Everyone’s talking about the recently released Google Chrome. What I was wondering was, how does it stack up memory wise? I took each of these browsers, removed all plugins and cleared the cache then noted the memory usage after loading them. This is by no means a scientific experiment, but I tried to keep things […]

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1. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
2. The US has used military force a number of times, but has only actually declared war 5 times (the War […]

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I heard some sad news this morning, that Former Trailblazer Kevin Duckworth had passed away, at the age of 44. Not long after the news, we start hearing stories about the “gentle giant”, and here’s mine.

I can’t say I knew him all that well, but well enough he’d call out to me at the sportsman […]

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In honor of the 36 gold medals won by the United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Fourth-Place Medal presents 36 interesting facts about the overall medal count:
1) China won the most gold medals at the Beijing Games with 51. They become the first country to crack the 50-gold mark since the Soviet Union in […]

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