'Casper" type ghost captured in small shopping mall

Shopping centre camera captures shadow moving around mall

Ghostly ... the strange shape in question is circled.

• Security camera picks up movement
• Other shoppers seemingly unaware
• Some say it's a small ghost

EXTRAORDINARY CCTV footage has captured what could be the ghost of a small child darting across a busy shopping centre.

The shadowy spirit glides in between oblivious shoppers in the eerily clear video, The Sun reports.
The floating phantom figure appears in the bottom right of the screen after a male shopper exits a room to the top left.

It makes its way across the busy concourse and seems to head for the same door the man has just passed through.

The 36-second tape was taken in a shopping mall in Chile, South America, and surfaced on the internet today. It is alleged the image is the ghost of a small local boy.

(http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25591712-401)

By Christmas time get yourself a Dual-screen laptop

Dual-screen laptop on sale by Christmas

The world's first truly dual-screen laptop, which will allow computer users to multi-task while on the move, is due to go on sale by the end of the year.

One of the first photos of the gScreen Spacebook Photo: GIZMODO

 

The pioneering PC, known as the Spacebook, is the brainchild of Alaska-based technology firm gScreen.
While growing numbers of office workers – especially in the financial industries – use several desktop monitors to track many programmes and information sources at the same time, no manufacturer has yet released a portable equivalent.
The gScreen Spacebook will boast two 15.4 in screens which can slide away to fill the space of a single screen when the laptop is being stored or transported.
The first photos of the pioneering gadget have been obtained by Gizmodo, the US technology website.
Gordon Stewart, the founder of gScreen, told the website that the first Spacebooks should be available on Amazon by December this year, once final modifications are complete.
"We designed this knowing that many may not need the extra screen at all times," he said.
The dual-screen laptop is aimed at professional video editors, photographers and designers who need to flick between different applications to carry out their work.
But anyone willing to meet the expected $3,000 price tag should be warned that the double screen is likely to push the weight of the Spacebook significantly above standard laptops. The energy demands of running two monitors will also prove a drain on the computer's batteries.
Other technology firms have produced laptops with smaller bolt-on second screens, but this is believed to be the first model with twin monitors of equal size.

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6105506/Dual-screen-laptop-on-sale-by-Christmas.html)

Some of the weirdest answers to exam questions..What a laugh!!!

The 25 best exam blunders......

We all have to fail sometimes. But there's something glorious about failing with style.

A new book, F in exams: the best test paper blunders gives some great examples of exam answers from the most clueless - and inventive - of students. Some are very nearly right ("What happens to your body when taking a breath? Your chest gets bigger"), but some are very wrong indeed (Is the moon or the sun more important? The moon gives us sight at night when we need it. The sun only provides light in the day when we don't. Therefore the moon is more important). Laugh...and weep for the state of education!

1) Classical Studies
Question: Name one of the early Romans' greatest achievements.
Answer: Learning to speak Latin

2) Biology
Question: What is a fibula?
Answer: A little lie

3) General Studies
Question: Jeff has been asked to collect data about the amount of television his friends watch. Think of an appropriate question he could ask them.
Answer: How much TV do you watch?

4) Classical Studies
Question: What were the circumstances of Julius Caesar's death?
Answer: Suspicious ones

5) Biology
Question: Give an example of a smoking-related disease
Answer: Early death

6) Geography
Question: What are the Pyramids?
Answer: The Pyramids are a large mountain range which splits France and Spain

7) Biology
Question: What is a plasmid?
Answer: A high definition television

8) English
Question: In Pride and Prejudice, at what moment does Elizabeth Bennet realise her true feelings for Mr Darcy?
Answer: When she sees him coming out of the lake.

9) Geography
Question: What do we call a person forced to leave their home perhaps by a natural disaster or war, without having another home to go to.
Answer: Homeless

10) Religious Studies
Question: Christians only have one spouse, what is this called?
Answer: Monotony

11) Biology
Question: In the Hawaiian Islands, there are around 500 different species of fruit fly. Give a reason for this
Answer: There are approximately 500 varieties of fruit

12) Physics
Question: Name an environmental side effect of burning fossil fuels
Answer: Fire

13) Geography
Question: Define the term "intensive farming".
Answer: It is when a farmer never has a day off.

