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“I Married the Eiffel Tower!”

09 Mar

Some people are really weird – like Elaine Davidson, the World’s Most Pierced Woman according to the Guiness! I don’t know if all of this is natural instinct or just some cheap attention-grabbing tactic but some people are really …really CRAZY!

Lets talk about?Erika La Tour Eiffel who claims to have married the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France! And she is not alone – many people have married some of the world’s popular landmarks.?

Let me ask you one thing Ms?Erika La Tour Eiffel – did you get the citizenship of France as your wedding gift?

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Data.gov

09 Mar

President Obama changed the way technology is being used right from his presidential campaign to his tenure in the White House. Obama made extensive use of technology to reach out people through Twitter and other social media outlets.

And now, President Obama is trying to revolutionize the way the collected data by the US Government is accessed by the public through his new venture – Data.gov

A few days ago Obama sought financial advise from technology leaders like Twitter CEO Evan Williams. So Data.gov may have been the outcome of that meeting? Maybe.

The Data.gov project will be lead by Vivek Kundra. Vivek says that he plans to revolutionize technology in public sector. The project will support and make use of open-source formats. Data will be available in more independant form like XML for better and wide-scale manipulation of these data sets.

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[Video] UFC 96

08 Mar

Here is the video preview -


UFC 96 Results :
Main Event: Quinton Jackson Wins by Unanimous Decision at 5:00 in the 3rd round (29-28, 29-28, 30-27).

Shane Carwin Wins by Knock Out at 1:09 in the 1st round .

Matt Brown Wins by Technical Knock Out at 1:32 in the 1st round .

Matt Hamill Wins by Knock Out at 3:53 in the 1st round .

Gray Maynard Wins by Unanimous Decision at 5:00 in the 3rd round.

Tamdan McCrory Wins by Technical Knock Out at 3:35 in the 1st round.

Kendall Grove Wins by Technical Knock Out at 1:32 in the 1st round.

Jason Brilz Wins by Unanimous Decision at 5:00 in the 3rd round.

Brandon Vera Wins by Technical Knock Out at 1:27 in the 2nd round.

Shane Nelson Wins by Technical Knock Out at 0:44 in the 1st round.

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Review of Kindle 2.0 – Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation)

07 Mar
Amazon released the?Kindle 2.0?, the ultimate wireless book reading device in the world, on?February?23rd, 2009. The new Kindle 2.0 is way better than its?predecessor not only in looks but also an array of features that has made Kindle the choice of many to carry books and novels.

Kindle 2.0 features

Amazon Kindle 1.0 created a cult following of book readers because it gave them freedom to carry their favorite books wherever they went minus the weight. Now kindle 2.0 carries over that legacy along with a rich set of features that makes the Kindle 2.0 THE choice for book lovers.
Incredibly Thin: The Kindle 2.0 is incredibly thin. It is just 1/3rd of an inch. Roughly it is just as wide as your pencil. If you get it as a gift for your birthday you can even cut your cake with it. It is the Apple Macbook Air for book readers!
Light-Weight : The Kindle 2.0 is very light to carry. At just 10.2 ounces it is lighter than majority of the paperback books out there! Carrying a Kindle is better than carrying books!
Longer battery life: The new Kindle 2 comes with 25% increased battery life so that you finish the whole book before the battery is dead.
More storage than you will ever need : Store more than 1500 books on your Kindle. I am sure that most of you will NEVER reach that limit anytime soon!
Text to Speech: The new Kindle has the new Text-to-Speech feature so that you can carry on your work without having to worry. So the next time you go to the gym remember to carry the Kindle with you.
Don’t just read books, Jack : With Kindle you can not only read books but also magazines, newspapers and also your favorite blogs!
Large collection : Select from over 240,000 US and International books, magazines, novels and newspapers.
Low Prices than “Real” books : The prices for most of the books available through the Amazon Kindle store is less than if you order it physically.
Almost Instant Delivery: You get your ordered book within 60 seconds without requiring PC, Wi-Fi hotspot – the 3G wireless technology also makes sure that you don’t pay unnecessary monthly fees! Yes, that means its completely free to download your stuff and also surf Wikipedia!
Amazon.com uses its Whispernet technology to deliver the content on your Kindle which is just like downloading the content from your mobile network. This means that you don’t have to have a PC or an Internet connection if you want to buy a book from Amazon.com for Kindle 2.0. It is delivered using 3G network and you don’t pay any fees for accessing the Kindle bookstore – so no monthly bills to pay and no hassle way to purchase your book.
When you lose a book at the coffee shop or in the bus you don’t get another copy from Amazon (or any other book seller) but with the Kindle Amazon also backs up all the books you’ve purchased so that you can download them all whenever you want! How cool can it get?
And because the new Kindle is equipped with wireless paper technology, it eliminates the eye-strain cause by reading on a PC. It just feels like your holding a book and reading.
You can also clip or bookmark certain passages or pages and it’ll all be stored on Amazon.com for your future reference – now writing on the margins of the book!
So, why wait?

