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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard 

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Amazing prank

The best ever!!!
http://www.videosift.com/video/No-Reflection-the-most-brilliant-prank-ever

| posted by Ramki @ 8:19 PM

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Tamilnadu govt textbooks available online for free

Wow! This is revolutionary... something unheard of in Indian education system. Way to go!
http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in/

| posted by Ramki @ 8:21 PM

Monday, October 08, 2007

Indian creativity at its best!

The best ad I've ever seen... amazing creativity!!!

http://canaravideo.com/view_video_new.php?viewkey=d31e82c6ef826f341dae&page=1&category=mv

| posted by Ramki @ 1:20 AM

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Nice ad

| posted by Ramki @ 10:16 PM

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Blockbuster tries new online rental incentive | CNET News.com

Blockbuster tries new online rental incentive | CNET News.com: "Subscribers to any Blockbuster online rental plan can use the new 'Total Access' feature. When a DVD rented online is returned to a Blockbuster store, the online system immediately gears up the next movie in the subscriber's queue for shipment, thus cutting down on the lag time associated with mail."

It'll be interesting to see if any of these incremental moves will offset their brick-and-mortar costs.

| posted by Rajan @ 2:33 PM

Thursday, August 24, 2006

VeryFunnyAds

VeryFunnyAds (http://www.veryfunnyads.com)hosts TV Commercials from around the world and categorized them nicely. Check it out.

| posted by Dhiraj @ 8:14 PM

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

WikiMapia

WikiMapia (http://www.wikimapia.org) is a project to describe the whole planet Earth. You can drill down to cities all over the world and not just limited to US. Its very similar to the Google Earth and Microsoft Live maps.

You will be amazed to see the details with which the details such as Squares, Land Marks have been complied.

How to use
Just move the map to find interesting places, click on rectangles. To add an interesting place or object use Add New link. A note from the Creator, Please only add places interesting to everyone.

Click on the WikiMapia Icon on the Top Left Corner to search.

| posted by Dhiraj @ 9:26 PM

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Stephen Hawking takes Beijing; now, will science follow? - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune

Stephen Hawking takes Beijing; now, will science follow? - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune: "China wants to stand up scientifically, as it is beginning to economically, and it is pouring money and talent into the sciences, particularly physics. Jie Zhang, director general of basic sciences for the Chinese academy, said his budget had been increasing 17 percent a year for the last few years as China tried to ramp up research spending to about 2.5 percent of its gross domestic product. By comparison, the United States spends slightly less than 2 percent, according to the National Science Foundation.

Among the big-budget items on the table, Zhang said, are a giant 500-meter-diameter radio telescope in China's outback to study microwaves from the Big Bang and a multinational particle-physics project, known as the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment to study the ghostly elementary particles known as neutrinos."

| posted by Rajan @ 6:09 PM


The Indian dream, at a premium price - Business - International Herald Tribune

The Indian dream, at a premium price - Business - International Herald Tribune: "Kushal Pal Singh wants to become India's landlord.

He wants to build Wal-Mart superstores for a mushrooming consumer class. He wants to build skyscrapers that generate their own electricity for outsourcing giants like International Business Machines. And he wants to build apartments with a pool for the aspirational young employees of call centers and software parks.

There is a problem: Singh, a New Delhi real-estate mogul whose company turned a $44 million profit last year, needs money.
"

| posted by Rajan @ 5:40 PM

Sunday, June 11, 2006

India speaks...

I have become a big fan of Bharatbala productions ...
Are they the only ones in the business of "promotion" of National integration???
We definitely need more of'em.



[Via Arjun's blog]

| posted by Ramki @ 2:22 PM

Sunday, April 09, 2006

Spiderman in Japan

Japanese are too good in handling superheros. This video apparantly is one of the oldest televised episodes of spiderman. I am sure Japanese cherish it as much as Indians cherish videos like "ek chidiya" etc.
This video has everything -- action, comedy, songs, romance and sentiments. Enzoy!!!

| posted by Ramki @ 11:30 PM


Photoshop alters history

Photoshop contest entries.

| posted by Ramki @ 11:13 PM


Pencils are made of wood too..

