Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Friday, November 25, 2005
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Saturday, November 19, 2005
Finis off the Inis...
Buggendranaths,
Details, please. The deliberations, inebriations, incarcerations and preparations for the wedding of our one and only Spector. Inispector....
Terrace galatta. Old Monk galatta. Oms galatta. Studio galatta. T-shirt galatta. Cricket galatta. Old stories galatta. Pre-wedding galatta. Sade galatta. Wedding galatta. Post-wedding galatta. Galatta galatta.
Keep the international chapter of Bikang informed. We eagerly await.
Details, please. The deliberations, inebriations, incarcerations and preparations for the wedding of our one and only Spector. Inispector....
Terrace galatta. Old Monk galatta. Oms galatta. Studio galatta. T-shirt galatta. Cricket galatta. Old stories galatta. Pre-wedding galatta. Sade galatta. Wedding galatta. Post-wedding galatta. Galatta galatta.
Keep the international chapter of Bikang informed. We eagerly await.
Thursday, November 17, 2005
It's a Paper Anniversary
One clap, please. It's been a year of bloggin at bikang now. Just glanced through the archives since Nov'04. It's a rich. Kudos to all contributors. Special mention: Psaignnn, for all the rich graphics and for being the only one who remembered this date!
Keep it going Bikes!
\V/
Keep it going Bikes!
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
BangalorePotHole
www.bangalorepothole.com
Maybe we should start a chennaipothole.com and run a competition between the two. My guess is that Bangalore will win hands down.
Maybe we should start a chennaipothole.com and run a competition between the two. My guess is that Bangalore will win hands down.
Monday, November 14, 2005
World Heritage Tour
www.world-heritage-tour.org/asia/in/map.html
This was started by Tito Dupret, a Belgian, after he learnt about the destruction of the Buddha statues at Bamiyan by the Taliban. Those were the tallest Buddha statues in the world.
The objective of the site is to create a virtual record of all UNESCO World Heritage sites for all posterity to witness and enjoy. Can't help but support it.
This was started by Tito Dupret, a Belgian, after he learnt about the destruction of the Buddha statues at Bamiyan by the Taliban. Those were the tallest Buddha statues in the world.
The objective of the site is to create a virtual record of all UNESCO World Heritage sites for all posterity to witness and enjoy. Can't help but support it.
Friday, November 11, 2005
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
How can one play/convert MPEG-4 files?
www.archive.org/
Long live the Public Domain!
I've downloaded a couple of movies, in MPEG-4 format, from the Internet Archive. Does anyone know of a video player or plugin that will play/conver .mp4 files?
Long live the Public Domain!
I've downloaded a couple of movies, in MPEG-4 format, from the Internet Archive. Does anyone know of a video player or plugin that will play/conver .mp4 files?
Monday, November 07, 2005
Post-Diwali post
hope everyone had a good one.
the rains seemed to have returned with a vengeance. had to become darth 'wader' to make my way around koyambedu, to catch a bus to bangalore. will be back in chennai this weekend. hope to catch match #4 of #3. the flesh might be weak but the spirit is rocking! WE WILL WIN! WE WILL WIN! WE WILL WIN!
meanwhile, here are some timepass stumbles:
people.freenet.de/schnubelken/bunnys/
www.lowbright.com/Comics/10Commandments/10Commandments.htm
www.xs4all.nl/~jvdkuyp/flash/see.htm
www.andyfoulds.co.uk/amusement/bushv2.htm
Thursday, October 27, 2005
When it rains, it monsoons
The Insat image today (Oct 27, 2005):
Chennai and Bangalore Bik's - brace yourselves!
Chennai and Bangalore Bik's - brace yourselves!
Step aside, Jude...
Funny though he is, Jude is funny only to others. These two Chinese kids have knowingly taken lipsyncertainment to its most ridiculous and hilarious extreme. I can't believe that this hasn't been done before. More importantly, I'm glad these guys got there first.
Watch, howl, collapse and shit your pants laughing. God knows I almost did...
www.tian.cc/2005/10/asian-backstreet-boys.html
Watch, howl, collapse and shit your pants laughing. God knows I almost did...
www.tian.cc/2005/10/asian-backstreet-boys.html
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
The 'OUCH SCREEN'
Enhanced information booths at Coimbatore railway station:
The way it works is:
1) u use it to find out some current info like the coach position
2) it tells u it's gonna be at the other extreme end of the platform from where you are currently standing
3) u lug urself all the way there in all of 30 minutes
4) the train arrives and u find that your coach is placed right where u were when u started - at the other end from where you are now
5) u now have only 5 minutes before the train leaves
6) you go "OUCH" (actually, you go m@#$%f@#$% s#@$ a#$%^ ...)
(Disclaimer: The above experience has been modified for dramatic effect. The 'ouch' thingy worked pretty fine alright. Yet, there's a chance of cutting yourself on the edges of frame holding the screen and going, "OUCH"!)
The way it works is:
1) u use it to find out some current info like the coach position
2) it tells u it's gonna be at the other extreme end of the platform from where you are currently standing
3) u lug urself all the way there in all of 30 minutes
4) the train arrives and u find that your coach is placed right where u were when u started - at the other end from where you are now
5) u now have only 5 minutes before the train leaves
6) you go "OUCH" (actually, you go m@#$%f@#$% s#@$ a#$%^ ...)
(Disclaimer: The above experience has been modified for dramatic effect. The 'ouch' thingy worked pretty fine alright. Yet, there's a chance of cutting yourself on the edges of frame holding the screen and going, "OUCH"!)
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Secret Code in Color Printers Lets (US) Government Track You
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_10.php#004063
"The U.S. Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, ostensibly to identify counterfeiters. However, the nature of the private information encoded in each document was not previously known.
"We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer," said EFF Staff Technologist Seth David Schoen.
You can see the dots on color prints from machines made by Xerox, Canon, and other manufacturers (for a list of the printers we investigated so far, see: http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/list.php). The dots are yellow, less than one millimeter in diameter, and are typically repeated over each page of a document. In order to see the pattern, you need a blue light, a magnifying glass, or a microscope (for instructions on how to see the dots, see: http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/)."
"The U.S. Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, ostensibly to identify counterfeiters. However, the nature of the private information encoded in each document was not previously known.
"We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer," said EFF Staff Technologist Seth David Schoen.
You can see the dots on color prints from machines made by Xerox, Canon, and other manufacturers (for a list of the printers we investigated so far, see: http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/list.php). The dots are yellow, less than one millimeter in diameter, and are typically repeated over each page of a document. In order to see the pattern, you need a blue light, a magnifying glass, or a microscope (for instructions on how to see the dots, see: http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/)."
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