Walk of Fame

Whistle away...

Just saw this delightful documentary Pucker Up: the Fine Art of Whistling. Amazed that there is so much to whistling! Apart from the just the competition, director covered the art of whistling and the passion of those who competed.

Link to the review...

Evolution of Dance ?

Hilarious performance by Judson Laipply :o)

I DEMAND RECOUNT!

source: politicalcartoons.com

Criticism -- How to give and take!

Here is a nice article on How to Give Kind Criticism, and Avoid Being Critical
Response for the article is great with good visitor suggestions





One technique a visitor mentioned: P-C-P

• First, “P” - Praise the effort, progress or results, no matter how far from the desired one. Find something that you can be laudatory about. This is critical, because it lowers the receiver’s automatic defenses and conditions them to be more receptive to what you have to say next.

• Then, “C” - criticize - deliver the criticism with a constructive voice, using Leo’s great techniques above.

• Then “P” - Praise again and segue into an acknowledgment of the effort put in and express your excitement to share in future growth.

The P-C-P sandwich is an amazingly effective technique and it can really work to turn potentially explosive situations into energized and constructive ones.

2 Classic Rockers, 1 Night = Awesome

Last night we went to see Bryan Adams and George Thorogood at Gibson Amphitheatre (LA). Both of them rocked...it was awesome. Bryan once again proved why he is the best thing Canada produced in a long time (after Rush) ;) George did his no BS rocking and he has a great stage presence.

Bryan Adams - Summer of 69


George Thorogood - Bad to the Bone



P.S.
1. We also learned about a dish called 'Kung Foo' ;)
2. Evel Dick was also an attendee

At Red Bull Air Races @ San Diego

Few Photos..


A Finalist of the Air Races



Amazing 360 by a Helicopter



Finally, 2 cool u-tubes @ Red Bull Air Races

->Pilot pulls record-setting 9.6Gs

->Red Bull Air Race pilot nearly crashes

Gerry Phillips -- Hand Magician

Amazing rendition of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody using just his palms!!

Steve Vai -- Guitar freak ;)

Been to Steve Vai's show @ Wiltern in LA last week and Steve was mind blowing as usual with the surprisingly good opening act 'Orianthi'

Steve Vai - For the Love of God


Orianthi - Here on Earth

This is the Day!

I'm Steve Jobs

Though not a big fan of iPod... love their ads... this is not an Ad though!

The introduction video to Apple's WWDC 2007 with "PC" posing as Steve Jobs shutting down Apple

Rehab by Amy Winehouse

Pause... Reflect...

• We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood.

• We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again.

• We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future.

• We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.

Source: Flights Of The Mind

jerome murat

Just Amazing!!

Amazing Siddhrath !!!

Few facts about Siddarth the 'Little Drums Wizard' --

* Siddharth Nagarajan, the 8-year-old percussion prodigy has been mesmerizing audience round the globe for the last 6 years.

* Believe it or not! His first show was on 16th April 2000, when he was barely 2 and a ½ years old!

* In Limca book of Records for 3 consecutive years (2003 – 05)

Here is a short film about Siddharath Nagarajan

Cross between Ballet & Boogie... for nothing!

Video from the Discovery's amazing Planet Earth series

Landlord

I want to see the making of this video! :o)



Heard a rumor that the little girl is Will Farrell's daughter..not sure..

Top 10 Bushisms

Top 2 is my Top 1 ;-)

Getting Serious About Happiness

Drawing on his research on happiness, Csikszentmihalyi has three general pieces of advice:

� Be attuned to what gives you genuine satisfaction. Although many people assume that popular activities like watching TV are enjoyable, their own reports generally indicate that they feel more engaged, energetic, satisfied and happy when doing other things.

� Study yourself. To better understand their own happiness, Csikszentmihalyi says, people should systematically record their activities and feelings every few hours for a week or two. In recording your observations, try to focus on how you actually feel, rather than what you think you ought to be feeling or what you expect to feel. Afterwards, note the high points, particularly, and the low ones. Then try to adjust how you spend time according to your findings.

� Take control. Repairing unhappy conditions requires active effort. People often assume external conditions will change for the better or let chance determine their response. That's a mistake. "Get control," Csikszentmihalyi says. When things aren't right, "you have to put in the same effort you would if your business were in trouble. Just as markets move, life changes too."