..so why not use them as your furniture? Here are some pencil artworks.

| posted by Ramki @ 11:01 PM


ASCII Films.

I'm back!!! Man, if you start getting little involved in work, it just sucks you in. So I've decided to crawl my way out of it.

Earlier these ascii arts and ascii videos used to be very rare. Now imaging softwares are sophisticated enough to generate high resolution ascii videos.

| posted by Ramki @ 10:49 PM

Sunday, April 02, 2006

Funny shampoo ad :-)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9ic_fbC7mlM

| posted by Ramki @ 11:38 PM

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Math Trek: From Counting to Writing, Science News Online, March 11, 2006

Math Trek: From Counting to Writing, Science News Online, March 11, 2006: "Although other scholars tend to agree that Sumerian tokens could have been devices for keeping track of goods, some argue that writing was a largely independent development. These skeptics insist that there's little evidence that cuneiform writing arose directly out of a token-based accounting system. Moreover, it's likely that writing developed independently in different parts of the world—in Mesopotamia, in the Indus River valley, and in Egypt—with each region producing its own unique form of expression for its own purpose.

In response, Schmandt-Besserat contends that she has strong archaeological evidence—thousands of tokens and hundreds of clay envelopes and early tablets—to support her theory.

Schmandt-Besserat is now exploring how the development of writing influenced art by providing a way of presenting stories on vases and other surfaces. Before writing, the patterns were largely geometric; after writing, there was narrative, she says.

At the same time, art influenced writing, helping it shift from a mundane accounting tool to an evocative form of expression, beginning as a way to preserve the names of deceased members of a family."

| posted by Rajan @ 8:57 PM

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Matrix Ping-pong video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8079411349144989883

[Thanks Lad]

| posted by Ramki @ 4:06 PM

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Using India's poor as guinea pigs

Big pharmas have a billion people vying to be part of clinical trials of untested drugs. Areas known only for snakes and heat now have good hospitals after the government passed a law allowing the drug testing and advertised its "treatment naive" patients. By Jennifer Kahn from Wired magazine.

| posted by Ramki @ 10:58 PM

Sunday, February 05, 2006

Tall drawing

This  drawing is very tall. It extends all the way from God, down to Hell -- and everything in between.  

| posted by Ramki @ 12:09 AM

Sunday, January 08, 2006

Happy News

Open a newspaper (or) news website for that matter -- All that you see is killings, destruction, bomb blasts, natural calamaties where nature asserts its supremacy! Should we be bothered about all these sad, sad news every day? How about reading only good, encouraging, positive happenings around the world.
  Happy News is here for the exact same reason.
  Of course, it wont be as crowd-pulling or saucy or even interesting to many like the say, CNN or "Trash of India" sites but then, its like fresh air blowing over other stinking stuffs getting reported in other sites.  Magesh says its worth a visit everyday!

[Via Magesh]
 

| posted by Ramki @ 2:21 PM

Saturday, January 07, 2006

Image-> ASCII Converter

TEXT-IMAGE.com was started in early 2002 for the single purpose of entertaining people who find their way here. It's funded by Google advertising and runs on a webserver behind the living room sofa. The man who created it is Patrik Roos, now a 24-year-old student of Japanese and physics. He resides in Stockholm, Sweden, where he spends most of the day reading in the bathroom

[Via Ursi's blog]

| posted by Ramki @ 1:25 AM

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Virtual CT-scan

This applet on how the human anatomy will look in a CT-Scan is amazing. The applet takes a while to load though!

| posted by Ramki @ 9:08 PM


Sideways Bike

Human balance is detected in the inner ear. There are three semi-circular canals positioned at right angles to each other that detect balance in three axes. These canals are separate and distinct. The three types of balance are Left to Right, Front to Back and Rotational (Yaw). Left to Right balance is what people are most familiar with and is the primary balance used for riding a regular bicycle or indeed flying a plane.

| posted by Ramki @ 9:00 PM

Monday, January 02, 2006

We have finally arrived!

