23 – can a number be haunted?
The number 23 keeps coming up through history – what does it mean?
23 facts about the number 23
1. Julius Caesar was stabbed a total of 23 times
2. The Barbarians invaded Rome on August 23 410 ad
3. Shakespeare was born and dies on April 23 1564 and died on April 23 1616
4. The Titanic sank on the morning of 15 April 1912
(1 + 5 + 0 + 4 + 1 + 9 + 1 + 2 = 23)
5. Adolf Hitler killed himself in April 1945
(0 + 4 + 1 + 9 + 4 + 5 = 23)
6. Hiroshima: 6 August 1945
(6 + 8 + 1 + 9 + 4 - 5 = 23)
7. JFK was assassinated on November 22 1963
(2 + 2 + 1 + 9 + 6 + 3 = 23)
8. Saddam Hussein assumed power on July 16
(7 + 16 = 23)
9. Charles Manson was born on November 12
(11 + 12 = 23)
10. 19 hijackers took 4 planes on 9/11
(19 + 4 = 23)
11. 9 / 11 / 2001
(9 + 11 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 1 = 23)
12. The Human Genome contains 23 pairs of chromosomes
13. The Earth’s Axis is tilted at 23 degrees
14. It takes 23 seconds for blood to circulate around the human body
15. Princess Leia was held in detention block AA-23 in the star wars film “A New Hope”
16. In the film “ The Big Lebowski”, the Dude and his friends always use lane number 23
17. The first song on the first side of The Beatles’ first album took 23 minutes to record
18. In the film “Die Hard with a Vengeance” the subway train derails at subway station 23
19. The Knights Templar has 23 Grand Masters
20. The Witches’ Sabbath is June 23
21. GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH contains 23 letters
22. WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON contains 23 letters
The Mayans believed that the end of the world would occur on 23 December 2012
(20 + 1 + 2 = 23)
Concept Car??
Sony has conceded defeat in the gadget wars, so to recoup some of their recent losses they have teamed up with Apple to create the amazing WalkPod:
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FBI reports 160 laptops lost or stolen
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Digg thisNearly five years ago we told you about how the Feds have a bad habit of losing laptops.
Spinning Disc
Why is the spinning disc, the most dynamic element of a CD player, hidden from a listener’s view? The simple, but energetic function of a CD player can and should be visually acknowledged. This CD player elevates the spinning motion of the disc and its linear potential for movement to an iconic and understandable form. The player embodies “something we know but rarely notice,” and “something we understand but cannot define.”
The spinning CD, displayed as a table saw blade slicing through a rich piece of walnut, draws our attention to an element of elegant activity within a simple, tranquil object. Appropriately, the perforated walnut speakers are equal to the size of planks that might be cut by the spinning blade. As in a lumberyard, they find their resting place, leaning motionless against a vertical surface. Battery powered and wireless, the system is clean, unencumbered and unfettered. To further emphasize simplicity and integrity, the player’s controls have been reduced to three white buttons. Intuitively aligned with the CD itself, the center button acts to play and pause, the left button tracks backward and the right tracks forward.
Movement, scale and functionality expressed in a simple, knowing form.
| by: Joseph Graceffa licence: Creative Commons tags: disc music CD without thoguht wood conceptual |  442 votes |
Japan Cherry Boys Club vows to end innocence by drawing lines, practicing judo
Japan's male virgins have given up on the idea of being unwillingly celibate for life and will do their bit to curb the dramatically declining national birthrate, the head of the Japan Cherry Boys Association tells Shukan Josei (2/13).
"We can't depend on the government for everything. We virgins have got to stand up once again and do our bit for the country by tackling the birthrate problem," Nobuyoshi Watanabe, president and founder of the male virgins' club, tells Shukan Josei.
Watanabe, who proudly boasts of never having dated a woman in his entire life, also fills his resume by bragging about being one of the 10 percent of Japanese men aged 40 to 45 who remain virgins.
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