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| | Firefox 3 Guinness World Record | | 2008-07-07 12:29:18 | | Do you still remember when i post about Firefox attempt to achieve the Guiness world record for most software downloaded in 24 hours?
To become part of the official Guinness World Record you must download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008, or roughly 24 hours from now.
So, did they make it? Well, if [...] | | By: The Land Below the Wind | | |
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| Firefox 3 sets Guinness world record | | 2008-07-03 04:00:42 | | More than 8 million users downloaded the latest release of firefox, firefox 3 last June 17 setting a Guinness world record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours.
And i’m part of that 8 million!
To date, there are 28.7 million users who downloaded firefox 3.
Whoah! | | By: Buddy Blogs | | |
| | | El record Guinness casi le cuesta la vida | | 2008-06-12 11:46:57 | | A el se olvidó de comer, dormir o incluso beber agua. Pero el artista mexicano Filemon Treviño cumplió su sueño de toda la vida entrar en el los libros de récords mundiales Guinness.
En una conferencia de prensa el Miércoles, Treviño presentó un certificado de Guinness declara que su dibujo a lápiz de un a cuarto [...] | | By: Atronao | | |
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| Récord Guinness para Firefox 3 | | 2008-06-09 13:13:00 | | Los desarrolladores de Firefox se han propuesto una nueva meta para la versión 3 del popular navegador. Quieren alcanzar un récord Guinness al software más descargado en 24 horas.Nos piden que tomemos cartas en este asunto y ayudemos inscribiéndonos en el proyecto Download Day, para lograr el récord esperado. Nuestra ayuda será realizar la descarga durante las 24 horas posteriores al lanzamiento. Aún no han revelado el día que se hará pública la versión definitiva de Firefox 3.Para la inscripción en el Download Day sólo nos piden nuestra dirección de correo electrónico para avisarnos del día que estará disponible para la descarga del software el día del lanzamiento.En la página oficial del evento muestran un mapa del mundo con la cantidad de usuarios inscritos por países. En el momento de escribir esta nota se destacan Estados Unidos con más de 153 000, Polonia con más de 72 000 y Brasil con más de 69 000. Sumando en total más de | | By: Programación Web y TecnologÃas Informáticas | | |
| | Chang Jung-Lin Wins Guinness 9 Ball Leg in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! | | 2008-06-01 04:56:31 | | Billiards update!From the Guinness 9 Ball Tour, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Once again, Chinese-Taipei's Chang Jung-Lin, makes it a hat-trick of titles as he takes down his third consecutive Guinness 9-Ball Tour title at Genting Highlands. The Taiwanese was simply unbeatable in the finals as he muscled his way past Filipino pool player Antonio Gabica, aka Gaga, with a score of 11-6. Chang Jung-Lin came out of the blocks like a bullet and raced to a 4-0 lead before Gabica managed to get his first rack on the board to make it 4-1. Gaga's confidence went back up and he took down the next three racks to set it up nicely at 4-4. The crowd was ecstatic as they rallied behind the Filipino pool player but it was all downhill from there on as the defending champion refused to allow Gaga Gabica a chance to get back in the game. If it was a boxing match, it would have been a done deal as Chang pulverized the table and snatched the next six racks to go on the hill at 10-4. By this time, G | | By: The AnitoKid Chronikos | | |
| | Guinness 9 Ball Tour: Gabica, Chang & Wang in Semis! Wu Suffers Upset! | | 2008-05-31 16:04:49 | | Billiards update!From the Guinness 9 Ball Tour, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia:Gabica, Chang, and Wang Through to the Semis;Wu Suffers Shock Upset Defending Grand Finals champion Chang Jung-Lin of Chinese Taipei breezed through to the semi-finals after he demolished Li He Wen of China, 9 - 0, in today's quarterfinals of the Guinness 9 Ball Tour 2008 at the Genting International Convention Center. With this win, Chang, who swept the 2008 Tour's first two legs in Chinese Taipei and Penang, remains on track to win the third leg of the annual six-city event organised by ESPN STAR Sports. Chang is joined in the semi-finals by compatriot Wang Hung Hsiang. Wang knocked out world number 6 Joven Bustamante of the Philippines, 9 - 3. It was not a clean sweep for the Chinese Taipei contingent though, as Wu Chia Ching was upset by Ryu Seung Woo of South Korea, 9 - 7, while Filipino pool player Antonio Gabica, aka Gaga, edged Yang Ching Shun, 9 - 7. Wu, the 2005 WPA World Pool champion, struggle | | By: The AnitoKid Chronikos | | |
| | Mozilla quiere un record Guinness | | 2008-05-31 09:45:53 | | La Fundación Mozilla inició una campaña mundial para intentar establecer, con el nuevo Firefox 3, un récord Guinness al software que más descargas tuvo en 24 horas.
