..:: Aravindh Narayanan ::..

Why can't you just love me for who I am ?

2011-07-15T03:31:00.004+05:30

I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart.

FOR EXAMPLE:

One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed.Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says, 'I don't feel like it,I just want you to hold me.'

I said, 'WHAT??!! What was that?!'

So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear...

'You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man.'

She responded to my puzzled look by saying,'Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?'

Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.

The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her.We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store.I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits.She couldn't decide which one to take, so I told her we'd just buy them all.She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said, 'Lets get a pair for each outfit.'

We went on to the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings.Let me tell you... she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck.I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis braceletwhen she doesn't even know how to play tennis.

I think I threw her for a loop when I said, 'That's fine, honey.'She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement.Smiling with excited anticipation, she finally said, 'I think this is all dear, let's go to the cashier.'

I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, 'No honey, I don't feel like it.'

Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled, 'WHAT?'

I then said, 'Honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while.You're just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman.'

And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added,'Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?'

Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either....but at least the bitch knows I'm smarter than her.

- From WWW

India's Zero Rupee Note promises to handle corruption

2010-02-21T10:19:00.001+05:30

An Indian lobby group has introduced a novel anti-corruption tool: the zero-rupee note that can be handed over to any corrupt officers who seeks a little extra payment.

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The protest note - literally worth only the paper it is printed on - is being promoted by 5th Pillar, a group that campaigns on behalf of ordinary Indians who are forced to grease the palms of millions of civil servants.

Vijay Anand, head of 5th Pillar, said the bill, which looks similar to a real 50-rupee note, was first distributed to students in the southern state of Tamil Nadu to encourage them to reject India's "baksheesh" culture.

"The corruption prevailing in the common man's life is painful and it can be dealt with by the zero-rupee note," said Anand.

Many Indians are resigned to having to pay extra for government services and to smooth daily transactions such as registering a birth, getting a driving license or avoiding the attentions of an unscrupulous traffic officer.

But Manmohan Singh, the prime minister, has often spoken out against the damaging effect that bribes, extortion and fraud have on all levels of life, and said that the problem threatens India's economic prospects.

In its latest annual report Transparency International stated that each year almost four million poor Indian families had to bribe officials for access to basic public services.

In the same report, India slipped further in its corruption index from 72nd to 85th in a list of 180 countries.

Anand said the zero-rupee note, which was conceived by an Indian professor living in the United States, gave people the chance to register a grassroots protest against low-level corruption.

"We are confident it will change the way people think and act in the coming years," he said.

The bill, which like all Indian notes is graced with a picture of independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, carries 5th Pillar's email address and phone number and the solemn vow "I promise to neither accept nor give a bribe".

Volunteers hand them out near places where officials are often on the look-out for a backhander, such as railway stations and government hospitals.

Though questions remain over whether it is legal to print the fake - if worthless - money, more than one million bills in five languages have been distributed.

Anand said they have even had a practical effect, often shaming officials into getting business done efficiently without using real cash.

"There has not been one incident where a zero-rupee note has created a more serious situation," said Anand.

Ravi Sundar, an IT recruiter in the southern city of Coimbatore, said he used the notes whenever he had government business to sort out.

He gave one example where a tax official refused to process documents unless he paid her 500 rupees.

"I handed over the zero-rupee note which I always keep in my pocket," said Sundar.

"She was afraid and didn't want to take it. She completed the job immediately and said she was sorry and asked me not to take it forward."

Parth J. Shah, president of the Center for Civil Society think tank, said the root of the problem lay in state-run companies and their vast bureaucracies.

"Unless we remove monopolies and the kind of licensing system that we have in many areas of life to create more competition, we're unlikely to get rid of low-level corruption," he said.

Anand said he hoped to introduce the zero rupee note across India, but he insists he remains an optimist about human behavior.

"We haven't given up on officials. There are honest ones in every department," he said.

- From Here

வேதங்கள் - தமிழர் மரபுக்கு முரணானது

2010-02-18T20:35:00.000+05:30

வேதங்கள் - தமிழர் மரபுக்கு முரணானது

சாருநிவேதிதா

(‘இன்னார் செய்தாரை ஒறுத்தல்’ எனும் நாகரிகமான தமிழர் மரபுக்கு - சாராயத்தைக் குடித்துவிட்டு எதிரியின் கண்களைத் தோண்டு என்று கூறும் வேதங்கள் நேர் முரணானது என்று, எழுத்தாளர் சாருநிவேதிதா, எழுதியுள்ளார். ராஜமுத்திரை வார இதழில் - (மார்ச் 22) வெளிவந்த கட்டுரை இது.)

பெரியார் மீது எனக்குக் கொஞ்சம் மனஸ்தாபம் இருந்தது. மக்களிடையே சமத்துவத்தை ஏற்படுத்துவதற்காக தன் வாழ்நாள் முழுவதும் அவர் நடத்திய போராட்டத்தில் கலாச்சாரம் சம்பந்தப் பட்ட பல செழுமையான பகுதிகளும் அடித்துக் கொண்டு போய்விட்டனவே என்பதுதான் என் மனஸ்தாபத்திற்குக் காரணம்.

உதாரணமாக, பிராமணீயத்தை எதிர்ப்பதற்காக சமஸ்கிருத மொழியை எதிர்த்தார். அதனால் காளிதாசன் எழுதிய அதி அற்புத காவியங்களை நாம் படிக்க முடியாமல் போயிற்று. வருண பேதத்தை முன்னிறுத்துகின்றன என்பதால் புராணங்களையும், இதிகாசங் களையும் எதிர்த்தார். அதனால் உலக இலக்கியங்களிலேயே தலைசிறந்த காவியம் என்று உலக எழுத்தாளர்களால் போற்றப்படும் மகாபாரதத்தைப் படிக்காமல் விட்டோம்.

இப்படியெல்லாம் இவ்வளவு காலம் நினைத்துக் கொண்டிருந்தேன். அதனால் சமஸ்கிருதத்தில் உள்ள முக்கிய நூல்களை நானே படிக்க ஆரம்பித்தேன். அப்போதுதான் பெரியாரின் கோபமும் ஆவேசமும் எனக்குப் புரிந்தது, முக்கியமாக வேதத்தைப் படித்தபோது. ரிக், யஜூர், சாம, அதர்வண வேதங்களே இந்து மதத்தின் ஆகப் பெரிய புனித நூல்களாகக் கருதப்படுபவை. வேதம் படித்தவனே அறிஞனாகக் கருதப்படுகிறான். மேலும், சூத்திரனோ அல்லது நான்கு வருணங்களுக்கு அப்பாற்பட்ட விளிம்பு நிலையில் தள்ளப்பட்டு, இழி தொழிலைச் செய்ய நிர்ப்பந்திக்கப்பட்ட அடிமை மக்களோ வேதத்தைக் கேட்டாலே போதும், அவர்கள் காதில் ஈயத்தைக் காய்ச்சி ஊற்றச் சொல்கிறது மனு தர்மம். வேதத்தை முற்றாக அறிந்தவன், வேதாந்தி என அழைக்கப்பட்டான்.

வேதத்தில் இல்லாததே இல்லை யென்று இன்றளவும் கருதப்படுகிறது. நான்கு வேதங்களையும் ஆரம்பத்திலிருந்து முடிவு வரையும், பின்னர் முடிவிலிருந்து ஆரம்பம் வரை தலைகீழாகவும் ஓதத் தெரிந்தவர்கள் கனபாடிகள் என்று அழைக்கப்படுகின்றனர். இக்காரணங்களால் வேதத்தை நான் மிகுந்த மரியாதையுடனேயே வாசிக்க ஆரம்பித்தேன். பிறகுதான் தெரிந்தது, தெருவில் நடக்கும்போது காலில் அசிங்கத்தை மிதித்து விட்டேன் என்று. ஆம்! வேதத்தில் அவ்வளவு அசிங்கமும் ஆபாசமும் உள்ளன. இந்துக்களில் அவர்கள் எந்த சாதியைச் சேர்ந்தவராக இருந்தாலும், அவர்கள் வீட்டில் எந்த சுபகாரியங்கள் நடந்தாலும் அங்கே தவறாமல் அழைக்கப்படுகவர்கள் புரோகிதர்கள். ‘வாத்தியார்’ என்று பிராமணர்களின் பேச்சு மொழியால் அழைக்கப்படும் அப்புரோகிதர்கள் அந்த சுபகாரியத்தின் போது ஹோமம் வளர்த்து பல மந்திரங்களை மணிக்கணக்கில் ஓதுவார்கள்.

