The legendary 'swoosh' symbol, a Nike trademark, was designed by a graphic artist student at Portland State University named Carolyn Davidson for $35. She did, however, later receive Nike stock and a golden 'swoosh' ring.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Nike means "the Greek goddess of victory"
The legendary 'swoosh' symbol, a Nike trademark, was designed by a graphic artist student at Portland State University named Carolyn Davidson for $35. She did, however, later receive Nike stock and a golden 'swoosh' ring.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
AOL in India
check it out at http://www.aol.in/
Brief about The AOL Network:
Some of the Web's Best-Known Brands
Today, AOL has a Web business that is large and growing. AOL's network of Web properties is the second largest in the United States - attracting 112 million unique visitors a month to some of the best known brands on the Internet, including MapQuest, AIM, Moviefone, ICQ, and Netscape. It also includes newer brands that are taking the net by storm - including In2TV, TMZ.com, and AOL Music. AOL's online advertising network is No. 3 domestically, and growing fast - with revenues up 46% in the third quarter of 2006, compared to the third quarter of 2005.
AOL today has 11,000 employees worldwide, and maintains 18 international offices in 11 countries outside the US. Including a well-established Development Centre in Dublin, Ireland and three facilities in India that are gaining recognition for excellence and productivity.
These links will take you to more information about the AOL mission and its natural growth to include the company’s corps of customer support and technical experts in Bangalore.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
'Chanakya Niti' - Best success mantra written 1000 years ago
"A person should not be too honest.
Straight trees are cut first
and Honest people are victimised first."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC 75 BC)
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"Even if a snake is not poisonous,
it should pretend to be venomous."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)
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"The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. ! It will destroy you."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)
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"There is some self-interest behind every friendship.
There is no Friendship without self-interests.
This is a bitter truth."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)
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"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply
and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)
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"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)
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"Once you start a working on something,
don't be afraid of failure and
don't abandon it.
People who work sincerely are the happiest."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)
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"The fragrance of flowers spreads
only in the direction of the wind.
But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)
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"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)
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"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years.
For the next five years, scold them.
By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend.
Your grown up children are your best friends."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)
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"Books are as useful to a stupid person
as a mirror is useful to a blind person."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)
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"Education is the best friend.
An educated person is respected everywhere.
Education beats the beauty and the youth."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)
HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to adiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the
hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the
course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.
HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help,the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
However,these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.
A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Play PACMAN online...gr8 classic game
PLAY PACMAN
Do u know INFRARED means BELOW RED
The infrared portion of the spectrum has a number of technological uses, including target acquisition and tracking by the military; remote temperature sensing; short-ranged wireless communication; spectroscopy, and weather forecasting. Telescopes equipped with infrared sensors are used in infrared astronomy to penetrate dusty regions of space, such as molecular clouds; detect low temperature objects such as planets orbiting stars, and to view highly red-shifted objects from the early history of the universe.
At the atomic level, infrared energy elicits vibrational modes in a molecule through a change in the dipole moment, making it a useful frequency range for study of these energy states. Infrared spectroscopy is the examination of absorption and transmission of photons in the infrared energy range, based on their frequency and intensity
Monday, April 23, 2007
Mumbai Navigator - From Any where to any where BUS Routes
You can select from & to destinations & it will show all the bus numbers. & Bus routes also.
check this out
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/navigator/index.html
This software is developed at IIT Bombay
you can also check official website of BEST
http://www.bestundertaking.com/transport/index.htm
Saturday, April 21, 2007
HISTORY of CONDOM
In 16th century Italy, Gabriele Falloppio authored the first-known published description of condom use for disease prevention. He recommended soaking cloth sheaths in a chemical solution and allowing them to dry prior to use.
The oldest condoms found (rather than just pictures or descriptions) are from 1640, discovered in Dudley Castle in England. They were made of animal intestine, and it is believed they were used for STD prevention.
In 19th century Japan, both leather condoms and condoms made of tortoise shells or horns were available.
The rubber vulcanization process was patented by Charles Goodyear in 1844, and the first rubber condom was produced in 1855. These early rubber condoms were 1-2mm thick and had seams down the sides. Although they were reusable, these early rubber condoms were also expensive.
