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Digg Story: She Has A Boyfriend

Rajesh Shetty (rshetty) — 2008-04-25T11:47:08Z

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This one is hilarious!. Must watch the video.

How annoying is it when you are talking to a girl and she just insists on mentioning the fact that she has a boyfriend. Makes me so mad.

Click here to read this story on Digg

High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace - Mind Blowing!.

Rajesh Shetty (rshetty) — 2008-02-26T09:24:45Z

Must read article on Wired , see video on Wired as well. (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys?currentPage=all)

Cougar ace

15,683-horsepower engine
pushing 55,328 tons of steel.
A deep-sea car transport, its 14 decks are packed with 4,703 new Mazdas bound for North America
Estimated cargo value: $103 million.

And cougar ace tipped.

Johnson, who has worked with Habib once before.

Photo courtesy US Coast guard and Wired magazine.

Self-healing rubber bounces back [BBC]

Rajesh Shetty (rshetty) — 2008-02-20T21:31:05Z

Now this is what I call "Brilliant!".

A material that is able to self-repair even when it is sliced in two has been invented by French researchers.

The as-yet-unnamed material - a form of artificial rubber - is made from vegetable oil and a component of urine.

The substance, described in the journal Nature, produces surfaces when cut that retain a strong chemical attraction to each other.

Pieces of the material join together again as if never parted without the need for glue or a special treatment.

This remarkable property comes from careful engineering of the molecules in the material.

The French researchers are already making kilogramme quantities in their Paris laboratories and say the process is almost completely green, and could be completely so with a few adjustments.

Video and Complete story on BBC

Folks!..Happy New year

Rajesh Shetty (rshetty) — 2007-12-31T16:09:55Z

Happy new year everyone. See you all next year and have a great time celebrating new year moments. Drive safe and enjoy the evening.

Any plans for the nite BTW?

http://www.savedmyday.com

Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike

LakshmiNarasimhan Natarajan (lakshminarasimhan) — 2007-12-30T22:56:23Z

Good article here.... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/business/30know.html?ex=1356757200&en=8a7d2124c172af15&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss We have to consider this when we design a new product or software....

Another David goes down in war with Goliath

LakshmiNarasimhan Natarajan (lakshminarasimhan) — 2007-12-28T14:10:40Z

Techcrunch is asking us to observe a moment of silence for the Netscape browser because AOL To Discontinue Netscape Browser Development. We should all cry and remorse for this. Another product goes down in the lines of Sybase, PowerBuilder, etc. Is the software industry heading for a unipolar world?.

Track Santa Operation..

Rajesh Shetty (rshetty) — 2007-12-24T23:57:17Z

Track Santa as he makes his deliveries all over the world! Google Maps will refresh Santa's position every 5 minutes.

Click here to view the videos of Santa we've captured on our Santa Cam so far!

Learn more about Redding, California, United States on Google.com

Map

Hybrid

Terrain

Current location:

Redding, California, United States

Next update:

03:37

Places Santa has visited

Santa Cams (View recent videos)

World Famous Bushman from San Francisco's Fisherman's wharf

Rajesh Shetty (rshetty) — 2007-12-15T22:10:23Z

I was in San Francisco city today and saw the bushman again. I had to stop and get a good laugh out of his acts of scaring people and it gives a light moment for watchers and few seconds scare spike to people who goes thru the quick scare attack of bushman. I thought of googling bushman and He is on Wikipedia and I was amazed by looking at the details on him . Here is the Wikipedia article on bushman and when you are in San Francisco next time make sure go get a good laughter at Fisherman's wharf.

World Famous Bushman

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Bushman giving a scare

David Johnson also known as the World Famous Bushman, is a busker (street performer) who has been entertaining passers-by along Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco since 1980. His current act began after he tried dressing as a robot but found there were too many others doing the same thing.^[1] Johnson hides behind branches and waits for unsuspecting people to wander by. When they approach, he jumps out and startles them. Crowds gather to watch him work,^[2] often including those he has previously scared.^[1]

Crowds usually watch Johnson in front of Joe's Crab Shack, located across the street from where Johnson usually sits, to see Johnson entertain people.

In a "good year", Johnson claims to earn $60,000.^[3] He employs a bodyguard to protect him against attacks by the unamused, to distract his targets, and to alert him to the approach of elderly people so he can avoid scaring them.^[1]

The police have received a number of complaints about the Bushman, and Fisherman's Wharf merchants have tried to shut him down.^[4] In 2004, he was charged with four misdemeanors, but a jury cleared him. The District Attorney subsequently dropped several remaining public nuisance complaints.^[2]

Supermarket goes Web 2.0 . Its funny.

Rajesh Shetty (rshetty) — 2007-12-14T11:07:24Z

Nicely done. Web 2.0 can fit very well in any context, even supermarkets. Check this out, live learn and improvise

Supermarket 2.0

I'm just getting warmed up

LakshmiNarasimhan Natarajan (lakshminarasimhan) — 2007-12-12T09:45:20Z

Let's see what MessageDance is all about.