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May 24, 2008
| Roof 2 facts | the covering on the uppermost part of a building |
| Chimney 3 facts | system for venting hot flue gases or smoke from a boiler, stove, furnace or fireplace to the outside atmosphere |
May 19, 2008
| Chair 2 facts | a kind of furniture for sitting |
May 18, 2008
| OOP 2 facts | programming paradigm that uses "objects" and their interactions to design applications and computer programs |
| IDE 3 facts | a standard interface for connecting storage devices such as hard disks, solid state disks and CD-ROM drives inside personal computers |
May 2, 2008
| San José 3 facts | is a city in the center-east of the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina |
April 29, 2008
| Buenos Aires 4 facts | capital and largest city of Argentina |
February 19, 2008
| Tool 2 facts | A tool or device is a piece of equipment which typically provides a mechanical advantage in accomplishing a physical task |
| Mario 2 facts | Created by Shigeru Miyamoto |
November 22, 2007
| EVDO 2 facts | telecommunications standard for the wireless transmission of data through radio signals, typically for broadband Internet access |
November 20, 2007
| Chemical Brothers 7 facts | UK-based Grammy Award winning electronic music duo |
| Sudoku 6 facts | logic-based number placement puzzle |
November 19, 2007
| FAT 9 facts | a partially patented file system developed by Microsoft for MS-DOS |
| EXE 9 facts | the common filename extension for denoting an executable |
| CD 11 facts | an optical disc used to store digital data |
| Batch file 4 facts | a text file containing a series of commands intended to be executed |
| 4DOS 7 facts | a command line interpreter, designed to replace the default command interpreter COMMAND.COM in DOS |
| DOS 8 facts | Disk Operating System |
| Accumulation 1 fact | purchase of a large number of shares over a longer period of time to avoid pushing the price up |
November 18, 2007
| Caterina Fake 7 facts | best known as the co-founder of Flickr |
| Brand 2 facts | name, sign or design to identify products or services from a company in order to differentiate them from those of competitors |
| Corporate Design 2 facts | official graphical design of the logo and name of a company |
| Soft Launch 1 fact | launching a website in stages and without mass media coverage |
| twitter 2 facts | is a popular micro-blogging service |
| Sonic Youth 3 facts | Band from New York |
| Garbsen 5 facts | is a city in Lower Saxony |
| Philanthropist 1 fact | someone who donates his/her time to charitable causes |
| Warren Buffett 12 facts | investor, businessperson and philanthropist |
| Roger Federer 9 facts | regarded as the best tennis player of his generation |
| Salt 5 facts | is a mineral essential for animal life, composed primarily of sodium chloride |
| PNG 6 facts | computer image format that employs lossless data compression |
| JPEG 6 facts | commonly used method of compression for photographic images |
| GIF 7 facts | Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) |
| MB 3 facts | unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity |
November 17, 2007
| cohesive 1 fact | means well-integrated, unified |
| Abraham Lincoln 7 facts | introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery |
| Mark Twain 11 facts | American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer |
| A4 2 facts | successor of the Audi 80 |
| iPhone 6 facts | multimedia and Internet-enabled mobile phone |
| PDA 4 facts | personal digital assistant |
| FAQ 4 facts | Frequently Asked Questions |
| Lexicon 4 facts | a synonym for dictionary or encyclopedic dictionary |
November 16, 2007
| Marshall Kirkpatrick 4 facts | Lead Author at Read/WriteWeb |
| Shel Israel 8 facts | co-author (with Robert Scoble) of "Naked Conversations, How blogs are changing the way businesses talk with customers" |
| Robert Scoble 10 facts | American blogger, technical evangelist, and author |
| Snowman 6 facts | creating a snowman dates back to at least the Middle Ages |
| Miami 10 facts | largest city within the South Florida metropolitan area |
| Nice 7 facts | city in southern France located on the Mediterranean coast, between Marseille and Genoa |
November 15, 2007
| Apex 1 fact | The tip of the tongue |
| Active articulator 1 fact | A part of the vocal tract which moves towards another to form a constriction during the articulation of a sound |
| Ablaut 1 fact | The change in the quality of a vowel in a root which is not conditioned by the phonetic context |
| Abduction 1 fact | The drawing apart of the vocal folds |
| Pragmatics 1 fact | study of the ability of natural language speakers to communicate more than that which is explicitly stated |
| Phonetics 2 facts | the study of the sounds of human speech |
| Syntax 1 fact | the study of the rules that govern the structure of sentences, and which determine their relative grammaticality |
| Morphology 1 fact | studies the internal structure of words |
| Linguistics 1 fact | the scientific study of language |
| Phonology 1 fact | studies the sound system of a specific language (or languages) |
| Grapheme 2 facts | all the individual symbols of any of the world's writing systems |
| Morpheme 1 fact | smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning |
| Phoneme 1 fact | the smallest unit of speech that distinguishes meaning |
