Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? – Friedrich Nietzsche
Events
Indian Television Best Legs Academy Awards 2009
Something to surprise you ! The title seems strange right ?
Note: ITA = Indian Television Academy Awards , ITBLA = Indian Television Best Legs Academy Awards
This post is related to this video on rediff videos: Ranbir, Katrina with television’s brightest stars. As usual the title of the video is just to attract more people to click on it. Anyway..Lets get to the point of interest !
DesiTorrent’s (DT) First Ever Photography Competition
Its nice to see that the site’s where only downloading, uploading maintaining share ratio takes place also does something special. Probably its one of the first Torrent sites to have such a competition. DT had their first ever photography competition and by god, the photo entrees to the competition are just mind blowing.. If you are a member, login and then click on this link to vote ( multi poll allowed) – VOTE here.
Here is a screenshot of some part of the photos clicked by users for the competition.( total of 72 photos ).
Voting closes on Sep 27 ’09 at 06:21 AM
Vote for the best entry
USOpen.org Starts Free Live Streaming with US Open 2009
I was surprised when shaanya showed me the quality of the streaming, and guess what the official site of USOpen.org guys have started streaming FREE tennis matches ..And the quality is just amazing. (has to be ! streaming is done by Akamai ) ..You can choose the court you want to watch as well as see the stats of the players playing. Another feature is that you can watch two matches at once too ! Just have a look at the official site and some screenshots of yesterday’s match below !
Official Site: USOpen.org
Happy Birthday to Many – Sept 2
Today is one of those days where lot of things have happened and started. Let me list one by one ! Sept 2 was the day the first Internet experiment was done, Google Chrome released and many other things.. Lot of things have happened on this and this page shows you the list that happened on Sept 2. But I am going to list some of those which I am interested in and which fascinate me!
Happy Birthday to:
- Internet turns 40
On Sept 2, 1969 about 20 people got together in Kleinrock’s lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, to watch as two computers chatting by sending out meaningless test data through a 15-foot gray cable. That was the beginning of what was then called Arpanet network.
- Google Chrome turns 1
- Salma Hayek (Mexican actress)
Whats More Valuable than Human Life ? Nobody seems to Understand ? – Killer Space Rocks
Whats the point in research and stuff when you cannot save the human life. There are possibilities of saving ourselves and nobody seems to understand ?? And moreover what are other countries doing..Its not just NASA, which has the ability to deal with such issues. No other country is probably working on such critical issues !
Do you find Meteors somewhere else other than Sky ? :P
Last night (edited) we tried sky gazing to find meteor shower but in vain..We couldn’t find even one single meteor, leave aside shower.. So when I got up today morning, I tried looking at the news and found this funny titled article on 9NEWS.COM
ISRO Launches Spy Satellite – Should they announce such news?
I saw this news on IBNLive saying “India’s spy in the sky: ISRO launches RISAT-2“. The Indian Space Research Organisation on Monday successfully launched a revolutionary spy satellite that will help security agencies monitor the hundreds of mountain valleys that connect India with Pakistan and terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan further north.
