PodXtreme Loud iPod Speaker

Really loud iPod speakers for $30. Best accessory to have for an impromptu bash by the pool side, innt?? Full article here

Human Flight - well almost !!

Just check out this human flight vid. This guy sure knows what he is doing, or he is plain silly. In either case, this is amazing. I wanna fly that thing too..

Now 'Wanted' posters go digital- Watch out thugs..

Between various ads, the giant digital billboards flashed an image of Oscar Finch's face taken by a surveillance camera. The young man wasn't selling anything. He was running from police.

He soon surrendered after seeing his picture on the billboards, and this new technique was successful. Read the story here

Try a phone at www.tryphone.com

Now you can try out a phone before buying it. As of today, there are just a few phones including the iPhone that are listed there..but we expect more to be added soon, hopefully, don't we? Check this out here

Knols - Units of Knowledge may challenge Wikipedia

Google coins a new word 'knol' - unit of knowledge and is set to rollout encyclopedia-like collection of articles that could tighten the company's control over the user experience on the web.

Knol, an encyclopedia-like collection of articles written by selected experts, might drive revenue growth for Google, but that's probably not the motive behind it. The real value of the project is how it extends Google's control over the content that users see online. read the full article here

Evel Knievel, 69, Daredevil on a Motorcycle, Dies

Evel Knievel, a living legend and a famous daredevil, known to have performed rare stunts on his bike to packed audiences died yesterday at 69.

I was a personal fan of his and just recently watching a documentary program on him on TV. Nice guy. I thought he would die on the saddle of his bike but he contracted some lung disease that proved fatal. I feel he should have moved on from performing the stunts to maybe opening a stunt school, maybe he did too.
May his soul rest in peace.
News article here

BMW X5

BMW launches the X5 in India. Now how exciting is that. #$%^&^%$#

GM Posts Its Biggest Quarterly Loss- $ 39 Billion

General Motors reported a loss of nearly $39 billion this third-quarter, its largest ever, after it took a huge non cash charge to write down deferred tax credits.

Man, that is a huge amount. Just to put things in perspective, the annual business that Microsoft does is $ 51 Billion. The annual business that Apple does is $ 24 Billion. Now $ 39 billion (or more precisely $ 38.6 billion) is a huge amount to lose.

Hope the GM guys know what they are doing. My wheels are from GM and I hope they keep rolling..

Read the news article here

Tata Motors unveils the Tata Elegante Concept

Tata Motors unveils the new concept car called Elegante. This the first time Tata Motors is naming a car that does not start with Indi (for India). Deep in my heart I think they should not have broken the trend. But the car looks good no doubt. Check out the news article here
and more pictures here.

Google GPS sans a GPS on your mobile phone

Now Google knows where you are, without a GPS device. If you have a GPRS or EDGE or 3G enabled mobile device and use mobile google maps, then you will probably not need a GPS receiver device anytime soon. Google uses triangulation method to locate you and points your location on gmaps mobile screen with a blue dot. It claims an accuracy of a 1700 m radius, but I have rarely seen it farther than a few meters from my true location. Good work GOOG. Well, Read the details here..

Ishmeet bags 'Voice of India' title

Ishmeet became the 1st Star 'Voice of India'. Though not a big fan of either the show or the winner, it needs a mention on my blog here, especially because Madame M announced the winner.

Skype encryption too tough for German police

Skype's encryption creates serious problems for law enforcement, according to the president of Germany's Federal Police Office. They are not able to crack the encryption to track the messages sent by criminals.. Read the full article here

Microsoft looks like a turkey

MICROSOFT engineers worked frantically over the US Thanksgiving holiday to fix a design flaw in Windows that has exposed millions of computers to hijacking by computer criminals. Read the full article here

China moon pictures

China posts the first pictures of Lunar surface taken by it's probe. These guys sure look happy. Read the full article here.

Sabeer Bhatia supports 30 new ventures

Here is Sabeer Bhatia, the founder of hotmail, making another attempt at success. He floats a company called instacoll which provides online documents. Not sure what it is like since it is 'invites only' right now, and I am still waiting for the invite. Here is the news article about his 30 ventures.

