TRADiTiONAL ECONOMiCS
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies and the economy grows.
You retire on the income.

iNDiAN ECONOMiCS
You have two cows.
You worship them.

PAKiSTANi ECONOMiCS
You don’t have any cows.
You claim that the Indian cows belong to you.
You ask the US for financial aid, China for military aid, British for technology, French for submarines, Switzerland for loans, Russia for drugs and Japan for equipment.
You buy the cows with all this and claim exploitation by the world.

AMERiCAN ECONOMiCS
You have two cows.
You sell one and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
You profess surprise when the cow drops dead.
You put the blame on some nation with plentiful cows and show that naturally this nation is a danger to all of mankind.
You wage a war against this nation to save the world and also grab the cows for yourself.

FRENCH ECONOMiCS
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.

GERMAN ECONOMiCS
You have two cows.
You re-engineer them so that they live for 100 years, eat once a month and milk themselves.

BRiTiSH ECONOMiCS
You have two cows.
They are both mad cows.

iTALiAN ECONOMiCS
You have two cows.
You don’t know where they are.
You break for lunch.

SWiSS ECONOMiCS
You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you.
You charge others for storing them in your country.

JAPANESE ECONOMiCS
You have two cows.
You redesign them so that they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
You then create cute cartoon cow images called “Cowkimon” and market them as a phenomenon worldwide.

RUSSiAN ECONOMiCS
You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
You count them again and learn you have 17 cows.
You give up counting and open another bottle of vodka.

CHiNESE ECONOMiCS
You have two cows.
You have 300 people “milking” them.
You claim full employment, high bovine productivity and arrest anyone reporting the actual numbers.

BANGLADESHi ECONOMiCS
You have two cows. Both of which do not give any milk but produce a lot of bullshit.
You don’t know economy.
You choose one of them as the Prime Minister of the country and the other as the Leader of the Opposition party.

Like it or loathe it, there’s no denying that NBC’s Friends was a television phenomenon. Groups of television viewers would gather around the boob tube each and every Thursday night from the spring of 1994 to the fall of 2004, wondering whether Rachel and Ross would ever get together (spoiler: They do!), what stupid and funny thing Joey will say next (’cause he’s a model!), and what quirky song Phoebe would sing next (I hope it’s about a cat!).

Rumors of a Friends movie have popped up ever since the show went off the air in 2004, but none have been stronger than those that surfaced today. Several UK sites today are reporting that the ball is once again rolling to get a Friends movie into production, with most pointing toward the recent success of the Sex and the City film as the catalyst (over $130 million domestically at the box office will change a studio executive’s mind).

Citing “insiders,” The Daily Mail says a Friends movie will hit theaters within the next 18 months and will reunite all six main members of the cast: Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox-Arquette, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, and Matthew Perry.

Apparently Aniston, once believed to be “too famous” to reprise her role as Rachel, is leading the charge in getting the movie made.

One source, who evidently believes he/she has a full grasp on Jennifer Aniston’s psyche, speculates, “As the biggest star of the Friends franchise, Jennifer can’t help but look at what’s happened with Sarah Jessica Parker and the Sex and the City film and be a little jealous.”

Another UK site, ContactMusic, is reporting that the main cast members could stand to get some serious cash from the movie–upwards of $19 million each.

And so it begins–the march of comedy hits to the big screen because Sex and the City surprised everyone at the box office.

Source: TV.com

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That is freaking awesome news, I absolutely loved this epic sitcom which actually made NBC barebale and watchable. I cant wait for a Friends movie as I’m sure it will be great nor can I finally wait for the main cast of 6 to unite back again after a while.

Oh and Happy 4th of July everybody!

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There are no plans for a rumoured big-screen version of Friends, film studio Warner Bros has told the BBC. Since the success of the Sex and the City movie, there has been constant speculation that the US sitcom’s six stars had agreed to their own film. One UK press report even suggested that the first scenes would be shot within the next 18 months. However, Warner Bros’ director of publicity in the UK, Jayne Trotman, said there was “no truth in the story”. Ever since the quipping sextet - Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox Arquette, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc - parted ways four years ago there have been rumours of a reunion.

‘Right circumstances’

Earlier this week, an unnamed source was quoted as saying: “Jennifer, Courtney and the rest of cast are keen to reprise their roles, under the right circumstances. “The success of Sex and the City has really got their wheels spinning about how a Friends film could be just as big, if done right.” But Cox Arquette’s publicist, John Fogelman, told the BBC he did not know of any plans for a film. Matthew Perry’s spokesperson, Lisa Kasteler, added: “Nothing is happening in this regard, so the rumour is false.”