Here is the complete article

A Banana a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

[....] is Everything?

Funny ad featuring Bruce Campbell...

Monkey Proof?

MC Rove

From USA Today:
Karl Rove, the powerful political strategist known as "Bush's Brain," admits he's a "practicing philatelist" before he breaks it down with the improv maestros from Who's Line is it Anyway? at a banquet in Washington.

Below you'll find a selection from the duet, during which a comedian sang while Rove danced in front of the nation's top politicos and broadcast journalists:

Rove: I'm M.C. Rove.

Rapper: He can't be beat because he's so white from his head to his feet but he will rap it when you give him a chance.

Look at him move, doing the rapping dance. That's true, he's a dancing resident. He is a sidekick to the president.

Consulting

A friend (who happens to be a Consultant) sent this one.. :-)

Steve Carell hilarious bit in Bruce Almighty

This is hilarious in Bruce Almighty. Jim Carey is Almighty and he makes Steve Carrel go crazy on the live news spot that he got in his place :o)

WOW...Bone conduction headband

I want one!!!

• Via the headband, your favorite tracks are delivered directly to the brain,
• it works by sending out vibrations to which are picked up by the auditory nerve.
• So you wont damage your ears even if you listen on full volume and as your ears exposed when listening to music you can still listen your mobile phone ring.
• The headband is waterproof so you need not worry about it during long jogging season.
• It has a pocket which can accomodate the iPod Shuffle or something similar in size, once packed in you can take a dive in the pool too while listening to music.

Thanko Vonia weighs 75 grams and is available in Japan for 9800 Yen ($ 85).

Introducing...................the Apple iRack

This skit is so hilarious...by far the most creative and funny political satire by MADtv :-)

Perceptive Pixel

Demonstration on how a multi-touch driven computer screen will change the way we work and play!

2 quotes about 'SELF'

Transformation
The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self is the product and a part of the total process of human existence.
To transform oneself, self-knowledge is essential, without knowing yourself there cannot be transformation.
-- J. Krishnamurti

Greatest Unknown
Sometimes we as humans give up our sense of reasoning for a sense of belonging. Often times causing our mind to shuttle between what is wrong and right. We change who we are; our thoughts, our beliefs and even ourselves. Then there comes a night when the changes go full circle and we feel like we woke up from a dream, not knowing why this has all gone around. Of the many unknowns known to us, the greatest unknown maybe our knowledge of ourselves.

2 Lawyers

Two attorneys went into a diner and ordered two drinks. Then they produced sandwiches from their briefcases and started to eat.

The owner became quite concerned and marched over and told them, "You can't eat your own sandwiches in here!"

The attorneys looked at each other, shrugged their shoulders and then exchanged sandwiches.

Walt Disney -- Nazi Cartoon !!!

Can you believe Disney made a Nazi cartoon!?..

Jim Barber {ventriloquist}

Jim Barber was on David Letterman and he was amazing!! Following video is not from that show!

Kevin Johnson - Ventriloquist {amazing}

I have seen some good acts but Kevin is a real talent!

Norah Jones {Come away with me}

(Inspired by her coverage in CBS 60 minutes)

Norah Jones replying to how she felt to sweep all the Grammy's in 2003..
It felt so bad.. it felt like I went to somebody else's birthday party and ate all their cake! :-)

It shows how down to earth and genuine person she is. As unbelievable as it seems, Norah has sold more records than any other female in this decade - over 30 millions!

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

I can -- NAS

Richard's car crash at 288 mph!

• At the time of crash, speed is 288 miles per hour!
• 230 miles per hour doing upside down on grass!!!
• 0.4 sec from tire blowing to all going wrong!!

Woodcutter and God!

One day, while a woodcutter was cutting a branch of a tree above a river, his axe fell into the river. When he began crying, God appeared.
"Why are you crying?" The woodcutter told Him that he had dropped his axe into water.
God went down into the water and reappeared with a golden axe.
"Is this your axe?", God asked.
"No"
God again went down and came up with a silver axe. "Is this your axe?", God asked.
"No".
God went down again and came up with an iron axe. "Is this your axe?", God asked.
"Yes".
God was pleased with the man's honesty and gave him all the three axes. The woodcutter went home happily.

