Archive for January, 2009
Posted on January 15, 2009 - by Mayank Chandak
Anil Tops the list of biggest financial losers
Well, Indian are very much on top of every list around here in the world, Literally. Be it the richest people, Forbes, fortune 500, most influential people, genius scientists, doing funny stuff and much everything else. But this time also, an Indian has done it, but unfortunately nothing to be proud of. Anil Ambani has made it to the top of the list of biggest losers in this recent meltdown. According to the article i stumbled across, anil ambani is the biggest loser with $30 Billion (sigh!!) lost in a financial year. His net worth down to $12m from $42m last March. He’s a very capable guy so he’ll make it up to his reputation. With so many Companies in his command, this guy is sure to rise, no-matter-what. Check the article here.
Posted on January 9, 2009 - by Mayank Chandak
Gawker makes you audition for commenting
Are you intelligent enough to comment on a site. Are you capable enough to comment. Probably we’ll have to audition you for leaving a comment.
Hello, Hey , all this was not for this site, but i got such messages when i registered at Gawker. Excerpts from Wiki
Gawker.com is a blog based in New York City that bills itself as “The source for daily Manhattan media news and gossip” and focuses on celebrities and the media industry.
Founded in 2002, Gawker is the flagship blog for Nick Denton’s Gawker Media; They spawned other blogs including Wonkette, covering Washington, D.C., Defamer, covering Los Angeles, and Valleywag covering Silicon Valley.
No offense anybody. Gawker is an excellent site, and its daughter sites are no less awesome, with editors no less famous than a filthy rich celeb. Check out the image for more. I mean comments moderation is pretty cool but auditions for such a thing is taking things too far.
P.S: At least be nice to me.
Posted on January 5, 2009 - by Mayank Chandak
Wordle out your mind
We all have seen tag cloud and then some good looking tag-cloud and even some ‘awesome’ tag clouds but a brilliant imagery of tags thats not necessarily made of tags. It can be made of words you like, a lovely story, a poem or anything for that matter. Thats exactly the thing that this nice site does. Enter a few words, a url or your del.icio.us username and see the magic unroll to a colorful cloud of text. Customization options include fonts, alignment, layout control, language options and much everything
P.S: You need Java Framework installed for it to work properly.
Posted on January 5, 2009 - by Mayank Chandak
TypeRacer.com. A useful time-waster.
We see a lots of time-waster apps each day, but never before have we come across such amazing time-waster which doesn’t even feel like being called a time waster. Its rather a useful web app that lets you hone your typing skills alongside making it a fun game to spend time on. The good part of the app is that it lets you randomly race opponents. Or maybe you could invite few friends for a race. You need to translate the text as-is in the box, with all punctuations and capitals taken care of. What some people might not notice is that it even improves your vocabulary as a bonus, and not to mention a bit of concentration improvements also.
Posted on January 4, 2009 - by Mayank Chandak
100 must do things. Please forward
My mail box is so flooded with spam that it get pretty difficult to sort out which mail to read. Although i personally find the gmail’s spam mechanism rock-solid but soemhow somethings slip-in for good. Yes i’m talking of the forwarded chain-mails. This time though i got a new one and pretty interesting to look. This has a numbered list of things to-do(before-you-die kind of). You just color the ones you have done and then forward to all your friends. Its not exactly very daring/adventurous stuff but even then worth mentioning.
Heres mine. Pass it on friends.
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