Can you believe it? Shikar being screened in Dollar theater, Plano. Well, well, well -- Finally, we have arrived.
We'll now see KKQUIR, KAPMQ etc being nominated for Oscars!!!

| posted by Ramki @ 11:00 AM

Saturday, December 31, 2005

Size does matter!

http://www.odt.org/Pictures/poplcart.jpg

[More from the retired shankar]

| posted by Ramki @ 1:57 PM


Awesome visualization

http://www.brazilianartists.net/home/flags/

[From a retired-lazydesi shankar]

| posted by Ramki @ 1:56 PM

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Children Learn by Monkey See, Monkey Do. Chimps Don't. - New York Times

Children Learn by Monkey See, Monkey Do. Chimps Don't. - New York Times: "Mr. Lyons sees his results as evidence that humans are hard-wired to learn by imitation, even when that is clearly not the best way to learn. If he is right, this represents a big evolutionary change from our ape ancestors. Other primates are bad at imitation. When they watch another primate doing something, they seem to focus on what its goals are and ignore its actions.

As human ancestors began to make complicated tools, figuring out goals might not have been good enough anymore. Hominids needed a way to register automatically what other hominids did, even if they didn't understand the intentions behind them. They needed to imitate.

Not long ago, many psychologists thought that imitation was a simple, primitive action compared with figuring out the intentions of others. But that is changing. 'Maybe imitation is a lot more sophisticated than people thought,' Mr. Lyons said.

We don't appreciate just how automatically we rely on imitation, because usually it serves us so well. 'It is so adaptive that it almost never sticks out this way,' he added. 'You have to create very artificial circumstances to see it.'

In a few years, I plan to explain this experience to Charlotte. I want her to know what I now know. That it's O.K. to lose to the chimps. In fact, it may be what makes us uniquely human"

| posted by Rajan @ 5:05 AM

Sunday, December 18, 2005

At least now, plant more trees.



More amazing, creative, original ads at "Ads of the world" blog.

| posted by Ramki @ 8:51 PM


Cruise rocks!

| posted by Ramki @ 8:46 PM


Kung Fu


[Via The Ministry of Unknown Science]

| posted by Ramki @ 8:46 PM

Saturday, December 03, 2005

When Japanese babies are born!

| posted by Ramki @ 11:17 PM


Indian rap

1. Gujarathi Rap (Video) -- Really good one cheh! ;-)
2. One more Ludakrishna,VikramMC rap
2. Indian Chic (audio)

| posted by Ramki @ 10:49 PM


Indian Help Desk on the Conan O'Brien show

This is a hilarious movie from one of his recent show about the Indian help desk!
http://www.collegedowntime.com//media/files/conanvideoindianhelpdesk.wmv

[Beware of the popups and ads in this webpage. Might turn out to be NSFW]

| posted by Ramki @ 10:43 PM

Thursday, November 24, 2005

"Hozur Road" Cartoons :-)

In Bangalore, all the major software companies are located in Hosur Road. Infy campus is about 40 kms from Bangalore city. Came across these funny cartoons about the pathetic state of infrastructure in Bangalore.
http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/archives/2005/09/05/hosur-road-bangalore-cartoons/

[Via Arjun's blog]

| posted by Ramki @ 11:30 PM

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Bacterial Cameras

Bacterial Cameras and the Fabrication Future

Unlocking the Code – Science, Systems and Technological Breakthroughs

Jamais Cascio

It may need four hours to take a picture, and even then only create monochrome images, but the bacterial camera made by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, could be pretty important.

Chris Voigt and his team hacked the genome of E. coli, the common food-poisoning gut microbe, to make it sensitive to light by adding sequences from photosynthesizing algae. When activated by light, the new genes can shut off the action of another gene, in this case one controlling the color of the bacteria. A sufficiently large mass of E. coli can then be used to "print" images. Because the "pixels" are bacteria, the resolution is astounding -- over one hundred megapixels per inch.

The goal of the experiment wasn't to produce a slow, massively high resolution black & white camera, however; the goal was to demonstrate the use of light sensitivity as a control for other bacterial functions.

