If only this could be harvested!

Perspective: India's next big business? from CNET

"If you don't get into the Bay of Bengal now, you will be left back as an Okie,"
he said during a presentation at the International Petroleum Technology Conference last week. "Unless you step into the breach, you may regret one day dismissing me as a raving lunatic."
The optimism is grounded in massive oil deposits, close to 30 billion tons, in Central India. That's twice the size of the deposits in Iraq (13 billion tons, according to the Institute of Petroleum) and just shy of Saudi deposits. With this, India, which imports 70 percent of its oil, could become an exporter, Aiyar hypothesized. Although nations are clamoring to build their economies around clean industries like semiconductor design and outsourcing, there's still a lot to be said for 19th century activities like drilling holes into the ground and blowing up rocks.
Unfortunately, oil is stuck under the Deccan Traps, a deep layer of volcanic rock created 65 million years ago when the protocontinent Gowandaland smacked into Eurasia. The collision coincided with the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
-- Clifford Stoll

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More ways to organize your news!!!

Yahoo unveils RSS e-mail folder from MSNBC

Looking to gain another edge on its rivals, Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday will begin testing a new e-mail folder designed to make it easier for people to track the latest information posted on their favorite Web sites.

The free feature relies on Really Simple Syndication, an increasingly popular technology that can compile content from a wide array of Web sites catering to a user's personal tastes.
Millions of people have signed up to receive automatic feeds on everything from the international news to family recipes since Yahoo first began providing its RSS service last year, said Scott Gatz, the Sunnyvale, Calif-based company's senior director of personalization products.

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chalo ek baar phir se ajabnabi ho jaye...

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Another intersting feature by Google(ofcourse)

Hello, this is Google, your operator, speaking from CNET

A Web surfer can click a phone icon adjacent to an ad, enter his or her own phone number and then click a "connect for free" button. Google's service calls the advertiser's phone number and when the Web surfer picks up the receiver on his phone, he or she hears ringing as the call to the advertiser is connected, according to a Google Click-to-Call frequently-asked-questions page.
Unlike voice over Internet Protocol, a technology that sends voice transmission over the Internet, this service appears to connect two parties over the regular phone lines. However, Google declined to provide more details, including the specifics of the technology employed.

How do they do it????

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Gud English

(Note: I am not sure any of this is true but it is gud read)

[via Shethra]

In TN , well Known Person,Mr Jeppier,Chairman of Self finance Engg Colleges Association ,who is always speaking in English ...Sathyabama college Students have Collected & published the Book Jappier's Spoken English... Njoy ...........with his..............English..............
Now, here are some classic English sentences from the great Mr. Jeppiar.
The stalwart talks to his students:

# At the ground:-----------------
All of you stand in a straight circle. There is no wind in the balloon. The girl with the mirror please comes her...{Means: girl with specs please come here).

# To a boy, angrily:---------------------
I talk, he talk, why you middle middle talk?

# While punishing students:-----------------------
You, rotate the ground four times...
You, go and understand the tree...
You three of you stand together separately.
Why are you late - say YES or NO .....(?)

# Sir at his best:---------------
Sir had once gone to a film with his wife. By chance, he happened to see one of our boys at the theatre, though the boy did not see them.
So the next day at school... (to that boy) -
"Yesterday I saw you WITH MY WIFE at the Cinema Theatre"

# Sir at his best inside the Class room: ----------------------------------------------
Open the doors of the window. Let the atmosphere come in.
Open the doors of the window. Let the Air Force come in.
Cut an apple into two halves - I will take the bigger half.
Shhh...Quiet, boys...the principal JUST PASSED AWAY in the corridor
You, meet me behind the class. (Meaning AFTER the class..)

This one is cool >> "Both of u three get out of the class."

Close the doors of the windows please. I have winter in my nose today...
Take Copper Wire of any metal especially of Silver.....
Take 5 cm wire of any length....
Last but not the least some Jeppiar experiences ...

