Be an Expert on Anything

Extremely interesting! I'll just list the points. Read the entire article to know more:

1. Pick a field that can't be verified.
   
2. Choose a subject that's actually secret.
3. Get your own entry in an encyclopedia.
4. Use the word "Zeitgeist" as often as possible.
5. Be sure to use lots of abbreviations and acronyms.
6. Speak from the balls, not from the diaphragm.
7. Don't be afraid to make things up.
8. Don't limit yourself to current knowledge.
9. Get an honorary PhD. (Reminds me of someone :) )
10. Make a habit of name-dropping.

Wish I Were A Meter!

As the bikini turns 60, it's entering the electronic age with a new model featuring a built-in alarm to warn wearers to get out of the sun -- and ease concerns that the scanty swimsuits damage the health.

The American Cancer Society advises that the best way to lower the risk of skin cancer, the most common form of the disease in humans, is to avoid too much exposure to the sun and other sources of ultraviolet light.

So Canadian company Solestrom has come up with a new bikini that goes on sale next month with a UV meter built into its belt and an alarm that beeps to tell wearers when to head to the shade.

"There's so much concern about sun exposure and skin cancer that we saw the demand and designed something to be safe for the wearer," Solestrom spokeswoman Emily Garassa said.

Garassa said the meter on the $190 bikini displays a level of UV intensity on a scale from 0 to 20. A person's sensitivity to UV depends mainly on skin type, but generally three to five would be considered moderate strength, 8-10 very high and anything above 11 extreme.

Garassa said the company was already seeing high demand from Australia and South Africa, which have the world's highest skin cancer rates. The United States has about 1 million new skin cancer cases each year.

Despite increasing awareness of the sun's dangers, sales remain strong for the bikini, which celebrated its 60th anniversary this month.

A new survey by U.S.-based market research company NPD Group found the number of the suits sold in the United States rose 18.8 percent to 33.6 million in the year ended in April 2006, with sales worth a total of $811 million.

The two-piece suit was officially named the bikini in July 1946 by French automotive engineer Louis Reard who persuaded nude dancer Micheline Bernardini to appear in his design at a Paris beauty contest.

Reard named the design after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, where the United States tested an atomic bomb, because he thought the excitement over it would be like an explosion.

Here's the source of information.

IIT Bombay to set up campus in Gujarat

Please read the referred post.

Yeh haath mujhe dede thakur

Apple’s products are now undoubtedly distinct among all other products, and this has turned into a great asset for Steve Jobs’ company. He can now rely on a huge community of Mac users who would rather cut a hand than give up their good ol` Macintosh…

Reminded me of the famous dialogue from one of the biggest Bollywood movies ever.

All jobs PASS

Job <307595> is submitted to default queue <normal>.
<<Waiting for dispatch...>>
Job <307596> is submitted to default queue <normal>.
<<Waiting for dispatch...>>
<<Job is finished>>
<<Job is finished>>
All jobs PASS.

That's what I had been waiting for for almost 2 weeks now, my first success!
:)

Bypassing The "blogspot" Ban in India

Inspired by Kaushik's post, here's mine.
Go through the link in this post and you'll find a handful of ways to show the finger to the stupid people who took this decision!

If none of this works, try creting an account on bloglines.com and subscribe to your most widely read blogs there. This is how I have been reading the blogs I follow.

Have a nice time blogging and reading!

Paying homage to Mumbai blasts victims

I am filled with sorrow and emotions. I feel sorry for all those who lost their near and dear ones.
Do take a look at the photos on the link in this post.

Free Linux DVDs

No, not just Ubuntu! They are shipping Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSuse, Debian, Gentoo and a few more distros.
Order them here.

Use Linux, Fall in love!

Panning flash

I hate my job. What I really want to do is make films. But they won't let me do that because I don't have talent. So watch this Flash intro.

Now I'm a centurion too

Here's a list of movies I saw for the first time in Kanpur (doesn't include the ones I had seen earlier and ones which I saw at home):

12 Angry Men
23 (German Movie)
A Bug's Life
Batman Begins
Big Fish
Bridget Jones's Diary
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Dumb and Dumber
Erin Brockovich
Fight Club
Finding Nemo
Forrest Gump
Four Rooms
Four Weddings and a Funeral
French Kiss
Gods Must Be Crazy
Gods Must Be Crazy 2
Gone in 60 Seconds
Groundhog Day
Hanuman
Harry Potter and The Chamber Of Secrets
Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and The Prisoner Of Azkaban
Ice Age
Jackass - The Movie
Kill Bill
Kill Bill - 2
L.A. Confidential
Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thief)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lord of The Rings - Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of The Rings - The Two Towers
Lost In Translation
Memories of Murders
Millions
Miss Congeniality 2
Monsters, Inc.
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
My Sassy Girl
Notting Hill
Ocean's Eleven
Office Space
OldBoy
Pulp Fiction
Raising Arizona
Requiem for a Dream
Run Lola Run
Saw
Scary Movie - 2
Scary Movie - 3
Scent Of A Woman
Secretary
Shawshank Redemption
Shrek 2
Sin City
Six Days Seven Nights
Sixth Sense
Snatch
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
Spirit - The Stallion of Cimmaron
Spring Summer Fall Winter ... and Spring
Spy Kids
Strangers On A Train
The 40 Year Old Virgin
The Apartment
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Incredibles
The Italian Job
The Mask
The Naked Gun
The Rear Window
The Ring
The Usual Suspects
The Wall
There's Something About Mary
Toy Story - 1
Toy Story - 2
Trainspotting
Vertigo
Wall Street
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
When Harry Met Sally
You've Got Mail

Aitraaz
Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi
Dhoom
Gayab
Hulchul
Hyderabad Blues
Kya Kool Hain Hum
Laila
Main Hoon Na
My Brother Nikhil
Naach
Page 3
Parineeta
Sehar
Yuva