ZOHO online docs and more... Watch out GOOG

Check out this website that has online docs and more stuff like CRM and DB all done very nicely. Makes Google docs look pale in comparison and looks like a big target for a buyout by one of the giants in the marketplace if you ask me.

Check it out here..

Cool spoof on Facebook, must watch

Ms Dewey from Microsoft, OMG

Wondering which way MS is headed. Check out this new search engine from the MS stable. OMG!!!

Synchronized driving skills

Check out the driving skills of this Hyundai team. Can you change a tire while your car is moving, these guys can.

Yuvraj's super 6 sixes on 19th Sep against England

Incredible score by Sunidhi Chauhan at the Asian Games

Gmail video, awesome

This vid is an edited version of vids sent by 1100 people from 65 countries worldwide. Awesome.

Mahindra of India does a Hummer

Here is the Mahindra Axe, touted to be the Indian answer to the Hummer. It will have variants of 4 liter engines in Petrol and Diesel and it sure looks a stunner.

Wait till it hits the civilian markets in a few years..

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gPhone announcement this September

This coming September the gPhone from Google may be announced. Touted to have inbuilt GPS and running a Linux kernel, it may be priced around $ 100 and Google may be looking at earning revenue from ads served on the device. They will not be 'competing' with the iPhone and their phone is touted to be a HTC manufactured entry. Read more here

ZunePhone lol

A nice lesson in Buoyancy

Check out this video on Buoyancy. The heavier gas (probably CO2) makes the aluminum foil boat float. Roll over Archimedes!!

Google launches Mobile You tube

Google launched mobile Youtube at http://m.youtube.com and it comes with a warning about the site being data intensive ....

Information: YouTube Mobile is a data intensive application. We highly recommend that you upgrade to an unlimited data plan with your mobile service provider to avoid additional charges. Continue

Copyright 2007 YouTube, Inc.

MadTv spoof on iRack, iRan and the public. Hilarious.

MadTv spoof on iRack, iRan and the public. Hilarious.

Most popular youtube Video

The most popular Youtube video ever called 'Evolution of dance'. 51 million viewers and counting.

Baby Laugh on youtube

17 million viewers have watched this baby laugh

Multi-touch screen demo. Incredible.

Check out this crazy multi-touch screen. Amazing video.

Mac v/s PC

The ultimate Mac v/s PC vid.

Scary picnic prank (magic?)

Check out this video. I have no idea how this guy pulled it off.

GE Jet Engine for Jumbos

Here is a bare all look at the GE engine displayed at the Paris Air Show, that powers the jumbos we fly around the world. Amazingly complex contraption I would say.

Airbus A380 witnessed

I was at the Paris Air Show a few days back at the Le Bourget Airport in ....well Paris and witnessed the A380 in flight. It is one majestic bird. Here are a few pictures I took with my HTC Wizard aka Cingular 8125.

Paris is smoking

Just been to Paris and I was surprised by the number of smokers in the city. The pic above is of Gare Du Nord, the main Train Station in Paris and it reminds me of Pahar Ganj somehow. The restaurants were foggy, hotel rooms smelt like ashtrays despite labeled 'non-smoking' rooms. The pantry car in the train from Paris to Hamburg was smoke filled, the metro stations were full of smokers. I was overwhelmed by the smoking Paris. On my walk to the Eiffel Tower from my hotel room, all I could see was cigarette butts on the pavement. God. Parisians, quit smoking so much.

What felt nice was that there were a lot of scooters and motorcycles (totally missing in the US) and the people were all mostly slim and well kept. They looked good in general, compared to an average red neck(I lived in red neck country, so don't let's argue about it). The metros were surprisingly not climate controlled and it was a sweaty experience given the formal attire we had to adorn for the strings of meetings scheduled at the AirShow.

Overall a 7+ on a 10 Paris. Quit smoking if you want to improve your rating. ;)

World's fastest road car!! Yes it's the Acabion

The Acabion does 600 KMPH. For efficiency it does 175 KMPH at 44 KM/Liter of Petrol/Gas. Now that is amazing is it not. This concept car has everyone talking.