...their success in getting an array of bacteria to respond to light could lead to the development of "nano-factories" in which minuscule amounts of substances are produced at locations precisely defined by light beams.
For instance, the gene switch need not activate a pigment, says Voigt. A different introduced gene could produce polymer-like proteins, or even precipitate a metal. "This way, the bacteria could weave a complex material," he says. [...]
As a method of nano-manufacturing, the biocamera is an "extremely exciting advance" says Harry Kroto, the Nobel prize-winning discoverer of buckminsterfullerene, or buckyballs. "I have always thought that the first major nanotechnology advances would involve some sort of chemical modification of biology."

This bio-photolithography would be a good way of using microbes to construct macro-scale structures without having to develop complex chemical signalling mechanisms.

The image chosen for the experiment, in case you don't recognize it, is the Flying Spaghetti Monster -- and clearly this work has been touched by its noodly appendages.



[http://www.worldchanging.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/3615]

| posted by Rajan @ 3:30 PM

Monday, November 14, 2005

History's Most Underrated Inventions

Great inventions.

Typically that means big-ticket items. One thinks of dazzling intellectual breakthroughs: the telescope, the steam engine, the airplane, the wheel.... Those were all tremendous, of course.

But often it's some mundane little nothing of a device that changes history. It might be no more than a slight improvement on some earlier invention. If it intersects with a historic moment, it can become a pivot. Then, like the lever that lifts the elephant, it produces consequences far out of proportion to the ingenuity of the thing itself. (Read the article)

| posted by Ramki @ 7:59 PM

Sunday, November 13, 2005

One Teen's Gigantic Contribution to the Internet - New York Times

One Teen's Gigantic Contribution to the Internet - New York Times: "The subject is Blake Ross, who began working at Netscape at the tender age of 14. By 19, he had co-created Firefox: a free, highly regarded, open-source Web browser that, in its very short life, has been downloaded 100 million times, in the process stealing over ten percent of the browser market away from Microsoft. He's now on leave from Stanford, where I met him in his studio apartment."

| posted by Rajan @ 9:31 AM


Lab Notes: Research from the Berkeley College of Engineering

Lab Notes: Research from the Berkeley College of Engineering: "When computers and people communicate, something is often lost in the translation. Essentially, computers don't know how we think. UC Berkeley computer scientist Maneesh Agrawala is helping bridge the gap. From designing systems that generate clearer driving maps to software that produces simpler step-by-step assembly instructions, Agrawala's research is about leveraging our understanding of how humans think.

'My interests are in computer graphics and human computer interaction, specifically perception and cognition,' says Agrawala, who joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences faculty this fall."

| posted by Rajan @ 12:19 AM

Monday, November 07, 2005

Smart Lid to Prevent Scorched Tongues

At long last, the wonders of technology have brought a solution to one our species' greatest problems. No longer will we have to suffer the agony and humiliation of eagerly gulping down that first chug of morning coffee only to scald our tongues (or, worse yet, the roofs of our mouths) on the boiling hot liquid. The Smart Lid is coming to save us all.

Made from a plastic that changes color relative to temperature, the Smart Lid will alert us that our coffee is hot before we take that first fateful drink. Bright red means "slow down, cowboy."

Sadly, those establishments that tend to serve their coffee at irrationally high temperatures -- mainly gas station minimarts -- will probably be the last to adopt the Smart Lid, as they obviously prefer stocking the cheapest and thinnest membranes technology can create. (Of course, if you're drinking coffee from a gas station minimart, you get what you deserve.) But overall the Smart Lid is expected to cost just a penny or so more per lid than standard plastic coffee lids, and the return in reduced customer fatalities could be tremendous.


[Via Wired.com-gadgets blog]

| posted by Ramki @ 10:12 PM


Patent Busting project

Start forming your patent busting posses! Here are the EFF Patent Busting Project's ten most-wanted patents—the ones that pose the biggest threat to the public domain. What makes these patents among the worst of the bunch? Try the fact that their owners are threatening and filing suits against small businesses, individuals and nonprofits, not to mention the threats to free expression and innovation that each of them pose.

| posted by Ramki @ 10:03 PM

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