Wednesday, July 27, 2005

who designed the statue of liberty

the statue of liberty was designed by the French sculptor FREDERIC-AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI. It was completed in July 1884. The iron frame was devised by the Frech Engineer GUSTAVE ALEXANDRE EIFFEL, who also built the EIFFEL TOWERin Paris.

how does laughing gas work?

Laughing gas, which is also known as dinitrogen monoxide, one of several oxides of nitrogen, is a colourless gas. However, it has a pleasant and sweetish odour and taste. When inhaled, it produces insensibility to pain preceded by mild hysteria, sametimes laughter. Nitrous oxide was discovered by the English chemist Joseph Priestley in 1772; another English chemist, Humphery Davy, later named it nitrous oxide and showed its physiological effect. The principal use of nitrous oxide is as an anaesthetic in surgical operations of short duration; prolonged inhalation causes death. The gas is also used as a propellant in food aerosols. It is prepared by the action of zinc on dillute nitric acid by the action of hydroxylamine hydrochloride on sodium nitrite and,
most commonly, by the decomposition of ammonium nitrate.

Sunday, July 24, 2005

Booomerang

When most of us think of boomerangs, we imagine somebody (quite possibly a cartoon character) throwing a banana-shaped stick that eventually turnsaround and comes right back to the thrower's hand (possibly after hitting another cartoon character in the head). This idea is simply amazing, and as children, our first reaction to such a device was: This stick is obviously possessed with magical powers! Of course, the person or people who discovered the boomerang hadn't actually found a magical stick, but they had come upon an amazing application of some complex laws of physics.

Boomeranging is an amazing demonstration of scientific principles as well as a terrific sport you can enjoy all by yourself.

some fantastic facts_02

41- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start, with the exception of North America.
42- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
43- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
44- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
45- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 byeliminating oneolive from each salad served in first-class.
46- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
47- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with apopulation of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
48- "Go!" is the shortest complete sentence in the Englishlanguage.
49- No president of the United states was an only child.
And last and definitely most important:
50- The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it!
51-Butterflies taste with their feet.
52-A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
53-In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
54-On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
55-On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
56-Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
57-Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. 58-Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
59-Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
60-It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
61-Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
62-The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to takeinto account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
63-A snail can sleep for three years.
64-No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
65-Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
66-Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
67-The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
68-All polar bears are left handed.
69-In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
70-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
71-TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
72-Go. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
73-If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.She would stand seven feet, two inches tall
74-A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out
75-The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
76-Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

some fantastic facts_01

1- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
4- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
5- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
6- There are more chickens than people in the world.
7- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is"screeched."
9- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on4:20.
10- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,silver or purple.
11- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
12- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
13- There are only 4 words in the English language which end in dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
14- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
15- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
16- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
17- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
18- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
19- The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named afterBert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It'sa Wonderful Life."
20- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
21- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
22- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
23- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
24- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
25- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
26- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
27- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
28- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
29- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before itstarves to death.
30- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
31- Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honorof his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.
32- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
33- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killedin plane crashes.
34- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
35 - Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
36- Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
37- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventuallyturn white.
38- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
39- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
40- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

Thursday, July 21, 2005

10 most stupid questions

10 most stupid questions' people usually ask in
> > obvious situations and
> > some equally stupid answers.

1. At the movies: When you meet
>> acquaintances/friends...
> > Stupid Question:- Hey, what are you doing here?
> > Answer:- Don't u know, I sell tickets in black over here..

2. In the bus: A heavy lady wearing pointed high
> > heeled shoes steps on your feet...
> > Stupid Question:- Sorry, did that hurt?
> > Answer:- No, not at all, I'm on local anesthesia.....
> > why don't you try again.

3. At a funeral: One of the teary eyed people ask...
> > Stupid Question:- Why, why him, of all people.
> > Answer:- Why? Would it rather have been you?

4. At a restaurant: When you ask the waiter
> > Stupid Question:- Is the "Paneer Butter Masala" dish
> > good??
> > Answer:- No, its terrible and made of adulterated
> > cement.