One day while he was walking with his wife along the river, his wife fell into the river. When he began crying, God appeared.
"Why are you crying?"
"My wife has fallen into water."
God went down into the water and came up with Jennifer Lopez. "Is this your wife?", God asked.
"Yes", he said.
God was furious, "You cheat! Now I am going to curse you......"
The woodcutter quickly said, "Forgive me My Lord. It is a misunderstanding. If I say NO to Jennifer Lopez, you will come up with Catherine Zeta Jones. If I also say NO to her, you will finally come up with my wife and I will say YES. Then you will give all the three to me. I am a poor man. I will not be able to look after all the three. So that's why I said YES!"

Source: Anup

Driving in Baghdad!

source: vowe.net

happy feet gangsta gangsta

Eye 2 Eye

Brett Lee feat. Asha {Aussie Desi Pop}

Asha Bhosle singing a duet with Australian cricketer Brett Lee...You're the One For Me....absolutely hilarious!!!

Here is the BBC's take on it ;)

Colbert talks about Big B-SRK

“Kind of like the Indian Robert Redford and Brad Pitt, only crank up the handsome and rip off the knob.” That’s how Stephen Colbert described Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan in a segment Tuesday evening making fun of celebrity feuds.
“Let me tell you something: If Pree-etty Zinta is there, you better fucking show up”

One of the bloggers wrote: 'Watch for yourself, but to my eyes this was a more sophisticated intro to Bollywood than anyone in the studio audience might have expected'

Train Surfing !!!

Preformed by a German known as "the trainrider". Before he died from leukemia, he enjoyed the last year of his life by surfing on trains. Included Germany's fastest Highspeed train ICE with a top speed of nearly 250mph(!) No one did that before.

Deepak Chopra @ Colbert Rpt

Happy New Year 2007

Heard this in a movie and thought will make good New Year slogan..

Do what you have to..
..to do what you want to

Hollywood > [Bollywood + IT Firms]

A single Hollywood 2006 blockbuster, Pirates of the Caribbean took in $1.06 billion worldwide, more than the what the entire Bollywood output grossed. Da Vinci Code raked in $756 million, more than the profit of India’s top IT firms.



Bollywood reaped an American windfall in 2006 with its films making up half of 14 foreign language films that grossed more than $2 million in US — more than any other language...more details

Bob Dylan - "The Times They Are A' Changin"

Dylan's "The Times They Are A' Changin" came in 1964 ... Classic song... check the lyrics here ....so relevant even today!

'Little Miss Sunshine' dance scene

Disclaimer: This is a wonderful movie and if you plan to see it, do not play this clip now -- you'll thank me for this. After you see the movie, you'll come back to see it...I'm sure :)

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

12 Days of Indian Christmas

Update: “12 Days of an Indian Christmas” in this South Park-meets-Charlie Brown Christmas “Boy Mongoose” original.
(update source-niralimagazine.com/blog)

Old Classic -- Lie Detector Test..

Johnny Carson as a politician taking a lie detector test..



source: www.democraticunderground.com

Happy Thanksgiving

source: Clay Bennett

Brilliant Minds Forecast Next 50 Years

What will be the biggest breakthrough of the next 50 years? As part of our 50^th anniversary celebrations NewScientist asked over 70 of the world's most brilliant scientists for their ideas.


Brilliant Minds Forecast Next 50 Years

Wireless power...finally..almost there!

I was always thinking...why can't this be done and how useful it would be to have wireless power for travellers, mobile users,.. it here..almost..according to this article from BBC

US researchers have outlined a relatively simple system that could deliver power to devices such as laptop computers or MP3 players without wires.

The concept exploits century-old physics and could work over distances of many metres.

Instead of using acoustic vibrations, the team's system exploits the resonance of electromagnetic waves. Electromagnetic radiation includes radio waves, infrared and X-rays.

This is so exciting :o)

Move over Copperfield

Sketch furniture via Rapid Prototyping

Amazing stuff...thought it's a gimmick...some sort of animated stuff! But I believe this is a process called Rapid Prototyping and now it's mostly limited to certain metals but advances are being made every day.

Here are more details

Diet Coke & Mentos - Experiments

I quote a comment from another site -- "Image what we'd miss w/o the internet..."

10 Top Must Watch Documentaries

Here are Ten Top documentaries available online


Here are Ten Top documentaries available online

Audiopad

MIT graduates James Patten and Ben Recht designed the Audiopad, an interactive tabletop system which tracks the position of objects and converts their motion into music.