The final episode of Friends drew a US audience of 52.5m, while 8.6m viewers watched it in the UK. The movie version of Sex and the City took $55.7m (£28.3m) in its opening weekend at the US box office - a record for an R-rated comedy.

Source: BBC News

Ok let’s start with this first: fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers now can detect our intentions and predict our choices before we are aware of them ourselves. The brain, they have found, appears to make up its mind 10 seconds before we become conscious of a decision — an eternity at the speed of thought. This really shows the value of not overthinking a decision. [WSJ]

Ok enough of the boring stuff … I mean the real serious subject matter, now onto something fun - with a lotta pictures!

Ever wondered who some of hollywood’s ugliest ducklings turned current hotties are? Well wonder not, although you could stare, but try not to drool. It’s just not polite [Dbl Viking]

Here’s a thought, ever notice how some of the most hottest women on earth usually come from some of the countries with the most useless currencies (compared to the dollar)? Hmm…

WallStreetFighter aims to explain this pseudo-phenomenon.

Then again there are plenty of well-off countries that too produce a lotta good looking women, a place where even a guy with no personality could easily get laid.

The Top10Kid, as the name suggests gives us a Top 10 list of such beautiful places.

But enough of “skin show”, how about some amazing high dynamic range (HDR) pictures that make the field of photography oh so fun! Joy.

You’ll see what I’m talking about - check this out for a sample of the magnitude of beauty I’m talking about, a complilation of some very very cool photoshots via Deviantart & Flickr etc.

One of the most interesting questions considered by astrophysicists deals with the start of our universe. Indeed, there is a great deal of speculation on the age-old subject, with different theories about how the universe began, and what may have existed before the universe came into being.

Several prominent astrophysicists around the world are interested in answering these questions. In one paper, “No-Boundary Measure of the Universe,” published in Physical Review Letters, James Hartle, Stephen Hawking and Thomas Hertog calculate the probabilities that the no-boundary wave function predicts in terms of classical space-time possibilities.

“Theories regarding the beginning of the universe are expressed as wave functions,” Hartle tells PhysOrg.com. “The no-boundary wave function is one theory about the origins of the universe.” The goal of this particular work with Hawking and Hertog, he continues, was to model the universe and see what kind of probabilities exist that the current universe could have originated in a certain way.

The no-boundary proposal predicts that expansion in the early universe would have proceeded smoothly from a moment in time. The idea is that inflation was a feature of our early universe. “It collapsed from a previous large phase, bounced at a small but not zero radius, and expanded again to the large phase we are living in,” says Hartle.

The no-boundary wave function also states that space-time was not what we see today at the outset of universal expansion. “When the universe started out,” Hartle explains, “there wasn’t ordinary space-time. Instead of three space directions, as we have now, there were four space directions. At some point, a transition was made to ordinary space-time.”

Hartle and his colleagues examined models of the universe that were homogenous, isotropic and closed. A cosmological constant was assumed, as was a scalar field with quadratic potential. They looked at entire classical histories, examining the ideas of a singularity, such as a Big Bang, or considering a bounce with a finite radius. The point was to get a picture of which scenarios are most likely to produce a universe that is similar to what we see currently.

“Both things, a Big Bang or a bounce, are possible,” Hartle says. “However, we found a significant probability that the early universe might have bounced.”

Hartle does admit that the simple model used by him and his colleagues does have its limitations. For one thing, the universe is not completely homogenous as the model assumes. “You see a certain lumpiness in the real universe,” he concedes. However, most of the irregularities are small, and many of them can, in fact, be ultimately accounted for in a no-boundary proposal.

“Our model does make a number of strong assumptions,” Hartle continues. But, he insists, “this is a standard trade-off in physics. Our model is simplified so that we can analyze it completely.”

“In present cosmology, we test models to see if different proposals fit the universe that we see. In this instance, we see that the no-boundary wave function does,” Hartle says. “We see that there is a good chance the universe originated in a bounce.”

“We hope that can extend this to other, more sophisticated models, with different potentials and different degrees of freedom.”

Copyright 2008 PhysOrg.com.

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A technician works on the Atlas semiconductor tracker barrel.

