Business Name too Long

This is what happens when your business name gets too long.

NTU Student Survey

Who says evaluation of the lecturer is boring? NTU students would differ from that view.

Take a look at what they have to say about their lecturer:

Please Forget Your Password

Encountered this SingPass notice in a Community Club.

Did you manage to catch the joke? Who would want to remember their passwords anyway? Reseting your password is the "in" thing.

Incentives for forgetting password. Haha!

Sticky tape generates X-rays

Nature News

Christmas could bring with it a new hazard as you wrap your gifts – X-ray-emitting sticky tape.

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have shown that simply peeling ordinary sticky tape in a vacuum can generate enough X-rays to take an image — of one of the scientists' own fingers (see videos).

"At some point we were a little bit scared," says Juan Escobar, a member of the research team. But he and his co-workers soon realized that the X-rays were only emitted when the kit was used in a vacuum. "We don't want to scare people from using Scotch tape in everyday life," Escobar adds.

This kind of energy release — known as triboluminescence and seen in the form of light — occurs whenever a solid (often a crystal) is crushed, rubbed or scratched. It is a long-known, if somewhat mysterious, phenomenon, seen by Francis Bacon in 1605. He noticed that scratching a lump of sugar caused it to give off light.

The leading explanation posits that when a crystal is crushed or split, the process separates opposite charges. When these charges are neutralized, they release a burst of energy in the form of light.

As long ago as 1953, a team of scientists based in Russia suggested that peeling sticky tape produced X-rays. But "we were very sceptical about the old results," says Escobar. His team decided to look into the phenomenon anyway, and found that X-rays were indeed given off, in high-energy pulses.

When the researchers placed a small plastic window in their vacuum chamber, they were even able to take an X-ray image of a finger, using a dental X-ray detector. Their results are published in Nature¹.

Mechanoluminescent mystery

"Of the total electron discharges, only one in ten thousand makes X-rays," says Escobar. The energies of the individual X-ray pulses, typically a few nanoseconds long, are about 15 kiloelectron volts.

The energy of the X-rays is directly related to the amount of charge that builds up at the surface of the tape as it is peeled. The scientists calculate that this charge was ten times greater in their study than typically seen in similar experiments. "We are not exactly sure why the tape is so heavily charged," Escobar says.

The sticky-tape X-ray machine is also baffling others in the field. "You wouldn't have thought that so much of the mechanical energy would come out as X-rays," says Ken Suslick, an expert in mechanoluminescence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The adhesive on the tape is an amorphous liquid, not crystalline. What's causing the transfer of charge, of electrons or protons, what the accepting and donor groups are — these things are much less clear."

The researchers suggest that the high charge density generated by peeling the tape could be great enough to trigger nuclear fusion. Michael Loughlin, a nuclear analyst at the international nuclear fusion experiment, ITER, in Cadarache, France, is sceptical. But he adds that if he is proved wrong, a system that could provide fusion reactions at the flick of a switch would be very useful.

Suslick now intends to revisit mechanoluminescent systems he has worked on in his lab to search for X-rays. Meanwhile, Escobar and his colleagues plan to look at different types of adhesive to see whether they get the same effect.

But the biggest challenge will be to figure out exactly how it works, Escobar says. "That's first on our list."

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081022/full/news.2008.1185.html

Nebraska State Senator Sues God Over Natural Disasters

FOX News
Monday, September 17, 2007

Nebraska Democratic State Senator Ernie Chambers has decided to go straight to the top in an effort to stop natural disasters from befalling the world.

Chambers filed a lawsuit against God in Douglas County Court Friday afternoon, KPTM Fox 42 reported.

Click here for more from KPTM Fox 42 in Omaha.

The suit asks for a "permanent injunction ordering Defendant to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats."

The lawsuit identifies the plaintiff as, "the duly elected and serving State Senator from the 11th Legislative District in Omaha, Nebraska."

Chambers also cites that the, "defendant directly and proximately has caused, inter alia, fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornados, pestilential plagues..."

Chambers says he isn't suing God because he has any kind of beef with the deity. He says the suit is to fight possible laws restricting the filing of frivolous lawsuits. Chambers tells KPTM FOX 42 News that his lawsuit is in response to bills brought forth by other state senators to try and stop lawsuits from being filed.

"The Constitution requires that the courthouse doors be open, so you cannot prohibit the filing of suits," Chambers says. "Anyone can sue anyone they choose, even God."

