More Google Maps craziness

This time a giant sticky found in Thailand.


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Real Life Transformer

They should market this as a toy!

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Do you remember Minority Report

Remember the scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise is manipulating the computer screen with his hands. What looked to be science fiction is reality (atleast it seems to be in this video).. this is just crazy..

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Thinking of running Linux?

This is a pretty good write up of someone's experience with migrating from Windows XP to Linux. One of these days I keep telling myself that I should install it on mine. I really need to take a weekend out and install it on a spare drive or something.

(Maybe I should find a weekend to do my taxes first.)

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Crazy Crop Circles

Call it the Google Maps find of the day. Check out what is written in a field in England. The aliens are getting very good at making crop circles.

I have included the images on my site in case google censors them.

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For all you Chuck Norris fans

This is a YouTube video of Tony Danza reading 'Chuck Norris' facts to Chuck Norris on the show. WHat the video does not show is Chuck Norris roundhouse kicking Tony Danza at the end.

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Gmail capacity increase

If you are waiting for gmail to hit 3gig; you may be in for a wait. This guy did some calculations as to how many days it will take google to offer 3gig for gmail. He takes into account the current rate of increase/second. Just a fun tidbit I guess.

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World Sunlight Map

I came across this real-time, computer-generated illustration that shows the map of the earth depicting cloud cover, sunlight and darkness. Defintely one of the most interesting sites I've come across all week.

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Top 10 Internet Hoaxes of 2005

How many of you remember Toby the cute bunny who was gonna get eaten alive? Relive that and 9 other 'top forwarded emails' of 2005.

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Al Michaels traded for a bunny

Ok, so the headline is a little misleading. But its not really that far off the truth. Al Michaels, the play-by-play announcer for Monday Night Football, was traded from ABC to NBC for the rights to a cartoon bunny created by Walt Disney in the 1920's. I kid you not... read the details in the article.


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Another math related entry

This is the explanation behind a urban legend: Student mistakes examples of unsolvable math problems for homework assignment and solves them.

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1 is the most powerful number

This article details a mathematical theory known as 'Benford's Law'. It basically states that the number '1' is most likely to appear in any set of numerical data than any other number. For example; if you have a data set where the numbers start with digits 1 thru 9; the numbers will start with '1' about 30% of the time. Typical rules of probability dictate that the number '1' appear 1 out 9 times; but that is not true. My head hurts after reading this.

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I want a new cell phone!

Check out this really slim phone from Samsung. 9.8mm thin!. Credit goes to the Moto Razr for starting this whole trend.

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New Video iPod on the way

I know this is a rumor site; but they have a really good track record when it comes to these kind of things. Anyways; Apple is reportedly working on a new video iPod. This version will support a bigger screen a a digital touch screen click wheel. I guess this may be the final nail in the coffin for my 2 yr old iPod (20gig). Time to start saving up!!

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The infamous Cartoons

Who could have thought that cartoons can cause so much havoc around the world. From the mass protests to the embassy burnings; these cartoons have created quite a stir around the muslim world. If you have not seen them; here they are now.

(Your web browswer may auto resize them to fit in window; just click on them to zoom in).

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Do you Yahoo!?

Yahoo really wants you to user their search engine. Look at this image of all the benefits they will give you if you do. I am particularly interested in the NetFlix for $10.99 (instead of $17.99). This begs the question; do I really need to use google or is Yahoo good enough?

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3D Web Browser

I'm sure its pretty useless; but that doesn't mean its not cool. This is one of those applications that just looks so damn neat that you dont even care about the practicality of it. Check out some of the screenshots. It gives a whole new dimension to web browsing (pun intended).


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Google Desktop 3

Google has introduced a new version of their desktop search program. The new program contains a whole bunch of new 'applets' for the sidebar, a way to view RSS photo feeds, and ofcourse search.


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How much is your home worth?

After many delays; Zilow is finally live. Its this amazing website that allows you to enter in your home address and see how much your house is worth. The service also shows recently sold properties in your neighbourhood.

If you are looking to buy or sell a home; you should defintely check out this site.

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School suspends first grader

This has got to be a one of a kind! An elementary school in Massachusetts suspended a first grader for sexually harassing a female schoolmate. You have got to read it to believe it.


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New Yahoo! Look

Yahoo! is testing out a new look for their homepage. Some visitors to their homepage this morning were treated to the new design. It looks pretty spiffy!

Boring Meetings?