5. At a family get-together: When some distant aunt
> > meets you after years...
> > Stupid Question:- Munna,Chickoo, you've become so big.
> > Answer:- Well you haven't particularly shrunk
> > yourself.

6. When a friend announces her wedding, and you ask...
> > Stupid Question:- Is the guy you're marrying good?
> > Answer:- No, he's a miserable wife beating,
> > insensitive lout...it's just the money.

7. When you get woken up at midnight by a phone
> > call...
> > Stupid Question:- Sorry. were you sleeping?
> > Answer:- No. I was doing research on whether the Zulu
> > tribes in africa marry or not. And you thought I was
> > sleeping.... you dumb witted moron.

8. When you see a friend/colleague with evidently
> > shorter hair...
> > Stupid Question:- Hey have you had a haircut?
> > Answer:- No, its autumn and I'm shedding.....

9. At the dentist when he's sticking pointed objects
> > in your outh...
> > Stupid Question:- Tell me if it hurts?
> > Answer:- No it wont. It will just bleed.

10. You are smoking a cigarette and a cute woman
> > asks...
> > Stupid Question:- Oh, so you smoke.
> > Answer:- Gosh, it's a miracle ............it was a
> > piece of chalk and
> > now it's in flames!!!

Five Tips For Effective Search

1.Choose your keywords carefully and be very spedific (use symbols or Boolean operators).
2.Put the most relevant words together.
3.Words that appear together should be written within quotes.
4.Capatalise the first letter of people's name, cties, and other nouns. All otherr words should be in lower case.
5.Use a meta-searcher for rare topics.

Attack on America - Amazing coincidences!

Date of the attack: 9/11 = 9 + 1 + 1 = 11.
September 11th is the 254th day of the year: 2 + 5 + 4 = 11.
After September 11th there are 111 days left to the end of the year.
Twin Towers - standing side by side, looks like the number 11.
The first plane to hit the towers was Flight 11.
State of New York - The 11th State added to the Union.
New York City - 11 Letters.
The Pentagon - 11 Letters.
Afghanistan - 11 Letters.
Ramzi Yousef - 11 Letters (convicted or orchestrating the attack on the WTC in 1993).
Flight 11 -> 92 on board - 9 + 2 = 11.
Flight 77 -> 65 on board - 6 + 5 = 11.

Last but not the least, GEORGE W BUSH - 11 letters

Things To Protect Eyes.

1. Never use KAJAL or SURMA as it damages the eye causing a disease called TRACHOMA.
2. Avoid using eye drops or any medicine for eyes. The eyes naturally contain several nutrients for protection.
3. Never use any steroids for eye diseases.
4. Undergo a check up for GLAUCOMA after the age of 40.
5. Watch TV from a disease.
6. Take a break after every two hours if you are using a computer for a prolonged period

How was IIT Bombay set up?

A high-power committee of Govt. of India recommended in 1946 establishment of four higher institutes of technology of the level of their counterparts in Europe and United States to set the direction for the development of technical education in the country. These institutes were designed to provide the necessary dynamism and flexibility of organization in the light of expanding knowledge and changing socio-economic requirements of modern society.

Planning for the Institute at Bombay began in 1957 and the first batch of 100 students was admitted in 1958. The Institute campus at Powai extends over 200 hectares and is situated in picturesque surroundings with Vihar and Powai lakes on either sides and green hills strewn around. ]

In 1961, by an act of Parliament, the Institute was declared an institution of national importance and was accorded the status of a university with power to award its own degrees and diplomas.

IIT Bombay was established with the cooperation and participation of the UNESCO, utilizing the contribution of the Govt. of USSR. The Institute received substantial assistance in the form of equipment and expert services from USSR through the UNESCO from 1956 to 1973. The Institute received several experts (59) and technicians (14) from several reputed institutions in the USSR. The UNESCO also offered a number of fellowships (27) for training of Indian faculty members in the USSR.

