Family' Fun + Infotainer

Hope you all know how to clasp your baby (or any baby). Now it's time to teach a thing or two about the same to your dog! Lol...

1. If you think you've eyed a baby, affirm by employing vintage sniffing techniques. Baby powder is a dead giveaway.


2. Floor the baby before actually initiate the hugging process.


3. Simply drift paws around baby and prepare for feasible close-up.


4. If a camera is present, you will need to accomplish the laborious and patented hug, grin, and lean in order to attain the unsurpassed photo quality.


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Cute! isn't it? But hey, it's not what i am about to suggest here...

We all know, Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more. Plus, thanks to the PortableApps launcher bundled in the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go. You can get it from HERE!

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Imagine a earthquake of magnitude 7.9 richter scale just rocks the entire nation right after your wedding ceremony! Scary indeed. The wedding shots by Wang Qiang and other photographers on May 12 in the town of Bailu are an eerie record of China's deadliest natural disaster in a generation. Take a look at few of those snaps.

- Poor couple, just before the incident


- Debris falling all over. This 100 year old building couldn't stand a chance to survive this earthquake. Eyewitnesses said that the entire building just collapsed with in 10 to 20 seconds.


- Couples, relatives, everyone attended the party and the entire place was filled with dust cloud.




- Aftermath of an earthquake


- Luckily in this ceremony, no one got hurt heavily and all the 33 members (incl: the couples) survived the earthquake while the entire nation's casualty is closing to 70K.


- Final shot: The remaining facade of a deserted catholic seminary is seen after it collapsed in an earthquake


One photo shows a couple just before the earthquake, their arms around each other, smiling and clean. "What is happiness, happiness is safe and sound," the caption says. "Having gone through a life-and-death test, they surely will clasp hands and grow old together." God bless them.

Read the entire story...

Via sources: Dragon photo, 1 2 3 4

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IBM, a well known/reputed multinational computer technology and consulting corporation recently enter into 'Solar energy' segment which isn't their cup of tea/coffee/what ever! But the results are and will be amazing indeed. Similar to what we did in childhood for fun, i.e. using a magnifying glass/lens to burn a match stick or a leaf to start a fire, IBM researchers have achieved a breakthrough in photovoltaics technology that could significantly reduce the cost of harnessing the Sun's power for electricity. Can you believe it?





By employing a trick normally used to cool high-performance computer chips, IBM researchers have found a way to make concentrated photovoltaic cells that are more efficient in converting the sun's energy into electricity. IBM scientists are using a large lens to concentrate the Sun’s power, capturing a record 230 watts onto a centimeter square solar cell, in a technology known as concentrator photovoltaics, or CPV. That energy is then converted into 70 watts of usable electrical power, about five times the electrical power density generated by typical cells using CPV technology in solar farms. By using a much lower number of photovoltaic cells in a solar farm and concentrating more light onto each cell using larger lenses, IBM’s system enables a significant cost advantage in terms of a lesser number of total components. If it can overcome additional challenges to move this project from the lab to the fab, it'll be rocking, am sure!

Via Sources: IBM, GoodCleanTech, TechnologyReview, and Physorg

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Just came across 'Plantwire' which is a fun, easy site to search and ascertain about plants.

PlantWire provide information on many of the world's most beautiful, interesting, and important plants. You can search by plant name, flower color, or by tags. Their database now includes over 300 plants and is growing quickly. It provide general descriptive information, flower colors, and basic instructions on how to grow and propagate each plant. More than 6000 images are included.

As this is in a public beta phase, they are working hard to develop and improve the website. It's database is growing, and they are working on new features for searching and navigating the world's plants. You can help it grow by suggesting new plants, recommending new features, and correcting errors in it's database.

Explore the PlantWire!

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Robert Maddox, a 47-year old American who specializes in designing and building the largest pulse-jet engines with powers up to 1000 pounds in the world. If that's not a cool enough hobby, he's also bolted one to a bicycle. Believe it or not!



The 50-ish pounds of thrust (run on kerosene) developed by the engine could push the bike up to 75 MPH, which would be a real bone-shaker of a ride. And a deafening one too: the pulse jet engine makes a frightening racket, and its humming sound earned the Second World War cruise-missile V1s that used similar engines the nicknames buzzbomb and doodlebug. You can hear and see the results of this DIY craziness in this video clip.