14) Maths
Question: Change 7/8 to a decimal
Answer: 7.8

15) Geography
Question: What does the term "lava" mean?
Answer: A pre-pubescent caterpillar

16) General Studies
Question: Redundancy is often an unpleasant and unexpected event in someone's life. Give two examples of unexpected life events.
Answer: 1) death 2) Reincarnation

17) History
Question: What was introduced in the Children's Charter of 1908?
Answer: Children

18) Business Studies
Question: Explain the word "wholesaler".
Answer: Someone who sells you whole items - eg, a whole cake

19) Geography
Question: The race of people known as Malays come from which country?
Answer: Malaria

20) Geography
Question:What artificial waterway runs between the Mediterranean and Red Seas?
Answer: The Sewage Canal

21) Geography
Question: Name one famous Greek landmark
Answer: The most famous Greek landmark is the Apocalypse

22) Maths
Question: Expand 2 (x + y)
Answer: 2 ( x + y )
2 ( x + y )
2 ( x + y )

23) Business Studies
Question: Assess Fashion House pls's choice to locate its factory near Birmingham. Is Birmingham the right location for this type of business?
Answer: No. People from Birmingham aren't very fashionable.

24) History
Question: Where was the American Declaration of Independence signed?
Answer: At the bottom.

25) History
Question: What did Mahatma Gandhi and Genghis Khan have in common?
Answer: Unusual names.

(http://timesonline.typepad.com/schoolgate/2008/09/the-20-best-exa.html)

And now a computer game based on H1N1 swine flu...........

The Great Flu computer game takes off!

Pigs in cyberspace ... players of the swine flu game have limited funds and face tough choices to beat the virus

THE clock is ticking, people are dying and a flu virus is sweeping the globe - that is the scenario of a new computer game designed to make people think about how to respond to the swine flu pandemic.

In The Great Flu, players must choose whether or not to stockpile anti-viral drugs and deploy research teams to new areas of outbreak as the number of infections and deaths rises and more countries are affected.

Players face tough choices with limited funds - and taking decisions such as closing major airports does not come cheap.

The game can be played at www.thegreatflu.com and is free.

The game's creators at the Erasmus Medical Centre in the Dutch city of Rotterdam say the online game is "another avenue of information'' about viruses and should not be seen as a substitute for medical advice.

Deborah MacKenzie, a consultant, writing on the New Scientist website, said she found the game was flawed because it was unclear what effect the action that players took had on the virus.

"But if the current swine flu pandemic gets bad and schools close in the fall, there are going to be a lot of teenagers sitting at home with not much to do, and with luck this could breed up a generation of officials that does understand,'' she said.

The current outbreak of swine flu, or the A(H1N1) virus, has killed more than 1450 people worldwide and infected more than 177,000, but that figure understates the full number, since individual cases are no longer reported.

The World Health Organisation, which declared the virus a pandemic said this week infections were starting to decline in the southern hemisphere but picking up in several Asian countries.

(http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25955488-5014239,00.html)

Great White Shark attacking a rescuer

Another viral hoax is this composition of two photographs which was widely circulated in an e-mail in 2001. The e-mail claimed the photo had been chosen as National Geographic's Photo of the Year (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries)

Arnold Schwarzenegger invites Shah Rukh Khan for Dinner in DC

Arnold invites SRK for dinner! Oh Really!! Oh Well, let's see now....

After the detention drama, attempts to please our Bollywood badshaah have started. Shah Rukh Khan has been invited for dinner to Washington DC on September 20 by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

SRK hasn't yet commented whether he would accept the invitation or not.

What do you think you will hear next? May be a SRK-Arnold film together. Till then watch this space for more updates.

(http://www.hindustantimes.com/News/tbd/Arnold-invites-SRK-for-dinner/Article1-445273.aspx)

Official iPhone application launched by Wikipedia

The online collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is now available for download as an official application on Apple’s iPhone.

A Wikipedia application is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch

The free application, called Wikipedia Mobile, is published by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, and can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store.

It aims to give iPhone and iPod touch users quick and easy access to all sorts of information, ranging from historical events to the life and career of US President Barack Obama. The Wikimedia Foundation said the application was easier to use than having to browse the web on their phone to find a specific fact, and also had the advantage of saving the user's search history.

Several other developers have also created Wiki-style encyclopedia apps for the iPhone and iPod touch. The Wikimedia Foundation acknowledged that while its official software lacked some features compared to existing applications, it was focusing on "speed and simplicity" with the first version of its software.

The Foundation said it would added further features in future versions based on requests from users, and welcomed contributions from other developers and programmers.

More than 1.5 billion applications have been sold through the iTunes App Store since it launched last July, with thousands of developers creating tens of thousands of programs which consumers can download to enhance their user experience on the iPhone and iPod touch.

Wikipedia recently announced that web users had contributed more than three million English-language articles to the site, which anyone can contribute to.

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6054502/Wikipedia-launches-official-iPhone-application.html)