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Someone has a “copier fetish” and see what happens!
Someone decides to take a photo copy of his bottom and man, he falls in deep trouble! Absolutely hilarious 
Top Ten Photos of 2006 From National Geographic News
National geographic looks at top 10 photos of year 2006.
Purported pyramids, giant jellyfish, and a number of pythons that swallowed more than they bargained for were among the stars of this year’s most popular news photos.
A-DATA SD Card 1GB for $13
Got a digital camera or PDA this holidays? Then why don’t you get an SD card as well?
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Saddam hussein execution and internet search surge
Yahoo is reporting that execution of saddam has created a surge in Yahoo search. Searches on Hussein were up 1,349% and the term has become the most-searched on Yahoo. Other popular searches were “iraq news”, “iraqi tv”, “iraq hanging video”, “pictures of saddam hanging”, “saddam execution footage” and “saddam execution live”
Following diagram shows the surge in searches on Yahoo.
Here is a leaked mobile phone video of saddam execution found on liveleak.
If you had 15 seconds – what would you say?
CBS is running a youtube competition titled “If you had 15 seconds: to tell the world what whatever you want to what would you say?”. You can check out the submitted videos here.
If you had 15 seconds to tell the world whatever you want to, what would you say? Well, now’s your chance to be seen and heard on national television, courtesy of CBS Interactive. Post your 15-second video on YouTube, and CBS Interactive will select one to be broadcast on TV! The first selection will air on Sunday, February 4, 2007.
100 things we know this year!
BBC has an interesting article on – 100 things we didn’t know last year. Some of my favorites are,
- Standard-sized condoms are too big for most Indian men
- The fastest supercomputer in the UK can make 15.4 trillion calculations per second
- Sex workers in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine
- More than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet, says a study
- Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five litres of cooking oil a year
- For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality
- The egg came first
- Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger
Menubutler for Mac OS
MacMage has a widget called menu butler, which allows you to add most menu icons with the click of a mouse. This is a free download and the zip file size is about 100KB. Check out this, it can be a nice addon to your dashboard.
Google blog top entries for 2006
Google blog last year got an impressive 7.6 million unique visitors and 15 million page views! As you can guess most of the referrer traffic was from digg.com and slashdot.org. Here is a list of most popular Google blog entries for 2006,
Two movies at the price of one! – Grind House
Grind House is a movie slated for 2007 which consists of two films! First one, Planet Terror, will be a zombie film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. The other one, Death Proof, will be a film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Grind House is expected to be released on April 6, 2007.
Check out this rather funny trailer (machine gun leg? bruce willis?),
Google adsense image baiting is not allowed
Google has recently clarified that images or photos cannot be used near adsense ad units to lure Web site visitors to click them. For example, following type of usage is a strict no-no after this clarification (incidently this is used in a lot of blogs).
From the adsense blog,
We ask that publishers not line up images and ads in a way that suggests a relationship between the images and the ads. If your visitors believe that the images and the ads are directly associated, or that the advertiser is offering the exact item found in the neighboring image, they may click the ad expecting to find something that isn’t actually being offered. That’s not a good experience for users or advertisers.
After this announcement I can see a lot of sites/blogs frantically changing their ad unit placement. I wonder what effect the change will have on their ad click rates!
Creating fake identity for web signups
Many times when you visit Web sites and try to register you find that signup process requires a valid US postal address or a credit card number. You may not have a US address or may not want to take the risk of exposing your credit card number. Now there is a solution! You can use the Fake Name Generator!
This service currently supports 17 countries and can generate names based on ethnicity! It also generates random credit card numbers (which doesn’t exist, but syntactically correct) and can even generate US social security numbers! This site also supports creation of bulk data (test data for websites).
Following is a sample generated from the site,
Dennis J. Jones
1469 Swick Hill Street
Kenner, LA 70062
Email Address: Dennis.J.Jones@dodgeit.com
Phone: 985-249-9716
Mother’s maiden name: Howard
Birthday: May 5, 1942
Visa: 4716 2065 1389 5383
Expires: 1/2008
SSN: 435-98-2930
How do I create an Icon for my Web page?
When you visit Web sites in Firefox, you would have noticed that for many sites an Icon is shown on the left side of the URL field (Address field). For example, for Gmail it is a “letter” icon while for Google it is a “big G” icon.
In web speak, this icon is know as the favicon since it appears on the favorites list (in both Internet Explorer and Firefox). Now how do you add such a feature to your own Web page? It is rather simple.
1. First create an icon (name it as favicon.ico) which represents your site. This can be any picture file with dimensions 16 by 16 pixels. You might want to make the background using transparent color, otherwise a white rectangle will appear behind your Icon.
2. Upload your Icon to the document root of your web host. Typically this where your index.html is!
3. Add reference to your icon in all the web pages (inside HEAD tag). For wordpress, the following line can be added to the header.php inside head tags. I think this is not necessary in most browsers.
<link rel="icon" href="http://yoursiteaddress/favicon.ico"></link>Thats it!
Do you have more than 1000 friends on Orkut?
I bet you don’t! Apparently Orkut has a limit of 1000 friends for a profile. If you want to add a friend after this, you will have to kick out one of your existing friends
I currently have 25 friends and I don’t think I will hit 1000 any time soon. So to me a limit of 1000 does seem logical. I don’t know how I manage if I did have more than 1000 friends!
Following is the message displayed when you try to add more than 1000 friends.
You can have only upto 1000 friends. Before you can add more friends, you need to remove friends.
We recommend you remove friends in your “haven’t met” or “acquaintance” categories. You can also delete selected friends from your friends book by clicking the Edit button next to the friend’s name and then choose Delete.
Best Plone book?
Plone is a content management system built on Zope application server. Learning Plone is tough. What I have learned so far is that in order to be a successful Plone developer, first you need have to solid understanding of Zope concepts and Python programming language. Once that is taken care, you can jump into Plone!
One of the best references out there for Plone is the Plone Book by Andy McKay. This is a bit outdated (2004) but is ok to learn Plone.
Another good Plone resource is the Plone Howtos. Common questions such as “How do I remove footer or header” is answered there.
I have a nagging feeling that even Plone is getting outdated!