A través del Download Day , Mozilla puso en práctica una serie de acciones para motivar la descarga de la nueva versión de su navegador de Internet, cuyo lanzamiento [...] | | By: Atronao | | |
| | | Diageo to revamp historic Guinness site in Dublin | | 2008-05-12 01:33:00 | | For two-and-a-half centuries St. James's Gate has been the home of Guinness. Diageo, the famed Irish stout's British-based parent company and the world's largest producer of alcoholic drinks, brews a billion pints a year of the "black Stuff".Recent weeks were abuzz with press speculation that Diageo would sell the world brand's historic birthplace and build a new brewery outside the city. Irish Guinness drinkers had taken it hard."If Guinness pulled out of St. James's Gate, I'd never drink Guinn | | By: Brand Mantra | | |
| | TABAQUERO CUBANO IMPLANTARA NUEVO RECORD GUINNESS | | 2008-05-05 22:18:25 | | Tomado de Juventud RebeldeComo parte de la Feria Internacional de Turismo FITCUBA 2008 el tabaquero cubano José Castelar Cairo (Cueto) trabaja hoy en la confección del tabaco más largo del mundo para romper su propio récord Guinness.La nueva hazaña consiste en terminar a mediados de esta semana un habano de más de 20 metros de largo, señaló el propio torcedor. Cueto, como le conocen sus compañeros, intenta establecer una nueva marca con un tabaco superior a los 20,40 metros de longitud, su anterior registro.Para esta faena cuenta con el auspicio del Ministerio de Turismo de Cuba (MINTUR), la compañía local Caracol, el Semanario Opciones y la Embajada Británica en La Habana.El tabaco lo prepara en uno de los salones del complejo histórico-cultural Morro-Cabaña, fortaleza colonial que sirve de escenario a FITCUBA (5 al 9 de mayo), y pretende terminarlo el 7 de mayo próximo, luego de cinco días de trabajo.Con 47 años de experiencia como torcedor de puros, labora en la act | | By: Desde Cuba | | |
| | Guinness Storehouse, Dublin | | 2008-04-29 16:47:29 | | Guinness Storehouse, “the home of Guinness”, is Dublin’s most popular tourist attraction. A converted brewing factory, it is effectively a shrine to Guinness, incorporating elements from the old brewing factory to explain the history of its production. Some of the old brewing equipment is on show, as well as stout ingredients, brewing techniques, advertising methods [...] | | By: Best travel, travel trailers, discount travel, 200 | | |
| | $$$$$$$$ Rachel Aldana - Guinness Record -----Largest Boobs $$$$$$$$$$ | | 2008-04-13 01:27:15 | | TEENAGER Rachel Aldana is to star in the Guinness Book of Records for having Britain's biggest boobs - a titanic 32JJ.They make Jordan's 34FF pair look like poached eggs - and unlike the model, Rachel's ones are NATURAL.But hairdresser Rachel, 18, pays a heavy price for her monster mammaries.Each one weighs a staggering 2.4KG - more than a large bag of potatoes - which means she suffers permanent back pain.And her outstanding assets bring a daily gauntlet of leers from blokes and bitching from women.Rachel, from Brackley, Northants, said: "It's fantastic about the record but I'm totally out of proportion. I'm 5ft 6ins yet I have these huge breasts. I look like a Barbie doll - and it's caused grief all my life."She added: "Blokes stop and stare at me. It can be intimidating and it's made me rather dubious about men. But the women are worse. They look at me like I'm filth and tell me I'm attention-seeking."Rachel, who says she is "happily" single, reckons her boobs are hereditary.She sai | | By: HOTTEST CELEBRITY BIKINI PICTURES AND OTHER HQ PIC | | |