Get the New Kindle 2.0!

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Chris Brown and Rihanna Married?

05 Mar

Having created quite a stir in the news, the Star magazine reports that Chris Brown and Rihanna have secretly married.

The magazine states that -

All she’s ever wanted was to be with him forever. Rihanna is looking for the husband-and-two-kids deal before she turns 25. She believes in fairy tales, and she wants to live hers with Chris. She was totally up front and confessed to him, ‘I can’t live without you.’

Now we don’t want it to end before it has even started but Rihanna we don’t want to see your bruised face everday. Afterall, how can you really trust anyone who had been sooo violent in the past. Rumors have it that they got married in Vegas.

The story tells that Rihanna and Chris Brown met at Diddy’s mansion in Miami where Chris apologised, begged and proposed Rihanna to get married with him.

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Chris Brown and Rihanna spending time together on a beach in Barbados

Chris Brown and Rihanna spending time together on a beach in Barbados

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[Screenshot] Kumo.com – Microsoft’s “NEW” Search Engine?

05 Mar

?Microsoft has been the clear winner in the desktop software battle but it remains unfortunate to win the search engine battle since the start of MSN, Microsoft’s flagship search engine. Google and Yahoo! enjoy the lion’s share in search while globally MSN doesn’t even have a 3% share.

First it was MSN search then Microsoft repackaged it into Live Search which it called the next generation search. But the brand confusion never propelled it to the stardom that Microsoft had hoped. But MSFT knows that search is a lucrative business and one which is too hard to miss!

So to once again try its luck in search Microsoft has released Kumo for its employees to test and provide feedback. ?Currently Kumo is not available outside of Microsoft’s internal network. Currently all the info we have is from the leaked memo from Kumo’s technical leader Satya Nadella.

Here is the screenshot that shows the search result page for the search term?”Taylor Swift” -

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Kumo's result page for the search term Taylor Swift

What are your initial thought on Kumo? Do you think it is a good strategy to build a new brand when there are already 2 heavyweights in the arena? For now, I can’t really say! but you never know – the interface looks good!

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Mickey Goodwin – The Boxing star killed at home

04 Mar

Mickey Goodwin was found dead in his home. The 50 year old professional boxer was born in 1958 and grew up in Melvindale, Michigan.

He was a professional boxer and was trained at the legendary Kronk Gym in Detroit. Mickey Goodwin entered professional boxing in 1977.?

Surprisingly he never won a championship belt and so he became a boxing trainer.

Police officials are investigating the cause of death and are unsure id he was beaten to death or hit by a vehicle. He shared the home with his mother.

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Whom did Jason Mesnick “The Bachelor” pick?

03 Mar

The viewers of the hit reality show The Bachelor were stunned when Jason Mesnick dumped the woman whom he had proposed to on the finale of the show on Monday night.

During the reunion that followed the finale Jason sang praises of Melissa, the forme Dallas Cowboys cheerleader.

He said that Melissa was sweet and beautiful but his heart really belonged to the department store buyer and runner-up?Molly Malaney.

Melissa was quite disappointed with Jason while she returned the ring to him. She told that facing this was a ton of heartbreak for her and she broke down while getting into Limo.

But Molly is very happy nevertheless and she told that she had only dreamt of this but never hoped it to come like this.

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Square Root Day

03 Mar
Even math geeks like to celebrate and that can be seen from the celebration of the Square Root Day on 3/3/09! According to math geeks the Square Root Day is a rare holiday where the month and the day of the year are the square roots of the year. The previous Square Root Day?occurred?on 2/2/04 – thats approx 5 years ago!
Numerically, March 3, 2009, can be expressed as 3/3/09, or mathematically as ?9 = 3, or 3? = 3 ? 3 = 9.
“These days are like calendar comets, you wait and wait and wait for them, then they brighten up your day–and poof–they’re gone,” Ron Gordon, a Redwood City, Calif., teacher who organized a contest intended to publicize the event, told the?Associated Press.?
The occassion will be celebrated by cutting the root vegetables into square shapes or square root shapes.
Fun Fact: A Square Root Day only occurs 9 times in any given century!
?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Its the only humorous day celebrated in the maths world
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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

02 Mar

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!Today is the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer and cartoonist who wrote several children’s books under the pseudo name Dr. Seuss.

Dr. Seuss’s works have been adapted into television specials, films and even a Broadway musical!

Some of his best books include The Cat in the Hat and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. I personally like The Cat in the Hat! It is definitely worth a read.

Google also celebrates Dr Seuss’s Birthday with a logo!

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Google celebrates Dr Seuss Birthday

Google celebrates Dr Seuss Birthday

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