Chambers bases his ability to sue God, as, "that defendant, being omnipresent, is personally present in Douglas County."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297121,00.html

Skills you can find only in China

Amazing isn't it? We have the most incredible people in China!

Oxymoronic Thoughts

Drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

People order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

Banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

We leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

We buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

We use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

They have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

EVER WONDER ....

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?!

Why don't you ever see the headline 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

Why is 'abbreviated' such a long word?

Why is it that doctors call what they do 'practice'?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

New Budget Airline

Tiger Airways, Air Asia & Jet Star now has another new competitor - Kerala Airways.

Enjoy flying!

What a Tough Mathematics Question for a 7 year old

It took 7 heads to ponder over this supposedly Mathematical question. This question is found in an assessment book for 7 year old, Primary 2 kids.

Try and solve it!

The setter for this question must be Crazy, Man!

Eating Insects (Entomophagy) the Green way of Diet

Next time when you are going to kill that cockroach in your kitchen, think twice!

It could just be a great substitute for meat and you could be doing a good deed to the Environment. Read the excerpt from an article in TIME Magazine:

"The very qualities that make bugs so hard to get rid of could also make them an environmentally friendly food. "Nature is very good at making insects," says David Gracer, one of the chefs at the Richmond festival and the founder of future bug purveyor Sunrise Land Shrimp. Insects require little room and few resources to grow. For instance, it takes far less water to raise a third of a pound (150 g) of grasshoppers than the staggering 869 gal. (3,290 L) needed to produce the same amount of beef. Since bugs are cold-blooded invertebrates, more of what they consume goes to building edible body parts, whereas pigs and other warm-blooded vertebrates need to consume a lot of calories just to keep their body temperature steady. There's even a formula, called the efficiency of conversion of ingested food to body substance (ECI), that can be used to compare the weight different animals gain after eating a certain quantity of feed. Beef cattle have an ECI of 10. Silkworms range from 19 to 31. German cockroaches max out at 44.

Incredibly efficient to raise, insects are also crawling packets of nutrition. A 100-gram (3.5 oz.) portion of cooked Usata terpsichore caterpillars--commonly eaten in central Africa--contains about 28 grams (1 oz.) of protein, slightly more than you'd get from the same amount of chicken. Water bugs have four times as much iron as beef."

So next time you see a cockroach in the kitchen when you're cooking, SMILE cuz' you just earned yourself something delicious.

Source:
Eating Bugs : http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1810336,00.html
Image : www.digitalrailroad.net/menzelphoto/

Lots of Power Points for Power Hoggers

Great news to laptop-users-cum-Power-Hoggers!

Plenty of plug points for you in the atrium of Compass Point Shopping Mall!

You can even charge your mobile phones, PSP, NintendoDS, watch your TV, install a fridge, etc...

But would you dare to do it? You Must Be Crazy, Man!

Advertisements on a Toilet Seat Cover

Nowadays, advertisements are everywhere. Even the most private cubicle in the toilet is a good spot for advertising.

Here's an advertisement by Campus Speed on an NUS toilet seat cover.

For that matter, I hope they don't shift the auditorium seats to the toilet to replace the toilet seats.

What's Nanyang University books doing in NUS Library?

In the closed stacks of the National University of Singapore (NUS) lies the now-renamed Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Nanyang University book.

On the left is the Nanyang University chop while on the right is the NUS library chip.


Here, you can see the NUS chop on the yellow paper.

Am I crazy?

You Must be Crazy, Man!

Leg Pulling & Dreams

Hey!

Last Night I dreamt of you pulling my leg....


















And Now I'm Pulling yours :)

12629

No, it's definitely not a lottery figure.

Try asking your peers what this number means...

1



2




6




2




9





Answer:

WANT TO SEX TONIGHT
1 2 6 2 9

Introduction - Human Beings Are Crazy, SO ARE YOU

You Must Be Crazy, Man!

Bet my last penny down that you would have heard that phrase yelled upon you in your lifetime.

Welcome to the real world, all Human Beings are Crazy. Sometimes we just need to loosen up and get ALIVE and A Life!

You Must Be Crazy, Man! aims to capture all the wackiest, craziest stuff that we do and say randomly.

Take out your paper and pen if you want to use these materials on others. Haha!

Let's Get Crazy!