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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 years of being ignored by the international community. It takes a UK or US made film for such a good music director to get recognised – the very fate behind the success of Slumdog while Indian made mother have been ignored. Rahman has several excellent music scores besides this in Malayalam, Hindi and Tamil movies.
Hope he wins more international awards.

All sites will harm your computer

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 ?

Hope Google fixes this soon.

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 see there. Soon, youtube added that feature. Read about it in the xkcd Blag.

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 choose the marvels drew to a close.

The New 7 Wonders Foundation, a Swiss non-profit group that launched the global on-line, phone and SMS poll to select the top seven marvels, is to announce the names at a ceremony in the Portuguese capital Lisbon tomorrow, the date aptly being 07.07.07.

http://www.fundazone.com/ideas/taj-mahal/

A R Rahman composes Taj Anthem to inspire Indians (and all lovers passionate about the Tahj) to vote for the Taz Mahal

“The voting has picked up like anything since morning. In fact, there is such a’ rush of votes that we are not being able to give the exact figure, as it is changing every moment and we are not in a position now to collate the data through servers as it might create problem for the voters,” said R D Bhatnagar, vice-president of I Media Corp, the official partner of the N7W Foundation in India.

Vote for the Taj Mahal, Agra, India – Wah Tahj – New Seven Wonders 7 / 7 / 7

A R Rahman composed this Taj Anthem to inspire Indians (and all lovers passionate about the Tahj) to vote for the Taz Mahal .

The audio version is available as an mp3 file here :

Taj Anthem audio track download mp3

The video is here at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP-YhQPnuNI

“After the voting closes at midnight tonight, we will process the votes through the servers,” he said.

Bhatnagar said there are huge fluctuations in vote volumes all over the world, but if the current pace of voting from India is maintained, the 17th century white marble monument should make it to the list of the seven wonders.

“It’s like a one-day cricket match now,” he said.

The official declaration ceremony is scheduled to begin at Estadio da Luz in Lisbon between 0030 and 0100 am IST Sunday and will continue till 3.45 am, he said.

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 months of voting by the global public, the New 7 Wonders of the World will be announced during the Official Declaration ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal on Saturday, July 7, 2007 or 07.07.07.

The final year of the campaign will be marked with a World Tour (travel agents get busy!) visiting all 21 finalist wonders and a TV series to be produced by the world’s leading television production company Endemol. See the N7W World Tour Calendar, check with your travel agency and plan a trip to India to visit the Taj.

Indians should vote for the Taj Mahal in Agra, a top tourist destination in India. The world tour reaches Taj mahal on December 5, 2006. There are some cool Taj Mahal N7W products at their Cafepress online shop to show your pride and spread the word.

You can vote for your favorite wonder of the world. Register as a New7Wonders member and get 7 free votes. Vote and receive a personalized New7Wonders Certificate featuring that monument (US$2). Redefine the new travel destinations of the world.

ACT NOW

1. Please Click here to vote for the Taj Mahal. Currently it is far behind in the race and time is running out.

2. Post an article about this event on your blog / website / press and spread the word. That is the only way to get more people to vote.

NOTE: 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.