Under the bilateral agreement of 1965, the USSR Govt. provided additional assistance to supplement the Aid Program already received by the Institute through UNESCO.

Objectives and Goals:
The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay seeks to establish traditions which will foster creativity and growth of excellence. The institute has the following broad objectives :
To provide the best possible educational facilities for training bright students for the careers in technology and science.
To provide a creative atmosphere in which higher studies and research thrive both amongst the students and the faculty.
To organize a short intensive courses, conferences and seminars on current technological developments which will be of benefit to the surrounding community.
To provide research and development consultancy which will promote contact with and be of service to industries and to government and Civic Organizations.
To organize quality improvement programmes for faculty members from various engineering colleges.
To provide leadership in curriculum design and development.

The Institute cherishes the hope that its graduates will be the leaders of tomorrow. Their education is patterned with this in view. Thus in the engineering curriculum, besides the professional courses, there is a strong emphasis on acquiring a thorough grounding in the basic sciences of mathematics, physics and chemistry and a reasonable knowledge in subjects like economics, english, philosophy and social sciences belonging to the Humanities and Social Science. The emphasis on the basic sciences removes to some extent the fear of rapid obsolescence, while studies in the Humanities help the students to interact more positively with the society in which he lives. Besides making available facilities for higher education, traning and research in various fields of engineering and technology, the Institute contributes to the industrial development and economic growth of the country by preparing a cadre of engineers and scientists, who provide both man power and support R&D work for industries.

DO you know how Google Dance?

Google has 8 main servers. These are
www-ex.google.com or www.google.com
www-sj.google.com or www2.google.com
www-va.google.com or www3.google.com
www-zu.google.com
www-ab.google.com
www-cw.google.com
www-dc.google.com
www-in.google.com

During the update the servers are updated individually from one to another.The indexs are not updated in one go but gradually. This prevents downtime.If you check the results from one server to another during the update they will differ, and it changes as each server is updated, hence the term, Google Dance.

So why are we interested in the dance?
The reason people are interested in the dance is you can get a peep at the future by checking the other servers as they are updated before the main server google.com.

If you have introduced new pages and want to know if they have been indexed, checking Google2 and Google3 during the dance will tell you.

Of course you could just be patient and wait for the update to finish.

You can easily check if Google is dancing by doing a search with a phrase on Google.com and the same search on the others servers. Check the blue bar at the top. It will say something like "Results 1 - 10 of about 60,100.000." If the other servers are different, Google is dancing.

Quite often during the dance people worry because their rankings suddenly drop. If it has happened to you and the dance is still on, you will have to wait until it is over and the index settles.

FilmFare Facts_02

Shahrukh joins Amitabh Bachchan as the only actor to be nominated for a record three films (Main Hoon Na, Swades and Veer-Zaara) in one year in theBest Actor Category. Amitabh has achieved this feat twice in 1982 (Bemisaal, Namak Halaal and Shakti) and in 1978 (Don, Trishul & Muqaddar Ka Sikander).

Amitabh Bachchan is the only actor to be nominated for two or more films in one year (1977, 1978, 1979, 1981 and 1982) in the Best Actor category themaximum number of times.

Shabana Azmi is the only actress to be nominated for four films (Avtar, Mandi, Masoom & Arth) in one year (1983) in the Best Actress category.

Dilip Kumar is the only actor to have won 8 awards in the Best Actor category followed by Shahrukh Khan (5 times), Amitabh Bachchan & Naseruddin Shah (3 times). In the Best Actress category, Nutan tops the list with 5 awards to her credit followed by Madhuri Dixit (4 times) & Meena Kumari (4 times)

The only actor from South to have won the Best Actor award is Kamal Hassan for Saagar (1985)

The only actor to have scored a hattrick in winning the Best Actor award is Dilip Kumar (1955-1957). However, no actress has scored a hattrick in this category as yet.

Some of the stars that have been unlucky and have not yet received the Filmfare trophy for Best Actor/Actress after being nominated for four or more filmsor years include Ajay Devgan, Dharmendra, Salman Khan, Saira Banu, Tabu, Urmila & Mala Sinha.