| | Origin of Pool and Billiards According to Guinness! | | 2008-03-21 13:57:37 | | Just saw some humorous YouTube videos on the origin of pool / billiards! The videos were made by Guinness as a marketing tool for their billiards competitions. I first saw the videos from a post made by one of my online friends, Big Rig Tom. Enjoy!Origin of the billiard tableaccording to Guinness.Origin of the billiard cueaccording to Guinness.Origin of the billiard clothaccording to Guinness"The AnitoKid loves YouTube videos on billiards!"*Did you enjoy the post? Did you find it interesting?You know what to do...:) Get news and updates! It's fast! It's free! And I kid you not! Enter your email address
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| | Guinness World Records for Fattest Man Reduced 570 Pound Weight | | 2008-02-23 23:56:09 | | Manuel Uribe, the world's fattest man, according to the Guinness Book of Records, pictured in 2006, proudly announced Tuesday he dropped 230 kilograms (570 pounds), nearly half his original weight in less time than doctors had expected. The world's fattest man, according to the Guinness Book of Records, proudly announced Tuesday he dropped 230 kilograms (570 pounds), nearly half his original weight in less time than doctors had expected. "I'm going to throw a big party," Manuel Uribe told AFP by telephone. "I'm getting out of my house and going for a walk" in Monterrey, where he lives in northern Mexico. Uribe, 42, weighed in at 570 kilos (1,257 pounds) at his heaviest and for five years has been bed-ridden at his home, where his mother and fiancee help him. Doctors from neighboring United States, Italy and Mexico for two years have been helping Uribe lose weight through dieting and exercise. His goal, he said, is dropping to a slim 120 kilos (265 pounds) in four more years. On Ma | | By: Fun and entertainment guaranteed | | |
| | Oddest and Funny Old Guinness World Records | | 2008-02-23 23:54:05 | | "The Guinness Book of World Records" is a fascinating read, page after page of stupid human tricks. Some are just more stupid than others. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the "Guinness Book of World Records," Britain's Mirror newspaper meticulously combed through all the listings and chose the oddest entries for a single fun-to-read list! Here are the top 25 entries.Fastest Talker: In 1995, Canadian Sean Shannon recited Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy, which is 260 words, in just 23.8 seconds.Heaviest Vehicle Pulled Over 100 Feet: In 2004, Derek Boyer of Australia pulled a 30.68-ton truck-trailer 30.5 meters.Highest Shallow Dive: In January 2004, Danny Higginbottom of Louisiana dove from a height of 8.90 meters into 30 centimeters of water.Breath Held Voluntarily: American Robert Foster held his breath for 13 minutes, 42.5 seconds in 1959.Longest Time to Endure Full Body Ice Contact: Wim Hoff of the Netherlands stood in an ice cube-filled tube for 1 hour, 17 minutes in Janu | | By: Fun and entertainment guaranteed | | |
| | Somebody Call Guinness! | | 2008-02-11 06:39:48 | |
So, I was watchin’ television yesterday afternoon, still in my bathrobe, as one is wont to do on a Sunday afternoon during mid-terms, and found that I couldn’t breath through my left nostril. There was a definite blockage in there and, being alone (the cat doesn’t count), I went diggin’ for gold.
After trying [...] | | By: Maxine's House of Ill Repute | | |
| | Cerveja Guinness | It’s Alive Inside | | 2008-01-16 13:50:13 | | Criação da BBDO de Dublin para a cerveja Guinness, este filme tem seu roteiro todo baseado na história de um “ponto” e sua trajetória pelo mundo. No final a assinatura: “It’s Alive Inside” (Está vivo dentro).
