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Meera speaks englis

Posted in Interesting, World Issues, funny, wtf, tagged english, meera, pakistan on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s not bad to not know English. But, it’s definitely pathetic to force somebody to talk English! Why would one want to do something like that?
I do appreciate and respect the lady’s boldness in trying to speak a language she has no clue about in national television?

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If the World were a Village

Posted in Cool Stuff, Interesting, World Issues, Wow, life, video, tagged snapshot, video, village, world on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Nice way to look at things

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Musicians demand Guantánamo Playlist

Posted in Interesting, funny, wierd, wtf, tagged artist, cuba, guantanamo, national security, united states, usa on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Wow!!! This is funny…. I wonder what Himesh is thinking right now!!!??!!!!
Musicians Want to Know if They Were on the Guantánamo PlaylistBy DAVE ITZKOFF
Hiromi Yasui for The New York TimesPearl Jam, R.E.M. and Trent Reznor are among the musicians who have joined a campaign to close the prison at the American naval base at Guantánamo [...]

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BloodBelly Comb Jelly

Posted in Interesting, Wow, video, wierd, wtf, tagged aquarium, bloodbelly, blue, jelly, monterey bay, ocean, red, species on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Cool and creepy creature Watch only if you have nothing important/better to do!

At the Aquarium
Brilliant and seemingly glowing, the bloodybelly comb jelly comes in different shades of red but always has a blood-red [...]

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Indian engineer builds glaciers to stop warming

Posted in Cool Stuff, India, Interesting, Technology, World Issues, Wow, innovation, work, wtf, tagged engineer, glcaier, golabl warming, himalaya, indian on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Nice..!!!
New Delhi: A retired Indian engineer, Chewang Norphel, 76, has built 12 new glaciers already and is racing to create five more before he dies, and by then he hopes to train enough new ‘icemen’ to continue the work he is doing to save the world’s ‘third icecap’ from being transformed into rivers, reports Telegraph. [...]

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The Google Chrome OS Scam

Posted in Cool Stuff, Generic, Interesting, World Issues, Wow, design, funny, video, wtf, tagged chrome, fake, google, os, scam on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Wow!!! This is good! Actually pretty old stuff. Yet! This guy pulled off something thats truely commendable. Hope it doesn’t land him in the prison. Yet, its wonderful.
A clear showcase of how false information can be spread globally and how even the big brands of news aggregation providers publish information without checking up the authenticity [...]

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Google story in 2 mins

Posted in Cool Stuff, Interesting, Technology, Wow, innovation, video, work on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Nice video!

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USiD 2009 – Rapid Prototyping

Posted in Generic on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

USiD 2009 – Rapid Prototyping. With Mrinal Wadhwa., originally uploaded by uday_m_s.

Some snaps from USiD 2009. I teamed up with Mrinal Wadhwa and spoke about Rapid Prototyping. As part of the session, Mrinal did a demo of Flash Catalyst while I did a demo of MS Sketchflow.

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