Trapped in Google land

I am trapped in Google land...Street View that is ..
Google Street view has frozen this moment on our trip to Paris.
Click here to see
Some might feel this is an invasion of privacy....I on the other hand am thrilled .
Its like being featured on TV !!!!!!!

This is the first time i am using Street View to this extant ..... and the power of the tool is immense.
One gets a feel for the place before actually going there.

Will we be on Google street view forever?
I know i want to be :)

There is no excuse now even for the worst map readers to be lost ..

Hats off to Google.

Good deal for astronomy buffs in UK

UK astronomy buffs

Start ur engines

Get to your nearest LIDL and pick up a excellent pair of Bresser 10 X 50
binoculars.

I have used these and they are quite comfortable to use.
excellent view of the skys.

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Santhosh Maruthi FCD

I have joined the Friends of Charles Darwins

And so should you.

Its been around for 13 years but not many members.
maybe they did not bother to publicise it,
maybe there was no need for it....
the creationist cretins have come out only recently even though they have always been there

So show your support for the scientific cause .join up.



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Orkut

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Orkut is one of my favorite sites now.

I have run into long forgotton schoolmates and collegemates !!!

And now i keep in touch regularly through Orkut.

Nice , non intrusive way to converse ...

the ability to search thru friends is something like a real time game of Six degrees of separation

This is the first such friend ship site that actually works .

Amazing Stop Motion animation using Lego

I am a big fan of Stop Motion animation and this one completey blew me away.
These guys have created an amazing movie using Lego toys
Link here on YouTube


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New planet discovery HAT-P-1

A new planet has been discovered , but what is unusual is the size and makeup of the planet
read it here

We create theories to explain know observations, and those theories are correct but within the context of the known observations.

New observations bring more data to the table, the new data may invalidate previous theories or make them stronger.

What was know before is but a small picture of a much larger puzzle , it need not be wrong.

This is the way of science

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Blogroll up and running

Finally !!!

I have my blogroll up and running courtesy of www.blogrolling.com

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Indians are Model Immigrants

Link to story here
Well it is a Indian immigrant patting the collective indian back ,but ,

Vivek wadhwa is very much true with the general reasons for the success that Indians
achive in the US.

So how come we Indians dont have a special immigration / work category like the Australians do ?

or to put it bluntly Dude , Where is my H1-B ?

Oh what a fate !!!!

The Space Tramp has blogged about the grammatical demotion of Pluto from proper noun to unflattering verb Plutoed

So i visited the source the urban dictionary
and i was suprised to find so many different connotations to the Pluto name.

Is it better to be a proper noun or a verb or an adjective? whats your choice ?