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| | Guinness World Record Breaking Oxyride AA Battery Powered Car | | 2008-01-10 03:04:38 | | Basically everybody knows about AA sized batteries. Some people use it to power their children’s toys, digital camera, & etc. I use AA batteries to power my torchlight. How about using AA batteries to power a car?I do not know but would like to find out the genius behind the 192 Matsushita Oxyride AA dry-cell batteries that powered the Guiness World Record breaking battery powered car, the Panasonic Oxyride Vehicle.It was not mentioned the number of batteries used & whether the batteries were normal 1.5 volt AA batteries or an advanced version of AA batteries. Nonetheless, Oxyride AA batteries (composition of Oxy Nickel Hydroxide) were known to be 1.5 multiples more powerful than normal AA alkaline batteries. I hope the cheap, rechargeable, & road legal version of the Oxyride car goes into production.Lol.Some facts about the Panasonic Oxyride Vehicle:Power supply: 192 Matsushita Oxyride AA dry-cell batteriesTop speed: 122.00 kph (75.81 mph) during time trials in the presence of a Japanese agent for Guinness.The vehicle was claimed to be the fastest average speed achieved by a dry cell-powered vehicle.Weight: 38-kilogramme (84-pound)Length: 3.3 metres (10.8-foot)Width: 78 centimetres (2.6-foot)Height: 56 centimetres (1.8-foot)Manufacturer: Students at Osaka Sangyo University with the help of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.Materials: Carbon fibre reinforced plastic (a strong and light composite material)The Vehicle's run over one kilometre (0.6 mile) was measured twice in order to set aside any result affected by wind and other negative factors.Reference:Physics:Tech:Nano:News, Science:. "Japanese students aim for battery powered car speed record" Physorg 2007. 4 August 2007 (http://www.physorg.com/news105459477.html). | | By: movie special | | |
| | The Grinch that stole Guinness | | 2007-12-07 12:14:40 | | This, as you may have guessed, is an important time of year for us Shark Guys, as we enter the Christmas drinking season and prepare ourselves for yet more tales of drunken Santas, holiday office party chicanery (For our Holiday Office Party Tips click here), and the related reasons why it is best not to include mistletoe at a party where lower-level managers are known for their "Russian hands and Roman fingers" after too many dips into the spiked punch. (For a fuller treatment on this very theme we recommend that you check out the “Festive Cheers: Hooch on the Holidays” chapter of our “The Man Who Scared a Shark to Death: and other true tales of drunken debauchery"). What makes the holidays memorable – aside from family tensions reaching the breaking point and the prospect of imminent financial ruin in the New Year – is, of course, booze, and brewers around the world have smiles on their faces at this time of year that have little to do with stirring religious convictions or sentimental remembrances of gassy mall Santas passing out candy canes and charging 10 bucks a pop for photos. The steady flow of brewer’s booze into pubs is one of those systems that we take for granted, but it is crucial to properly enjoying the holidays and meeting its stressors with rosy cheeks and a good disposition. Recently, a thief in Ireland stole a record haul of booze from the Guinness brewery, thus throwing this delicate and vital link between brewer and boozehound into jeopardy. According to The Irish Times, the thief drove a truck into the Guinness Brewery, hitched it up to a trailer with 450 kegs of beer in tow, and drove off. In addition to 180 kegs of the black gold, the thief also made off with 180 kegs of Budweiser, and 90 kegs of Carlsberg. It may be argued that the thief did the drinkers of Dublin a favor by limiting the flow of Budweiser into the city, but in the case of the black gold or “a sandwich in a glass”, as it has been known to The Shark Guys during | | By: The Shark Guys | | |
| | Guinness Uses Dominoes to Start Viral Campaign | | 2007-11-20 13:51:34 | | Here is an example of a well crafted and well funded online marketing campaign. That ties together a campaign website, online video, and the most expensive commercial that Guinness has ever produced.
The treasure hunt begins at the Guinness contest website. There you will be challenged to unlock 11 dominoes. Each domino represents a scene from the new Guinness ad.
To unlock the dominoes, you must look for clues hidden in the video clips and visit additional contest websites to find the hidden codes. Once you unlock all 11 dominoes and put the ad together you win a golden domino. | | By: Internet Marketing Blog | | |
| | LuLu Guinness Sliver Lipstick Key Ring | | 2007-10-30 13:48:18 | | I’m not girly by any means and I prefer lip gloss over lipstick any day of the week.You don’t have to be nutty over lipstick to like this keyring.It’s also available in gold, but personally I’m partial to sliver.This would be a great gift for a lady who loves makeup.