Are you in a boring meeting? Want to do something from falling asleep? Check out this page. Its a link to Live CHP 'Incident' reports. You can filter by your area. LA area page seems to be the most updated. (No surprise there i guess)


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Viva La Mexico!

Today is turning out to be a 'post a photo gallery day'. Anyways; I found this very cool site that was created by a former helicopter pilot. He has posted some stunning aerial views of Mexico City. Enjoy!!


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Carseat - whats that??

Celebrities are just so much better than us. Us normal people would have to obey the laws and silly things like that; but not Celebs. Event their kids are above the law! They dont need no stinking car seats.. its so much safe sitting your mommy's lap

Check out this picture of britney driving around with her baby (not Kevin).

Opera - The forgotten browswer

Opera announced the release of their newest browser: Opera 9 Tech Preview 2. I am mainly a firefox user; but this new release looks pretty interesting. They are offering built in BitTorrent and 'widgets' (think OSX). I am personally never given Opera a try; but I know some ppl swear by it. I plan to download it and try it out for a few days to see if the hype is deserved.

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Hidden China

Going with this whole theme of nature photos; check out these pictures taken of the rural China. Some of these are just mind blowing. They look very CG like!

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Lost World Found

Here are some pictures of the 'Lost World' that a team of scientists found in the jungles of Indonesia. (LinkToStory)

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New music player - SongBird

I have been following this project since it was launched. Its a new mp3 player based on the firefox code base. I am a big iTunes fan. It gives a great way to organize my 3000+ punjabi songs; but I am willing to give this a try; just because i'm a big Firefox fanboy.



(keep in mind that the site was slashdotted last time I checked; get it from mirror instead).

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2005 Engadget Awards

Think of it as the Oscars for Gadgets. The Gadget of the year was the 'Xbox 360'.

(Too bad there aren't links to each individual award winner).


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Apple updates iPods

Apple updated their iPod pricing today.

iPod Nano - 1gig model for $150
Shuffle 512mb - $69
Shuffle 1gb - $99

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Blog Outage

So earlier this morning; my blog went down for a few minutes (10-15min I think). I have root caused it to Sanjay's virus-infected computer; but thats not important. During my frantic search to find out if the blog was back up; I came across this great tool. It allows you to enter a url and have it pinged from servers all over the world to check for outage.

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Cool CPU Monitor

This is a very cool CPU Monitor. It doesn't take up that much monitor space, plus you can have it be transparent.





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Build your own Whopper (with women)

This is an interesting online version of one of the better SuperBowl ads. You basically specify the contents of your whopper and then watch all the 'whoppererettes' do your bidding.


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Intel IT Manager Game

Ever wonder what it feels likes to be an IT Manager? Wonder no more and try it out in this online simulation. (I wonder what will happen if you try to buy AMD in this simulation ;)).


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Watch dvds online - First 10 minutes of it

This is pretty cool. No more guessing if the movie is going to be good or not before renting. This website allows you to watch the first 10 minutes of newly released dvds for free!

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Photo Booth - Jay Leno Sketch

I just saw this video on youtube.com. It is interesting to see what ppl will do just because someone tells them to do it.

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Fight Club (Bollywood style)

The title says it all. Another gem in the long history of bollywood remakes. ;)

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Microsft is too funny

I ran across this ad for Microsoft frontpage on some website. They claim to have cleaned up their act. We know thats not possible. If you look closely at the image, you will see that they are using a wrong 'paragraph' tag. It should be a 'starting' tag; but they have put a 'ending' tag instead.

Insanely real CG

If i didn't know it was computer generated; I would not have been able to tell that the ocean in this video was not real.

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Keeping it real

Man unhappy with the price he paid for his car. Sets the dealership on fire. Damages a limited edition Ford GT (only 250 total in the world).

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Best PC case I've seen

Dont know what to do with all those liquor bottles? Check out what this guy did.



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Guide to making your own ringtones

There is no reason to pay money for ringtones when you can make your own from any regular mp3. Just gotta make sure that your phone can play mp3 ringtones.

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Take advantage of balance transfers

Here is an excellent guide to taking advantage of the 0% balance transfer offers that many credit cards offer. With the rising interest rates at Emigrant/HSBC; you can park the money in a savings account and make a extra $50-$100 a month easy! Please keep in mind that doing this will probably lower your credit score a little bit since you are increasing your debt (temporarily).

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Super Bowl XL Commercials on Google Video

If you missed any of them during the game, Google has them all up on this website.

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