Powered by turbocharged 1.3-litre Suzuki motorcycle engine tuned to a whopping 690bhp, the GTBO 70 is reckoned to go from rest to 448 KMPH in under 20 seconds. Wow! German Engineering.

Read on here

HTC announced 'Touch' on June 5th, the iPhone challanger

The Elf has a name; it’s now called the HTC Touch. Touch is powered by Windows Mobile 6 and features finger touching screen like Apple iPhone or LG Prada.

HTC added its own homebrew application called TouchFLO to differentiate the uses of finger and stylus. The Touch has “three-dimensional interface” that behave like three screens consist of your contact, media and applications. Read on here

First back flip on a Wheel Chair

And you thought those on a wheel chair are invalid. Have a look at this....... and never say die.

MIT Wizards Zap Electricity Through the Air

Power cords and chargers may be on their way to the grave, their days could be numbered, all because of a breakthrough at MIT. It's called "WiTricity," and it's the transfer of power through the air, without wires. It was demonstrated by a team of researchers from MIT's Department of Physics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, and was reported in Science Express. Read more here and here

Zune or iPod - The final word

Here is a comprehensive review of Apple's iPod and Microsoft's Zune. Check out this Gizmodo review before you whip out your cash.

"Beam me up Scotty" nearing reality

Scientists have set a new record in sending information through thin air using the revolutionary technology of quantum teleportation - although Mr Spock may have to wait a little longer for a Scotty to beam him up with it.

A team of physicists has teleported data over a distance of 89 miles from the Canary Island of La Palma to the neighbouring island of Tenerife, which is 10 times further than the previous attempt at teleportation through free space.

The scientists did it by exploiting the "spooky" and virtually unfathomable field of quantum entanglement - when the state of matter rather than matter itself is sent from one place to another. Tiny packets or particles of light, photons, were used to teleport information between telescopes on the two islands. The photons did it by quantum entanglement and scientists hope it will form the basis of a way of sending encrypted data. Read the full story here

Can't decide between Google and Yahoo ?!! Try GahooYoogle.com

Yes the http://www.gahooyoogle.com site actually exists and brings the power of Google and Yahoo to your browser. Try it out here

Robert Alan Solway got arrested - breather for surfers

The "Spam King" is finally on the right side of the bars, and none too soon.

Robert Alan Soloway (born 1980, Washington State, United States) is the founder of the so-called "Strategic Partnership Against Microsoft Illegal Spam", or SPAMIS, but is himself said to be one of the Internet's biggest spammers through his company, Newport Internet Marketing (NIM). He was arrested on May 30, 2007 after a grand jury indicted him on charges of identity theft, money laundering, and mail, wire, and e-mail fraud. He was nicknamed "Spam King" by prosecutors.

Indicted on 35 counts including mail fraud, identity theft, wire fraud, money laundering and more, Robert Solway must now be wishing he’d never decided to get into the spam business, dethroned as he is as one of the Kings of Spam.

Read more here

Palm Unveils a Two-Hand device - The "Foleo"

Termed the "smartphone companion product," by Palm, this device has the tech gurus scratching their heads.

On Wednesday, mobile device maker Palm demonstrated the fruits of a secret project that one of Palm's founders, Jeff Hawkins, had been working on. Palm's new Foleo is a Linux-powered, laptop-like device that serves as a companion to smartphones. Analysts and observers have started to weigh in with their opinions, and many are less than raves.

Described by the company as its "first smartphone companion product," the Foleo is designed to work in tandem with a paired smartphone. If a user edits a document on the Foleo, for instance, the changes appear on the accompanying smartphone, and vice versa. Pushing one button provides access to full-screen e-mail, and there are editors for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, plus the Opera browser for Web surfing and a Palm-developed PDF viewer.

