Ivy Bean, the world's oldest Facebooker and Twitterer !

(104 year old Ivy Bean with Geek Squad agent Martin Dix at Hillside Manor residential home in Bradford.)

Ivy Bean (born September 8, 1905), lives in the Hillside Manor care home in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, where she and fellow residents like to keep up with new technology.

Last August 2008, she became something of an Internet phenomenon by joining Facebook at the ripe old age of 103. Fortunately, an IT support service the ‘Geek Squad’ recommended she joined other social networking sites. Now, she’s had a resurgence in popularity and press coverage by joining the new darling of the social media world, Twitter. Except she’s now 104-years-old.


Follow Ivy's tweets at twitter.com/IvyBean104.

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Google on a picture-based Captcha!

CAPTCHA - the term is short for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart,” a reference to the test proposed by Alan Turing, the British mathematician, to determine if a computer can be said to think like a human. These are those things you find on Web sites at log-in that require you to decipher and type words or numbers.

Researchers at Google are testing a new captcha that requires people to turn upright randomly rotated images, like that of a parrot perched temporarily upside-down on a leafy branch. The task is a breeze for people — using a cellphone touchscreen, for example, to flip the image — but hard for machines.

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The Tiniest Teenager in the World

Jyoti Amge (born December 16, 1993), a resident of Nagpur, India, is currently the world's smallest girl according to the Limca Book of Records. She has achondroplasia, a growth anomaly, that has restricted her height to 23 inches (58cm), and her weight to 11 pounds (5.25kg)


She is a normal teenager who attends high school with all of her friends. All of her clothes and jewelry is custom made for her.


“‘I am proud of being small. I love all the attention I get. I’m not scared of being small and I don’t regret it”(",) - Jyoti Amge

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All About Facebook

1. Founder and CEO
The original founder of Facebook and CEO is Mark Zuckerburg. Mark and 3 of his roommates created Facebook while attending Harvard University and launched the site on February 4, 2004 from their college dorm room.


2. First Investor

An old American entrepreneur and Co-founder of Pay Pal - Peter Thiel, who was the first person to invest in Facebook. It's said his original investment in the social networking site in June 2004 was about $500,000.



3. A Country That Doesn't Allow Facebook
Syria security was concerned to stop a spam campaign that used Facebook to promote false teaching to children about religion and war. According to most articles, the country of Syria is afraid that terrorist groups have much easier times getting to their children on the social site.

4. $12.5 Million Investor
The next big company to take a chance and invest in Facebook was Accel Partners. In May 2005, the company made an investment of $12.5 million then April 2006 Greylock Partners decided to invest $25 million in Facebook as well.

5. Microsoft's Investment
In 2007, after seeing all the other major companies investing in Facebook, Microsoft contacted the owners of the site proposing an investment in return for 5% stake in the company. At the time they giant software company was offering up to $500 million for the investment. Owners of Facebook declined that offer but on October 24, 2007 Microsoft announced that they had purchased 1.6% of Facebook shares for the sum of $246 million.


6. Amount of Facebook Users and Applications
As most know, one of Facebook's biggest downfalls is the applications that you're requested to add every time you log in or do a quiz a friend has sent you. According to a study that was done in Nov 2007 there where over several thousands applications with another 100 being added daily. Crazy! In December 2007 to about the end of January of 2008, Facebook had seen its first drop in visitors in 3 years which was due mostly to the application spam within the site. The same study also showed that there were over 70 million daily active users to the site.

7. Pictures Uploaded Daily and Web Address Price
Most people who have an account with Facebook know the amount of pictures their friends post and so on but did you know that daily number of photos uploaded is over 14 million? Also the social network has been always named “Facebook” but it officially became Facebook.com in August 2005 when it purchased the web address for the sum of $200,000.


8. Failure of Google and Yahoo Buy Out
In late September 2006, talks with Yahoo where underway and is rumoured they offered $1 billion to buy out Facebook where Google offered about $2 billion. Facebook owners where either holding out for more money or they realized they could make more in the long run from the site and decided to decline the offer from both sites.

9. Eleventh Richest Man in the World Invests In Facebook
This is Li Ka-shing also known as the World's 11th richest man. This Chinese business tycoon has had his hand in a little bit of everything business orientated. He even had shares in Canada's Imperial Bank of Commerce in 2005 which was worth about $1.2 billion. After following Facebook for a year the Chinese business man decided he wanted a part in the social networking site and on November 30, 2007 invested $60 million dollars.


10. Total Employees and Overall Value
In March 2008, Facebook had over 500 full-time employees on their payroll and according to other sources the total value of the company is now worth a easy $15 billion. Not too bad for a program a guy in his dorm room created from a project for school.(",)


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Top 10 common password

10. 'thomas' (0.99‰)

9. 'arsenal' (1.11‰)

8. 'monkey' (1.33‰)

7. 'charlie' (1.39‰)

6. 'qwerty' (1.41‰)

5. '123456' (1.63‰)

4. 'letmein' (1.76‰)

3. 'liverpool' (1.82‰)

2. 'password' (3.780‰)

1. '123' (3.784‰)

Conclusion

The above figures mean that 1.8% of people use one of the above passwords - and 6.5% of people share a password from the top 100 list. Although the remaining 90+% have less common (or even unique) passwords, the trends towards simplistic and guessable show that the average user cares less about choosing a strong password and more about memorability. Or in some cases, their football team.

I won't go in-depth about how to make sure you have a strong password - there are plenty of guides out there - but the above list should certainly prove a useful guide as to what sort of password to avoid.

In a day when all our private data and banking information is stored behind simple secret words and phrases, it makes sense to narrow the probability of guesswork as slim as possible.

Source
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Fun Facts about Numbers

* Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number. For example: 37,037*5=185,185. 185,185*3=555,555.

* If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111 you get 12,345,678,987,654,321.

* A simple mathematical manipulation that would show that 3=2:

We know that:
-6=-6
and
9-15=4-10

add 25/4 on both sides, you'll get:
9-15+(25/4)=4-10+(25/4)

We know:




Here:
a=3; b= 5/2 (for left side)
a=2; b=5/2 (for right side)
It can also be expressed as follows:
(3-5/2) (3-5/2)=(2-5/2) (2-5/2)
Taking positive square root on both sides:
(3-5/2)=(2-5/2)
>>> 3=2 !!! (amazing isn’t it?)

* Succession:

1 x 8 + 1 == 9
12 x 8 + 2 == 98
123 x 8 + 3 == 987
1234 x 8 + 4 == 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 == 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 == 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 == 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 == 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 == 987654321

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Interesting Fact about the Pope John Paul II Death

* Pope was living 85 years - sum of those numbers = 13
* Pope died on 2.04.2005 - sum of those numbers = 13
* Pope died at 21.37 - again - sum is equal to 13
* 13? - That's Maria's number - only that time Holy Mother was showing herself to 3 children in Fatima
* on 13th May 1981 - Pope was wounded and that time was saved by Holy Mother
* on 13th Pope went to the hospital for the first time
* on 13th died the last child of three from Fatima to whom Holy Mother showed up
* Pope died on 02.04.2005 at 21.37... add all those numbers....

2+4+2+5 = 13
2+1+3+7 = 13
13+13=26

...26 years of pontificate...
...in the end, he died in the 13th week of the year...

* Pope was living exactly 31 thousand days... if you reverse the figures... you will get 13 again!

Coincidence? or it had to be like this?

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