Send A free Holiday Card from Gmail.

Just found out that you can send a snail mail to loved ones.

Check your Gmail on the top-right corner. It says: Send a free holiday card!

Here is the link... 

Black Friday Shopping: Tips

The Black Friday shopping hype is about to begin.
I am jotting down some tips for early birds.

• Do not rush for early morning Deals on Friday: Sleep well. You will loose nothing.  I was up one morning (two years ago) as early as 2 AM to get into the line of Black Friday shopping in front of Best Buy (I have a post from last year showing the sleeping line here...). 
• Check for On line Deals: On line deal sounds much more comfy from your computer at home than the cold morning rush. There are a lot of deal sites.
  
• Remember, there will be After sales events: as they still have to do business after Black Friday. 
• Eat drink and be merry!: Recent studies show that people who eat traditional dishes tend not to fall into the hype of deal [Sci.Ame...]. Good for them! 

Want to add some more?
Please do!


However, having said that. I would recommend going early morning once. It is a nice experience to see if not to buy [It is exciting experience anyway :P].

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

POP up Advertising: Seriously BBC?

BBC offered ad in their news network. No problem!
Today I was surprised to see the pop up.
Pop up ad in BBC?
I am not sure, what to think!

The survey was linked to:

http://survey1.suitesmart.com/survey.sp?PAG=H;GID=9910;SID=84044;CRE=33135787;PLA=40470181;ADI=217578415;REF=news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8375949.stm;DOM=news.bbc.co.uk;PAT=/2/hi/business/8375969.stm;SEA=

Enjoy Podcasts in Ubuntu

Listening to podcast while working is fun.
It reminds me listening to the radio programs while I was doing my homework back in primary school!

I found the feature of podcast in the Rhythmbox music player.
Simply add the podcast RSS into the "new" button and life is easy!

One of my favorite is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/

The 'discovery' by BBC is also very nice one.

I am looking for some more ...

Wanna refer one?

Become a Gmail Ninja

I am starting by assuming that You are not new to Gmail (beta). I know Gmail has been beta forever, so nothing to miss yet!
Some people have had hard time to migrate to Gmail. I can promise you one thing: Once you jump in, you will love it!!!
So, what is so different about it?

• Threaded Email Inbox
• Label (and move to label) and colorful label
  
• contacts + chat within
• effective spam filter
• easy integration of google calendar and documents.
• and the whole lot of Labs feature!

That is what makes it Beta after such a long time of "public release".

 If you have been using it, how good you are at it?
 Want to see what level do you fit in?

http://www.google.com/mail/help/tips.html

Get FaceBook Profile with your name

After failed ways to be like a twitter service here is a new innovation by FaceBook (FB): create your  favorite name tag for the profile!

This feature was already available in Myspace, yahoo geocities also had similar nametag (geocities collapsing soon!).
I am not sure whether it will sustain{hey come on... this is about millions of people!: Just ask Wolfram Alpha ... }, but there should be no harm in getting one!

Have you got one?

Related:
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=90316352130




:)

Opera Unite: A new way to web

I love firefox, I adore Opera very much. Forget about any possibilities of bowser war!
Opera is faster and in many cases stable with respect to tabbed browsing and Javascript tests.
Yesterday Opera Unite was announced. I have downloaded it and am looking around.
Watch the video: it sounds interesting that I can share the files just from within the browser!!!








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From the Opera Unite Blog:
Opera today unveiled Opera Unite, a new technology that shakes up the old client-server computing model of the Web. Opera Unite turns any computer into both a client and a server, allowing it to interact with and serve content to other computers directly across the Web, without the need for third-party servers.
Opera Unite makes serving data as simple and easy as browsing the Web. For consumers, Opera Unite services give greater control of private data and make it easy to share data with any device equipped with a modern Web browser.
For Web developers, Opera Unite services are based on the same open Web standards as Web sites today. This dramatically simplifies the complexity of authoring cutting-edge Web services. With Opera Unite, creating a full Web service is now as easy as coding a Web page.
Opera Unite is available in a special version of the Opera 10 desktop browser from Opera Labs. Opera Unite services run directly in the browser.