I am not so sure that your neighbors would love you as you fired up your jet-powered bicycle for the morning commute, but with a 75 miles per hour top speed, at least you'll get to the office/school/college or even to hospital (no pun intended) quickly. Cheers Maddox!

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Introducing you to the Real, the Original and probably, Bugs free!:-) Windows!...

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Just came across this game casually and find it pretty tough as the game's name 'The World's Hardest Game' suggests. I guarantee you it's harder than any other (online) game you've ever played, or ever will play. Try it! It's challenging, addicting, mind blowing, yet you won't able to cross the first level itself (For your info: You have to complete 30 levels to win this game).



Playing Instructions:



Level:1



Play Here

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The Stockholm Metro (Stockholms tunnelbana) is the metro system in Stockholm, Sweden. The system has three main lines and 100 stations, 47 of which are subterranean and 53 are above ground (surface and elevated) stations.

It is well known for its decoration of the stations; it has been called the longest art gallery in the world and no wonder it's pretty fine example of public art, exhibiting the work of about 130 artists over 110KM of track. Literally they’ve managed to transform what looks like a set of fairly standard/boring subway tunnels into a very exclusive and interesting architectures. Judge for yourself by these pictures!

































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Stockholm Metro Official Website

For more pictures, refer Here and Here!

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After 9,000 years of silence, Chile's Chaitén volcano (pictured on May 3) is erupting with lava, ash—and lightning (full story).



Since the volcano awoke on May 2, it has continued erupting intermittently, blanketing the area in ash and forcing more than 4,000 people to flee.

The mingling of lightning and ash seen above may be a "Dirty thunderstorm."

The little-understood storms may be sparked when rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in the plume collide to produce static charges—just as ice particles collide to create charge in regular thunderstorms.

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Carrying on aerobic fitness past middle age and beyond could delay the aging process by more than 10 years to 12 years and prolong self-reliant living, according to a new review of research on aerobic fitness and dependency in old age.

According to Wiki:

Aerobic exercise refers to exercise that involves or improves oxygen consumption by the body. Aerobic means "with oxygen", and refers to the use of oxygen in the body's metabolic or energy-generating process. Many types of exercise are aerobic (Such as day to day Walking, Jogging, Running, Bicycling, Stair claimbing, Dancing, Swimming etc), and by definition are performed at moderate levels of intensity for extended periods of time. To obtain the best results, an aerobic exercise session involves a warming up period, followed by at least 20 minutes of moderate to intense exercise involving large muscle groups, and a cooling down period at the end.

Decent aerobic capacity was a prime factor in helping pretty old people to maintain a high quality of life and live without relying on others. Regular aerobic exercise improves the body's ability to take in oxygen and use it, but a person's maximal aerobic power falls steady as people age.

Studies of aerobic training response in older people have shown that workouts, especially more intense physical activity maintained for a longer duration, can improve aerobic power. In fact, few studies of this type of exercise found people's aerobic power increased nearly 25 % -- equivalent to reversing 12 years' worth of aging-related loss of fitness.

Elderly people who engage in progressive aerobic training can maintain their independence longer, in effect by turning back the clock on the loss of aerobic fitness that occurs with aging. Other positive spin-offs of aerobic fitness include reduced risks of serious illness, faster recovery after injury or illness, and reduced risks of falls due to maintenance of muscle power, balance and coordination. From the practical viewpoint, regular aerobic activity can address many of the issues of both functional loss and chronic disease," he writes.

Source: British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2008

For more details about Aerobics, Refer Here.

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Hehe! We're living in the Core 2 Duo, Athlon x2, Wii generation and still here to use such modernized medieval products!

Introducing you to the gadget 'USB Powered Ghost Detctor!'

The crazy Japanese gadget company, Solid Alliance, has come up with the perfect solution to all your ridiculous fears of the supernatural. The Ghost Radar is a ghost-detecting computer peripheral. You heard me

Connected via USB (Universal Serial Bus), this device is supposed to detect ghosts, spirits and other things that aren't real. It uses complex algorithms and analyzes data such as your skin's biometric feedback and makes lunar-cycle adjustments in order to detect if there is any paranormal activity within the vicinity. It then discards all of this information and tells you that there is a ghost in the room. This allows you valuable time to perform an exorcism/cower underneath your desk in fear/thank Solid Alliance for making such useful gadgets. Wanna be the next Van Helsing?

The value of this item depends almost entirely on whether you believe in ghosts or not.