அந்த மந்திரங்களின் அர்த்தத்தைக் கேட்டால் நீங்கள் எல்லோரும் பயந்து ஓடி விடுவீர்கள். ஆம்! ஒரு சுப தினத்தின் போது ‘என்னை எதிர்ப்பவர்கள் நாசமாய்ப் போக; அவர்களின் கண்களைத் தோண்டி எடுக்க! புல் பூண்டு இல்லாமல் அவர்கள் வம்சம் அழிந்து போக!’ என்ற ரீதியில் மணிக் கணக்கில் ஒருவர் சாபம் விட்டால், அவ்வார்த்தைகள் அந்தச் சூழலை எவ்வளவு அருவருப்பாக மாற்றும்? வேதம் முழுக்கவும் இம்மாதிரி அருவருப்பான வசைகளே நிறைந்திருக்கின்றன. இடையிடையே கவித்துவம் நிரம்பிய சில அற்புதமான பகுதிகளும் உண்டு. உதாரணமாக:

‘நான் தேனைவிட தேனாயுள்ளேன். மதுரத்தைவிட மதுவாயுள்ளேன். நீ என்னையே தேன் மிகும் சாகையாக விரும்பு.’
‘எனது சலனம் தேன் மயம். என் மனம் தேன் மயம். நான் மொழியால் தேன் மயமாய் மொழிகிறேன். நான் தேன் தோற்றமாக வேண்டும்.’ (அதர்வ வேதம்; காண்டம்: 1.34 தேன் மயம்)

ஆனால், இந்தக் கவித்துவத்தையும் மீறி வேதம் முழுக்கவும் நிரம்பியிருப்பது: துவேஷம். எதிரிகள் மீதான துவேஷம். எதிரிகள் யார் என்று பார்த்தால் பிராமணர்களுக்கு அடிமையாகத் தங்களை ஒப்புக் கொடுக்காதவர்கள். அவர்கள் மீதான சாபத்தைப் பாருங்கள்.

‘இந்திரன் தனது வச்சிராயு தத்தால் அவர்களால் சிரங்களைத் துண்டித்திடுக.’
‘எங்கள் பசுவை நீ இம்சித்தால் நாங்கள் உன்னைக் குத்திக் கொல் வோம்’. (அத்தியாயம்: சம்ஹாரம்)
‘எங்கள் எதிரிகளை ருத்திரன் நாசம் செய்க’
‘சாபத்தால் சபிப்பவள், தன் மக்களையே புசிப்பாளாக’
‘தனது மகனையும், சகோதரியையும் பெண்ணையுமே புசித்திடுக.’
‘அக்னியே! எங்களைத் துவேஷிப் பவனை உனது சுடரால் எரித்து விடு.’
‘இம்சை செய்பவனே! உங்களது புன்மைகள் மறுபடியும் பின்புறமே வீழ்க! உங்கள் தோழனைப் புசியுங்கள்; உங்களது மாமிசத்தைப் புசியுங்கள்’.
‘இந்திரா! சத்துரு சேனையை மயக்கம் செய். அதன் கண்களைப் பிடுங்கு.’
‘அவனைக் கொல்லு; அவனது விலா எலும்புகளை நொறுக்கு. அவன் சீவனற்றவனாகுக. அவன் சுவாசம் நீங்குக.’
‘இந்திரா! இதோ பிழிந்த சோமன். மதத்துக்கு இதனைப் பருகு. விரிந்து விசாலமாயுள்ள உனது வயிற்றில் அச்சோமனைப் பொழிந்து கொள். எங்கள் எதிரிகளைக் கொன்று அவர்களின் பசுக்களைப் பாழாக்கு.’ இப்போது புரிகிறதா, சில சாமியார்கள் கொலை கொள்ளைகளில் ஈடுபடுவது ஒன்றும் சாஸ்திரங்களுக்கு விரோத மானதல்ல என்பதும், வேதங்களைப் பின்பற்றியே அவர்கள் அக்காரியங்களில் ஈடுபடுகின்றனர் என்பதும்? ஆனால் என்ன செய்வது? 3000 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்பு இப்போது இருப்பது போல நீதிமன்றங்கள் இல்லை என்பதை சாமியார்கள் மறந்து விடுகின்றனர். மேலே கூறியுள்ள சுலோகங்கள் அனைத்தும் அதர்வண வேதத்தில் உள்ளவை. இப்படியே அந்த வேதத்தில் 20 காண்டங்கள் உள்ளன.

எதிரிகளும் தங்களுக்கு அடிமையாக மறுப்பவர்களும் அழிய வேண்டும் என்ற ‘அரிய’ கருத்துக்கு அடுத்தபடியாக வேதங்களில் தெரியும் மற்றொரு ‘உன்னத’ குணாம்சம்: சுயநலம். நானும் என் இனத்தைச் சார்ந்தவர்களும் மட்டுமே நன்றாக இருக்க வேண்டும் என்ற சுயநலம். இந்த சுயநலத்திற்காக தேவர்களுக்கு வேள்வி வளர்த்து அதில் நெய்யையும் குதிரைகளையும் போட்டு எரித்து, சொர்க்கத்திலிருக்கும் அவர்களை பூலோகத்துக்கு வரவழைத்து, சோம பானம் என்ற லஞ்சத்தைப் படையல் செய்து எதிரிகளை அழித்து விட்டு, எங்களை மட்டும் வாழவை என்று அவர்களை வேண்டுவதே வேதம்! வேதமந்திரங்கள் முழுக்கவும் இத்தகைய சுயநலத்தையும், துவேஷத்தையும்தான் முழங்குகின்றன.

இன்றைய சாமியார்கள் ரவுடிகளுக்குப் பணம் கொடுத்து தங்கள் எதிரிகளைக் கொலை செய்கிறார்களே, அதே கதை தான் வேதங்கள் முழுக்கவும் விரவிக் கிடக்கிறது.

‘ஜயித்த பொருள் நம்முடையது. தோன்றுவது நம்முடையது. ரிதம் நம்முடையது. தேஜஸ் நம்முடையது. பிரம்மம் நம்முடையது. சுவர்க்கம் நம்முடையது. யக்ஞம் நம்முடையது. பசுக்கள் நம்முடையது.’

அதர்வண வேதத்தில் ஜயகோஷம் என்ற அத்தியாயம் ‘நான் சொல்வதை ஜயிக்க வேண்டும். நான் செல்வம் மிகுந்தவனாக வேண்டும்; நீ என்னில் செல்வத்தை அளி.’

அதர்வண வேதம் செல்வம் என்ற அத்தியாயம்.

‘அடுத்தவன் அழிய வேண்டும்; நான் மட்டும் நன்றாக இருக்க வேண்டும்’ என்ற ‘உயரிய’ கருத்தை வலியுறுத்தும் வேத மந்திரங்களை இங்கே மேற்கோள் காட்டுவது மிகவும் சிரமமானது. ஏனென்றால் எல்லா மந்திரங்களுமே அப்படித்தான் உள்ளன.

நான்கு வேதங்களில் அதர்வண வேதம் மட்டும் சிறிது பரவாயில்லை என்று கூறலாம். ஏனென்றால், அதில் காமம் பற்றிய சில கவித்துவமான பகுதிகள் உள்ளன.

ரிக் வேதமோ முழுக்க முழுக்க துதிப் பாடல்கள் ‘இந்திரனே இங்கே வா, சோமத்தைப் பருகு. தலைவனான நீ, வழிபடும் மற்றவர்களையெல்லாம் கடந்து எங்களிடம் துரிதமாகவும், எங்களுக்கு மிக்க உணவை அளிக்கவும்.’ இப்படி ரிக் வேதத்தில் உள்ள மொத்த மந்திரங்களின் எண்ணிக்கை 10,552. விஞ்ஞான வளர்ச்சியுற்ற இன்றைய காலகட்டத்தில் இத்தகைய வெற்றுச் சொற்களுக்கு எந்த அர்த்தமுமே இருக்க முடியாது.

