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Ever wondered how companies got their names? This blog look into the origin of company names…

Here’s an excerpt:

The online auction site was founded in San Jose on September 4, 1995 by computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as Auctionweb, part of a larger personal site that included, among other things, Omidyar’s own tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Ebola virus. The company officially changed its name to eBay in September 1997. Originally, the site belonged to Echo Bay Technology Group, Omidyar’s consulting firm. Omidyar had tried to register the domain name EchoBay.com but found it already taken by the Echo Bay Mines, a gold mining company, so he shortened it to his second choice, eBay.com.

http://productnames.blogspot.com/

Matt Pressnall took pictures of his wife every other day during the 9 months of pregnancy.
The video is called “9 months of gestation in 20 seconds” and can be found on his page : pressnall.com

80’s music

http://www.freephotosandvideos.com/

They’ve simply indexed youtube …

Castle Optical Afterimage Illusion : Stare at the center of this image. When you see the color image, move your eyes… you’ll be shocked at what you see!

Ok, when getting these illusions I always suspect some creepy image to pop up, but… it didn’t. It is a great illusion. Try it

airliners.net, A webpage with pictures of , yes you guessed right, airliners
Boing 747 -446 (c) Daniel Werner
Concorde 101 (c) Philippe Noret

Who can forget the hours spent with this thing. This guy in the flic is Gan, a student of Tongji university in Shanghai, China.
He surely beats me!

Cassette Jam ‘05! An excellent collection of over 560 audio cassettes ! http://homepage3.nifty.com/hanazuc/cassette/ (page takes a while to load)