Personally, being sensible and logical people, we don't. The only ghosts in our machines are the countless viruses obtained by foolishly clicking on those p*nis enlargement emails (not that we need them or anything, we were just curious).

The website claims that the gadget is supposed to comfort people but, if you believe in ghosts, we're not sure how comforting it would actually be to be told there is a demonic manifestation of a murder victim floating around your room.

The creators have been quite clever in producing a device that's impossible to accuse of not working properly. Because ghosts are either non-physical or non-existent it is impossible to tell if it's really detecting a real ghost, really detecting an unreal ghost or just really weirding out your co-workers. (Un)Fortunately, there is an entire industry working hard to invent useless and downright asinine devices such as this one, in the hopes that someone will accidentally buy them. Don't be a victim. For more such wacky and weird products, refer the Source.

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Half boiled art! Any one?

Henk Hofstra's "Art-Eggcident" in Leeuwarden



Dutch artist Henk Hofstra is back with a new environmental art project called ‘Art Eggcident’ in Leeuwarden, a city in the north of the Netherlands.



On May 6th (2008), several large eggs (each 100 feet wide) were spread on th Zaailand, one of the largest city squares in the Netherlands.



‘The eggs’ will remain in Leeuwarden for the next six months.

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Baby panda playing in the San Diego Zoo (US). Awww! Chow sweet.

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Hahaha! This one is too hilarious! just read it till the end and you know why?

A man brought a very limp dog into the veterinary clinic. As he lay the dog on the table, the doctor placing his stethoscope on the dog's chest. After a moment or two, the vet shook his head sadly and said, “I'm sorry, but your dog has passed away.”

“What?” screamed the man. “How can you tell? You haven't done any testing on him or anything. I want another opinion!”

With that, the vet turned and left the room. In a few moments, he returned with a Labrador Retriever. The Retriever went right to work, checking the poor dead dog out thoroughly. After a considerable amount of sniffing, the Retriever sadly shook his head and said, "Woof.”

The veterinarian then took the Labrador out and returned in a few moments with a cat, who also checked out the poor dog on the table. As had his predecessors, the cat sadly shook his head and said, “Meow.” He then jumped off the table and ran out of the room.

The veterinarian handed the man a bill for $650. The dog's owner went postal. “$650! Just to tell me my dog is dead? This is Outrageous!”

The vet shook his head sadly and explained, "Well!...I would only have charged you $50 for my initial diagnosis. But with the LAB TEST ($50) and the CAT SCAN ($550)..."



LOL!

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A startup based in Cambridge, MA, says that it plans to soon begin clinical trials of a nanostructured material (In picture: The clear fluid in this dish transforms into a gel in the presence of blood) that stops bleeding almost instantly.

The material consists of naturally occurring amino acids that have been engineered to form peptides that spontaneously cluster together to create long fibers when exposed to salty, aqueous environments, such as those found in the body. The fibers form a mesh that serves as a physical barrier to blood and other fluids.

A startup called Arch Therapeutics has licensed the technology from MIT and is developing manufacturing processes for making it in large amounts. It is preparing to do clinical trials, but is first doing further animal tests. Based on the fact that the material works as a physical barrier, the founders expect that it will qualify as a medical device rather than a drug, which could speed the approval process.

Refer HERE to read more!

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Fancy drive through this tunnel road?















Think again!















The dangerous road shown here is the Guoliang Tunnel in Taihang mountains (China). More pictures for your driving pleasure!



Guoliang Tunnel is different from other road tunnels; it is quiet, secluded and mysterious, bright one minute and dim the next, full of twists and turns.





The wall of the tunnel is uneven and there are more than 30 "windows" of different sizes and shapes.



Some windows are round and some are square, and they range from dozens of meters long to standard-window-size.





It is frightening to look down from the windows, where strange rocks hanging form the sheer cliff above and a seemingly bottomless pit lying below. A village, opposite the tunnel, appears to hang on the precipice.



Despite all the dangers surrounding this area, Guoliang Tunnel has been built by villagers themselves, which is an inspiring story in itself:

"Before 1972, the path chiseled into the rock used to be the only access linking the village with the outside world. Then the villagers decided to dig a tunnel through the rocky cliff. Led by Shen Mingxin, head of the village, they sold goats and herbs to buy hammers and steel tools. Thirteen strong villagers began the project. It took them five years to finish the 1,200-meter-long tunnel which is about 5 meters high and 4 meters wide. Some of the villagers even gave their lives to it. On May 1, 1977, the tunnel was opened to traffic."

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