Well after reading all this you might be logically wondering hmm well What is the Universe made of? And that’s where this article comes in which aims to explain the building blocks of everything.

What do LEGOs, Nokia and 18th century political economist Adam Smith have in common? All three show why Denmark has become the best country in the world for business.

Speaking two decades before The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, Smith said, “Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”

If ever there was a system that made following Smith’s recipe look easy, it’s the Danish economy’s mix of low inflation and low unemployment, emphasis on entrepreneurship and lower taxes. These qualities combined with high marks for innovation and technological savvy lift Denmark to the top of our third annual ranking of the Best Countries for Business (formerly the Forbes Capital Hospitality Index).

To find the best, we analyze business climates in each of more than 120 national economies, focusing on degrees of personal freedoms, like the right to participate in free and fair elections, or freedom of expression and organization.

Investor protection examines the recourse held by minority shareholders in cases of corporate misdeeds, while corruption looks at the number and frequency of similar misuse of corporate assets for personal gain. Together with economic policies supportive of free trade and low inflation, these key points form a snapshot of countries’ suitability for capital investment.

Topping the list for 2008: Denmark, which rose three slots from last year, Ireland (up 19 places to No. 2), Finland (up four to third place), the U.S. (down three to fourth) and U.K. (up five to fifth). Big movers like Ireland, Estonia (No. 10, up 24 spots) and Saudi Arabia (No. 47, up 37) have limited bureaucracy standing in the way of entrepreneurs hoping to do business within their borders.

Ireland continued to see businesses take advantage of its low levy on corporate profits as pharmaceutical company Shire (nasdaq: SHPGY - news - people ) became the latest to relocate from the U.K. in April of this year. EBay subsidiary and telecommunications company Skype calls Estonia home, thanks to its emerging profile as a technology center in the Baltics.

Saudi Arabia, despite higher inflation from booming oil exports, has tackled inequities in its markets, expanding investor rights as it evolves from an oil state to a center for investment in the Middle East.

India (No. 64, down 13) and China (No. 79, down two) fell in this year’s ranking as political instability demonstrated resistance to increasing personal freedoms. Higher inflation from food and other commodity costs, as well as increased burdens on entrepreneurs also held the world’s most populous nations back as business destinations.

In developed nations like Germany (No. 21, down nine) and France (No. 25, down nine), scandals in the banking sector and tougher barriers for entrepreneurs led to declines. Meanwhile, anti-bureaucrat leaders like president Lech Kaczynski and prime minister Mirek Topolanek are succeeding in introducing more business friendly reforms to Europe’s smaller participants in Poland (No. 33, up six) and the Czech Republic (No. 29, unchanged), respectively.

One of the biggest declines came from Japan (No. 24, down 21), where a Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy spelled out problems with the world’s second-largest economy earlier this year. Among others, the committee’s report cites the nation’s 40% corporate tax rate as uncompetitive compared with regional rivals like Hong Kong at 17.5% and South Korea at 25%.

Antiquated restrictions on foreign investment are also a concern. So-called cross-shareholdings that limit the ability of foreign investors to take controlling stakes in Japanese companies is just one example of why foreign direct investment totaled a paltry 2.5% of GDP in 2006. That compares to 13.5% in the U.S. and 40% in Britain.

Expertise, research and published reports from the Heritage Foundation, World Economic Forum, World Bank, Transparency International, Freedom House, Deloitte Tax, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Central Intelligence Agency all contributed vital analyses of various socioeconomic indicators on the countries included.

In Pictures: The Best Countries for Business

Best Business Countries

I really quite like this picture of a statue from Sweden, which undeniably has the hottest women!

In less than 7 years, Mercedes-Benz plans to ditch petroleum-powered vehicles from its lineup. Focusing on electric, fuel cell, and biofuels, the company is revving up research in alternative fuel sources and efficiency.

The German car company has a few new powertrains in the line-up that European journalists have had the opportunity to test out in their facility in Spain. One vehicle includes the F700, powered by a DiesOtto engine that combines HCCI and spark ignition to get nearly the same efficiency as diesel, but minus the expensive after-treatment systems. The engine can run on biofuels, and we may have a purchasable vehicle by 2010 – a year that seems to be popular for the debut of a lot of new alternative fuel car models, making ’08 and ’09 simply thumb-twiddling years for consumers. I don’t know, maybe car makers just like the roundness of “2010.” The company’s next big step will be to launch a Smart electric car which is fuel and emission-free.

