Zonda R smashes Nordschleife Record
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The visuals to go with the “record.” Pagani blasted its Zonda R over the Nürburgring for the purposes of testing production components. Removing all the mystery from the endeavor, the in-car video shows the view out the window as the driver of the R resets yet another bar at 6:47. We put “record” in quotes simply because this flier isn’t road legal, so we’re in all kinds of gray area. But it beat the Ferrari 599XX, and that’s feat unto itself. Follow the jump for the sights and sounds.
Twitter’s oldest user, Ivy Bean, dies
A Twitter member who was thought to be the oldest member of the micro-blogging site has died aged 104.
Ivy Bean from Bradford, who became the oldest person to join both Facebook and Twitte,r has died at the age of 104.
An announcement was made on her official Twitter page, @IvyBean104. “Ivy passed away peacefully at 12.08 this morning. I’m sorry it took me so long to tell you but it was a very difficult thing to do.”
The great-grandmother had been unwell for a number of weeks and tweets appearing to be from Pat, the manager of Ivy’s care home, said: “Hi everybody its Pat. OUR IVY IS HOME she is still unwell but happy to be back she sends her love but she is tired so you still have me,” last Wednesday.
On Friday she posted: “Hello this is Pat again, sorry to tell you all this but Ivy is very poorly at the minute, we are all hoping she gets well soon.”
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Peter Andre is believed to have phoned the centenarian before her death and messages of love and support had been sent to her in her final days.
In March Ivy Bean visited Downing Street to meet with the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown and also met Peter Andre as part of his TV show Peter Andre: The Next Chapter, describing the singer on Twitter as “good looking” and saying that Gordon Brown “wasn’t as good looking as Peter”.
She also wished Peter Andre’s daughter Princess a happy birthday through her Twitter account.
Her name is currently the third most popular trending topic on the site in the UK.
Twitter legend Stephen Fry tweeted earlier on Wednesday: “I hear the divine @IvyBean104 – the oldest twitterer – is not very well and needs our best wishes.”
Ivy Bean was the oldest person to join Facebook when she was 102.
Beautiful Inspiring Pinhole Camera Photographs
The Camera is a remarkable piece of innovation. However, it is people — professionals and newbies alike — who make it truly remarkable. It’s the photographer behind the camera. It’s his imagination, passion and talent and knowledge of the medium. You don’t need a high-end costly equipment to get beautiful results. Just your talent and a way of looking at things differently is together more than enough for a great shot. It’s also the ability to envision the final result in your mind which is also important.
A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperture — effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box. You can easily construct this camera by yourself using things lying around like match boxes or any kind of boxes, paper, duct tape etc. The small amount of light passing through this pin sized hole produces image on a photographic film or a CCD sensor.
Mini back in the WRC
Were it not for the efforts of John Cooper and drivers like Paddy Hopkirk on the European rally stages of the 1960s, the Mini brand probably wouldn’t have the beloved reputation that it does today – in fact, it’s possible it would never be around today at all. BMW has confirmed a longstanding rumor with today’s announcement that Mini is heading back to international rallying with the Countryman WRC beginning in 2011.
The Countryman WRC is being developed by long-time Subaru partner Prodrive for the new Super2000 regulations and will run in select World Rally Championship rounds in 2011 before taking on the full 2012 season and beyond. The rally special will have a turbocharged 1.6-liter inline-four with all-wheel-drive. Prodrive started work on the project early last year and testing will start this Fall.
Stockport Football Fixtures 2010/2011
Stockport countys first game of the 2010/2011 football season is away to Southend
Cost effective web design and Google optimisation in Stockport – Wheres Your Web At?
Yet Another Related Post – WordPress Plug-in
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site. Key features include:
- An advanced and versatile algorithm: Using a customizable algorithm considering post titles, content, tags, and categories, YARPP calculates a “match score” for each pair of posts on your blog. You choose the threshold limit for relevance and you get more related posts if there are more related posts and less if there are less.
- Templating: New in 3.0! The YARPP templating system puts you in charge of how your posts are displayed.
- Caching: Improved in 3.1! YARPP organically caches the related posts data as your site is visited, greatly improving performance.
- Related posts in RSS feeds: Display related posts in your RSS and Atom feeds with custom display options.
- Disallowing certain tags or categories: You can choose certain tags or categories as disallowed, meaning any page or post with such tags or categories will not be served up by the plugin.
- Related posts and pages: Puts you in control of pulling up related posts, pages, or both.
25 Organic Search Engine Optimisation Tips
- Think about what you’re offering – With search engine optimization you must always keep in mind what a visitor gets/can get from your website. Whether it’s reading free blog content or the opportunity to buy a product, make sure there is a reason why people should come and visit your website, and always remember it. This will help you focus your SEO content on the keywords that matter.
- Think about what people are looking for – A bit of an extension from the last tip, it’s very important that during keyword research, you should know what people are looking for. What you’re offering and what potential ad-clickers/subscribers/customers are looking for is rarely the exact same. However, you can make it that some of your main keywords are what people are actually searching for. This works great with longtail keywords, even after Google’s May Day update. For example, if your a car dealer, because people looking for a car might search “affordable safe cars”, make that one of your keywords, even if some of your cars are expensive.
- Internal linking is key – How can you rank high in search engines without too many external links? Although most webmasters, even those involved in internet marketing and SEO don’t know it, internal links are just as important as incoming links from external websites. Learn more about internal linking.
- Use anchor text - Any kind of link can be made more beneficial to your website by using anchor text. Anchor text is your actual link text. What does anchor text tell search engines? What keywords you want to rank high for. “Click Here” isn’t exactly a great link anchor text. Learn more about using anchor text effectively: How To Target Keywords Using Links.
- Your page titles aren’t supposed to be focused on users. – They are supposed to be focused on delivering your important keywords to search engines while still making sense to ordinary visitors. For example, a great page title would be “25 Search Engine Optimization Tips” and not “25 Tips That Will Skyrocket Your Search Engine Rankings”. Although the second title has more words, the first one puts a lot more focus on the biggest keyword: “Search Engine Optimization Tips”. So titles are for search engines. Where do you focus on pulling on readers? Your post titles. (If this wan’t obvious, your post titles don’t have to be and shouldn’t be the same as your page titles.) read more