The only actors and actresses having 100% nomination to winning ratio are Nana Patekar, Bharat Bhushan, Mumtaz, Kamini Kaushal & Lakshmi. All of them have been nominated just once and have won it.

FilmFare Facts_01

The Top 5 actors to have received the nominations the maximum number of times:
Amitabh Bachchan - 24
Dilip Kumar - 19
Rajesh Khanna - 14
Shahrukh Khan - 13
Aamir Khan - 12

The Top 5 actresses to have received the nominations the maximum number of times:
Madhuri Dixit - 12
Meena Kumari - 12
Hema Malini - 10
Shabana Azmi - 9
Jaya Bahaduri, Sridevi & Rakhee - 8

Facts about TCS

01. it employees around 28,000 professionals.
02. it has crossed $2 billion in revenues in around 1998.
03. it has set up computer lab for IIT Kanpur.
04. it has designed the course and labs for MTech in VLSI for IIT Mumbai.
05. it has also setup labs for subject mathematics and modelling for IIT Chennai.
06. it was started in around 1970s, before Microsoft,Apple,HP,Compaq,etc.. all the biggie-wiggies of IT industry.
07. the only companies existed CapGemini,EDS and offcourse IBM.
08. it was started when niether of the best languages such as C, JAVA etc were invented
09. the only language available was FORTRAN.
10. it initially started working on BURROUGHS computer being imported from USA.
11. it was the path setter of all the IT companies in INDIA.

AN ENGINEER'S VALENTINE POEM

>I was alone and all was dark
>Beneath me and above
>My life was full of volts and amps
>But not the spark of love
>But now that your are here with me
>My heart is overjoyed
>You turn the square of my heart
>Into a sinusoid
>You load things from my memory
>Onto my system's bus
>My life was once assembly code
>Now it's C++
>I love the way you solder things
>My circuits you can fix
>The voltage across your diode is
>much more than just point six
>With your amps and resistors
>You have built my integrator
>I cannot survive without you
>You are my function generator
>You have charged my life, increased my gain
>And made my maths discreet
>And now I'll end my poem here >Control, Alt, and Delete

DilberTism

1. I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrowis not looking good either.
2. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make asthey go flying by.
3. Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
4. Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue.
5. Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there thefirst time, chances are you won't be needing him again.
6. I DON'T HAVE AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM, YOU HAVE A PERCEPTION PROBLEM.
7. Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky, and Ithought to myself, "where the heck is the ceiling?"
8. My reality cheque bounced.
9. On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.
10.I don't suffer from stress. I am a carrier.
11. You are slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanutbutter.
12. Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy andtaste good with ketchup.
13. Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
14. Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level, thenbeat you with experience.
15. A pat on the back is only a few inches from a kick in the butt.
16. Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't bepromoted.
17. After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of themonth than you did before.
18. The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.
19. You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry aclipboard.
20. Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worsewill happen to you the rest of the day.
21. If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
22. When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.
23. Following the rules will not get the job done.
24. When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easilyby reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
25. Only the mediocre are at their best all the time.
26. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased thisline.
27. Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may bethe king.
28. If at first you don't succeed......skydiving isn't for you.
29. Life is a waste of time; time is a waste of life, so get wasted allof the time and have the time of your life.
30. When everything is coming your way......you're in the wrong lane.

Basic Cricket Questions

Q: What is the height of optimism?
A: Ganguly coming out to bat applying sunscreen on hisface.

Q: What did the spectator miss when he went to thetoilet?
A: The entire Indian innings.

Q: How to increase the chances of Indian batsmenplaying out the entire 50 overs?
A: Try giving them two innings to begin with, then trythree and so on.

Q: What would Mark Waugh be if he were an Indianbatsman?
B: In form.

Q: How should John Wright reshuffle the Indian battingorder?
A: Move Extras up the order

Q: Why are the Indian players demanding increasedpayments for test matches?
A: Someone told them that some test matches can gointo the fourth day.