நாகரிக வளர்ச்சியில் மிகவும் பின் தங்கியிருந்த ஒரு இனம் எதிரிகளிடமிருந்து தங்களைத் தற்காத்துக் கொள்வதற்காக இயற்கையையும் வானுலகில் வசிப்பதாக அவர்கள் நம்பிய தேவர்களையும் துணைக்கு அழைத்த பிரார்த்தனைப் பாடல்களே வேதங்கள். அந்நியர்களைக் குறித்த இவர்களது பயமே சுயநலமாகவும் துவேஷமாகவும் மாறியுள்ளது.

ஆனால் தமிழ்ப் பாரம்பரியமோ ‘இன்னா செய்தாரை ஒறுத்தல் அவர் நாண நன்னயம் செய்து விடல்’ என்கிறது நமக்குத் தீமை புரிந்த ஒருவனைத் தண்டிக்கும் வழி. என்னவென்றால், அவன் வெட்கப்படும் விதத்தில் அவனுக்கு நன்மை புரிவதே. இதுவும் 2000 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்பு எழுதப்பட்டதுதான். இப்படிப்பட்ட சிந்தனையின் ஒரு கீற்றைக்கூட நான்கு வேதங்களிலும் காண முடியவில்லை.

எனவே ‘யாதும் ஊரே யாவரும் கேளிர்’ என்ற சீரிய தமிழ் மரபுக்கு ‘இந்திரனே! நான் அளிக்கும் சாராயத்தைக் குடித்து விட்டு என் எதிரியின் கண்களைத் தோண்டு’ என்று உபதேசிக்கும் வேதங்கள் நான்கும் முற்றிலும் மாறுபட்டது. எனவே, வேதங்களைப் பற்றிய ‘ஜீம்பூம்பா’ கருத்துக்கள் அனைத்தும் பொய்யானவை; தவறானவை.

- சாரு நிவேதிதா -

இந்த பக்கத்திலிருந்து

What they don't teach you at School ?

2010-02-06T17:35:00.009+05:30

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school.

They don't teach you how to love somebody.

They don't teach you how to be famous.

They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor.

They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer.

They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind.

They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying.

They don't teach you how kids are manufactured.

They don't teach you how to take decisions at the crossroads of life.

They don't teach you anything worth knowing !

சீ ... இப்படி ஒரு நாட்டிலா நான் பிறந்தேன் ?

2010-02-05T20:40:00.003+05:30

வா! வா! தலைவா! வணக்கம்! வணக்கம்! - நீ வந்தால் எங்கள் வாழ்வு மணக்கும்! வெள்ளை நிறத்து வேட்டியிலே கறுப்பு சிவப்புக் கரையிருக்க... நீல நிறத்துக் கண்ணாடி கண்களின் மேலே கொலுவிருக்க மஞ்சள் நிறத்து மேல்துண் டணிந்த பச்சைச் தமிழே! வருக! எங்கள் இச்சைத் தமிழே! வருக...

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தமிழுக்கு ஏதடா உருவம் ?...

ஒரு கிழவனின் உருவத்தை தமிழே என்று கூறுகிறாயே என்ன ஒரு ஆணவம் ?

ஆங்கிலேயனும் வேண்டாம், தெலுங்கனோ , மலையாளியோ தேவை இல்லை ..

உன்னைப்போல் ஒருவனே போதும் ... தமிழுக்கு இழுக்கு ...

சீ ... இப்படி ஒரு நாட்டிலா நான் பிறந்தேன் ?

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Download Vinnaithaandi Varuvaya - Hosanna Ringtone !!!

2010-01-11T15:27:00.001+05:30

Vinnaithaandi Varuvaya - Hosanna Ringtone !!!

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Disclaimer: I dont hold any kind of credits nor i am infringing any copyrights. I just used some audio edition tools to create this Ringtone !

"விண்ணைத்தாண்டி வருவாயா" - பாடல்கள்

2010-01-10T23:15:00.007+05:30

"விண்ணைத்தாண்டி வருவாயா"

பாடல்கள் மிக மிக அருமை ... ஏ.ஆர். ரகுமான் வழக்கம் போல் இந்த முறையும் சிறப்பாக இசையை மேருகூற்றி இருக்கிறார் ...

நிச்சயமாக உங்கள் அனைவருக்கும் மிகவும் பிடிக்கும் என்று நம்புகிறேன் ...

தமிழ் திரைப்பட அத்தியாயத்தில் "விண்ணைத்தாண்டி வருவாயா" ஒரு மைல் கல்லாக

அமையப்போவதில் எந்த வித ஒரு மாற்றமும் இல்லை !!!

இத்திரைப்படத்தின் இசை உண்மையில் ஒரு புத்தம் புதிய கோணத்தில் வடிவமைக்கப்பட்டு இருக்கிறது என்று கூறியது அனைத்தும் சத்தியம் !!!

"விண்ணைத்தாண்டி வருவாயா" - பாடல்கள் கேட்டவுடன் பிடிக்காது ... கேட்க கேட்க இதைத்தவிர வேற எதுவும் பிடிக்காது !!!

Do Indians really have talents for a Nobel Prize ?

2009-10-08T15:14:00.000+05:30

Well, I have been asking this question myself for many years.
Do we really have talents in our mother land India ?
Now, dont try to open YouTube and pull some videos.

Lemme put it this way,
we were so proud, to be an indian, isnt it?
we have a history of 5000 years or say 10000 years in the past. (who knows for sure?)
yeah, sure who can fix the number for that qn....

but, my million rupees question is... if and when we are having the world's oldest civilization, one of the world's best and richest culture, multi-diversity, being a sub-continent and for now it would be some 100 crore population.
yeah, when all these mind blowing stuffs we have, why we as indians never contributed any great inventions to the world. like the europeans scientists and research scholars.

Do we really have brains and brainy's with us?

Are we capable of facing the world? or Are we just a kind of scavengers and modern money slaves?

Why we never even discovered anything like madam curie?
why we never proved anything like E=MC square.?
Why we never thought the way how wright brothers visioned.?

But, we have two things in common for all the 100 crore pityful humans.

1. We always complain, and we seldom change. We demand it but when it happens we provoke.
2. We enjoy if someone of us, did something great but by his/her own without others help.

I beleive i dont have to speak for the 1st point. As we all knew that very well.

When it comes to the 2nd point, its the strongest of the two.

Take for example, Abhinav Bindra. hope you still remember the name.
the name which got a gold in the 10 m Air Rifle event at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

This guy was way over rich that he could afford for his training and travel all by himself. his gold is completely and only "HIS". its not the nations.
India as a nation did nothing except waving the hands for bindra while the flight takes off.

When he comes back with a gold. he became the true indian citizen. is it?

And the saddest part is the nobel prize winner Mr. Venkat Ramakrishnan.
Well, I appreciate this guys work.
But, do you really think that nobel prize belongs to us. To an Indian?
Are you sure it does?

I dont think so and I dont agree either.

He is an American Citizen. And it was the country America who gave all the facilities, funding and the greatest motivation for him to pursue his career.
And that brought him to nobel prize.

So, better stop rejoicing for someone who unfortunately a born indian but actually an american getting a nobel prize.

If you appreciate him for his research,. i bow down to you.
but if you feel happy that an indian prized for nobel. you better wake up.

I am not against NRI's (i myself an NRI in fact)

I just feel disappointed why when we have everything thats possible but not doing anything in the right way to achieve the right thing?

--- This is my first genuine post written completely and directly from my mind ---
--- Sorry, if it looks like a casual email style to a friend. ---
--- now, i understand the difficulty and talent of blog writing ---

Firefox Hidden Secrets

2009-09-25T03:49:00.001+05:30

Just Type the url's written below in new tab and hit the enter, see the effect.

1. chrome://global/content/alerts/alert.xul
It SHOWS Dancing Firefox.

2. chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
It Opens another Firefox inside a tab in the the existing Firefox window.

3. chrome://browser/content/preferences/preferences.xul
It Opens the Options dialog box inside the Firefox tab.

4. chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul
It Opens the “Book Marks Manager” inside a tab in the Firefox window.

5. chrome://browser/content/history/history-panel.xul
It Opens the History Panel in the Firefox tab.

6. chrome://browser/content/preferences/cookies.xul
It Opens the “cookies window” inside a tab in the Firefox window.

7. chrome://browser/content/preferences/sanitize.xul
It Opens the “Clear Private Data” window inside the current tab.

