via Digg Reddit.
This young man impersonates 100 different voices in 5 minutes without any breaks.
A quite impressive and funny exercise of impersonation.