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Wierd facts and laws

People Facts: 85% of movie actors earn less than $5,000 a year from acting!  Interesting Facts: 'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth! "  Weather Facts: 9 out of 10 lightning strike victims survive!  Animal Facts: A male baboon can kill a leopard.  Animal Facts: In just about every species of mammal, the female lives longer than the male. Technology Facts : First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.  Wierd Laws : It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!  Funny Facts: Kampang School in northeastern Thailand is the first school to open a toilet for transvestite pupils.  Interesting Facts : On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.  Food and Drink Facts: Bananas aren't fruit! They are a type of herb.  Geographical Facts: The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.  Wierd Laws: In Nebrask

Bing with Yahoo!, still a long way to go

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Microsoft and Yahoo! joined the forces to create a stronger stand to compete against their common contender Google . They announced the ad-search deal that has the entire world go talking about it, from industry experts to investors, from advertisers to users. But the big question remains that would they be able to gain over the King who rules the virtual space. According to the recent data by the industry analyst comScore, Google holds a total share of 65% of the global market, Yahoo! 16.3% and Bing a mere 9.9%. Microsoft has long being trying to win over Yahoo! and Google in the search market with investing millions to bring an innovative system that would create a distinct picture, but, never managed to do so. Post the deal the situation changes drastically, Bing would simply jump to the second position with adding Yahoo!’s users to its share. Though, even combined share for Bing, post the deal, accounts to be less than that of Google, just 26% which is a big gap for the two g

Google Fun Facts

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Google Fun Facts Google sorts billions of bits of information for its users. Here are some little-known bits of information about Google: Google's name is a play on the word googol , which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web. Google started as a research project at Stanford University, created by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively (a combined 47 years old). Google's index of web pages is the largest in the world, comprising of billions of web pages. Google searches this immense collection of web pages often in less than half a second. Google receives daily search requests f

Eggiterian- Split personality disorder-FUN

Read it ... its Fun Its funny to hear egg-consuming vegetarians proclaiming that they are vegetarians. I have met loads of such people. They eat eggs on a Monday, but will remain light years away from an egg on a Tuesday (because they are vegetarians, do you hear? They are not non-vegetarians). You must ask them this: Can you eat a cabbage on a Monday? Answer: Yes, its veg. Can you eat an egg on a Monday? Answer: Yes, its veg. Can you eat cabbage on a Tuesday? Answer: Yes, its veg. Can you eat an egg on a Tuesday? Answer: No….I mean..You know…its like…..aa..uu..ummm…. The bottomline: Egg is a veg food on a Monday, but turns non-veg on a Tuesday, returns to its veg classification on Wednesday, again turns non-veg on a Saturday. Therefore, if they can have something which is both a veg and a non-veg food at the same time (let me remind you its the same egg which turns non-veg immediately the next day), can you call them vegetarians any more? Doesn’t this make them non-vegetarians? I thin

Top 10 ways to look busy at work

i was thinking how i can appear to be busy while not actually working and came up with these: 1- walk really fast when you are going anywhere as to appear something important is going to happen 2- carry a notebook with you at all times. seems like you are suppose to be somewhere taking notes. if at your desk keep it open with a pen on it 3- keep your headset on if you are in your cubicle 4- actually do work but that defeats the purpose. okay more later. any suggestions? 5- shuffle papers 6- look pissed off 7- put up a do not disturb sign when you are browsing the web 8- continually click on a pen 9- walk around with your laptop open, side note: take your laptop home and say you are WFH (working from home) 10- open up Microsoft Word and write blog entries to post later

Computer hackers can use power sockets to spy on what youre typing

Computer hackers can use power sockets to scout what people are typing, warn experts. hackers can use power sockets to scout what people are typing, warn experts. Researchers Andrea Barisani and Daniele Bianco, of Inverse Path, have revealed that poor shielding on some keyboard cables can allow hackers to identify each character typed on a computer. According to the BBC, the information passed along cables connecting keyboards to desktop PCs is leaked onto power circuits. "Our goal is to show that information leaks in the most unexpected ways and can be retrieved," the Telegraph quoted the researchers as saying. During the study, the research focused on the cables used to connect a type of keyboard, called a PS/2, to desktop PCs. They found that six wires inside a PS/2 cable were typically "close to each other and poorly shielded", thus information travelling along the data wire, when a key is pressed, leaks onto the earth wire in the same cable. The study said tha

Weird Inventions

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Flying Alarm This alarm clock will be sure to wake even the heaviest of sleepers. The idea is simple; when the alarm is triggered part of the alarm will fly and land at some random location in your room. Only when the piece is placed back on the stationary alarm piece will the alarm cease. The flying piece takes to the air via rotating propeller blades which allow it to achieve flight. The only way to silence the alarm is to physically find the propeller and position it back on the alarm, thus forcing you out of your bed. A strange concept, but one which might just prove helpful to those who find it difficult on those Monday mornings. Led Umbrella Introducing the new LED umbrella. This new device comes equipped with a built in LED light which illuminates in the dark. At the touch of a button the light shines into action offering a safe and secure passage to your destination. The light is embedded inside the handle to lighten the area under the umbrella hood. Come day or night, t