8. chrome://browser/content/aboutDialog.xul
It Opens the “About Firefox” Dialog box inside the tab.

9. chrome://browser/content/credits.xhtml
It A scrolling list of names. The one’s who we must thank for creating Firefox

விநாயகனே! வினை செய்பவனே – வேழ முகத்தோனே; வீண் வம்பனே !!!

2009-08-29T23:59:00.005+05:30

விநாயகன், பிள்ளையார், கணபதி, கணேசன் இப்படி பல்வேறு புனைப் பெயர்களில் இருக்கிற கலவர நாயகன் தமிழகத்திற்கு எப்போது வந்தார், என்பது பெரும் விவாதமாகத்தான் இருக்கிறது.

மதவாதிகள், ஜாதிய அபிமானிகள் தங்கள் மதத்தை, ஜாதியை, கடவுளை மிகப் பழமையானவர், பழமையானவை என்று சொல்லிக் கொள்வதில் எப்போதும் பெருமை கொள்வார்கள்.

அப்படித்தான் விநாயகனை வழிபடுகிற, வழிபட பரிந்துரைக்கிற இந்து கண்ணோட்ட ஆய்வாளர்கள், தமிழறிஞர்கள், 5 நூற்றாண்டு என்றும் இல்லை அதற்கு முன்பே 2 நூற்றாண்டிலேய வந்து விட்டார் என்றும் பெருமை பட்டுக் கொள்கிறார்கள். (’கடவுள் கொண்டுவரப்பட்டவர்‘ என்பதை அவர்களே ஒத்துக் கொள்கிறார்கள்)

சைவசமயத்தின் கட்டுக்கதையான பெரியபுராணத்தை சேக்கிழர் எழுதுவதற்கு காரணமாக இருந்தது, சுந்தரரின் பாடல்தான் என்று சொல்கிறார்கள். சுந்தரருக்கு அது எப்படி தெரியும் என்றால், அவருக்கு ஒரு கல்லு பிள்ளையார் அந்தக் கதையை சொன்னதாக ‘விட்டலாச்சாரியார்‘ பாணியில் விளக்கம் சொல்லியிருக்கிறார்கள்.

ஆனால் பிள்ளையார் வட இந்தியாவில் இருந்து தமிழகத்திற்கு வந்தவர் என்பதை எல்லோரும் ஒத்துக் கொள்கிறார்கள்.

வட இந்தியாவில் ஏன் முதலில் விநாயகன் அவதரித்தார் என்பதை தெரிந்து கொண்டால் அவர் தமிழகத்திற்கு எதற்காக வந்தார் என்பதையும் புரிந்து கொள்ள முடியும்.

மகாவீரரின் சமணமும், அதன் பிறகு புத்தரின் எழுச்சியும் பார்ப்பன வேதங்களை, வேத மதத்தை அதன் ஜாதிய கண்ணோட்டத்தை பொத்தல் ஆக்கியது. ‘பிறப்பால் எவனும் உயர்ந்தவனும் இல்லை, தாழ்ந்தவனும் இல்லை‘ என்று இந்து மத அல்லது வேத மத எதிர்ப்பாக வீறு கொண்டு நின்றது பவுத்தம். புத்தருக்கு பிறகும் அவரின் சீடர்களால் இந்தியா முழுக்க இந்த அலை ஓயாது பார்ப்பனியத்திற்கு எதிராக அடித்துக் கொண்டே இருந்தது.

அதன் தாக்கத்தால்தான் தமிழகத்து திருவள்ளுவரும்,

பிறப்பொக்கும் எல்லா உயிர்க்கும் சிறப்பொவ்வா

செய்தொழில் வேற்றுமை யான்.

என்று வேத மதத்தின் மீது காறி உமிழ்ந்தார்.

பவுத்ததின் இந்த அலை, பார்ப்பனியத்தை நிலை குலைய வைத்தது. பார்ப்பனியத்தை காப்பதற்காகத்தான் பெருமாள் பத்து அவதாரங்களை எடுக்கிறார். சிவன் மனித உருவம் (பார்ப்பன) கொண்டு பக்தர்களுக்கு காட்சி தருகிறார்.

ஆனாலும் பெருமாலும், சிவனும் வீதியில் இறங்கி பக்தர்களோடு நெருக்கமாக இருக்க ஆகம விதிகள் இடம் தரவில்லை. அப்படி இடம் தருவதாக மாற்றிக் கொண்டால், பிறகு அவர்களின் மீதுள்ள ஒரு பயம் கலந்த பக்தி அற்றுப் போகும்.

அல்லது பார்ப்பனர்களின் தலையீடு இல்லாமல் நேரடியாக கடவுளை வழிபட வேண்டிய முறை உண்டாகும் என்பதால், பவுத்தத்தை எதிர் கொள்ள அதுவரை இல்லாத முறையில் ஒரு புதிய ஜனரஞ்கமான கடவுள் தேவைப்படுகிறார்.

அதன் பொருட்டு பவுத்ததிடம் இருந்து இந்து மதத்தை மீட்க, தோழமையான, யார் வேண்டுமானாலும் தொட்டு உருவாக்க, வழிபட, எங்கு வேண்டுமானாலும் வைத்து புழங்க, நிறுவ ஒரு கடவுளாக உண்டாக்கப்பட்டவர்தான் விநாயகர்.

அதனால்தான் விநாயகர் அரசமரத்தடியிலும் அமர்ந்திருக்கிறார். அரசமரம் என்பது புத்தருக்கு உரியது. அரசமரத்தின் இன்னொரு பெயர்தான் போதி மரம்.

விநாயகர் என்ன காரணத்திற்காக உண்டாக்கப்பட்டாரோ அதை அவர் சிறப்பாக நடத்தி முடித்தார்.

(சைவர்களிடமும் வைணவர்களிடமும் பேதமிருந்தாலும் அவர்களிடம் விநாயகனை வழிபடுவதில் மட்டும் ஒரு ஒற்றுமையை பார்க்க முடியும்.)

அதன் பிறகு எப்போதெல்லாம் தாழ்த்தப்பட்ட மக்கள், பின் தங்கிய மக்கள் ஜாதிய ஒடுக்குமுறையை கண்டித்து இந்து மதத்தில் இருந்து வேறு மதத்திற்கு குறிப்பாக இஸ்லாம் மதத்திற்கு மாறுகிறார்களோ அப்பொதெல்லாம் விநாயகர் அவர்களை போய் தடுத்தாட் கொள்வார்.

அதனால்தான் தாழ்த்தப்பட்ட மக்கள் குடியிருப்பு பகுதிகளில் விநாயகர் சிலை வைக்க அவர்களுக்கு அதிக முன்னுரிமை தருகிறார்கள். அதை இஸ்லாமியர்கள் வீதிகளில் ஊர்வலமாக இழுத்துச் சென்று கலவரம் செய்வதற்கு அவர்களையே பயன்படுத்துகிறார்கள்.

தாழ்த்தப்பட்ட இந்துக்களின் குடியிருப்புகளின் வழியாக செல்ல மறுக்கிற இந்துக் கடவுள்களின் ஊர்வலம், இஸ்லாமியர்களின் குடியிருப்புகள் வழிபாட்டுத் தளங்களின் வழியாக விநாயகனின் ஊர்வலம் கட்டாயம் சென்றே ஆக வேண்டும் என்று இந்துவெறியர்கள் அடம்பிடிப்பதின் உள்நோக்கம் கலவரத்தை மனதில் கொண்டே.

விநாயகன் தீண்டாமையையும், பார்ப்பனியத்தையும் பாதுகாப்பதற்காக ‘தோழமையோடு‘ எந்த கலவரத்தையும் செய்யத் தயாரானவன்.

விநாயகன் வினை தீர்ப்பவன் அல்ல. வினை செய்பவன்.

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- credit goes to Mathimaran from http://mathimaran.wordpress.com/

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Make Firefox Run Faster - Give a Push

2009-08-20T12:27:00.004+05:30

Firefox is cool, and the best

A Genius can always work overtime and never can fail your satisfaction.

so, give your Firefox a push in faster browsing.

If you are a broadband or faster user. Then the tips below are for you. provided you are a firefox fan.

Steps:

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining,
network.http.proxy.pipelining,
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

Alter the entries as follows:

2. Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" by double-clicking it.

3. Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 8 by double-clicking it.