Source: wikipedia.org
Do u know "French letters" it means CONDOM
Condoms may also be referred to using the manufacturer's name e.g. Durex. In India they are called Nirodh, a government-promoted brand, or KS (after a condom brand name KamaSutra).
Among the Indian Gay and Transsexual Community, condoms are often referred to as "Chocolates", as they are distributed widely for AIDS prevention.Among Indian Muslims it is popularly known as "Parda" (veil or a curtain in Urdu).
In the Philippines, they are called "CD's" for the intentionally ambiguous effect (when confused with Compact Discs that are also called CD's). They are also called "kapote" (Filipino term for raincoat).
In Brazil a common phrase for the word condom is "camisinha" or small jumper.
Laws/ Policies restricting condoms
In Ireland, condoms (and other contraceptives) were originally available only to those with a doctor's prescription (finding a doctor willing to prescribe them was very difficult - almost impossible if one was unmarried) or via the black market (usually smuggled from Northern Ireland). This was later altered to being available only to those over the age of 18 in pharmacies in 1985. Sale outside of pharmacies was only legalised in 1993, although stores such as the Virgin Megastore had in fact been selling them openly since 1988. The age limitations were also removed in 1993.
Philippines
The Philippines is a predominantly Roman Catholic nation, and the Catholic Church is a powerful force in Philippine politics. The Church teaches that only natural family planning methods are moral ways to prevent pregnancy, and opposes promotion of condoms for any purpose.
While condoms are legal in the Philippines, the government will not promote them or pay for their distribution. As of 2004, several local officials - including the mayor of Manila - had banned distribution of condoms in government health facilities, and some locations even ban government health workers from discussing condoms.
Somalia
In 2003, a powerful Somalian Muslim group banned selling or using condoms in Somalia. The punishments for violating this include flogging.
Iran
Condoms were never banned in Iran although their public sale was frowned upon after the Islamic revolution of 1979. Despite being an Islamic theocracy, faced with a boom in the population after the revolution, government has quietly encouraged and supported the use and sale of condoms in the country in the past decade. They can now be legally obtained and in fact Iran has one of the largest condom factories in the Middle East.
source: wikipedia.org
Do u know "REEBOK" is subsidiary of "ADIDAS"
Reebok is now owned by the German footwear giant Adidas, which completed acquisition in early 2006.
Friday, April 20, 2007
The very first item sold on eBay was...
Famous Quotes of Dhirubhai Ambani
"I am deaf to the word "no"."
"Growth has no limit at Reliance. I keep revising my vision. Only when you dream it you can do it."
"Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly"
"Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher. Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for India."
"You do not require an invitation to make profits."
"If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow."
"Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities."
"Give the youth a proper environment. Motivate them. Extend them the support they need. Each one of them has infinite source of energy. They will deliver."
"Between my past, the present and the future, there is one common factor: Relationship and Trust. This is the foundation of our growth"
"We bet on people."
"Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation."
"Don't give up, courage is my conviction."
"We cannot change our Rulers, but we can change the way they Rule Us."
"Dhirubhai will go one day. But Reliance's employees and shareholders will keep it afloat. Reliance is now a concept in which the Ambanis have become irrelevant."
do u know this about DHIRUBHAI AMBANI??
In the 1950s, the [Yemen|Yemini] administration realized that their main unit of currency,the Rial, was disappearing fast. Upon launching an investigation, they realized that a lot of Rials were being routed to the Port City of Aden. It was found that a young man in his twenties was placing unlimited buy orders for Yemini Rials.
During those days, the Yemini Rial was made of pure silver coins and was in much demand at the London Bullion Exchange. Young Dhirubhai bought the Rials, melted them into pure silver and sold it to the bullion traders in London . During the latter part of his life, while talking to reporters, it is believed that he said “The margins were small but it was money for jam. After three months, it was stopped. But I made a few lakhs. In short, I was a manipulator. A very good manipulator. But I don’t believe in not taking opportunities..”
Donkey testifies in court
Source: CNN.com
Dallas (Texas): Faced with complaints that his donkey was too loud, attorney Gregory Shamoun decided to bring his case directly to the court- he had the donkey testify.
Buddy the donkey appeared in court Wednesday. He walked to the bench and stared at the jury, the picture of a gentle, well-mannered creature and not the loud, aggressive animal he had been accused of being.