Machine to tell about future diseases

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Today every body wants to remain healthy; nobody wants to get affected form any kind of diseases. For this, people regularly visit to there doctor for health check-ups. Despite this, the people do have fears in there mind that, in coming days, they are going to be affected by disease or not. Despite consulting doctor at regular intervals of time, they remain anxious. Think it, if you get to know today what type of illness will affect you in the next 10 years, then what will you do. You will surely get excited and jump of the chair!!! Now, there is a machine that will tell you what type of illness will affect you in next 10 years. How this machine works and how it tells about the future illness? This is Electro Meridian Sensor, a Chinese technology. This sensor machine finds out the energy level in the organs of your body. Which organ has how much ratio of energy with corresponding organs of the body, the machine decides about the illness. As all the organs in our body system has dif

Some Innovative ideas

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Small-scale entrepreneurs in a developing nation

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Small-scale entrepreneurs in a developing nation have come for the rescue of poor villagers. These entrepreneurs are studied in the context of delivery of IT services to rural and poor populations. Sriram Raghavan is one of them. He intends to prove that the world’s billion-plus rural poor can produce sizable profit for online services. Raghvan’s challenge - 36 year-old Raghvan once built a software for U.S. corporate clients. But now he has devised something which has proved profitable for his own company. Raghvan runs Comat Technologies in southeast Karnataka. In the past 5 years, Comat’s revenue growth has been from less than $1 million to $15 million. Providing internet services to poor villagers who actually need it helps Comat gain a modest profit from their 800 kiosks. They called it ‘Nemmadi’ which means ‘peace of mind’ in Kannada, which is Karnataka’s official language. Villagers come to file their applications for a certificate that will help their children go to school.

Blogs and official website of Indian Actors and Other Celebrities

Amitabh Bachhan http://bigb.bigadda.com/ Amir Khan http://www.aamirkhan.com/ Karan johar http://www.mynameiskaran.com/ Shilpa Shetty http://www.shilpashettylive.com/blog/ Akshay Kumar http://akshay.bigadda.com/ Gulshan Grover http://gulshangrover.bigadda.com/ Lalu Prasad and other celebrities http://www.mypopkorn.com/blogs/lalu-prasad-yadav/ Harbhajan Singh http://bhajji.bigadda.com/ Arbaj Khan http://arbaazkhan.bigadda.com/ Diana Hayden http://blogs.bigadda.com/dia4004795/ Salman Khan http://www.salmankhan.net/ M S Dhoni http://www.dhoni.org/ Pooja Bedi

Airline reservation flight ticket Booking online.

Here is the links: http://www.ixigo.com http://www.yatra.com/ http://www.cheapairticketsindia.com http://www.travelguru.com http://www.ezeego1.co.in http://travel.indiatimes.com http://www.zoomtra.com http://www.cleartrip.com http://www.indiatravelite.com http://www.primetravels.com http://www.expedia.co.in/cheap-flights/air-india.aspx http://www.raahi.com/flights.html http://www.indiaairtkt.com

Gmail’s Drag-and-drop Feature

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GMail’s latest update to their labeling tool-kit; the drag-and-drop feature. If one is not already aware, then we can now drag and drop conversations/emails into our labels. And by doing so, we thus lay to rest the real awesomeness of using labels. Ever since the days that I first started using an e-mail service, I had always struggled to tag an email into a single and appropriate category/folder. It led me to be always confused in which I had placed the specific email in (Did I put it in the folder named Important? Or was it the folder Jobs?). Partly, the reason that GMail made me stick to it, was the way I could tag/label an email into one-or-more categories. It lent so much value-addition to the end user (me). If one has GMail’s keyboard shortcuts turned on, then one can easily tag an email with multiple labels, or even move to a specific folder (if the idea of using a label still doesn’t appeal).

Simple Ways To Write Search-Friendly HTML Code

Some mistakes can cause search engines to choke when it comes to indexing your websites. And its easy to avoid making these mistakes. Here’s how: 1. Don’t repeat yourself. Use server side includes for headers, footers, menus, and standard "head" items such as links to CSS documents and external JavaScript files. 2. Balance tags in server side includes. If an include file starts with " " it should end with " ". This way each file can be viewed in Dreamweaver design view, and includes files do not depend on each other. 3. Place JavaScript in external files and reference them as needed. 4. Each page must have a unique " " and "<meta name="”description”" content="”This">". Don’t put these in server side includes. <br /> 5. The title should be <title>Name of Company - Name of Page" " or " "Name of Company - Name of Category - Name of Page unless you are told other

Mobile Numbers to start with 8 and have 11 digits soon

It seems that every Indian is trying to grab a mobile phone leading to a humongous requirement of new mobile numbers. Mobile numbers starting with 9 have come to an end and DoT has given permission to telecom companies to allocate new numbers starting with 8. According to TRAI, India has 415 million cellular subscribers at the end of May 2009 compared to 277 million a year ago, a whooping growth of 50 percent. Since mobile numbers starting with 9 are coming to an end TRAI has allowed operators to allocate numbers starting with 8 which means addition of around 380 million new numbers if the number of digits are still kept to 10. It is also excepted that DoT will increase the number of digits in a mobile number to 11 which will add substantial numbers for disposal. DoT has also ordered the stopping of the usage of 95 in STD and trunk calls, which has freed around 10 crore numbers half of which will be allocated to the operators and rest will be reserved by DoT. How will it impact opera