In London’s trendy Shoreditch area, the illusive graffiti artist
Bansky is actually raising the prices of homes with his subversive and humorous art.
His work plays off of the environment it’s painted in- with clever twists. Have a look.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Bansky’s Street Art
In London’s trendy Shoreditch area, the illusive graffiti artist
Bansky is actually raising the prices of homes with his subversive and humorous art.
His work plays off of the environment it’s painted in- with clever twists. Have a look.
September 11, 2001 from space
[Click on the image to see more clearly]Landsat 7 captures an image of Manhattan, September 12, 2001. The picture shows a smoke plume spreading into New Jersey
Open, edit, and save Office documents online
ThinkFree Office Online lets you open, edit, create, and save Microsoft Office documents (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel) from any browser for, just as you thought, free. ThinkFree Office Online also boasts the ability to:
Post documents directly to your blog without any conversion
Create powerful Web presentations using a familiar interface
Convert your existing documents to PDF format
With the free account (which requires only an email address for registration), you get 1 GB of storage space and full functionality. You can upgrade your account for more storage, though I'm having a tought time finding out how. At any rate, ThinkFree Office Online is an awesome way to access and edit Office documents when you're away from the desk. Thanks Dhaval!
ThinkFree Office Online [ThinkFree.com]
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Pluto loses status as a planet
About 2,500 astronomers and experts who meet today in Prague the Czech capital for the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) general assembly have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet.
Pluto had been considered a planet since its discovery in 1930 by the American Clyde Tombaugh. So to now have pluto effectively airbrushed out of school and university textbooks is something that I think is quite unreal as there always used to been nine planets!
The astronomers at the IAU meeting voted by raising their yellow ballot papers for a count. And then after counting the votes the IAU resolution announced “The eight planets are Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune”
Hackers can Turn Your Home Computer into a Bomb!
Hackers can Turn Your Home Computer into a Bomb!
LOL. "The electrical current and molecular structure of the central processing unit is altered, causing it to blas apart like a large hand grenade.
"HAHAHAHA! That's a nifty trick. So they have figured out fusion. Well, now that I think of it, those Intel CPUs do draw a lot of power...
LOL. "The electrical current and molecular structure of the central processing unit is altered, causing it to blas apart like a large hand grenade.
"HAHAHAHA! That's a nifty trick. So they have figured out fusion. Well, now that I think of it, those Intel CPUs do draw a lot of power...
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Google launches free,online word-processor : Writely
Google has re-launched Writely, the online word-processor they recently bought, in public beta. Access to Writely is now free for everyone. Just sign up for an account. Writely does most things Word does, for free — and saves its output as PDFs and even RSS feeds (subscribe to a word-processor doc!). It features collaborative editing — multiple editors on the same doc at once — and can be used as the editor for writing your blog, saving out to a post instead of a file on your machine. This is a great-looking program for people who have always-on Internet, and for so long as you don’t worry about the NSA demanding that Google turn over its Writely files as part of some “security” procedure. Also: if I were a Google China user, I’d have some doubts about this, given that Google has shown that when it comes to China, keeping the government happy is more important than delivering the best product it can.
GO and Get It here : www.writely.com
What Writely can do:
Create new documents from scratch, upload them from most popular file formats (including Word), or e-mail them into Writely in batches.
Organize your documents by tags, or click to star the important ones. You can see at a glance who last edited a document and when.
Download your documents in batches for safe-keeping (in HTML), or save them individually in PDF, RTF, ODT or Word format.
Just click the toolbar buttons to bold, underline, change the font, make bulleted lists, indent and more.
You can add colors, insert tables, links, images, comments and more. There’s even an option to edit the document HTML, if you want that much control.
Offsite storage plus data backup every 10 seconds makes hard drive failures and power outages no longer an issue.
Pick exactly who can access your documents.
Bill Gates Strikes a Pose for Teen Beat Photospread, 1983
UPDATE: Mark was the first to point out that the Macintosh on the desk behind him would indicate that this photo was taken in 1984 at the earliest.
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Firefox Owns ie7.com
This is pretty funny, mostly because I loath Internet Exploder Explorer.
Firefox has purchased the url ie7.com, so when you go to the site all you see is a big Firefox logo. Microsoft is still developing Internet Explorer 7, and it looks like our friends at Firefox grabbed the url first.I’d like to see a download Firefox button right on the page with the logo.
Monday, August 21, 2006
Google Code Jam is back
Hi All,
Google Code Jam is back.
Think you can compete with the world's top programmers?Here's your chance to prove it.
First Place
$10,000
2nd - 10th Place
$5,000
11th - 25th Place
$2,50026th - 50th Place
$1000
51st - 100th Place
$750
http://www.google.com/codejam/ (or)http://www.topcoder.com/pl/?module=Static&d1=google06&d2=overview
Google Code Jam is back.
Think you can compete with the world's top programmers?Here's your chance to prove it.
First Place
$10,000
2nd - 10th Place
$5,000
11th - 25th Place
$2,50026th - 50th Place
$1000
51st - 100th Place
$750
http://www.google.com/codejam/ (or)http://www.topcoder.com/pl/?module=Static&d1=google06&d2=overview
Get Your Copy of Windows Vista DVD NOW…
Microsoft is giving away free Vista DVD/CDs if you can answer a small quiz.
Link: - http://www.microsoft.com/india/offers/vista/quiz.aspx
Answers for the Extremely stupid and dumb Quiz are as Follows
1.Vista
2.Clarity
3.November 2006
4.True
5.Aero
6.All
7.All
8.512
Well even if u get all your answers wrong Microsoft will send u the MS Vista DVD
Link: - http://www.microsoft.com/india/offers/vista/quiz.aspx
Answers for the Extremely stupid and dumb Quiz are as Follows
1.Vista
2.Clarity
3.November 2006
4.True
5.Aero
6.All
7.All
8.512
Well even if u get all your answers wrong Microsoft will send u the MS Vista DVD
MediAssist India : Thirdparty for mediclaims
To know about the mediclaims provided byyour company..
go to the site ,, http://www.mediassistindia.com/index.htm
In the information desk we have
i)details on the list of hospitals
ii)downloadable common cashless request form
iii)claim forms of all the insurance companies tied up with us.
Third Party Administrator (TPA)of Health Insurance PoliciesWe enable cashless hospitalisation at predesignated points of healthcare delivery like hospitals and nursing homes. In the case of reimbursement claims, we assure speedy settlement of the same
go to the site ,, http://www.mediassistindia.com/index.htm
In the information desk we have
i)details on the list of hospitals
ii)downloadable common cashless request form
iii)claim forms of all the insurance companies tied up with us.
Third Party Administrator (TPA)of Health Insurance PoliciesWe enable cashless hospitalisation at predesignated points of healthcare delivery like hospitals and nursing homes. In the case of reimbursement claims, we assure speedy settlement of the same