February 2010
52 posts
U.S. Air Force building supercomputer from PS3s →
Coming Back from a Life Threatening Injury: Stafon... →
“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and...”
– Samuel Coleridge
January 2010
127 posts
one red paperclip...gets you a house? →
This is the link to the blog of Kyle MacDonald who started with one red paperclip on July 12, 2005 and 14 trades later he owned a house on July 12, 2006. Amazing story.
Border Crossings
I got this e-mail from a friend of mine and I found it kind of funny :P
The differences when it comes to crossing a Border:
IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.
IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.
IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.
IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE...
“||Sukharthanaha kuto vidhya
kuto vidhyarthinaha sukham||
Those who want...”
"Higher Calling"--Tony Dungy helping troubled... →
Next "Harry Potter" movies coming in 3D (Reuters) →
Good news for Harry Potter fans!
Charlie Davies is an unstoppable force with... →
Prank goes awry when coach hits blindfolded shot →
“The prank was set up perfectly. A high school girls’ basketball coach in Kansas was told he’d win tickets to the Final Four if he hit a half-court shot while blindfolded. The crowd was instructed to scream wildly when his attempt inevitably failed (because, really, that shot is nearly impossible) so the coach would think the shot went in. For an instant ,he’d think he was...
Apple - iPad - The best way to experience the web,... →
(via karmayogi54)
—this is simply AMAZING! might i say revolutionary? :)
RainyMood.com →
(via prospekt)
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via karmayogi54)
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are...”
– Voltaire
Happy Republic Day India :)
karmayogi54:
iindia:
simtan:
hit-or-miss:
The land of historians, poets, riches and rivers, Things that I was taught in school but now I dont remember, The tricolour and the meaning of each line of the chakra and its symbol, Kings and sons with numerous queens and monuments that talk about love rekindle. Land where bollywood is not an influence of the culture instead is an ‘influent’, And...
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Jumping Jacks Fail
hahahahhahaha this is funny. epic fail!
“No dream is too big, don’t let small minds convince you otherwise.”
– anonymous (via fringesofmind) (via nihilnoetia) (via gottfried)
“Failure is the opportunity to start over again, more intelligently.”
– Ford (via gottfried)
Go Saints! The Brees is too strong today for the Vikings to sail to the promised land!
“A unique feature of the Vedas is that they do not say, ’this is the only God’....”
“In every country today, men have become power-mad and they resort, without any...”
– Atharva Ved
“May we be fearless… from friends and enemies…from known and unknown...”
– Atharva Ved
“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what...”
– Barbara Kingsolver (via kendalllouise) (via thanksforstanding) (via nihilnoetia) (via gottfried)
“Never vaunt of your gifts to the poor or expect their gratitude, but rather be...”
– Swami Vivekanand (via resolve) (via prospekt)
“Sometimes I go crazy because of the amount of stuff I have to do so i just think...”
– Maitri Majithia
————-Keep it up buddy!
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
– Abraham Lincoln (via karmayogi54)
The Secret to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's "Unbreakable"... →
As one of the greatest plays ever to play the game of the basketball, Kareem was a focus for the offenses he played in for the 20 years he was in the league. His secret to staying healthy? Yoga.
Will anyone catch his “unbreakable” record of 38, 387 points?
Kobe? LeBron?
Well we’ll just have to find out how long they can stay healthy!
“When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference...”
– Audre Lorde (via gottfried)
“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands...”
– Swami Vivekananda (via theolivebranch) (via prospekt)
“We spend so much time trying to impress others in our life, that at the end of...”
– (via karmayogi54)
YouTube To Live-Stream Cricket Matches With... →
(via karmayogi54)
“Give me some sunshine
Give me some rain
Give me another chance
I wanna grow...”
– 3 Idiots (via prospekt)
“From untruth, lead me to truth
From darkness, lead me to light
From death,...”
– Adi Shankaracharya (via karmayogi54)
Letter from Birmingham Jail →
(via prospekt)
“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via karmayogi54)
“Brick walls are there for a reason. They are not there to keep us out. They are...”
– Randy Pausch
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.