Anyway, Mercedes is looking into electric vehicles, both battery powered and fuel cell powered. Not only are models in development, but we’ve also seen the company making steps towards their zero petroleum goal right now, from better cabs in London to Li-Ion battery improvements. The company also has about 100 Smart electric cars undergoing testing in London, with that favorite 2010 year as the projected market release date. Mercedes is making serious investments, already putting nearly $4 million into the pot of their long-term Sustainable Mobility plan, with another nearly $1.4 billion going in before 2014.

While the folks over at Benz move away from the Internal Combustion Engine, there are yet those others who believe - Low Cost Gas Engine Innovation Doubles Fuel Economy.

I don’t care who you are, now this right here is a piece of marvelous beauty.

Revetec, a little known company from the Gold Coast region of Australia, may be on to something huge: they’ve created an engine that is 50% smaller, 50% lighter, has 50% lower emissions and is cheaper to manufacture than a conventional internal combustion engine of the same horsepower. Oh yeah, did I mention that it doubles the fuel economy too.

What that means is a car like the 2007 Toyota Yaris, which is rated at 40 mpg on the highway, would get 80 mpg with a Revetec engine.

Then there are many other’s who feel traditional cars are here to stay and are instead jumping on - Cheap Used Cars Make A Comeback

Gas prices aren’t the only thing going up these days. Prices for used hybrids and more fuel-efficient small cars have risen dramatically in the past six months.

A shortage of new, popular and fuel-efficient vehicles has sparked interest and a surge in demand for older, fuel-efficient models in the used-car market. The same cars that were cheaper and virtually ignored last year are now selling at a premium, thanks to gas prices that have topped $4 a gallon.

Additionally some people believe that all this Alternative Energy Demand [is] Fueling Growth and even otherwise there are some advocates who think that pretty soon Volcanoes could be supplying up to 25% of all US power needs.

All I know is that picture is very cool, and that whatever the future holds for us, we will be here eagerly awaiting it. Can’t escape being a part of it either now can we?

The go-fast gurus at Ferrari are working on a successor to the jaw-dropping Enzo that could be the lightest, quickest two-seater ever to roll out of Maranello.

We told you months ago the Scuderia’s next supercar would be based on the Millechili concept that embraces the “less is more” ethos. Ferrari sees lighter cars as the best way to reach its goal of increasing fuel economy 40 percent and reducing emissions 25 percent without compromising its reputation for performance. The Millechili is a guidepost to that greener future.

The future arrives in two years in a 600-horsepower car that weighs 2,200 pounds.

According to Car and Driver, Ferrari will introduce the as-yet-unnamed supercar in 2010. C&D says it won’t be called the Millechili — but it will look a lot like the styling concept (pictured) Ferrari showed off last year.

The car will have an aluminum space frame similar to the F430 Scuderia but stretched to a wheelbase of 104.3 inches and fitted with a V10 engine. That’s a break from Ferrari’s tradition of putting V8s or V12s in its road cars, but Ferrari won five consecutive Formula 1 championships with its V10s, so the engine undoubtedly will be a corker.

The only thing sweeter than the car’s engine is its weight. Millechili is Italian for 1,000 kilos, and that’s just what the car will weigh. Not only is that 660 pounds lighter than the Enzo, it’s 200 pounds lighter than a Mazda MX-5 Miata and only 216 pounds heavier than the Lotus Elise. The Enzo accelerated from 0 to 62 mph (100 kph) in 3.65 seconds and had a claimed top speed of 225 mph, so it’s safe to say the Millechili will be very quick. It’ll certainly have one of the best power-to-weight ratios of any car on the road, coming in behind the Caparo T1 and SSC Ultimate Aero but ahead of the Saleen S7 and Bugatti Veyron. Active suspension will adjust the ride height for maximum aerodynamic efficiency and handling.

That kind of performance doesn’t come cheap. If you want one of the 300 or so cars Maranello plans to build, be ready to lay out half a million dollars.

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In other news, another one of those cool scripted generators, this time a custom receipt maker … example image.

Trivia

Do you want to know how many bricks are produced per minute? How many bricks have been produced in history? What’s the best-selling set ever? What has been the worst? Do they recycle? How did they survive the crisis that almost killed them? How successful is Mindstorms? What are the actual names of each of the pieces? Why there are no blondes in Lego sets? Why there are extra pieces sometimes? Here’s the definitive mega-reference, straight from Lego.

