Unusual border line between Netherlands and Belgium

November 3rd, 2011 1 comment

Do you believe that it is a border line between two countries? Just a line beside a cafe.

Baarle-Nassau Frontière Café

This is an unusual border line runs between Netherlands and Belgium in a small town called Baarle-Nassau.

Baarle-Hertog consists of 26 separate sections of territory surrounded by Baarle-Nassau, but some parts of Baarle-Hertog Baarle-owned areas also Nassau.

Order Dutch Coffee with Gouda cheese from Netherlands and have it with Belgium chocolate! :)

Image credit – Wikimedia

Little known facts about Power Button

November 1st, 2011 No comments

Have you ever noticed the Power Button (On/Off Switch) in your computers, and electronic devices?

You would find below symbol which are normally known as Power Button (On/Off Switch). Power_Button Technically, this symbol was used to denote Standby and not for Power. This was wrongly used by all leading manufacturers.

In order to resolve this ambiguity, IEEE made some corrections to the symbols and introduced a new symbol called Crescent in 2004.

According to IEEE,IEEE_1621 - Correction

Bonus: Microsoft still using the old Power Symbol for shut-down in Windows 7. :) FAIL

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World’s greatest father

October 31st, 2011 No comments

Steve Moseley - The world’s greatest father created a marble run all around his son’s bedroom.

This is Sparta

October 31st, 2011 No comments

300 Redefined – This is Sparta!

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What is a Paradox?

October 28th, 2011 No comments

What is a paradox?

A paradox is a seemingly true statement or group of statements that lead to a contradiction or a situation which seems to defy logic or intuition.

-Wiki

A picture is worth a thousand words.

No Smoking Tray.

Paradox - No smoking trayImage Credit – Wikimedia

Penguin caught red-handed – Criminal Penguins

October 27th, 2011 No comments

This is an amazing documentary from BBC that captured an interesting fact about Penguins.

Some penguins turn to a life of crime to build the perfect nest.

What happens in my pocket?

October 27th, 2011 No comments

This is what happens in my pocket.
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via 9gag

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