With a 10-inch screen, a full-size keyboard, and battery life of up to five hours, the Foleo mobile companion will work with Palm Treo smartphones, running either Palm OS or Windows Mobile. According to Palm, "most" other smartphones with Windows Mobile should work with the Foleo, and, with a "modest software effort," smartphones using operating systems from Research In Motion, Apple, or Symbian can likewise be supported.

More here..

"Laughing Girl" - Yes she is watching "Dad at Comedy Barn"

Here is another video in which a girl is watching "Dad at Comedy barn" video and is in splits herself. Hilarious again..

The most hilarious Video ever - "Dad at Comedy Barn"

I was in splits when I watched this Video for hours. And I will not blame you if you are too. It's called "Dad at Comedy Barn"

Microsoft unveils innovative "Surface Computer"

Microsoft today announced a Surface Computer, which is going to mimic the way we work on a desk. They plan to have production models in the next 3-4 years. Amazing stuff. Check it out here

Google Maps Street View goes live

Google introducing street view service which is going to change the way we see online maps. With street view you will be able to see panoramic pictures taken from street level and would this not be great. Initially only select location would have the street view but it is slated to grow over time. Check it out here

Google Calendar for mobile devices

We realize that more people in the world have mobile phones than have computers, and people take their cell phones with them everywhere. Since one of our main goals on the Calendar team is to make planning your events and maintaining your schedule as easy as possible, starting today, you can access your Google Calendar account from your cell phone!

Just visit calendar.google.com from your phone, and you'll see your agenda of upcoming events, complete with details like date, time, location, description, and guest list. Read more here

The First Customer-Painted Airbus A380 - It's Singapore Airlines

The first customer-painted Airbus A380 has been revealed. Singapore Airlines has the honor of being the first to splash their logo on the ultimate doubledecker jumbo jet. It took 21 days for 100 workers in four shifts to polish and paint the blue and gold Singapore Airlines logo and the name "Singapore Airlines" across the massive plane. Read more here

1 million Zunes sold, 99 million to go

100 Million iPods sold thus far, and 1 million Zunes. I would say Zunes are a complete failure, it is a sub-standard product released too late in the market. Anyways, some say it may be too zune to make a comment already. Read about it here

28 New Exoplanets Discovered

Astronomers have discovered 28 new planets outside of our solar system, increasing to 236 the number of known exoplanets, revealing that planets can exist around a broad spectrum of stellar types-from tiny, dim stars to giants. Read more here

Sun, Tech Mahindra in IPTV Tie

A partnership has been announced between Sun Microsystems India and Tech Mahindra to enable roll-out of cost-effective and efficient IPTV services in India and the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

Along with AMD, Sun and Tech Mahindra will set up a Gen-Next IPTV lab at the Tech Mahindra facility in Pune. Read more here

Dassault Systemes releases CATIA PLM Express

Dassault Systems, today announced the availability in India of CATIA PLM Express. CATIA PLM Express includes flexible solutions tailored to meet existing and future customers’ day to day business needs, based on Dassault Systèmes’ 25 years of cross industry experience. More here

What is HTC announcing on June 5th - London

HTC is cooking up something BIG and plan on unveiling it on June 5th at an event held in London (11:30am local time). What is it going to be. Watch this space........

T-moblie Wing runs Windows Mobile 6.0

The Blackberry challenger T-Mobile Wing runs Microsoft's latest Windows Mobile O/S the WM6.0. Check it out here

Learn how to make a space shuttle

Here is a picture story about the making of a space shuttle. Vivid pictures which don't look like they were posed for. Interesting stuff for a summer school project.

Don't click on this website - literally

If you have not experienced a website where you don't need to click your mouse, try this one here. It' called http://www.dontclick.it/

Customer Friendly- True India Story

Me and a few of my old school pals were in Cannaught Place, New Delhi this evening. A Japanese style restaurant usher invited us to check out his restaurant. We agreed, and took a walk in. He asked us to have a seat and try their restaurant. I jested with him about how much discount he would give to a first time customer, and asked for a 50% discount. The usher jokingly said why not 100%. We just joked with him and asked to see the manager. When the manager arrived, we jokingly and sweetly told him that we came to his restaurant assuming we would be given a 100% discount to which he replied saying, " Enjoy your evening sir" and walked away smiling.