Shamoun was in a dispute with oilman John Cantrell, who had complained to the city about a storage shed Shamoun was building in his backyard in Dallas.
Cantrell said Shamoun retaliated by bringing the donkey from his ranch and putting him in the backyard.
Cantrell complained of donkey noise and manure piles.
"They bray a lot any time day or night. You never know when they're going to cut loose," he testified.
Despite the donkey's appearance, neither jurors nor Buddy had the last say - the neighbors settled their dispute while jurors deliberated.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
The Monster List of Freelancing Job Sites
Check full Article with list of sites
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Do u know "William Henry Gates III" ??u DO...
MICROSOFT...yes its real name of a person whom we know as BILL GATES.
Do u know YAHOO was renamed from.......
In April 1994, "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!". Filo and Yang said they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
Intresting thing to know about GOOGLE
GOOGLE's April Fool's Day jokes
In 2002, they claimed that pigeons were the secret behind their growing search engine.
In 2004, they featured Google Lunar (which claimed to feature jobs on the moon),
In 2005, a fictitious brain-boosting drink, termed Google Gulp was announced.
In 2006, they came up with Google Romance, a hypothetical online dating service.
In 2007, Google announced two joke products. The first was a free wireless Internet service called TiSP (Toilet Internet Service Provider) in which one obtained a connection by flushing one end of a fiber-optic cable down their toilet and waiting only an hour for a "Plumbing Hardware Dispatcher (PHD)" to connect it to the Internet. Additionally, Google's Gmail page displayed an announcement for Gmail Paper, which allows users of their free email service to have email messages printed and shipped to a snail mail address.
Some thought the announcement of Gmail in 2004 around April Fool's Day (as well as the doubling of Gmail's storage space to two gigabytes in 2005) was a joke, although both of these turned out to be genuine announcements. In 2005, a comedic graph depicting Google's goal of "infinity plus one" GB of storage was featured on the Gmail homepage.
Google's services contain a number of easter eggs; for instance, the Language Tools page offers the search interface in the Swedish Chef's "Bork bork bork," Pig Latin, ”Hacker” (Actually leetspeak), Elmer Fudd, and Klingon. When asked how to get from a location in the U.S. to a location in Europe, Google Maps will provide directions that include an instruction to "Swim across the Atlantic Ocean." In addition, the search engine calculator provides The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Source: www.wikipedia.org
GOOGLE Acquisitions till the date
One of the earlier companies that Google bought was Pyra Labs. They were the creators of Blogger, a weblog publishing platform, first launched in 1999. This acquisition led to many premium features becoming free. Pyra Labs was originally formed by Evan Williams, yet he left Google in 2004.
In early 2006, Google acquired Upstartle, a company responsible for the online word processor, Writely. The technology in this product was used by Google to eventually create Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
In February 2006, software company Adaptive Path sold Measure Map, a weblog statistics application, to Google. Registration to the service has since been temporarily disabled.
In late 2006, Google bought online video site YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. Shortly after, on October 31, 2006, Google announced that it had also acquired JotSpot, a developer of wiki technology for collaborative Web sites.
On April 13, 2007 Google reached an agreement to acquire DoubleClick. Google agreed to buy the company for 3.1 billion United States dollars.
The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of...
The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of...
GOOGLE's mission statement & corporate philosophy
Google's corporate philosophy includes statements such as,
"You can make money without doing evil," and,
"Work should be challenging and the challenge should be fun," illustrating a somewhat more relaxed corporate culture.
India's 25 best employers
1) Aditya Birla Group
2) Satyam Computer Services Limited
3) Marriott Hotels India
4) Eureka Forbes Limited
5) Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited
6) Godrej Consumer Products Ltd.
7) Agilent Technologies Ltd.
8) Standard Chartered Scope International - India
9) Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
10) Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.
11) Wipro BPO
12) Covansys (India) Private Limited
13) Ajuba Solutions India Private Limited
14) Pantaloon Retail India Limited
15) Text 100 India Pvt. Ltd.
16) Domino's Pizza India Limited
17) Ford India
18) Becton Dickinson India Pvt. Ltd.
19) Hardcastle Restaurants Pvt. Ltd.
20) HCL Technologies Ltd.- BPO Services
21) Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Limited
22) Johnson and Johnson Medical, India
23) GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Ltd.
24) HSBC
25) Monsanto India Limited
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