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22 years before 9-11 ( March 19, 1979)

Never before seen 30 minute video of WTC attack

A video blogger has uploaded an unedited 30 minute video of the WTC attacks to Revver. It was filmed from their home 500 yards from the north tower. This is the first time this video has been publicly released

Link :http://media.revver.com/broadcast/59686/video.mov

Ground zero on Aug. 16, 2006. (WTC Towers)

Construction in progress at ground zero on Aug. 16, 2006.This photograph was made with a tilt-shift lens on a Speed Graphic large format film camera, narrowing the field of focus.


The Family Room at One Liberty Plaza has been the only designated place near ground zero where victims’ families can go to grieve.

The Rs 5 crore Ganpati

This is Mumbai's costliest Ganpati. The Gowda Saraswat Brahmin Seva Mandal's Ganpati at King's Circle in central Mumbai is adorned with a 175 kg silver throne. The head-rest and ornaments of the idol is made up of 60 kgs of gold.The jewellery comes from voluntary donations from devotees.No wonder then that the idol is insured for Rs 5 crore.Also read
The Ganeshas of Mumbai
Clay treasures

Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial A Beginner’s handbook

Most of the other tutorials on Linux shell scripting are either too basic or skip too many important intermediate steps. The concept of this tutorial is to maintain a balance between these two. It covers many of the real life examples of shell scripting that are missing from many other tutorials.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/linux/docs/uniqlinuxfeatures/lsst/

Noah takes a photo of himself everyday for 6 years…

Noah takes a photo of himself everyday for 6 years.

World’s Tallest Tower

The Ultimate Marketing Strategy

In a recent marketing campaign in Vancouver, 3M sought a strong image for their security glass. They modified a bus shelter and fitted their security glass and filled it with REAL BANKNOTES. Many have tried to gain access with golf clubs and baseball bats but obviously the glass remains intact! This is what you call having faith in your own product...

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]

Windows Vista Pre-RC1 Screenshots

Recently relased : Windows Vista Pre-RC1 Screenshots

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...

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.

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.

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

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

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