Sidenote:Normally I wouldn’t link to a [...] | | By: Kyesi | | |
| | Guinness Book Record Broken by 1,730 Guitarists in India | | 2007-10-27 16:13:53 | | Here's some interesting news, ATOMIC fans.
A year ago 1,721 guitarists in Kansas City gathered to play "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple, setting a Guinness Book record.
Just yesterday Reuters reported 1,730 guitarists in Shillong, India assembled in a stadium and played Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."
However... the record could be incorrect. A commenter on the article at Rolling Stong Magazine claims 1,802 German guitarists played "Smoke on the Water" during June of this year.
What I would like to see is something like 2,000 guitarists performing "The Wind Cries Mary." That would be crazy cool.
Any ATOMICians up for the challenge? | | By: ATOMIC Guitarist | | |
| | Nuevos Record Guinness | | 2007-09-22 16:13:24 | | Hoy os presento dos nuevos record guinness, nose la verdad en que va a acabar esto, cada dia que pasa hay nuevos records. El primero de ellos es un hombre que se mete en un ataúl con 20.000 cucarachas, si si, 20.000. Y el segundo es un hombre que se bebe 6 cervezas en 10 segundos, probablemente, 10 segundos más tardes las hechó las 6, porque no creo que un estomago pueda aguantar tanto líquido en sólo 10 segundos... Bueno que disfrutéis de los videos. | | By: Blog de Daniel Gutiérrez Valle | | |
| | Filipino Billiards Player Lee Van Corteza is First Runner-Up in the 2007 Guinness 9-Ball Tour! | | 2007-09-04 21:43:47 | | Congratulations to Filipino billiards sensation Lee Van Corteza, aka Van Van, who placed First Runner-Up in the 2007 Guinness 9-ball Tour Grand Finals held at the Grand Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Bali, Indonesia. Corteza lost to Taiwan's Chang Jun-ling (11-8). Chang won the $36,000 top prize and the 2007 Asia Pool King title. Van Van, the cue artist from Davao City, got $10,000. Corteza defeated Taiwan's Wu Chia-ching (11-9) in the semifinals to arrange the titular showdown with Chang.Grand Final ResultsChampion (US$36,000) - Chang Jung-Lin (TPE)Runner-Up (US$10,000) - Lee Van Corteza (PHI) Joint-third (US$5,400)Wu Chia-Ching (TPE)Yang Ching-Shun (TPE) Preliminaries - 3rd Place (US$2,400)Ronato Alcano (PHI)Chao Fong-Pang (PHI) Preliminaries – 4th Place (US$2,200)Dharmindar Singh Lilly (IND)Ibrahim Amir (MAS) Preliminaries – 5th Place (US$2,000)Ricky Yang (INA)Bernard Tey (SIN)Lee Van Corteza's Titles and Tours 2007 Turning Stone Classic IX2007 Philippine National Champio | | By: The AnitoKid Chronikos | | |
| | | Another Guinness World Record: Longest Contiguous Line of MINIs | | 2007-06-13 11:06:03 | | Filed under: Etc., MINI
How many MINIs does it take to screw in a light bulb earn a world record? Apparently 273. Last Sunday, June 10, 273 MINIs old and new lined up at Virginia Beach and stretched over five miles to re-establish the record for the longest continuous line of MINIs set just last year. The parade of MINIs just edged the 269 cars that congregated in the UK last year. The tiny cars assembled and then drove along “in an uninterrupted chain more than 5 miles long!” Survivor Season One finalist, Rudy Boesch, led the parade of cars that got rolling at 1 PM. Some two hours later the last MINI was underway. 40 minutes later the group had covered 5.8 miles and set the record. Five miles of MINIs sounds like some kind of punchline, but it’s an official Guiness-certified World Record now. Or at least it will be when the paperwork reaches Guinness World Record Headquarters in London next week.
There’s an online album of pics from the event available by cli | | By: Car O Focus | | |
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