Q: What would Glen McGrath be if! we was an Indian?
A: A genuine all rounder

Q: What is the Indian version of a hat-trick?
A: 3 runs in 3 balls

Q: When would Ganguly have 100 runsagainst his name?
A: When he is bowling

Q: Who has the easiest job in the Indianteam?
A: The guy who removes red ball marks from the bat

Q: When will India declare the nextnational holiday?
A: If India beats Namibia in the World Cup

Q: What skill is required to officiate inmatches figuring India?
A: The umpire should be able to raise his hands 10times in 5 minutes.

Q: What is to be done to ensure thatone-day matches figuring India las! ts at least one fullsession?
A: The opponent team should bat first

Q: How is the Indian scorecard written?
A: In the ascending order (opening batsman lowest,extras highest)

Q: What would have happened if there wasan 8th ODI?
A: Tendulkar would have scored one more run andcrossed his highest score in the series.

Q: When do you feel that listening toSidhu's commentary less painful?
A: When watching India's batting

Nice Joke

A British doctor says "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we
>can take a kidney out of one man put it in another and have him looking
>for work in six weeks."
>A German doctor says, "That's nothing, we can take a lung out of one
>person put it in another and have him looking for work in four weeks."
>A Russian doctor says, "In my country medicine is so advanced we can
>take half a heart out of one person put it in another and have them
>both looking for work in two weeks."
>The American doctor, not to be outdone, says, "You guys are way
>behind,
>we just took a man with no brain out of Texas, put him in the White
>House, and now half the country is looking for work, and the other
>half is preparing for war."

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

100 years of flight

One hundred years ago, on December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright achieved their pioneering flights at Kill Devil Hillsin North Carolina, in the United States.
At 10.53am, Orville Wright flew 120 feet in 12 seconds and later that same day his brother Wilbur improved this to 852ft in 59 seconds.

james bond- joke

The character James Bond has a peculiar style of introducing Himself by saying, “Bond”, then a great smile & finally saying “James Bond”His style is absolutely killing but he doesn't know the consequences when he meets our great south Indian gulty(telugu) guy.......

When Bond meets a Gulty guy…....
James Bond : I am Bond...(smiles and then says).... James Bond."James Bond: "And you?"Telugu Guy :"I am Sai... ...(smiles and then says)....Venkata Sai...Siva Venkata Sai...Laxminarayana Siva Venkata Sai .. .. ..Srinivasulu Laxminarayana Siva Venkata Sai... ..Rajasekhara Srinivasulu Laxminarayana Siva Venkata Sai.....Sitaramanjaneyulu Rajasekhara Srinivasulu Laxminarayana Siva VenkataSai.... ..Bommiraju Sitaramanjaneyulu Rajasekhara Srinivasulu Laxminarayana SivaVenkata Sai....
James Bond faints!!! :)

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

IE story

At the turn of the millenium, Bill Gates went head to head with the United States Department of Justice over the company's bundling of software. At the the trial, Gates claimed that Internet Explorer could not be unbundled from the rest of Windows. But an expert witness for the prosecution went to work in the courtroom and unbundled Explorer in just minutes!

Sunday, July 03, 2005

BitTorrent guru [Click Me]


BitTorrent was created by programmer Bram Cohen. It is a file sharing program that distributes large files quickly by breaking them into many pieces, sharing the pieces among the large number of users, and reassembling them uptn delivery.

All About Mario [Click Me]


Mario character was created by
Shigeru Miyamoto, Mario aka Super MArio is a Nintendo video game character. He is arguably one of the most well known characters in the history of gaming. Mario first appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His full name is Mario Mario

Symbian OS [Click Me]


Symbian Ltd was founded in June 1998. It is a software developed company that's jointly owned bt Ericsson, Nokia, Panasonic, Siemens, Sony Ericsson and Samsung. The company develops and licenses Symbian OS, an operating system fo advanced 2.5G and 3G mobile phones.
The latest Nokia 6680 is powered by Symbian OS.