Related:

• http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2009/06/16/
• An introduction to Opera Unite
• Opera Unite developer’s primer
• Markuper — The Opera Unite service template library

Line up: even if you are in Danger!!!

Individualistic versus disciplined approach to death!

I was really astonished by the news that more British were killed in Titanic because they lined up (being polite) while trying to exit to the life boat.
Listen the Line up story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7841000/7841629.stm

This is encouraging news for people who just defies the rules of being lined up and who wants to get into the fast track way of breaking rules. Yes, your chance of survival is better. Run for life!!!

Amazing Turkey Size for Thanksgiving: Science on Daily life

I was amazed to learn that the size of turkey has been growing.

USDA Reports an Increase in the Average Weight of a Turkey

Isn't that amazing?
You can have an idea of what I am talking about by looking at the picture of turkey size...

The dramatic increase in size is evidence of how we are playing with the natural system to tune into our needs.
"Today's average Turkey weights 121 percent more than its 1929 ancestors "
(picture from wired science)
I will call it Turkey Science

Tina Fey On the business Mimicking Sarah Palin

Tina Fey is on the business Mimicing Sarah Palin, and she is doing really good!
I have enjoyed watching 'em




This one:



More serious readers are referred to:
http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/10/face_recognition_we_use_differ.php

Quantum Theory of Economics, Global Economics and Jump! Feature

Honestly, I love economics. I mean, while I was reading my brother's demand analysis back in 2005 or so I was impressed by its practicality.
May be, I just love everything: that's why I am Physicist.

The trigger was this picture which I saw in Mashable. Some one was really upset about the Wall Street fluctuations. It is serious matter.
It reads ...

JUMP!
@$#^@%~&@#

Let me connect this to the recent remarks by Nepali Finance Minister (FM) Dr. Bhattarai. He was also talking about jump. Jump like frog. So, economics needs jump!
JUMP! this is how discrete way of thinking is needed to describe the system when classical method is failing.
Does it mean that we need a Quantum Theory of Economics?

Quantum Theory of Economics?

Sounds great idea.

By the way, Nepali PM was in NYC last week. I believe that his FM did not make him hang that pic!
;)

LHC collider: we survived... How are you celebrating? well google is!

I noticed that google has its own style of celebrating the different scientific and social activities and thus is more closer to people.

 

This was the logo of Google, while everyone else was afraid of earth being evaporated.

 

My immediate query was what was yahoo doing?

 

Well...
As always, yahoo is not!
(Ohh! I noticed the (R) sign!)
Well, just my two fav. search engines.


Related:
Have you seen:
The LHC rap?
Hawkings Bet?

BTW, the Google logo was linked to the news search...
http://www.google.com/search?q=Large+Hadron+Collider&hl=en

NASA celebrates its 50th anniversary on July 29, 2008

NASA is 50 today!

NASA celebrates its 50th anniversary on July 29, 2008
Happy Birth Day to NASA!

From Wikipedia:
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program. NASA was established on July 29, 1958.

Science History for Sale

A collection of historical scientific writings owned by Richard Green of Long Island, a retired physician and amateur astronomer, will be put up for sale at Christie's auction house in Manhattan. Included among the 347 lots are works by Copernicus, Darwin, Descartes, Newton, Freud and Kepler, as well as the first phone book.


Harmonia Macrocosmica, by the 17th-century Dutch-German cartographer Andreas Cellarius, is a beautiful star atlas, with double-truck hand-colored plates.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/06/09/science/061008-Auction_3.html


Nicolaus Copernicus's book "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" ("On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres"). In it, the Polish astronomer laid out his theory that the Earth and other planets go around the Sun, contravening a millennium of church dogma that the Earth was the center of the universe.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/06/09/science/061008-Auction_4.html


Nicolaus Copernicus's book "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" ("On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres"). In it, the Polish astronomer laid out his theory that the Earth and other planets go around the Sun, contravening a millennium of church dogma that the Earth was the center of the universe.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/06/09/science/061008-Auction_5.html

One lot includes 130 reprints from Albert Einstein's collection of his scientific papers, including his first one on relativity.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/06/09/science/061008-Auction_6.html


Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica explained the universal laws of gravitation and motion for the first time.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/06/09/science/061008-Auction_7.html



from:
http://www.nytimes.com/
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