What's new: October 2008

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

FW: Scrabble

DILIP VENGSARKAR
When you rearrange the letters:
SPARKLING DRIVE

PRINCESS DIANA :
END IS A CAR SPIN

DORMITORY: DIRTY ROO M

ASTRONOMER: MOON STARER

DESPERATION : A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES: THEY SEE

A DECIMAL POINT: IM A DOT IN PLACE

MOTHER-IN-LAW: WOMAN HITLER

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Monday, October 27, 2008

Economic Models in Bovine terms

In view of the current worldwide economic crisis, it is borne upon you to seriously study these.

21 Economic Models ... explained with cows

SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour.

COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.

NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you.

BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then
throws the milk
away...

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.

SURREALISM
You have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessons

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four
cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped
dead.

VENTURE CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using
letters of
credit opened by
your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap
with an
associated
general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax
exemption for
five cows.
The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an
intermediary to a
Cayman Island
Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the
rights to
all seven
cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the
company owns
eight cows,
with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new
president of the
United States,
leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the
release. The
public then
buys your bull.

A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because
you want
three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary
cow and
produce twenty
times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image
called
'Cowkimon' and market it worldwide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a
month, and milk
themselves.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
You count them again and learn you have 2 cows.
You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.

A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 10 people milking them.
You now have full employment .

AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.

A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad.

AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
No-one believes you, so they bomb you and invade your country.
You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of
Democracy....

AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.

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Friday, October 24, 2008

Web Links: Nervous System, Immune System

* Weblink on nervous system:
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chgames.html

* Videos on Immune system:

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/6074-disease-defense-the-immune-system-
video.htm

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/12118-investigating-human-biology-how-the-
body-fights-flu-video.htm

http://video.about.com/pediatrics/Vaccination.htm

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Jokes

Where did the Elephant pack his clothes?
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What do you call a messy Hippo?
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V Sainath, VIII G, Bhavan's Sri Ramakrishna Vidyalaya, Sainikpuri

The ABC's of Happiness

Aspire to reach your potential. Believe in yourself. Create a good life. Dream about what you want to become. Exercise frequently. Forgive mistakes by others. Give respect to elders. Have a Positive Attitude. Imagine big things. Live each day in Joy. Be Kind to others. Love everybody. Meditate daily. Nurture the environment. Organise harmonious action. Praise performances well done by others. Question wrong things. Regulate your own behaviour. Smile often. Think rationally. Understand others. Value life. Work for the common good X-ray and carefully examine problems. Yearn to improve. Zestfully persue happiness.

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History of the Indian Flag

THE HISTORY OF THE INDIAN FLAG.

The flag that was first hoisted on August 7, 1906,
at the Parsee Bagan Square in Calcutta .

Called the 'Saptarishi Flag', this was hoisted in Stuttgart
at the International Socialist Congress held on August 22, 1907.

Associated with the names of Dr. Annie Besant and
Lokmanya Tilak, this flag was hoisted at
the Congress session in Calcutta during the
'Home Rule Movement'.

In the year 1921, a young man from Andhra presented
this flag to Gandhiji for approval. It was only after
Gandhiji's suggestion that the white strip and
the charkha were added.

This flag was suggested during the All India Congress
Committee session in 1931. However, the Committee's
suggestion was not approved.

On August 6, 1931, the Indian National Congress
formally adopted this flag, which was first hoisted
on August 31.

Our National Flag, which was born on July 22, 1947,
with Nehruji's words, 'Now I present to you not only the Resolution,
but the Flag itself'. This flag was first hoisted at the Council House
on August 15, 1947.

The man who designed Tiranga versatile genius Lt. Shri Pingali Venkayya.

Lt .Shri Pingali Venkayya

India's flag is a tricolor standard, with bands of saffron, white, and dark green. The saffron represents courage, sacrifice, patriotism, and renunciation. It is also the color of the Hindu people. The green stands for faith, fertility and the land; it is the color of the Islam religion. The white is in the center, symbolizing the hope for unity and peace. In the center of the white band is a blue wheel with 24 spokes. This is the Ashoka Chakra (or 'Wheel of Law'). The Chakra represents the continuing progress of the nation and the importance of justice in life. It also appears on the Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka ' .

JAI HIND JAI BHARAT

K.H. Hermann's Little Programs, Picture Gallery

K.H. Hermann's presentation creator
Automatically stuffing a bunch of images into an Open Office Presentation
http://linuxgazette.net/116/herrmann.html

(Also see: "Little" programs from K.H. Hermann, Recording internet radio in absentia etc -- http://www.khherrmann.de/Programs.shtml )

*Picture Gallery*

* India:
http://www.khherrmann.de/Indien/index.shtml

* Graz:
http://www.khherrmann.de/Graz/DieStadt/Bilderindexthumb.shtml

TeX2Page

Dorai Sitaram -- Learn scheme etc
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/

..and the Tex2Page Page..
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/tex2page/tex2page-doc.html

Milk Thistle, for your liver

Milk Thistle (Silymarin)
http://www.lataheagle.com/full.php?sid=4461&current_edition=2008-10-02

Friday, October 10, 2008

url on ear

weblink on the ear

http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/science/brainandsenses/ear.swf

Friday, October 3, 2008

Arduino Kit

About Arduino Board for Embedded Programming / Interfacing fun:
http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage

See also HOWTO: http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Howto/

Nanoparticle safety

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080930102635.htm

Thursday, October 2, 2008

BBC Day In pictures

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7646294.stm
See #3 (Gandhijayanti celebrations)
Thanks to Ch.Mama

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