Monday, May 28, 2012

WWN Monday

Woman documents stolen iPhone's adventures on Facebook -- starring alleged thief
After her iPhone left her possession during a Disney cruise, a woman started noticing new photos being automatically uploaded to her iCloud account. The images include the apparent phone stealer, a woman who appears to be his girlfriend and a bevy of their friends and co-workers. So the woman did what any clever but irate person would do: Upload them to a Facebook gallery, accompanied by hilarious captions. Katy McCaffrey went on a cruise aboard the Disney Wonder in April. At that time she lost possession of her iPhone. In a comment on the Facebook album she created, she alleges that the smartphone was stolen by a man named "Nelson," who appears in many of the photos and is identifiable thanks to a Disney Cruise employee badge. McCaffrey is able to see photos taken with her iPhone because of Photostream, an Apple feature which automatically uploads photos to a user's iCloud account. (It seems that the man using her iPhone didn't bother to disconnect her account or erase the iPhone.)

How This Three-Year-Old Made $3 Million in Five Minutes?
A three-year-old boy from Essex was playing with his father’s metal detector for the first time in his life when he stumbled upon a gold pedant estimated to be worth over $3.17m. “I was holding the detector and it went beep, beep, beep. Then we dug into the mud. There was gold there. We didn’t have a map – only pirates have treasure maps.” - James told the press during an interview. James Hyatt, now four, had only been scanning the soil for less than a few minutes when his metal detector started beeping. His father, Jason, was amazed to find out his son’s discovery after he pulled the object out. The rare 16th century gold reliquary locket, which was once worn by the royalty. He has been doing it as a hobby for 15 years, but has never found anything like it. The pendant was believed to date back to the 16th Century and was reportedly be apart of Christ’s crown.

                                                                                    Never-ending Traffic Jam in China
TrafficJam2 Chinas Neverending Traffic Jam pictureWith a fast growing economy and an abundant amount of natural resources. China has surpasses Japan to become the 2nd best country in the world. Much of China’s population living standards has improved greatly and room for personal automobiles has also increased dramatically. However, road infrastructures is still a major problem in China because there is a massive traffic jam on the Beijing-Tibet Highway which been went on for more than 2 weeks! The bumper-to-bumper gridlock began on Aug. 13 due to a construction project and has stretch to more than 60 miles long. So how long is 60 miles? Imagine a jam stretching from San Francisco, CA to Sacramento, CA. The worse part is that the crisis lasted until the middle of the next month, say authorities. Stranded drivers have been spending most of their time sleeping, playing card games, and chatting with local villagers who have lined the highway to sell food and water. Do you still think that your commute is painful?