http://www.rantsnjibes.com Boring News Made Interesting Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:54:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A Jetblue passenger causes havoc on flight lighting a cig on flight and punching a crew member photo credit: Cubbie_n_Vegas She now faces 20 years and 250000 in fines... WOW!!! She asked for it!! <MORE> http://www.rantsnjibes.com/jetblue-passenger-asks-for-it-gets-lots-more/ Garmin the GPS device makers have come up with a phone with GPS technology. The phone named Nuvifone has a big touch screen display and looks pretty good. The phone production is going to be done by ASUS. The phone is expected to be released by Q4 of 2008 :) http://www.rantsnjibes.com/garmins-nuvifone-to-be-manufactured-by-asus/ MOZILLA Firefox is undoubtedly one of the favourite among the sea of browsing software. Its FREE, FAST and SECURE AT 1300 PST (2000 GMT) on 17 June they released the 3.0 version of FIREFOX and it was havoc. The servers handling the downloads were crushed by the load of people trying to get ... http://www.rantsnjibes.com/firefox-3-download-success/ A school bus was struck by a train in the French alps close to the Switzerland border killing 5 and injuring at least 12, the authorities said. It was however not clear if the dead or injured were children. The accident has taken place near the town of Allinges in France's ... http://www.rantsnjibes.com/train-strikes-school-bus-in-france-5-killed/ I was just planning my trip to the Beijing Olympics when I came across the news that the Olympics tickets are going to contain all of the personal data of the ticket holder... They are embedding data such as Passport Number, Home Address and Email Addresses. As if this wasnt bad ... http://www.rantsnjibes.com/passport-info-and-addresses-to-be-on-beijing-olympics-tickets/ I was surprised when i heard that a desktop supercomputer was developed using four Nvidia 9800 GX2 graphics cards. This is equivalent to eight GPUs. This, in effect, does the work of close to 350 CPU cores. This architecture is similar to that of the PS3 Cell and therefore be used ... http://www.rantsnjibes.com/fastra-desktop-supercomputer-developed-with-4-nvidia-9800-gx2-graphics-cards/ GM is working on the production of the 2010 Chevy Camaro. It is scheduled to start production by February 2009. And rumours are that it will be released in the Indianapolis Motor Show in Sept 2009. This beauty has a V8 engine and is all set to take on its competitors. ... http://www.rantsnjibes.com/2010-chevy-camaro-to-be-released-by-september-2009/ Announced Friday, Facebook is joining hands in an effort to making it easier for people to share their personal profile online. This came as a result of growing interest among the users for such portability needs. Internet social networking giant, MySpace has also announced their launch of such a feature. While ... http://www.rantsnjibes.com/facebook-lets-users-carry-their-profiles-with-them/ Graphene is a derivative of Graphite (hexagonally bonded carbon). Scientists of the Manchester research team have found a way to use Graphene as electrodes in Liquid Crystal Displays which will help in making extremely thin displays. This is possible because the graphene layer is only one atom thick!!! The research is ... http://www.rantsnjibes.com/graphene-to-revolutionise-display-technology/ Well... Everyones been waiting for the 2008's Emmy Nominations. Outstanding Drama Series General Hospital Guiding Light One Life to Live The Young & The Restless Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team Guiding Light General Hospital One Life To Live The Young and The Restless The Bold and The Beautiful Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team General Hospital The Bold and The Beautiful One Life To Live All My ... http://www.rantsnjibes.com/daytime-emmy-nominations-2008/