This means it will make 8 requests at once. There is no point setting it higher then 8 as it is capped at 8 max. [The default value for this setting is 4]

4. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

5. Try to reduce the browser history to 3 or maximum 5 days.

6. Firefox's slow loading could be due to the auto update. Disabling the auto-update feature could lead to improved loading time. For disabling update go to Tools--> options -->advanced --> Update and uncheck all the selections and click OK. (Make sure that you update manually atleast once a week)

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

Tips:

Alternately, you could install Fasterfox, an extension which does some of this automatically, and makes tuning easier.
For more information on Firefox Tuning see the Firefox Tuning sticky thread at the independent MozillaZine forums.
Also the MozillaZine Knowledge Base on Network entries in about:config and what they do.
You can also run Firefox in your RAM (no reading from the HD means faster Firefox) by following this article.
If you have problems like slow down, pages not loading or images loading weird, just undo the tweaks in about:config
You can also do this in the Internet explorer browser, In opera an alternative is: go to opera:config and go to performance. Then change the max number of connections to 32

Bhuvan - India's Google Earth

2009-08-14T11:23:00.003+05:30

Google Earth’s got some competition now — from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which today unveiled its beta version of Bhuvan (meaning earth in Sanskrit).

A web-based tool like Google Earth, Bhuvan promises to give better 3-D satellite imagery of India than is currently being offered by the US-based software giant plus a host of India-specific features like weather information and even administrative boundaries of all states and districts.

The application can be downloaded from http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/

The tool would offer pictures of the globe, just like Google Earth, and navigable in the same way but currently has the best resolutions over the Indian sub-continent. It allows users to fly from space to street level, grab, spin and zoom down to any place.

It also provides tools for measuring, drawing, saving, printing and visualizing thematic information. The resolutions currently on offer are good enough to view a vehicle moving on a road quite clearly.

Bhuvan currently only offers images taken between one and three years ago even over India. It combines satellite imagery from various sensors onboard IRS (Indian Remote Sensing) satellites and transposes them on a 3-D globe. As it keeps updating its database with more recent and higher resolution images, Bhuvan eventually promises to offer real-time data and images.

Incidentally, Indian authorities have had some problems in the past with Google Earth’s depiction of certain parts of the country. Recently, Google Earth admitted that it had mistakenly shown some areas in Arunachal Pradesh as part of Chinese territory and promised to correct the maps soon. The Indian government had earlier pulled up Google Earth for showing some sensitive and strategic defence locations on its maps.

“Bhuvan, an ambitious project of ISRO was started to take Indian images and thematic information in multiple spatial resolutions to people through a web portal through easy access to information on basic natural resources in the geospatial domain. Bhuvan showcases Indian images by the superimposition of IRS satellite imageries on 3D globe. The degree of resolution showcased is based on the points of interest and popularity, but most of the Indian terrain is covered upto at least 5.8 meters of resolution with the least spatial resolution being 55 meters from AWifs Sensor.”

Bhuvan Features

Visualise 2D and 3D image data along with rich thematic information on Soil, wasteland, water resources etc.
Fly to locations ( Flies from the current location directly to the selected location)
Heads-Up Display ( HUD) naviation controls ( Tilt slider, north indicator, opacity, compass ring, zoom slider)
Navigation using the 3D view Pop-up menu (Fly-in, Fly out, jump in, jump around, view point)
3D Fly through (3D view to fly to locations, objects in the terrain, and navigate freely using the mouse or keyboard)
Drawing 2D objects (Text labels, polylines, polygons, rectangles, 2D arrows, circles, ellipse)
Drawing 3D Objects (placing of expressive 3D models, 3D polygons, boxes)
Snapshot creation (copies the 3D view to a floating window and allows to save to a external file)
Measurement tools (Horizontal distance, aerial distance, vertical distance, measure area)
Shadow Analysis (it sets the sun position based on the given time creating shadows and effects the lighting on the terrain)

How to Download & Install Bhuvan?

Register here. Download the Bhuvan plugin from here (its actually Skyline’s terraexplorer plugin) and Microsoft’s DirectX.

In order to install the plugin, you need to have the administrator privilege in your machine. The product works only in IE and is quite buggy to start with.

All said and done, the product is very well timed – we are close to celebrate India’s independence day and Bhuvan is one crown that ISRO will be known for in the coming years.

What’s your opinion?

Welcome to ItechLegend - Aravindh Narayanan's cyberspace

2009-08-04T02:25:00.001+05:30

Welcome to ItechLegend - Aravindh Narayanan's cyberspace

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Twitter Too . . . For Hackers

2009-07-17T12:39:00.004+05:30

Hackers are getting more creative in targeting certain companies and Twitter has recently discovered the consequences of such an attack. About a month ago, an administrative employee at twitter was targeted and her personal e-mail was hacked, according to a blog post today by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. The hacker used information in the e-mail account to access this employee’s Google Apps account, which contained a wide variety of Twitter documents from ideas to financial details. Today TechCrunch said it had received 310 confidential Twitter documents in a zip file from the hacker who calls himself Hacker Croll.

In the last few years, security experts have seen an increase in the amount of highly-targeted attacks. Unlike, say, massive spam campaigns designed to get employees to divulge personal information like bank accounts, these types of attacks involve hackers targeting anywhere from one to five employees within a company. The motive is to steal confidential information that the hacker will use to make a profit, says Patrik Runald, chief security advisor at F-Secure, a security firm. The types of organizations frequently targeted in these attacks are defense contractors, governments and non-profits with ties to Tibet, he says.

Many times, as in the Twitter incident, the target of the attack involves employees who are not in the executive suite because those employees often have access to information hackers can use, whether it’s blueprints or large databases of customer information. For example, at defense contractor Northrop Grumman, hackers often try to target the computers of employees in the contracts department because of their knowledge of the marketplace, said Tim McKnight, chief information security officer at the company in a recent interview with BusinessWeek.

After the Twitter incident first became public, some speculated about the quality of Google’s security but Biz Stone absolved Google Apps in his blog post. “This attack had nothing to do with any vulnerability in Google Apps which we continue to use,” he wrote. Instead, he wrote, the incident underscored the need for choosing strong passwords.

The best passwords have more than 8 or 9 characters and are comprised of alphanumeric characters, a combination of letters and numbers, says John Pirc, a former cybersecurity specialist for the CIA and current executive with IBM Internet Security Systems. But really, he says, this is a people issue in that employees often don’t practice good password safety and may use the same password for many different applications.

Yet, the incident does underscore some risks involved with cloud computing in the enterprise. Some have called for better security mechanisms. “With the Twitter data, hackers were able to take a password and log on anonymously from anywhere,” says Rich Marcello, president of the systems and technology business at Unisys. Now Unisys is working on a higher level of security that would essentially cloak the data that comes into its cloud and only users within certain communities logging in from certain locations would be able to see the information. It’s akin to how only certain characters who are members of a specific group in Harry Potter are able to physically see the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix. “If you can do that, even if there’s a password issue, there’s no way hackers can make any sense of the data,” says Marcello.

Companies also need to think about the kinds of information they’re putting in the cloud. While e-mail collaboration may be available over the Internet from reputable service providers with good track records in security, some applications are better left behind the firewall, says Dennis Quan, director of autonomic computing at IBM, who suggests private clouds for applications dealing with classified or confidential information.

“Part of the beauty of cloud computing is that users don’t need to understand the ins and outs of the technology they are using,” says Quan, adding, “This simplicity is great for consumers but can be dangerous for enterprises and governments.”

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Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus

2009-07-16T18:34:00.004+05:30

Handwriting:

Men: To their credit, men do not decorate their penmanship. They just chicken scratch.

Women: Women use scented, colored stationery and they dot the "i" with circles or hearts. Women use ridiculously large loops in the "b" and "g". It is a pain to read a note from a woman. Even when she's dumping you, she will put a smiley face at the end of the note.

Groceries:

Women: A woman makes a list of things she needs, then goes out to the store and buys those things.

Men: A man waits till the only items left in his fridge are half a lime and a beer. Then he goes grocery shopping. He buys everything that looks good. By the time a man reaches the checkout counter, his cart is packed tighter than the Clampett's car on Beverly Hillbillies. Of course, this will not stop him from going to the express lane.

Relationships:

Women: When a relationship ends, a woman will cry and pour her heart out to her girlfriends, and she will write a poem titled "All Men Are Idiots". Then she will get on with her life.

