Fuel Scarcity hits Lagos

FUEL scarcity hit Lagos State at the weekend as long queues resurfaced at filing stations across the metropolis.
When The Guardian visited some of the filling stations in the metropolis yesterday, it was learnt that some of the stations were out of stock while others were rationing available fuel.
Stakeholders attributed the shortage in fuel supply to what they called low import status, as the entire market now depends on products from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
It was learnt that the marketers have withdrawn from fuel importation due to the intrigues that trailed the subsidy report, which indicted several oil marketers and consequently led to withholding of the outstanding subsidy claim

The Great Antonio

The strongman Antonio Barichievich (1925-2003), aka the Great Antonio, seems Weird-Universe worthy. Here's a few brief facts about his life (via wikipedia and mrkurtnielsen.com):

• He first made it into the Guinness Book of World Records in 1952 by pulling a 433-ton train 19.8 metres.
• He weighed 465 pounds (at his heaviest) and stood about 6 foot 4 inches.
• He could eat 25 chickens or 10 steaks at one sitting.
• He claimed that he trained by running head-on into trees from a distance of 60 metres.
• He sang with a soft, beautiful voice, and at one time wanted to tour with Tiny Tim.
• He owned what was possibly the world's largest rocking chair — 4 meters high and 2 meters wide.
• He believed he was descended from extraterrestrials.
• As he grew older, he braided his dreadlocks into a club held together with masking tape and used this to play "hair golf."
• Later in life, the only way to contact him was to leave a message at the Dunkin' Donuts in Rosemont, Canada.
• He died of a heart attack at the age of 77.

Chai. nawa oooo

Slow Kids Equal Speed Bumps?

This is weird. This speed bumps magically shows up when kids try to cross.

Azonto Dance Class

Damn. Check this out. this guy is good.

Microsoft gifts full-time employees with Surface tablets, Windows 8 phones and PCs

Reprising a Windows Phone 7 giveaway from back in 2010, Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer announced at the company's annual event that all 90,000 or so full-time employees are getting a taste of its latest hardware. That's one Surface for Windows RT tablet and Windows Phone 8 phone (we're told that last time around these came with two year contracts) in late December, along with a new touch compatible office computer running Windows 8, presumably arriving sooner. Forbes indicates those PCs can be a desktop, laptop, ultrabook or tablet, and we have a pic of one employee's new Lenovo-built slate running Windows 8 on a Core i7 CPU with 8GB of RAM after the break. Pulling an Oprah, again, isn't just one way to improve employee morale, it also ensures everyone's familiar with the new products as they roll out and are ready to tell people about them. Will that provide the necessary bump to catch up with the competition from Apple and Google? Only time will tell, but if you're wondering what to say when someone asks if every single person wants a Surface then our advice follows after the break.

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Top Stories HP Envy Spectre XT review

Atari games redesigned in HTML 5 may bring back a flood of nostalgia, but they leave out a key part of the gaming experience: the classic hardware. Hard Drives Northwest filled that void by gutting a limited number of authentic Atari 2600s and stuffing them with modern PC components. Packing a Core i7 3.4GHz processor, the retro console now boasts 22,857 times more processing power than it did in its heyday, according to Microsoft's calculations -- more than enough oomph to handle the recent remakes. Other internals include 8GB of RAM, a 120GB SSD and a Radeon HD 6570 graphics card with 1GB of video memory. With support for USB 3.0 and 2.0, eSATA, DisplayPort, DVI and HDMI, the system is well stocked on the connectivity front. Finally, the signature of Atari founder Nolan Bushnell acts as the cherry atop the faux wood grain-toting package. While the souped-up machines aren't up for sale, a pair of them are slated for a giveaway. Glamour shots and the full set of specs await you at the source.