Velcro ...who cant live without?

Anousheh Ansari recently went to the Space Station… she was the first female/iranian space tourist. She was also the first person to blog from space...here are some interesting bits from her her blog entry Thank God for Velcro

Here are some excerpts..

• When you open a bag of soft food like yogurt or soup, if you are not really really careful, small yogurt bubbles or soup bubbles start floating around and then you can catch them with your spoon. But if you try to catch them too fast, one bubble hits your spoon and becomes 10 smaller bubbles and now you have to catch ten of them!
• I guess the closest thing to moving in weightlessness is floating in water. But there is a major difference. In water when you move your arms and legs, you move… in here you can move your arms and legs all you want, but you are not going anywhere.
• So God invented Velcro for this very purpose… to keep things in place in weightlessness. Everything here has Velcro attached to it…even your pants have Velcro strips. I thought things could be secured if I put them in my pockets and closed the zipper. Well they are secured until you open the zipper and take one out… here comes the other small items flying out..

http://spaceblog.xprize.org/
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/our-call-from-space.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMghHs-DwvM

just 'words'..

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

Bypass Firewall via Google

Use Google Translate as a way to bypass a firewall http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.forbiddensite.com

(www.forbiddensite.com stands for the URL you need to go to…)

source: http://element14.wordpress.com/proxy-lists/

Rewind.. Christianity VS Islam {v.funny}

Someone sent this old funny clip from Daily Show.. if you've not seen it, make sure you watch the conclusion.. lol

Sprint Power Up {funny ad}

The Myth of Prodigy and Why it Matters

Here is a very interesting article on The Myth of Prodigy and Why it Matters by Malcolm Gladwell which I think gives great insight into how to raise kids..



Some of the interesting tit-bits..

• A study of 200 highly accomplished adults found that just 34 percent had been considered in any way precocious as children
• What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.
• A study comparing French-speaking Swiss children, who are taught to read early, with German-speaking Swiss children, who are taught to read later but show far fewer learning problems than their French-speaking counterparts.
• The young Mozart’s prowess can be chalked up to practice, practice, practice. Compelled to practice three hours a day from age three on, by age six the young Wolfgang had logged an astonishing 3,500 hours — “three times more than anybody else in his peer group. No wonder they thought he was a genius.” So Mozart’s famous precociousness as a musician was not innate musical ability but rather his ability to work hard, and circumstances (i.e., his father) that pushed him to do so.

Robin Williams on Letterman..

Talking about when his alcoholism became an real issue --

"..when I was violating my standards faster than I can lower them"

Gecko^

Watched Wall Street again tonight... it is such a classic and I pick up atleast a new quote each time I see it!

Here are a couple --

(Responding to Bud's question - How much is enough?)
Gekko: It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.

Gekko: What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

Gekko: Greed captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Lou: The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.


..and there are so many

MIT sketching {very cool}

More info here ...though, requires a tablet PC :(

NOW PLAYING

source Clay Bennett

Communication Seminar

Gmail "plus-addressing"

Here is an very useful usage of a feature offered by Google Email called plus-addressing -- basically add email extension with a "+" sign as follows:

pinkyrocks+freestuff@gmail.com for freestuff.com

Some email clients wont let you login with your real address and you have to replace the @ with a + and it works,

"pinkyrocks+work@gmail.com = pinkyrocks@work@gmail.com" to gmail

Extension to this is to have filters for each of the lables you set up with this "plus-addressing" feature -- Use Gmail Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses ( via Modern Day Alchemist)

OK GO

Amazing performance from OK GO
Performing live on treadmills at the MTV VMA 2006


Here is another of their old performance/dance video
ok go - million ways to be cruel

Shakira @ VMA '06 -- Indian Connection

Shakira's performance of Hips Don't Lie at recent MTV Video Music Awards incorporated classical indian dance moves - mudras.

Performance was choreographed in part by Bollywood choreographer, Farah Khan. While the hip and chest isolations are trademark Shakira, they were incorporated into the bollywood-styled choreography.

VideoJug -- Life Explained. On Film.

VideoJug is a new site aimed at learning through visual media.

videojug.com

For example, here is 'How to relieve an earache caused by flying',