Men: A man has a little more trouble letting go. Six months after the break-up, at 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday night, he will call and say, "I just wanted to let you know you ruined my life, and I'll never forgive you, and I hate you, and you're a total floozy. But I want you to know that there's always a chance for us." This is known as the "I Hate You / I Love You" drunken phone call, that 99% of all men have made at least once. There are community colleges that offer courses to help men get over this need.

Sex:

Women: They prefer 30-40 minutes of foreplay.

Men: They prefer 30-40 seconds of foreplay. Men consider driving back to her place part of the foreplay.

Maturity:

Women: They mature much faster than men. Most 17-year old females can function as adults.

Men: Most 17-year old males are still trading baseball cards and giving each other wedgies after gym class. This is why high school romances rarely work out.

Magazines:

Men: Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked women. Men are turned on at the sight of a naked woman's body.

Women: Women's magazines also feature pictures of naked women. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is lumpy and hairy and should not be seen by the light of day. Most naked men elicit laughter from women.

Bathrooms:

Men: A man has six items in his bathroom -- a toothbrush, shaving cream, razor, a bar of Dial soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn.

Women: The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 437. A man cannot identify most of these items.

Shoes:

Women: When preparing for work, a woman will put on a wool suit, then slip on Reebok sneakers. She will carry her dress shoes in a plastic bag from Saks. When a woman gets to work, she will put on her dress shoes. Five minutes later, she will kick them off because her feet are under the desk.

Men: A man will wear the same pair of shoes all day. Let's not talk about how many days he'll wear the same socks.

Cats:

Women: Women love cats.

Men: Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.

Children:

Women: A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and soccer games and romances and best friends and favorite foods and secret fears and hopes and dreams.

Men: A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

Dressing Up:

Women: A woman will dress up to: go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, get the mail.

Men: A man will dress up for: weddings, funerals.

Laundry:

Women: Women do laundry every couple of days.

Men: A man will wear every article of clothing he owns, including his surgical pants (the ones that were hip about eight years ago) before he will do his laundry. When he is finally out of clothes, he will wear a dirty sweatshirt inside out, rent a U-Haul and take his mountain of clothes to the Laundromat. Men always expect to meet beautiful women at the Laundromat. This is a myth perpetuated by reruns of old episodes of "Love American Style."

Eating Out:

Men: When the check comes, each man will each throw in $20 bills, even though it's only for $22.50. None of them will have anything smaller, and none will actually admit they want change back.

Women: When the girls get their check, out come the pocket calculators.

Mirrors:

Men: Men are vain and will check themselves out in a mirror.

Women: They are ridiculous; they will check out their reflections in any shiny surface: mirrors, spoons, store windows, bald guys' heads.

Menopause:

Women: When a woman reaches menopause, she goes through a variety of complicated emotional, psychological, and biological changes. The nature and degree of these changes varies with the individual.

Men: Menopause in a man provokes a uniform reaction - he buys aviator glasses, a snazzy French cap and leather driving gloves, and goes shopping for a Porsche.

The Phone:

Men: Men see the telephone as a communication tool. They use the telephone to send short messages to other people.

Women: A woman can visit her girlfriend for two weeks, and upon returning home, she will call the same friend and they will talk for three hours.

Richard Gere:

Women: Women like Richard Gere because he is sexy in a dangerous way.

Men: Men hate Richard Gere because he reminds them of that slick guy who works at the health club and dates only married women.

Madonna:

Same as above, but reversed. Same reason.

Toys:

Women: Little girls love to play with toys. Then when they reach the age of 11 or 12, they lose interest.

Men: Men never grow out of their toy obsession. As they get older, their toys simply become more expensive, silly and impractical. Examples of men's toys: little miniature TVs. Car phones. Complicated juicers and blenders. Graphic equalizers. Small robots that serve cocktails on command. Video games. Anything that blinks, beeps, and requires at least 6 "D" batteries to operate.

Cameras:

Men: Men take photography very seriously. They'll shell out $4000 for state of the art equipment, and build dark rooms and take photography classes.

Women: Women purchase Kodak Instamatics. Of course, women always end up taking better pictures.

Locker Rooms:

Men: In the locker room men talk about three things: money, football, and women. They exaggerate about money, they don't know football nearly as well as they think they do, and they fabricate stories about women.

Women: They talk about one thing in the locker room - sex. And not in abstract terms, either. They are extremely graphic and technical, and they never lie.

Movies:

Women: Every actress in the history of movies has had to do a nude scene. This is because every movie in the history of movies has been produced by a man.

Men: The only actor who has ever appeared nude in the movies is Richard Gere. This is another reason why men hate him.

Jewelry:

Women: Women look nice when they wear jewelry.

Men: A man can get away with wearing one ring and that's it. Any more than that and he will look like a lounge singer named Vic.

Conversation:

Men: Men need a good disagreement to get talking. For instance, "Wow, great movie." or "What are you, nuts? No REAL cop would have an Uzi that size."

Women: Women, not having this problem, try to initiate conversations with men by saying something agreeable: "That garden by the roadside looks lovely." "Mm hmm." Pause. "That was a good restaurant last night, wasn't it?" "Yeah." Pause. And so on.

Leg Warmers:

Women: Leg warmers are sexy. A woman, even if she's walking the dog or doing the dishes, is allowed to wear leg warmers. She can wear them any time she wants.

Men: A man can only wear leg warmers if he is auditioning for the "Gimme the Ball" number in "A Chorus Line."

Friends:

Women: Women on a girls' night out talk the whole time.

Men: Men on a boy's night out say about twenty words all night, most of which are "Pass the Doritos" or "got any more beer?"

Restrooms:

Women: Women use restrooms as social lounges. Women who've never met will leave a restroom giggling together like old friends. Women also go to the restroom in packs, at least two women at a time excuse themselves to use the restroom.

Men: Men use restrooms for purely biological reasons. Men in a restrooms will never speak a word to each other. And never in the history of the world has a man excused himself from a restaurant table by saying, "Hey, Tom, I was just about to take a leak. Do you want to join me?"

- From www

How Big is our Web ?

2009-07-14T22:54:00.003+05:30

We've known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!

How do we find all those pages? We start at a set of well-connected initial pages and follow each of their links to new pages. Then we follow the links on those new pages to even more pages and so on, until we have a huge list of links. In fact, we found even more than 1 trillion individual links, but not all of them lead to unique web pages. Many pages have multiple URLs with exactly the same content or URLs that are auto-generated copies of each other. Even after removing those exact duplicates, we saw a trillion unique URLs, and the number of individual web pages out there is growing by several billion pages per day.

So how many unique pages does the web really contain? We don't know; we don't have time to look at them all! :-) Strictly speaking, the number of pages out there is infinite -- for example, web calendars may have a "next day" link, and we could follow that link forever, each time finding a "new" page. We're not doing that, obviously, since there would be little benefit to you. But this example shows that the size of the web really depends on your definition of what's a useful page, and there is no exact answer.

We don't index every one of those trillion pages -- many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content similar to the calendar example that isn't very useful to searchers. But we're proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine, and our goal always has been to index all the world's data.

To keep up with this volume of information, our systems have come a long way since the first set of web data Google processed to answer queries. Back then, we did everything in batches: one workstation could compute the PageRank graph on 26 million pages in a couple of hours, and that set of pages would be used as Google's index for a fixed period of time. Today, Google downloads the web continuously, collecting updated page information and re-processing the entire web-link graph several times per day. This graph of one trillion URLs is similar to a map made up of one trillion intersections. So multiple times every day, we do the computational equivalent of fully exploring every intersection of every road in the United States. Except it'd be a map about 50,000 times as big as the U.S., with 50,000 times as many roads and intersections.

As you can see, our distributed infrastructure allows applications to efficiently traverse a link graph with many trillions of connections, or quickly sort petabytes of data, just to prepare to answer the most important question: your next Google search.

- from official google blog

A Strange Coincidence !!!

2009-07-03T20:40:00.003+05:30

On August 7 , 2009

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Amaze your friends, be the first to tell them

At 12hr 34 minutes and 56 seconds on the 7th of August this year, the time and date will be...

12:34:56 07/08/09

This will never happen in your life again??!!!!

'STRESSED' spelled backwards! is 'DESSERTS'

2009-06-02T10:24:00.005+05:30

Can't eat pork,

Swine flu...