| Syndication 4 facts | web feeds make a portion of a website available to other sites or subscribers |
| Tag 7 facts | keyword or term associated with a piece of information (pic, video, blog entry, etc.) |
| Fact 5 facts | synonymous with truth or reality |
| Terminology 6 facts | study of terms and their use |
| Term 1 fact | a word or compound word used in a specific context |
November 13, 2007
| Ericsson 6 facts | Swedish-based provider of telecommunication and data communication systems |
| Heineken 5 facts | brewed in the Heineken brewery in Zoeterwoude, the Netherlands |
| Terry Pratchett 3 facts | best known for his Discworld series |
| Audi 4 facts | Germany-based car manufacturer |
| Neustrelitz 6 facts | town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany |
| compuccino 2 facts | nickname of Klas Roggenkamp |
November 12, 2007
| South Park 3 facts | animated television comedy series |
| Nokia 3 facts | world's largest manufacturer of mobile telephones |
| Schizophrenia 4 facts | a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness |
| Open Source 3 facts | set of principles and practices that promote access to the design and production of goods and knowledge |
| Scrubs 4 facts | focuses on the professional and personal lives of several characters working at Sacred Heart |
| Canada 4 facts | Capital is Ottawa |
| Justin Timberlake 4 facts | pop and R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor |
| Smallville 4 facts | follows the adventures of a young Clark Kent's life |
| Labor Day 4 facts | a United States federal holiday |
| The Holocaust 4 facts | describes the killing of approximately six million European Jews during World War II |
| House 3 facts | medical drama television series |
| Hannah Montana 3 facts | children's television series |
| Facebook 3 facts | social networking website |
| Amy Winehouse 4 facts | soul and jazz singer songwriter |
| Mexico 4 facts | Capital is Mexico City |
| Parasitism 2 facts | a symbiotic relationship that benefits the parasite but harms the parasite's partner |
| Batman 4 facts | fictional comic book superhero |
| 300 3 facts | Directed by Zack Snyder |
| Fred Thompson 3 facts | politician, lawyer, lobbyist and character actor |
| Australia 4 facts | the world's smallest continent |
| Global Warming 3 facts | refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans |
| Steve Fosset 4 facts | aviator, sailor and adventurer |
| KDE 4 facts | powerful system for an easy-to-use desktop environment |
| Albert Einstein 6 facts | best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2 |
| Doctor Who 5 facts | adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as "the Doctor" |
| Pokémon 3 facts | media franchise owned by video game giant Nintendo |
| Japan 5 facts | Capital is Tokyo |
| Lil Wayne 5 facts | American rapper |
| High School Musical 5 facts | American telefilm |
| LOST 4 facts | American serial drama television series |
| India 5 facts | Capital is New Delhi |
| Pendulum 5 facts | drum & bass group |
| World War I 4 facts | global military conflict |
| FileZilla 5 facts | fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client |
| BioShock 3 facts | first-person shooter video game |
| Eminem 5 facts | rapper, record producer, and actor |
| France 7 facts | is located in Western Europe |
| Internet Movie Database 5 facts | largest accumulation of user-based data about films, television programs, direct-to-video products, and video games |
| Zac Efron 6 facts | actor and singer |
| Playstation 3 3 facts | third home video game console produced by Sony |
| Zombie 3 facts | reanimated corpse devoid of consciousness |
| Wii 3 facts | fifth home video game console released by Nintendo |
| Kanye West 4 facts | record producer and rapper |
| New York City 6 facts | largest city in the state of New York |
| Britney Spears 4 facts | Born on December 2, 1981 |
| Adolf Hitler 5 facts | leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party |
November 11, 2007
| Zoo 3 facts | facility in which animals are confined within enclosures and displayed to the public |
| Agent Provocateur 2 facts | Exclusive lingerie label |
| Vivienne Westwood 3 facts | British fashion designer, brought punk style on the runways |
| Test 3 facts | serves to assess or measure students' performance, knowledge or skills |
| Test 1 fact | and experiment form parts of the scientific method, to verify or falsify an expectation with an observation |
| QWERTY 4 facts | most common modern-day keyboard layout on English-language computer and typewriter keyboards |
| Kremlin 3 facts | Russian word for "fortress", "citadel" or "castle" |
| Qi 5 facts | "life force" or "spiritual energy" |
| Zodiac 5 facts | denotes an annual cycle of twelve stations along the ecliptic |
| Akatsuki Naruto 4 facts | fictional organization of criminal ninja |
| America's next top model 4 facts | reality television show |
| World War II 5 facts | deadliest conflict in human history |
| Nutella 3 facts | The main chocolate-like flavoring ingredient, hazelnut |
| Bleach 5 facts | ongoing manga series |
| Vanessa Anne Hudgens 6 facts | American actress and singer |
| Transformers 5 facts | live action film |
| Wikipedia 5 facts | articles are written collaboratively by volunteers around the world |
| Guitar Hero III 4 facts | a music video game |
| Harry Potter 6 facts | storyline is about Harry Potter and his conflict against Lord Voldemort |