Once Sir had come late to a college function, by the time he reached, the function had begun, so he went to the dais, and said, sorry I am late, because on the way my car hit 2 muttons (Meaning goats).

At Sathyabama college day 2002:
"This college strict u the worry no .... U get good marks, I the happy, tomorrow u get good job, jpr the happy, tomorrow u marry I the enjoy"

At St. Josephs fresh years day 2003:
"No ragging this college. Anybody rag we arrest the police"

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I sit and think

I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.

I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall never see.

For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago,
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.

--JRR Tolkien [via Far From Perfect ]

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Cyborg - a form of art???????

Pardon Me, but the Art Is Mouthing Off from NYTimes

IT was late in the day, rain was streaking the windows of a converted warehouse in San Francisco and the robot was not behaving. Represented by a talking head on a flat-screen monitor, and equipped with voice-recognition software, the artificial intelligence computer - known as DiNA - was designed to chat with visitors about current affairs. She is supposed to be a political animal, or more precisely, machine. But at this point in early November, just a few weeks before making her New York debut, she sounded rather clueless. When asked her opinion of the war in Iraq, she called it a "silly question." When asked whether she supported President Bush, she didn't recognize his name.

The robot's programmer, Colin Klingman, was taken aback. "She has a lot to say on Bush, believe me," he said. "I'll have to check the code."

The robot's creator, on the other hand, seemed unfazed. "She still has a lot to learn," said Lynn Hershman Leeson, the 64-year-old digital-media artist. "And she's not yet connected to the Internet, where she can gather information on anything from the mayor of Pasadena to the capital of Pakistan."

An animated exchange with the programmer followed: could that Internet integration happen in time for DiNA's New York debut at Bitforms gallery? Ms. Hershman Leeson calmly insisted it was important. The programmer relented: "Well, then, that's it. Whatever Lynn says will happen, will happen."

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Forced to Marry Before Puberty, African Girls Pay Lasting Price from NYTimes

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Hope is a waking dream.
-- Aristotle

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Fire Fox followed by Gmail

The 100 Best Products of 2005 from PCWorld

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Child Labors... Do they have a choice?

Child workers refuse to quit jobs from BBC

"And for his pains, Tabrez was paid a pocket money of 50 rupees (just over
$1) a week, and at the end of the month, his employer sent 800 rupees (roughly
$17) to his parents.
Alam has never been to school and can neither read nor
write.
Tabrez Alam wants go back to work. He does not have many plans for the future.
"I will take up any work I can find. There is not much to do back home so I will have to go somewhere else to find work," he says.
Perhaps that explains why forcibly rescuing children from factories does not
work.
Most such children have nothing to go back to. Their parents are unable to provide for them, and many return to work once the dust settles."

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good or bad?

Scientists close to producing baby from two dads from The Hindu

"Yet this startling idea is now a serious scientific prospect, say
researchers. Breakthroughs in stem-cell technology could soon lead to
`non-traditional' parents having their own offspring, not always with the help
of a woman's genes, some scientists saying within the next four years. The new
technology currently falls outside existing controls on human fertilisation
science."

[...]

"The technique behind this revolutionary science has been developed
over the past two years. "We still have several years to go before we can use it
on humans," said Professor Harry Moore, of Sheffield University's Centre for
Stem Cell Biology. Following pioneering work on mice carried out by American
researchers, teams — including Moore's — have used embryos donated by patients
undergoing IVF.
"You allow the embryo to develop for a short period in the
laboratory. Then you take out the cells from which it is composed," he said.

These cells are known as stem cells and they have the potential to turn
into cells of any type of tissue: skin, heart, kidney or brain, for example.
What researchers are now doing in laboratories round the world is developing
techniques to turn these stem cells into specialised cells.
Thus
insulin-secreting cells could be created for diabetics and brain cells for
Parkinson's patients."

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thought

Sometimes you have to let it be, to let it change.

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quotes

Never mistake motion for action.
-- Ernest Hemingway

Character develops itself in the stream of life.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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