Can't eat chicken,

Bird flu.

Can't eat Beef,

Mad cow....

Can't eat eggs,

Salmonella.

Can't eat fish,

heavy metal poisons in their waters.

Can't eat fruits and veggies,

insecticides and herbicides.

Hmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I believe that leaves Chocolate and ice cream!!!!!!!!

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Living In Space

2009-04-27T15:11:00.001+05:30

1 Nearly every astronaut experiences some space sickness, caused by the wildly confusing information reaching their inner ears. In addition to nausea, symptoms include headaches and trouble locating your own limbs. Just like college, really.

2 And those are the least of your worries. In weightlessness, fluids shift upward, causing nasal congestion and a puffy face; bones lose calcium, forming kidney stones; and muscles atrophy, slowing the bowels and shrinking the heart.

3 At least you’ll be puffy, constipated, and tall: The decreased pressure on the spine in zero-g causes most space travelers to grow about two inches.

4 Lab rats sent into space during midpregnancy, while their fetuses’ inner ears are developing, spawn some seriously tipsy babies.

5 No humans have yet been conceived in space, so we can only imagine.

6 So that’s what it takes: A 2001 study showed that astronauts who snored on Earth snoozed silently in space.

7 But astronauts sleep less soundly; 16 sunrises a day throws a major wrench into their circadian rhythms.

8 And Ziggy played guitar. At the start of the workday on the space shuttle, mission control in Houston broadcasts wake-up music, usually selected with a particular astronaut in mind. On the all-work, no-play International Space Station, crews wake to an alarm clock.

9 If you are ever exposed to the vacuum of space without a suit on, don’t hold your breath: Sudden decompression would cause your lungs to rupture.

10 In addition, water on the tongue, in the nose, and in the eyes would boil away. This actually happened in 1965, when a space suit failed during a NASA experiment and the tester was exposed to a near vacuum for 15 seconds.

11 Contrary to Hollywood, though, you wouldn’t explode. Lack of oxygen in the blood is what would kill you, but it would take about two minutes.

12 More explosion paranoia: Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson’s space-tourism company, reportedly considered barring women with breast implants due to fears that they might blow up.

13 John Glenn found it hard to choke down his food, but not because of the lack of gravity: Early astronauts relied on aluminum tubes of semiliquid mush, food cubes, and dehydrated meals.

14 Today astronauts can spice up their meals with salt and pepper—in liquid form. Sprinkled grains would float away, tickling noses and clogging vents.

15 Missing something? Those vents on the space shuttle and International Space Station serve as the lost and found, sucking up anything that’s floating about unsecured.

16 The shuttle commode requires that astronauts align themselves precisely in the dead center of the seat. A mock-up of the shuttle toilet, complete with built-in camera, is used to train them how to position themselves.

17 NASA tried building a bathroom into its space suits—a fitted condom attached to a bladder for men, a molded gynecological insert for women—but gave up and passed out diapers to all.

18 Returning astronauts report extreme difficulty moving their arms and legs right after touchdown, one reason why they call landing “the second birth.”

19 But some long-duration cosmonauts report that the hardest thing to readjust to about life on Earth is that when you let go of objects, they fall.

20 Better just to stay up there? Eighteen people have died on space missions, but never in space—always on the way up or the way down.

Women are really dumb but think they're really smart.

2009-02-04T19:57:00.002+05:30

A Woman was out golfing one day when she hit the
ball into the woods.
She went into the woods to look for it and found a frog
in a trap.

The frog said to her, 'If you release me from this trap, I
will grant you three wishes.'
The woman freed the frog, and the frog said,
'Thank you, but I failed to mention that there was a condition to your
wishes.

Whatever you wish for, your husband will get ten times of it!' The woman
said, 'That's okay.'

For her first wish, she wanted to be the most
beautiful woman in the world.
The frog warned her, 'You do realize that this
wish will also make your husband the most handsome man in the world,
an Adonis
whom women will flock to'.
The woman replied, 'That's okay, because I will
be the most beautiful woman and he will have eyes only for me.'
So, KAZAM-
she's the most beautiful Woman in the world!

For her second wish, she
wanted to be the richest woman in the world.
The frog said, 'That will make
your husband the richest man in the world. And he will be ten times
richer than
you. '
The woman said, 'that's okay, because what's mine is his and what's
his is mine.'
So, KAZAM- she's the richest woman in the world!

The
frog then inquired about her third wish, and she answered, 'I'd like
to have a
mild heart attack.'

Moral of the story: Women are clever. Don't
mess with them.

Attention
female readers:
This is the end of the joke for you. Stop here and continue
feeling good!

Male Readers: Continue Reading. . . .
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The man had a heart attack ten times
'milder' than his wife!!!

Moral of the story: Women are really dumb but think they're really smart.

Let them continue to think that way and just enjoy the show

PS: If you are a woman and are still reading this; it only goes to
show that women never listen!!!

What can other leaders learn from Obama?

2009-01-26T15:37:00.003+05:30

By Louis Perron

The world is fascinated as Barack Obama officially takes power as president of the United States. Politicians and candidates around the globe have carefully observed the campaign
and quite a few want to be like him.

However, one can easily look silly when copying American campaign techniques. This does not mean that one cannot get inspiration from the Obama success, however. After all, there are some obvious parallels between the U.S. and Japan. Both countries are in deep economic problems and both have a very unpopular incumbent. So what tools, strategies and tactics out of the Obama toolkit would really work in Japan? How can Japanese politicians convince, mobilize and sell like Obama?

Some observers think that the impressive thing about the Obama campaign is how it used the Internet and other new technology—8,000 Internet groups and 1.5 million Internet volunteers are indeed impressive. But that’s only one part of the story. Politicians often think that a campaign means to produce things such as TV spots, leaflets or websites. In reality, however, a campaign can and should be seen as a series of decisions regarding the message, the strategy, fund-raising and products. The Obama campaign made these decisions early on and implemented them with great discipline. That’s the real secret of his success.

Politicians often think of a message as a slogan, in most cases nothing more than an empty motherhood statement. However, a good message is more than a slogan yet less than a party program. It’s the reason we give people to vote for one side and not for one of the other sides. In the case of Obama, this was the message: “Barack Obama will bring the change that America desperately needs. He will get the economy going again, not only for Wall Street but also for Main Street. In concrete terms, this means tax cuts for 95% of Americans and expanded health-care. John McCain on the other hand will continue the failed policies of George W Bush. It’s time for a new hope and to leave the divisiveness behind us. Yes, we can!”

Every ad, every speech, everything that the campaign produced communicated that message. It was then summarized in a catchy slogan: change we can believe in and change we need. There was probably no one left in the country who did not know what Obama stood for.

This methodology can be translated everywhere in the world. Of course, in Japan, the content of the message would be different and communicated in a much more implicit and subtle way. Based on my experience in Asia, how something is said and what is not said is as important as what is said. But the tool is nevertheless the same. Everywhere in the world, a party or candidate needs to communicate to voters a reason that is short, believable, relevant and showing contrast.

The Obama message as stated above is all of that. In a setting with an incumbent, the election is basically a referendum over the incumbent. What an incumbent like Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso needs to do is to communicate to voters what he has done and what he plans to do for them in the future. Vulnerable incumbents that end up surviving all show aggressive differences with the challenger. George W Bush in 2004, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in 2004 and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1994 are only a few examples.

The message in such as setting is basically that: no matter how bad things are now, they will get worse with the challenger. As for the challenger, he needs to do two things in terms of message: 1) make the case that the incumbent needs to be replaced, and 2) make voters comfortable with the idea of change. Obama and other successful challengers around the world in the past 20 years such as Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Gerhard Schröder and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva did exactly that. Change was defined as improving current conditions and not as a paradigm shift of values. Obama had an entire series of measures to achieve that: he counterbalanced his call for change with optimistic rhetoric, made repeated, passionate calls for unity, he focused on the economy and he nominated a moderate, senior vice president.

What’s impressive in the case of Obama is the coherence, with which he defined himself and the discipline, with which the message was communicated. In my personal experience, European and Asian politicians focus too much on products and funds, and not enough about message, strategy and discipline. As we have seen, the strategy paid off for Obama.

Dr des Louis Perron is a political consultant in Switzerland, Germany, U.S., Eastern Europe and Asia (contact lperron@perroncampaigns.com).

