Strip Show in Museum!!!

Vienna's prestigious Leopold Museum is usually a pretty buttoned-down place, but on Friday, some of the nudes in its marble galleries were for real.
Scores of naked or scantily clad people wandered the museum, lured by an offer of free entry to "The Naked Truth," a new exhibition of early 1900s erotic art, if they showed up wearing just a swimsuit -- or nothing at all.
"We wanted to give people a chance to cool off, and bring nakedness into the open," he said. "It's a bit of an experiment. Egon Schiele was a young and wild person in his day. He'd want to be here."

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Oracle in talks to buy Citi stake in i-Flex

The likely acquisition to give Oracle access to core banking solutions business.

Oracle is in talks with the Citi group to buy out its majority 44 per cent stake in software products and services company i-Flex solutions.

If the talks materialise, the acquisition will give Oracle an instant access to core banking solutions and services business. i-Flex's main product Flexcube is the largest selling core banking solutions product.

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Laptops Are Hot; Maybe Too Hot

It may be hard to fry an egg on a new laptop today, but notebook surface temperatures remain too hot for many users -- and the situation could get worse.

Contemporary laptops are generally cooler than their predecessors. In IBM's case, what it calls the maximum "skin temperature," or surface temperature, is 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit), which is considered an optimal threshold in the industry. However, laptop makers increasingly struggle to accommodate components that are more powerful and, consequently, hotter.
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MP3 Sunglasses

Oakley's Thump MP3 sunglasses, now available in 256MB and 512MB versions, ably serve the dual purpose of keeping sun out of your eyes while putting music into your ears. And they do have a sort of Riddick-like appeal. But are they cool enough to justify spending $400-500 on an undersized MP3 player and a pair of sunglasses?
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B Sc at 14, M Sc at 16

Aarti Jajoo of Jaipur has earned the distinction of being the youngest post-graduate in Mathematics in India, her family claimed on Monday.

The achievement has found the 16-year-old girl, who passed M.Sc with 77.5 per cent from the University of Rajasthan, a place in the Limca Book of Records, which informed sent them a communication on July 1, the family told PTI.

The communication said Aarti's achievement would feature in the 2006 edition of the book of records, they said.

She also holds the record of being the youngest graduate in the country at the age of 14, they said.

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