• Why did I always have pieces left over when I built my castle sets? Do they just do that to jack with kids?
For two reasons: first, because some pieces are so small that they weigh too little to be measured by their scale, during packaging (you will see this when I publish the factory tour.) Second, because it’s better to have too many of those pieces than have one of them missing. Since we statistically know what pieces may get lost, we include some extras when appropriate.

• Why there are no blonde minifigs in the regular Lego sets?
Because they will look bad with the yellow heads. There are blondes, however, in the licensed lines, like Star Wars or Harry Potter.

• Why aren’t Lego figures ever sold separately from the sets?
Minifigures can be purchased separately on a limited basis. Some of our Lego stores sell the minifigures separately. You can also purchase minifigure pieces through Lego.com in the Pick-a-Brick wall. Additionally, there is a set called Community Workers which features nothing but classic minifigures. However, watch shelves in the coming year, you never know what you might find! (What I want to know is where the heck can I buy stormtroopers helmets for all my minifigs.)

• What do you call the different pieces internally? Any other name beyond bricks, like “flats” for the flat pieces or something similar?
We refer to the standard pieces as bricks. Flat pieces are either plates (these have studs and are 1/3 the height of a Lego brick) or tiles (these are the flat pieces with no studs). Everything is referred to by its stud count, so a classic Lego bricks is referred to as a 2×4. Carry that out, and you can see there are 1×2s and 2×3s and 1×8s and on and on and on…

• Why did you change the color palette?
The color palette changes as our themes change. However, our basic brick colors—red, yellow, blue, green, black and white—will always remain as staples in the assortment.

This was announced a few days back, but since I just started updating my blog (again) today, I thought I’d cover this. Well well well, after months of waiting it’s finally confirmed that Adam Carolla will host Top Gear USA on NBC this fall.

Adam Carolla may have been voted off of Dancing with the Stars early on in Season 6, but he’s got a new move ready. The comedian will cohost the U.S. port of the British car show, Top Gear, alongside racing expert Tanner Faust and Eric Stromer (who’s known for his home improvement expertise, on HGTV’s Over Your Head).

For Carolla, who pulled off the world’s first-ever paso doble (or something approximating it) on a unicycle during his Dancing stint, getting in the driver’s seat for Top Gear should be a like a Sunday drive. Shooting begins next week — but will you be revving up for this U.S. edition? The first slew of comments suggest that Carolla leaves your engine cold. — Anna Dimond

Source: TVGuide.com

Adam Carolla (left) already seems to be getting along with Top Gear co-hosts Eric Strommer and Tanner Foust in this first screen capture from the NBC set, first broken (along with most of the other Top Gear USA news on the show) by Jalopnik

And here’s the first pic from the sets of the show! Should be a great show, can’t wait for it. In the meanwhile Top Gear UK on BBC just started it’s 11th season this past Sunday and I’m definitely looking forward to a helluva great season the rest of the summer.

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When word officially got out last week that Top Gear USA was headed to NBC, a fast-lane frenzy befell the Popular Mechanics car team. This must be what it’s like for teenage girls with every new incarnation of High School Musical: Our vacationing automotive editor skipped the beach and tried to buy back his vintage Lambo, two of the other guys zoned out on YouTube for an hour-long Jeremy Clarkson marathon, and I … well I got on the phone with Adam Carolla.Best known as the snarkified co-host of two defunct cable hits—MTV’s Loveline and Comedy Central’s The Man Show—Carolla has a popular radio show syndicated on the West Coast and a new movie, The Hammer, hitting DVD today. But this bona fide luxury-car owner (and self-proclaimed car “nerd”) has a much bigger role beginning this fall as Gearhead Numero Uno on the American network adaptation of Top Gear, made famous on the BBC as an hour jam-packed with supercar test drives, ridiculous road trips and death-defying stunts—and made the world’s biggest car program by its runaway success on YouTube. Alongside Hollywood stunt driver Tanner Foust and soap-opera-star-turned-DIY-television-personality Eric Stromer, Carolla will attempt to fill the shoes of the legendary Clarkson in a weekly primetime romp that plans to mirror the British version. But rabid Top Gear fans haven’t had many more details to steer them toward September … until now.In his first interview about the show since NBC’s announcement, Carolla sat down with PopularMechanics.com for a half-hour exclusive on what’s in store for Top Gear 2.0. Here’s what we learned:

• The NBC adaptation will follow the BBC format: guest segment, stunt, test drive and, yes, the Stig (casting for that crucial role is still pending).

