Imagine If 2 Cats Did This To You Everyday

If you've ever owned a cat...
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I have 2 cats, and though I never have to suffer these vagaries, my wife sometimes does. She does dutifully get up and feed them before the baseball bat comes out though :).

Strange Things Happen When Photographing Mirrors

Got these in an e-mail forward. Thought it was pretty interesting :).

The Infamous Underarm Bowling Incident

Sometimes rule-makers goof up. But the utter lack of sporting behavior from the Australians is appalling. Here's a look at the last over of that fateful match:

Laloo Ain't That Bad

I know we all find our esteemed Railway Minister, Mr. Laloo Yadav quite the funny man. Here's a video of him presenting the railway budget in the parliament. ROTFL :).

Google Sky

If any of you have read Asimov's Foundation series, you know about the system that they had for creating a 3D map of space. They'd use it for plotting their way through stars. You could look at the galaxy in 3D and translate yourself to any other point in the galaxy to see how it would look like from there.

Well version 0.1 of that tool is out :D. You can now use Google Earth 4.2 to roam around in space. Check out this video for an how-to:

A New Take On Research

I read Jabberwock quite often and sometimes, like this time :D, Jai comes up with some very funny articles. In this article titled "Research findings we could use" he directs our attention towards how preposterous some research findings are, and of some others that he wishes they would come up with. Here are just a couple of excerpts from just the comments:

1. James Bond has a lesser risk of heart disease, since his martinis are shaken and not stirred!!
2. Regular Breathing leads to 100% chance of being alive. Researchers found that people who breathe had a 100% chance of being alive....

Read the rest of the his blog post here, and enjoy :).

Bajaj Pulsar 220 DTS-Fi Advertisement

Some very awesome stuntwork. Definitely worth a watch:

Sir Arthur C. Clarke Passes Away

I read it just now on BBC News, and it saddens me to no end to know this.

The grand old man of SF, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, died at 0130 hrs (SL time) after a cardio-respiratory attack.

His many books have given me great pleasure over the years, and it is horrible to know that no more will ever be written.

May he rest in peace.

How To Maintain Your Charge Slip

Sometimes you get to see the weirdest things. Like when we went shopping for a colleague's marriage present. The receipt that was handed to us had the following printed on the back:



:)

Why You Can't Type "S-H-I-T" using T9

I'm sure all of us have tried to type in swear words in an SMS window while using predictive text input, at some time or the other, and failed, and irritatingly so. Ever wondered why? Watch this:

Men Will Be Men... Even Those In Blue

GMail Advertisement

Here's an ad for GMail, in Russian. But some good fellow has gone and given subtitles in English. Until then I didn't even know it was an ad (thought it was a how-to). It's very innovative. Notice the way they are simulating the mouse pointer, and the caret etc.

Here you go:

Firefox 3

I love Firefox. It's my preferred browser, and works beautifully for me. And now they are doing even more :).

Here's a list of the coolest of the new features:
1. Native theme support (for Vista, Mac and Linux).
2. New location/address bar.
3. Places: An integrated look at history and bookmarks together.
4. Private browsing: You can now turn history, cache etc. off altogether.
5. Using web services for handling documents/media links, so that you can open attached documents in GoogleDocs and clicking on a mailto: link will open up GMail!

And hosts of others. FF3Beta3 is out, and here are some of the things you can do:
1. Have a look at the FF3 Feature List: Geek version, and Regular version (Note that the latter is 4 pages long, you might miss the page links at the bottom).
2. You can download it: Firefox3 Beta 3
3. You can get a FF3 "Gran Paradiso" Wallpaper, and the FF3 "Gran Paradiso" Poster:











Enjoy :)!

NBA 2007 Slam Dunk Competetion Highlights

Very good dunks, and some pretty average ones. All in all, worth a watch:

Frozen in time

I guess you've all played this game when you were like 3' tall and squeaked instead of talking. It goes something like this:
1. 8-10 people stands in a circle around the person in the den.
2. He calls out "S-T-A-T-U-E statue"!
3. Everyone freezes and is not allowed to move or laugh. If someone manages to touch the guy in den unobserved, he goes back in den.

Or, some form thereof (I remember a girl who couldn't spell statue correctly :p).

Well, this is something like that. Except that instead of the 8-10 people, there are 207. They aren't kids, they're all adults. They aren't standing around in a circle in the park behind your apartment, they're all doing it in the Grand Central Station in New York City. And they are from a group called Improv Everywhere. I can't help but admire them.

Lots of fun :). Watch it:

Google Doodle?

The Google logo, or the "Google Doodle" is redrawn by Webmaster Manager and Chief Google Doodler, Dennis Hwang, from time to time to commemorate special dates/occasions. You've all seen them. And some of you, like me, wish you could also do something like that.

Well now you can. Or at least try. If you are still in school :(. But still, it is worth a read. Heres an excerpt from the Official Google Blog:

"However, with the Doodle 4 Google competition, we're making an exception...

Doodle 4 Google gives U.S. students in grades K-12 the opportunity to design a doodle for the Google homepage. Students will be asked to draw a doodle that best represents the theme "What if...?" We ask ourselves this question every day when we build our products, so we thought we would ask the same of the future doodlers."

Read more about it in this blog post.

Pune, Pretty Pune

Just back from a very good and well deserved (I say so!) vacation. To Pune. Aaaahhhhhh!

You know what they say right? "You never miss it until you don't have it?" Well, that's completely true. There's one thing more I'd like to add... "If you still don't miss it, visit it agan" :).

Met a lot of friends, partied like mad. Went out with parents. Went out with college buddies.

All in all, a very good vacation.

P.S. Had taken my SDCard for taking photos, but left it in my Dad's camera. So photos are delayed. Will put them up soon.

US Claims WMDs on Satellite

You all must've read about the US spy satellite gone rogue. Well, now they're accusing it of even worse things. It has WMDs (or is a WMD, it's quite unclear). So they're going to shoot it down :o

Read more about it here.

Bizzare Pingpong Round

Found this video on a friend's orkut profile. I really HAD to share it :). Here it is:

I mean... they actually changed sides!!!

Photo Collage

Have you ever wanted to create a collage for your desktop wallpaper? Wouldn't a collage like this one be great?



Well all you need is Picasa and you can download it here.

Once installed, let it discover all your pictures. After that, select any host of pictures and choose Create->"Picture Collage" from the top level menu. You can customize the type of collage and the background. I'll try to add a screencast later.