In April of the year 2029, a rock measuring a width of around 300 metres, bearing the name Apophis  will fly past earth at a range closer than that of many of communication satellites. British-based agency Astrium plans to send a probe to track this hazardous rock for 3 years in January 2014, whereas the rock's size, properties, projectile and temperature will be collected. This would further improve a trajectory model of Apophis.

Even though the scientific community is re-assuring the rest that the comet will not impact with Earth, this project can still be seen as a testing mission towards future hazards to out planet. One must remember that it was the impact of a similar rock that caused one of Earth's mass extinction 65 million years ago, where dinosaurs perished giving way for mammals to take over.

Even though Google manages to make $1 billion in profits from its AdWords auction and AdSense publishing network, their adveritising system is far from perfect. Such ads are usually not taken notice of by most browsers. So to maximise their profits, Google are thinking up of new ways to make people click more on such revenue-generating adverts. And to do this they will probably turn to you ...

Their chief idea was that of including their ads in your emails. For example; if you'd be sending an email to your friend telling him about your favourite football club's new acquisition, some links to related web sites and pictures will be included in the same email. Google argue that this will save the recepient time from having to search further info by simply clicking on the provided links, especially since they have been included in a trusted friend's email ... but that is actually what Google want you to do so that their advertisement system is enriched.

People taking part in Google's new scheme (if implimented) will be rewarded. But, one must remember that such a move will only further add confusion to the internet as the divider between spam and valuable information will be further hazed.

Computer has become a necessity in everyday life for you and me ... but not for people in the poorer countries. So one day a brilliant-minded person asked himself the question "how can anyone pass one minute without stroking the keys of his keyboard?"; and to solve his dilemma he bought a computer to every single who didn't have. And everyone lived happily ever after ... and that's a joke :P

Actually this "brilliant-minded person", who is a certain Professor Negroponte, does want everyone to the smallest child to own a computer, but for educational purposes. Thus he embarked on the "One Laptop per Child" Project which aims to provide each student in the poorer countries with a $100-rated laptop (even though it currently is being produced at $170 lowest).

The first time you'd see it, you'd think it is a toy but it was described as "a very serious device" with a 433 MHz clocked processor - yes ... a very serious device I would say *fingers crossed*

Considering that this laptop was going to end up in the world's poorest hand, the first thing to consider, apart from the initial cost, is its long-term costs. If long-term costs would be high, that it would be of great burden to its user and thus the project would fail. So power-saving issue was important: no fans, no backlight and a sleeping-beauty CPU were installed ... or rather not installed.

Also, one of the most power-hungry deviced in a computer, the hard-disk, was replaced with a chip. This is due to the fact that a hard-disk would consume much more power to have its disks constantly rotating. And no ... it will not be using any Windows Operating System. It will be using a specially programmed open-sourced Operating System, the XO, which applications have been programmed to be as power-friendly as possible.

At least, it can connect to the internet through wi-fi as well as re-route the wireless signal, and a similar internet explorer to firefox to surf around. If put in standy mode the laptop will be able to act as a router for 24 hours ... but who will want to waste precious energy to provide internet access to others? Especially knowing that probabbly you'll end up playing with a kind of yo-yo provided to charge the laptop ...

Even though this project seems to be genuine ... it has been criticised by several parties. Some say that it is more important to see that the children get to a decent school, investing money in more fixtures and fittings, and qualified teachers rather than in technology. It is also facing some competition from Intel which is producing its own cheap laptop and Microsoft which is providing its software for ridiculously cheap prices in the same market niche.

It's incredible how it takes so much qualified programmers with only god knows how many titles added to their name, award ribbons pinned to their coat and carrying lots of experience in their bag in order to build the iPod ... and then a 17-year old guy just hacks into its system and tweaks it to his pleasure.

A New Jersey teenager, George Hotz, just managed to unlock his iPhone and use it on a TMobile subscription - one of the main rivals to AT&T (the latter being contracted solely  by Apple).

He said that it took him around 2 hours to unlock it, following approximately 500 hours of research, and had to both modify the phone's hardware and software.

Hotz hopes that his discovery will not be commercialized but used by other people free of charge, even though the average user does not have the ability to tweak it himself. 

I'm sure the following tips will interest the average tblogger

Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.

For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.

Turkeys can reproduce without having sex. It's called parthenogenesis.

Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England - but only in tropical fish stores. (But of course!)

There are men in Guam whose job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the 1st time.

Sex burns 360 calories per hour!

Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.

22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.

In india it is cheaper to have sex with a prostitue than buy a condom!

"Formicophilia" is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals. Gross!!

"Ithyphallophobia" is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.

When swans go on a date, they'll put their heads together. Then they stick together for life.

Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. It is 10 times more effective than valium!

Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.

The average shelf-life of a latex condom is about two years.

The word "gymnasium" comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means "to exercise naked."

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands.

85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.

An adulterous Greek male was sometimes punished by the removal of his pubic hair and the insertion of a large radish into his rectum.

Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds.

The greatest recorded number of children one mother had was 69 children. Do the math!

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were: Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

25% of women think money makes a man sexier.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Snakes have two sex organs.

Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don't.

The average person spends 2 weeks of its life kissing.

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because Donald doesn't wear pants.

Went to a party? How about asking your car to decide whether you are in a state to drive safely or not? Your mates will surely take that as an indication that you are not in a state to drive home, but ...

The Japanese car manufacturer Nissan has truely just come up with such a car model. It has been equipped with odour sensors to carry out breath analysis, detectors to analyse palm perspiration and a camera to check eye activities for alertness. Just fail the poised tests and you will be spending the night in your car, as it will not start.

Nissan is still working on programming the car with the maximum alcohol content at which it will start or not. Its aim is that of halving the number of fatal car accidents caused by vehicles bearing its name in 1995 by the year 2015.