Before it has become the holiday as we know it, Halloween has been a pagan celebration of the end of the summer (the season of the light) and the beginning of the darkness. Ancient Celtics believed that on the night before All Hallow’s Day (on the day that marked the end of the light and [...]
Twitter, known for having an app for almost every platform, now has one for Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone 7 is Microsoft’s latest mobile operating system. The app has been announced today and is already available. It promises to do everything a Twitter user would want such an app to do, and that is a [...]
George Clarke, a man from Belfast, discovered a footage from Charlie Chaplin‘s movie “The Circus” containing a woman or a man who is holding something up to her/his ear. The scene is right at the beginning of the movie and the woman walks past a stuffed zebra. The movie was released in 1928 and the [...]
Glee decks the halls and gets you in the holiday spirit early with the release of Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album , available Tuesday, November 16, 2010. The Glee cast sprinkle a little Christmas cheer with their dazzling renditions of such holiday classics as “We Need A Little Christmas,” “O Holy Night,” “Jingle Bells” [...]
Katy Perry and Russell Brand got married this past weekend during an elaborate Indian wedding. The only person who missed the the ceremony was Katy Perry’s BFF Rihanna. The two artists are friends for quite some time now and that’s why it is so weird that Rihanna missed Perry’s wedding. The Umbrella singer and the [...]
The Octopus named Paul that predicted all games involving Germany during this World Cup in South Africa has passed away. The news were confirmed by DAPD, a German news agency. Paul the Octopus was living at the aquarium in Oberhausen Sea Life Centre, Germany. The octopus became a worldwide sensation this summer when he successfully [...]
Sony Walkman (the cassette player) is not dead, as many people said in the last few days, after the company has decided to stop selling the product in Japan. According to various reports, a spokesman for the company in the USA has said that Sony will keep the product on the American market. This is [...]
Charlie Sheen, the star of the popular TV sitcom “Two and a Half Men” was taken to the hospital today, after an emergency call at 2 AM about a possible intoxication. The actor has been taken to a New York hospital at 2:30 in the morning. Sources within the authorities sustain that Charlie has been [...]
Microsoft has launched the Apple version of its productivity suite, the Microsoft Office 2011. The package comes with a new version of Microsoft Outlook that has been specially built for Apple’s Mac. The suite supports those cloud based services Windows users have since the launch of Microsoft Office 2010 for this platform. The reason for [...]
Who will claim the FIFA Ballon d’Or award for 2010? Who will claim the FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year award for 2010? At the first FIFA Ballon d’Or gala, held on 10 January 2011 at the Zurich Kongresshaus, we will find out the winners. The FIFA Ballon d’Or award is a combination of [...]