And true to his word, we did not pay a penny and enjoyed our evening. The bill for the 'Evening" was approximately 200 International Dollars and we paid nothing. We tipped the usher handsomely though. I feel this can happen only in India. The restaurant is called Bonsai and is in the inner circle, right where the Cafe Coffee day is. Cheers India. Cheers Bonsai.

Women In Art- On Youtube

Check out this morphed rendition of hundreds of women's faces painted by many artists over centuries, all in one quick video. Amazing stuff.

Talk to Sanjeev Bot here .....

Like to talk to Cyber Bots. Well here is one place where you can talk to a bot.

Microsoft's iPod Amnesty Bin - Now what is that

Microsoft's way of getting back at the iPod for being so successful. Check it out here

Useless facts... Lots of them

The Paomnnehal Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch as Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.



The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedalio... is the fear of long words.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses.
Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.
Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.
Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather. (Try it!)
In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
The two longest one-syllable words in the English language is "screeched. & strengths."
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Barbie's full first name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element'.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
The vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar note depicts a likeness of the front of the Lincoln Memorial as it appeared in 1922 when it was first dedicated. At that time, there were only 48 states that made up the United States of America. The names of 26 states were engraved on the front of the Memorial. This is why only the names of 26 states appear in the vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar note. In the upper frieze of the façade in the vignette the states are from left to right: Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado, and North Dakota. In the lower frieze from left to right the names of the states are: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Carolina, Hampshire, Virginia and New York.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 Oz.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes.
In many cases, the amount of storage space on a record-able CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.
In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
Only humans and horses have hymens.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
The state with the longest coastline in the US is Alaska.
We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)
Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.
Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats.
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...
The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.
In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to bad mouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.'
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopics- ilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultra-microscopicsil... canoconioses, its plural.
The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatan- gihangakoauauotamateaturipukak... whenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were caused by them building ships for the Confederacy. We originally asked for $1 billion but settled on $25 Million.
There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.
Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.
The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distribution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.
Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmentarianism"...
When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.
The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement.
The only real people to be a Pez head are
Betsy Ross, Paul Revere and Daniel Boone.
Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
"Evian" spelled backwards is naive.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni- frid.)
What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same number with the digits in reverse order?
21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969.)
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser himself.. And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme. Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show Growing Pains wrote the theme songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes .
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.
The Skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radios newscast about the wreck.
The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band ever seen in England- -1961
The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.
Horses cannot vomit.
S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone couldkey it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Dart-boards are made out of horsehair.
Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Octopi have gardens.
"Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.'"
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever home run and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever home run where thrown by the same man.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
During conscription for WWII, there were nine documented cases of men with three testicles.
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticeably shorter than his right.
Swans and Ducks are the only birds with penises.
in fact, the longest bird penis on record belongs to a duck
A whale's penis is called a dork.
Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a penis bone, called a baculum.
A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and therefore forestall curses.
The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.
The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
Medieval knights put sharkskin on their sword handles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
The only planet without a ring is earth.
Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Starfish don't have brains.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
Did you know that the actor Jane Seymour's birth name is:
Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.
Roy Rogers name was Leonard Slye
Dale Evans was Frances Octavia Smith.
The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streets in Rome, they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of"trivia."
Henry VIII only had two of his wives executed;
Anne Boleyn (#2) and Catherine Howard (#5).
Catherine of Aragon (#1) died after he had divorced her,
Jane Seymour (#3) died after childbirth (of Edward),
Anne of Cleves (#4) died after he divorced her
Katherine Parr (#6) actually outlived Henry.
Jellyfish have no brains, yet they can tell light from dark, and sence movement.
The term 'flying on cloud 9' originates from military flights. Cloud types are classified as numbers... with 'cloud 9' being a very tall thunderstorm. Jets have to climb to an extremely high altitude in order to fly over 'cloud 9.
A dogs sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew. In fact, if you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dogs nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog itself.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. I keep my toothbrush in the living room now.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
The wingspan of the B-36, a retired USAF bomber, was twice as long.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
So did the first 'Marlboro Man'.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
All U.S. presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like to be seen wearing them in public.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
Turtles can breathe through their butts
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc., how many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, or actually a two-way mirror?? Just conduct this simple test: Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and if there is a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a GENUINE mirror. However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your nail, then BEWARE, for it is a two-way mirror
The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska!
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this...) The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter:o?=o?= Tom Sawyer.
Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
In Massachusetts - It is illegal to put tomatoes in clam chowder
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Diamonds - Julius Caesar
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month? A. Conception.
Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? A. Their birthplace
Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? A. Obsession
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? A. One thousand
Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laserbprinters all have in common? A. All invented by women.
Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil? A. Honey
Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year? A. Father's Day
Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic? A.o?= He was allergic to carrots.
Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party? A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.o?= When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "Goodnight, sleep tight".
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink.o?= Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month we know today as the honeymoon.
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop

Flexible LCD e-paper by LG.Philips

LG.Philips have made a flexible LCD e-paper which can be bent like an A4 sheet of paper. More here

Bose surround sound system in headrest

Bose, the masters of sound technology, have filed for a new patent; surround sound fitted onto the head rest of a seat. More from ubergizmo.com here

Funny Fan

Check out this funny fan here

A young Indian Stand up comedian

Here is a young Stand up comedian performing in what seems to be a class room. He is like 16 years old and is stuck up on his being tiny. Watch the video

Why the Iphone

Watch this short and witty video about the iPhone.

Vodafone comes to India

Vodafone bought out the controlling stake in Hutchison -Essar and is now soon to be a household name in India. Well......almost. They bring 2 new low cost phones to India as Vodafone 125 model and 225 model priced at $25 to $45 respectively. More here

Verizon plans an iPhone killer

Verizon COO announced that they will be releasing an iPhone killer this summer. Read more here

iPhone clone appears in the market

Meizu has announced a phone which looks like a clone of the iPhone with large 720×480 resolution and GPS, Medipalyer, Touchscreen, the works. Check out more here ..

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Compilation of Dubya's best speech moments

Prince Harry not going to Iraq

Prince Harry has been asked by the Chief of Army not to go to Iraq because he would be a high profile target and may put other troops in danger. Sure!!

He would be a high profile target in any war, anywhere. And then I was thinking that, if he can not be deployed in any war, then what is he doing in the Army??

But then I guess the Chief of Army, UK is right in not sending him there, it is very hot and there are no bars and paparazzi (thank god).

Hindi and English Similarities in the Alphabet

Hindi English

ए A
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म m
प P
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Love to build castles in ....... Space!!

One of the best sites I have come across that has thousands of celestial objects with lots of details. The feel is like googlemaps and sky is the limit. Enjoy. visit Wikisky

The other best place for eAstronauts like me, is Celestia. It is an open-source down-loadable software for Windows , Mac and Linux (x86) OS and uses Graphic Libraries to give you a 3 D rendition of Space. With more than 100,000 space objects out there for you to explore, it even supports scripts, so you can make your own space tours, save them and re-run them at will. You can fast-forward time, slow down time, or rewind time. Check it out at this site. यहाँ जाओ

Empire State Building struck in New York

The second mighty phallic symbol of NYC was struck this Friday but managed to survive the attack. The attacker was none other than mother nature.

Yes, New Yorkers faced a 72 mph gale and heavy rain this Friday and braved yet another cruel lashing by the Wind Gods.

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Apple iPhone Gets FCC Approval

The Apple iPhone got official FCC approval for sale on the U.S. market

Apple recently announced that it has officially received FCC approval to sell the iPhone, its much anticipated entry into the mobile phone market. Along with getting FCC approval, the iPhone is ready to ship next month, Apple spokespeople said.

All mobile phones offered in the United States must receive a "grant of equipment authorization," which means it has receivedthe green light from the FCC.

"We're on track to release it in late June," Cingular spokesman Mark Siegel said। "Nothing has changed." Good job Steve Jobs.

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