"life span extending villa... we want to reverse the downhill course of human life" In a way it is cool, because its like trekking around your house. Of course depends on if you like trekking... umm... like all the time. Secondly, not the ideal home for babies or older people or disabled. Jondi Keane, the visiting researcher puts it very well towards the end of the video, when the interviewer asks him if he feels any younger.

How much of science is science. how much of science is provable. how much of science is facts. This video simplifies (& adds humor) to the argument.

If you're a firefox fan or just wanna try out ff, June 17th is when you should visit the Mozilla site. And while you're at it, be a part of their Guinness record they hope to set too. I've actually been using ff3 beta for sometime now and totally dig the part where it remembers the names/titles of the pages. It populates all the pages with a matching title when i enter the words in the address bar. A lot more human I should say. Also, the sart bookmarks thingy. And oh! the option to save tabs to see them all later is also one cool feature. So yeah, totally worth giving a try. Here's a message from mozilla:

It's official -- Download Day kicks off this Tuesday, June 17th! Help set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours with Firefox 3. There's still time to organize a Download Fest or spread the word!

Remember that the record is for most software downloads, so downlpading their add-ons etc counts. So feel free to look around their site and try out the ones that tickle your fancy :) Ooh yay! this is gonna be my second stab at Guinness record this year! woohoo! (the other one was participating in the the biggest cake making competition :D which is still under review by GR) Does anyone hold a record for participating in the most GRs in less than six months? :P

Are the Indian code engineers the new Indian accountants?

Here's Ivan Markovic explaining the medium he chose to spread to the world, the revolution he and his peers started in Serbia, as youngsters . Conventionally, people (revolutionists) choose to spread their message through means such as books and movies. But Markovich, a lesser known Serbian activist explains how he, a production company and a Baltimore-based game company decided to create a video game that gives the players to practice a non-violent movement. The fact that the whole concept is based on a non-violent movement is what fascinates me the most. Very much different from the usual video games where young adults are required to use violent tactics win their game. He explains what the various elements of the game are in this video. I haven't checked it out myself but I'd like to believe that the game 'is fun and not for fun' like Markovic claims. Here's their site that has more on the movement, the principle and guidelines for a non-violence revolutionist. There have been gaes like Age of Empires, Ceaser or Roller coaster Tycoon in the past that let the gamer practive his leadership and manageent abilities, this game is in a whole league of its own by trying to create an environment that prepares gamers to launch a non-violent movement.

I've noticed lately... that more and more websites are moving on to making their warning messages or casual (read user-friendly) Ok - That's cool Ignore - Whatever Cancel - Nah, later Can't skip more than 6 songs in an hour - You have to listen to some you know these are mostly found on sites targeting the 18-22 demographic, bet the kiddos think this is rad.

Basic usability rule: white font on black background is BAD! Because: It throws your users into a b&w psychedelic trip after they're done... see them blinking their eyes ??

I was on my way to the SFO airport after a conference and had to take a cab cos my heyuujje suitcase refused to go up to the BART. 'Whe'you from?,' asked the cab guy in a thick African accent 'India.' 'On business?' 'Yea. Where are you from?' 'Ethiopia. My family is there in Ethiopia - wife and kid,' he said turning back at me and smiling. 'Came to America to make money. I will return after I make good money. Where do you work?' 'Google.com. Heard of us? we have an office in Mountain View' 'Oh ok... I dont think so. It is an internet site?' 'yeah... a search engine' Two minutes of silence... 'You heard of youtube.com?' 'I have actually! You know the site?' 'Yeah! I love that.. Funny videos and music. I go to internet on Friday for my computer class and see YouTube too. Its really nice.' 'Huh! ok.. nice!'

True Story! and exactly one year later... "YouTube's Crowned World's Second Most Popular Website" (According to Alexa.com) It's puzzling how the Ethiopian man (and the rest of the world) choose to visit YouTube, a video site, over Google - a search engine. Though this doesn't really a point of concern for any search engine, it only raises the question if users really prefer watching videos over reading text for their search queries? If this is true, it spells good news for video search marketing which has now come of age. Video search already compliments text search, if not beat it. This in turn means an amazing opportunity to original content creators who are interested in using the power of video to express or explain thoughts/ideas/concepts etc. Imagine you make a video about feeding your fish and a user who's youtubing for the same, finds your video and comments on the video to get more info or to thank you on making the video (thanks to web 2.0 communications). Or better still, you post a vlog about how you're having trouble fixing up your dvd player and someone posts a video response that walks you through the process of setting up a dvd player. More and more internet users are turning to visual data from textual. I'd much prefer seeing friend's vlog (video blog) rather than reading it. This not limited to video search, and also applies to Image Search. If I had to know how a cello looks, I will google-image-search the word, instead of reading a paragraph of cello. Not only is this faster, it also makes it easier for any lazy brain :) Of course internet penetration and broadband are two important factors that decide the fate of video on internet. But with sites like YouTube who cater to both high speed and low speed internet connections (with their high quality and low quality video options), users now have the freedom to choose to watch a video over reading about something. A Thought: what if someone made videos of everything on Wikipedia, you could look them all up on a video? Of course a challenge is: Is updating as easy? (Originally written on Sunday, March 09, 2008)

First post that is going off-blogger, after yt of course. testing image insert also

Some early 90's anti-piracy film.

So you are a major Orkuteer.You know thee person who basically chats, greets and passes time on Orkut... all under the pretence... ahem.... excuse...ahem... reason to stay in touch with friends. Well, this is a realy cool tool for you then. I've used this and man is this a timesaviour. If someone scraps me I dont actually have to go down to that person's profile, open up his/her Scrapbook and then write(or wonder what I wante to write) inhis scrapbook. But with Orkut ScrapHelper.... you have a box right next to the scrap someone wrote in your scrapbook.All you gotta do is scrap in the little box and hit submit..... and voila the nextpage you see is your scrap in the destination scrapbook. That's like a cool two less steps to write a scrap. Download! Creator: Ajay Martin (aassuming he's an Indian)

So I happened to visit this site an Indian kid had created on tripod. It maps your blogs and stuff - Blog Mapper I'm not so sure if it's limited to Blogger though. It was... well.. extremely slow at my home PC... well you know my home PC (if you didn't... it's archaic!!!) so I wont blame the site :D moral of the story (at least for me) do not try to 'Make your own Marker'... it never loads anyway! I could not mark my blog on this. I hope atleast you guys can. About the originality of the idea...I wouldn't go too much into it, 'cos I've seen something else like this - Blogmapper - map your blog and blog your map.

Umm... yeah so I am a quasi geek! you know one of those wanna bes!!