• The premiere episode will feature a race from Las Vegas to San Francisco, ending in a “mammoth stunt.” (NBC isn’t insisting on copycat stunts or episodes, a la Season One of The Office.)

• Carolla is pushing for an on-air drive of the just-unveiled BMW M1 Homage concept as soon as it’s available, as well as the Aston Martin DBS (though that would be a reprisal of a Clarkson drive).

• Clarkson and Carolla recently met face-to-face, but Carolla promises to focus more on improv than the heavily-prepared Clarkson.

• Officials from Top Gear in England, who are producing the show, along with “everyone involved,” have assured Carolla that he will be able to speak his mind on any car “without fear of reprisal” from advertisers, which he fully plans to do.

Read on for more of our Q&A with Adam Carolla (including why the Corvette ZR1 isn’t first on his list for the show and why he’ll at least be better than Tim Allen), then stay tuned for the complete interview on The Popular Mechanics Show podcast (including how the new team will make nice with America after Clarkson and Co. ran for the border last year) and weekly coverage of NBC’s Top Gear right here all season long!

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Popular Mechanics Interview: Part 1, Part 2, & Part 3 … Enjoy!

Alright so here we go again, gonna give my beloved blog site another shot and try to update all that has happened or changed in the near past. We’ll I got a haircut this week, now that summer is here in full force with temps almost reach the 85°+ mark lately, I literally have a cool top now.

So classes ended the first week of May and I’ve just been chilling and working last couple months. I’m probably gonna head back to Texas at the end of July. In the meanwhile I’m enjoying my new favorite TV show, the legendary Top Gear from BBC. I started off with the Best Of from Season 10 when I noticed it a few months back at the conclusion of said season. Well actually technically my first glimpse of this great show was inspired by this post - Top Gear - The Great Adventures US Special. And after I saw this, I completely fell in love with this amazing and hilarious show. Since then I’ve been going in reverse order, I started watching all of Season 10, then Season 9 and so and so forth. Today I’m gonna start watching Season 4 :D. Also as y’all might be aware, Season 11 of this show has already kicked off, and the 2nd ep of the series airs this coming Sunday.

What’s a hot summer day without a refreshing sip of your favorite drink? I don’t mean to advertise or nothing cause I certainly am not getting paid for this, but these are the double trouble drops of absolute bliss I’ve been sipping on lately.

Anyways as I’m sure you must have noticed, I’ve got a brand-spanking-new theme to go along with the revival of my blog. Kinda sorta like literally coming out of the “dark” ages. You’ll also notice some new functionality added to my blog: on your right side, I’ve updated old non-working links, added new links for the sites I’ve come to like since my last update, a VodPod section which has random videos, a random Flickr photos gallery, and another stats sub-section to show the sites I get my most referral hits from. Lemme know what you think of the site in the comments sections, and also lemme know if there might be other things you’d like to see on the site.

In yet other news the great and legendary, award winning long time standup comedian George Carlin died this past Sunday at the age of 71 due to a heart attack in a hospital in Santa Monica, CA. [CNN] Very sad indeed, we all will miss his quriky comedy, his energy on stage and no non-sense no bullshit approach to life that made his comedic timing so perfect. Time to que up some classic Carlin on my iTunes. Also the world’s most famous nerd, Bill Gates, plans to step down from his former role @ Microsoft to concentrate full time on his Foundation with his wife Melinda. [CNET]

Also a few days back Opera released a brand new kick ass browser with their v9.5 release and I thought it was absolutely the best browser ever made by all of mankind. [DiGG] But boy was I in for bit of a shock, when just a few days later the much awaited v3 of FireFox released and blew my mind. [SpreadFirefox] I’m using it full-time now, away from the crappy FF2 that I quit using a while back and the horrible IE/Maxathon etc that I was forced to use in the meanwhile. FF3 is simply great in every which way, it’s super fast, super reliable, everything just simply works, most of my previous addons are also now compatible AND it’s not a slow, crappy memory hog anymore. I love it, I’ve put it through testing hell since I upgraded and I’m very pleased with what the folks over at Mozilla have come up here with over 15,000 improvements in this version. Now I can’t wait until v3.5 or heck even v4 comes out!

Check this article out as well - Why You Will Love FireFox 3?