Weather News launches Global Sea Ice Information Website

2009-01-26T15:18:00.003+05:30

TOKYO —

Weathernews has launched a website which provides global unified sea ice information. The Global Ice Center is available at http://weathernews.com/GIC/.

The Global Ice Center has been collecting and monitoring global sea ice data, including ice concentration, ice thickness and ice drift, since its opening in July 2008, in order to provide unified global sea ice information to shipping companies.

The Global Ice Center’s information covers such data as sea ice concentration, thickness and drift over not only the Arctic Sea, but also the Baltic Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

Recently, sea ice data from the Global Ice Center was utilized in a successful and safe voyage through the Baltic Sea by an LNG tanker operated by one of the world’s major shipping companies.

In the near future, Weathernews plan to provide historical sea ice data, such as the first day of freezing, the first day of melting, the average rate and the largest amount of sea ice area.

Weathernews hopes the Global Ice Center website will support shipping vessels across the world, and contribute to the safe passage of vessels that brave the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean.

JCN

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2009-01-22T18:58:00.002+05:30

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Download Windows 7 Beta Today 2009-01-22T16:57:00.003+05:30 Greetings and welcome, I hope you are as excited as I am to try out the beta of Windows 7. IT Professionals now have a place of their own to download the Windows 7 Beta. In addition, see the new features that make everyday tasks faster and easier, make your PC work the way you want it to, and make new things possible. And you won't want to miss Mark Russinovich on Channel 9 going Inside Windows 7. For a good one-stop blog for IT Pros to get the latest Windows 7 info, bookmark the Springboard Series blog. Also, as Steve Ballmer announced at CES, TechNet Plus subscribers can download the Windows 7 Beta now from Subscriber Downloads. For subscribers having difficulties accessing Windows 7 product keys, be aware that the Windows 7 Beta has a built-in 30-day grace period for installations before product keys are required. Customers with this issue should continue to download and install Windows 7 Beta without the product key and then check back later when this issue is resolved. If you've been deploying Windows with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), you can deploy the Windows 7 Beta with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta. Join the Beta now. MDT 2010 is the next version of the solution accelerator for operating system and application deployment. New features like flexible driver management, optimized transaction processing, and access to distribution shares from any location simplify deployment and make your job easier. Download Link Here Note: Remember, you must have a hotmail / windows live ID. And, also a secondary pc with high end specifications to test the beta product. Source: Technet 101 Inspirational Quotes 2009-01-19T12:04:00.002+05:30 The following 101 quotes are some that I have stumbled upon on the web, or seen in books / popular culture. Each quote was either written by an atheist, or is about atheism / religion in general. 1. The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. - George Bernard Shaw 2. Faith means not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich Nietzsche 3. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright 4. We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. - Gene Roddenberry 5. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. - Isaac Asimov 6. A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. - Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) 7. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. - Seneca the Younger 8. Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. - Anonymous 9. Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends. - Woody Allen 10. If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. - Isaac Asimov 11. Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. - Edward Abbey 12. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg 13. I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. - Doug McLeod 14. The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. - Abu'l‐Ala al Ma'arri 15. Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going? - Anonymous 16. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. - Susan B. Anthony 17. The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. - Delos B. McKown 18. Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. - Anonymous 19. Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. - Francis Bacon 20. The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. - Richard Dawkins 21. A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect. he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, all‐knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified. - Karen Armstrong 22. It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image. - Ludwig Feuerbach 23. People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to. - Bill Hicks 24. All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science. - Matthew Arnold 25. Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. - Anonymous 26. Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. - Richard Dawkins 27. What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. - Christopher Hitchens 28. In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. - Friedrich Nietzsche 29. It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. - George W. Foote 30. On the first day, man created God. - Anonymous 31. I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. - Stephen Roberts 32. You do not need the Bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate. - Richard A. Weatherwax 33. What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you. - Steve Buscemi (From the movie "The Island") 34. As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise the Lord. I don't know about you, but I think that after the first, oh, I don't know, 50,000,000 years of that I'd start to get a little bored. - Rick Reynolds 35. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. - Anonymous 36. Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. - Don Hirschberg 37. God should be executed for crimes against humanity. - Bryan Emmanuel Gutierrez 38. To say that atheism requires faith is as dim-witted as saying that disbelief in pixies or leprechauns takes faith. Even if Einstein himself told me there was an elf on my shoulder, I would still ask for proof and I wouldn't be wrong to ask. - Geoff Mather 39. I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. - Mark Twain 40. Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. - Voltaire 41. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence. - Bertrand Russell 42. Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - Epicurus 43. I'm a polyatheist - there are many gods I don't believe in. - Dan Fouts 44. If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. - Woody Allen 45. A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it. - David Stevens 46. Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. - Robert A Heinlein 47. I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. - Douglas Adams 48. It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain 49. He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave. - William Drummond 50. Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. - Steven Colbert 51. Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? - Friedrich Nietzsche 52. Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people. - Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney 53. Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. - Anonymous 54. When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. - Sigmund Freud 55. They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing. - Steven Weinberg 56. Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. - Robert G. Ingersoll 57. History teaches us that no other cause has brought more death than the word of god. - Giulian Buzila 58. Atheism is a non-prophet organization. - George Carlin 59. We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. - Richard Dawkins 60. A believer states everything must have a creator but fail to say how he was created. - Anonymous 61. "There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes. - James Morrow 62. People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.) - Douglas Adams 63. Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived. - Isaac Asimov 64. If all the Christians who have called other Christians "not really a Christian" were to vanish, there'd be no Christians left. - Anonymous 65. An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. - John Buchan 66. Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people. - David Viaene 67. If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. - Alexandre Dumas 68. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma. - Sam Harris 69. I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose - Clarence Darrow 70. No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. - Annie Wood Besant 71. I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'. - Mike Fuhrman 72. Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. - Frater Ravus 73. Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. - Penn Jillette 74. Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power but absolute power is corrupt only in the hands of the absolutely faithful. - Anonymous 75. Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. - Chapman Cohen 76. The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it. - Robert G. Ingersoll 77. When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. - Robert Pirsig 78. I wonder who got the shit job of scouring the planet for the 15000 species of butterfly or the 8800 species of ant they eventually took on board Noah's Ark. But at least we got that magical rainbow for all their trouble. - Azura Skye 79. I have no need for religion, I have a conscience. - Anonymous 80. Man has always required an explanation for all of those things in the world he did not understand. If an explanation was not available, he created one. - Jim Crawford 81. I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. - Richard Dawkins 82. What has been Christianity's fruits? Superstition, Bigotry and Persecution. - James Madison 83. The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. - Penn and Teller 84. If god is the alpha and the omega. The begining and the end, knows what has passed and what is to come, like it states in the bible, why do people pray and think it will make any difference. - Mark Fairclough 85. The finality of death is the coldest truth one must face. Religion makes the perfect distraction. - Anonymous 86. Religion is the opiate of the masses. - Karl Marx 87. If God created the world, then who created god? and who created whoever created god? So somewhere along the line something had to just be there. So why can't we just skip the idea of god and go straight to earth? - Ryan Hanson 88. If we expect God to subscribe to one religion at the exclusion of all the others, then we should expect damnation as a matter of chance. This should give Christians pause when expounding their religious beliefs, but it does not. - Sam Harris 89. Atheists will celebrate life, while you're in church celebrating death. - Anonymous 90. Animals do not have gods, they are smarter than that. - Ronnie Snow 91. I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. - Daniel Boorstin 92. I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake… Religion is all bunk. - Thomas Edison 93. Fundamentalism, of any type, due to its prerequisite lack of intelligent thought, could prove to be the worst weapon of mass destruction, of all. - David J. Constable 94. To really be free, You need to be free in the mind. - Alexander Loutsis 95. Most religions prophecy the end of the world and then consistently work together to ensure that these prophecies come true. - Anonymous 96. Jesus hardly made the greatest sacrifice. He knew he would be resurrected anyway. - Anonymous 97. Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further. - Jack Pritchard 98. Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing. - Anonymous 99. Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever. - Steven Crocker 100. The Bible - A Fairytale book of rules brainwashing millions. Obliviously used to help create war, kill, hate, judge and discriminate. - Anonymous 101. Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? - Douglas Adams Please feel free to comment on these quotes, and inform me of the authors of any I have misquoted or marked as "Anonymous". There are so many sources for these quotes it's hard to keep track of who really said what!