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Simon Beaufoy wins Oscar for best Slumdog Millionaire

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Simon Beaufoy won Oscar for best adapted screenplay in the Danny Boyle directed movie Slumdog Millionaire.
It is about a young Indian slum kid’s life story from rags to winning in a “who wants to be a millionaire” gameshow.
India’s well known music director A R Rahman gets his first chance of winning the Oscar here after [...]

Google breaks the internet ! – all sites may harm your computer

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

For a few minutes today (less than an hour), Google search showed all sites as having malware.
Now it seems to be fixed – but it’s more likely that google just turned off the filter. Sites which are malware and were previously listed are now not marked.
Maybe something went wrong at StopBadWare.org
Maybe they were hacked [...]

Xkcd webcomic – can change the World wide web

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Xkcd.Com is a badly drawn but highly entertaining webcomic by Randall Munroe. The concepts discussed are all geek stuff- some things u can’t understand till u know about the latest in technology and programming strange jokes.
There was one comic where an audio preview option is shown in youtube comments- to prevent the stupid comments u [...]

Last minute rush to vote for Taj in the seven wonders poll

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Last minute rush to vote for Taj in the seven wonders poll
New Delhi, July. 6 (PTI): There was a frenzied last minute rush by Indians to do their bit to see the Taj Mahal through to the elite list of the new seven wonders of the world as the worldwide voting to [...]

Posting a comment here will NOT count as a vote for Taj Mahal. You need to vote on the New 7 wonders site. Do it now.

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Like traveling around the world? The current Seven Wonders of the World are outdated and the search is on for defining the New 7 Wonders of the World. The initiative started in 2000. Experts considered the 77 sites with the highest number of votes and shortlisted 21 finalists on January 1, 2006.
After a final 18 [...]