| Wiki 5 facts | type of computer software that allows users to easily create, edit and link web pages |
| Seed Capital 4 facts | used to pay for preliminary operations like market research and product development |
| Initial Public Offering 5 facts | the first sale of stock by a private company to the public |
| Incubator 2 facts | one of the 4 proposed stages of creativity |
| Exit strategy 2 facts | a way to terminate either one's ownership of a company or the operation of some part of the company |
| Exit 2 facts | a multithreading environment means that a thread of execution has stopped running |
| Equity 1 fact | common or preferred financial stock |
| Due diligence 5 facts | a term used for a number of concepts involving either the performance of an investigation of a business or person |
| JavaScript 6 facts | scripting language used for client-side web development |
| Long Tail 4 facts | products that are in low demand volume can collectively make up a market share exceeding the few current bestsellers |
| Web 2.0 6 facts | facilitate collaboration and sharing data between users |
November 10, 2007
| Om Malik 7 facts | executive editor for the technology blog GigaOM |
| Capital gain 5 facts | profit that results from the sale or exchange of a capital asset |
| Benchmark 5 facts | is used in order to assess the relative performance of an object |
| Acquisition 3 facts | is a Gnutella-based peer-to-peer and BitTorrent client for Mac OS X |
| Digg 5 facts | is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles |
| David Sifry 4 facts | American software entrepreneur and blogosphere icon |
| Guy Kawasaki 3 facts | one of the original Apple employees |
| Podcast 5 facts | is a digital media file, or a related collection of such files |
| Venture Capital 5 facts | is a type of private equity capital typically provided by professional, outside investors to new, growth businesses |
| Angel Investor 4 facts | is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up |
| Safari 5 facts | uses Apple's WebKit for rendering web pages and running JavaScript |
| Golem 5 facts | is an animated being created entirely from inanimate matter |
| IPv6 5 facts | written out means Internet Protocol version 6 |
| Safari 3 facts | usually refered to as a trip by tourists to Africa |
| Firefox 5 facts | is a free and open source web browser |
November 9, 2007
| OEM 6 facts | Certain OEM programs have limited functionality, but most do not |
| NTFS 5 facts | standard file system of Windows NT |
| IP-Address 5 facts | when the computer's IP address changes frequently (i.e. dialup or shared residential cable) it is called a Dynamic IP address |
| CPU 5 facts | Central processing unit |
November 8, 2007
| Hard disk drive 10 facts | commonly referred to as a hard drive, hard disk or fixed disk drive |
| Byte 7 facts | comes from the term "bite" as in the smallest amount of data a computer could "bite" |
| Distributed Computing 3 facts | processing elements that communicate and cooperate to solve larger problems fast |
| Mainboard 8 facts | provide the electrical and logical connections by which the other components of the system communicate |
| William Dickson 6 facts | credited with the invention of the motion picture camera |
| Nucleus 8 facts | collection of protons and neutrons in the center of an atom, also composed of subatomic matter |
| Comet 9 facts | is a small body in the solar system that orbits the Sun |
| Christopher Columbus 4 facts | one of the first Europeans to explore the Americas after the Vikings |
| George Eastman 7 facts | founded the Eastman Kodak Company |
| Thomas Edison 9 facts | was an American inventor |
| Panic Room 10 facts | a safe hiding place for the inhabitants in the event of a break-in, home invasion, or other threat |
| Hacker 6 facts | has several common meanings |
| Logitech 5 facts | headquartered in Romanel-sur-Morges, Switzerland |
| Mc Donalds 6 facts | world's largest chain of fast-food restaurants |
| Burger King 6 facts | a global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants |
| SEO 7 facts | Search Engine Optimisation |
| Michael Arrington 6 facts | serial entrepreneur and maintainer of the TechCrunch blog |
| Red Bull 10 facts | brand name of an energy drink that originated in Thailand |
| Walt Disney 7 facts | created famous fictional characters, like Mickey Mouse |
| Sony Corporation 5 facts | one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video games and information technology products |
| Lufthansa 5 facts | the world's sixth largest airline |
| Trillian 8 facts | proprietary multiprotocol instant messaging application for Windows |
| Counter Strike Source 6 facts | also known as CS: Source or simply CS:S |
| Grand Canyon 8 facts | is 277 miles (446 km) long |
| Miranda 6 facts | a minimalist, open source multiprotocol instant messaging application |
| Lord of the Rings 9 facts | story centres on the Ring of Power made by the Dark Lord Sauron |
| Tokyo 5 facts | largest city in Japan |
| ICQ 8 facts | instant messaging computer program |
| Adium 5 facts | free instant messaging client |
| A4 2 facts | international standard paper size 210x297 mm |
| Family Guy 7 facts | American animated television series |
| European Space Agency 6 facts | dedicated to the exploration of space |
| Electronic Sports League 5 facts | largest electronic sports league in Europe |