Here are a few lawsuits which TC has dealt with.

• Youtube Sues TC
• Iron Man vs TC
• S. Terry, Rival.com vs TC
• Mediascrape vs TC
• Some Jack Ass

In this edition of our Monday Inspiration series, we present 60 examples of beautiful smoke photography and smoke art: a round-up of some of the best examples of photos and artworks where smoke dominates. At the bottom of this post are some links to tutorials on creating your own smoke photographs, as well as other resources on the subject.

35 × Elegant Smoke Photographs

Magicnikon
Dry ice was put in the bottle to get this great image.

Hughes Léglise-Bataille

Ravana

The 4 Brothers / Look at Laxman’s Axe… Super Cool…

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The cult of virginity (November 1-15, 1978)

Majority of college girls in four major metropolitan cities have never kissed a man on the lips. They firmly believe that premarital sex “is wrong” and that “most boys want to marry a virgin”. Only a tiny minority learned how babies were born before they were 14 and even today, most of them do not know what VD stands for.

On the whole, an average college girl is conservative, conventional and cautious in all matters relating to sex, and espouses views similar to her mother’s. The boys are no different— their fringe liberalism being more than compensated for by a distressing combination of intolerance and ignorance.

Those were the major findings of a survey conducted by the Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB). IMRB’s researchers interviewed 604 college students and the interviews were kept as informal as possible and three broad questions were asked: those dealing with the awareness of VD, and birth control; attitudes towards virginity, divorce, and homosexuality, and actual experience of kissing, petting, or intercourse.

Unending nightmare (September 16-30, 1978)

Breaking all barriers and records of nearly a century, the rivers of north India conspired with the monsoon to erode signs of civilisation. Sweeping through the state of Haryana, sections of the capital Delhi, and through the landscape of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal, the fury of flood spelt death, destruction and disease. Capital’s sprawling resettlement colony Jehangirpuri presents a dismal scene.

The tarred road to the settlement peters out into a mussy pond; the crumbling tops of a few houses could be sighted some metres away; and a placid sheet of gently rippling water had virtually erased whatever remained of the eyesore created by contemporary urban planning.

In less than two days, nearly all of the 1,30,000-strong population of Jehangirpuri had been evacuated. The few who remained marooned slept on the rapidly disintegrating rooftops to guard their belongings.

The comedy featuring Drew Barrymore’s voice as a pampered pooch who gets lost in Mexico took $29m (£16.5m) in its opening weekend.

Thriller Eagle Eye fell one place to number two, taking $17.7m (£10.1m).

It is tough to wrap your brain around how much money it is, so we’ve tried to put things in perspective for you.

You could buy 13 new Citi Fields for EACH COUNTY in the state of New York

According to a unit hand, Ghajini is complete and therefore Murugadoss kept a special screening for Aamir. Apparently, after watching the film Aamir realized that some scenes require changes and he has asked the director to re-shoot those.

A sequel to the last bond flick “Casino Royale”, “Quantum of Solace”, will see Daniel Craig returning to his latest mission and picking up threads from his last adventure to begin a new journey as the elusive British Agent 007.

Google would have taken a sigh of relief. United States is now the second largest Orkut Using Country which just jumped ahead of India. Orkut has been criticized and termed as a failure in the US.

I am sure these are growing signs since orkutting in India seems to be catching up more and more amongst youths. So i do not see if there were Indian drop-outs from Orkut rather a positive sign that more Amerians are looking towards orkut.

Close your left and eye and just focus your right eye on the tiny cross. At some point the big circle will disappear as it crosses your ‘blind spot’.

If you can’t see this effect, then try sitting closer/further from the screen.

But it was the nature of the article itself that was interesting. It focused on bulletin board systems and newsgroups, dial-up modems, and terms like ‘Information Superhighway’, ‘cyberporn’, and ‘phone bill’. Times have changed. But even in 1995, the Internet — as opposed to the Web — had seen a couple of decades of development. And it’s now had over a decade more. It’s given us hundreds and hundreds of milestones; thousands of defining moments.

We decided to plough the history of the entire Internet, from the roots of its underlying technology, to the Web properties that helped it explode, the litigation it endured on the way and disasters companies have suffered as a result of the Net’s popularity. We’ve picked 50 of what we think are the most significant moments, in ten categories spanning almost 40 years of Internet history:

To the targets of terrorism, the perpetrators may often appear as the incarnation of evil deserving the utmost punishment. However, labeling terrorism as evil, though cathartically gratifying from the victims’ perspective, and perhaps an effective rallying cry in the “war on terrorism”, may not suffice to counter the phenomenon. To do so effectively we need to understand terrorism, identify its roots, its strengths and its vulnerabilities. Different social sciences may offer varied insights into the ways terrorism “ticks”. Today, I would like to offer a psychological perspective, and attempt a glimpse into the terrorist mind.

Pathology? What does it feel like to be a terrorist? It certainly isn’t a life on the “easy street”. Rather, it is life “on the edge”, rife with violence against others and a near certainty of a meeting a violent death oneself (that turns into full certainty in the case of suicide terrorism ). What kind of person would want this for her or himself ? A crazy person, perhaps ? In the seventies and the eighties— this possibility was entertained quite seriously by psychologists and psychiatrists. Extensive research conducted on the Baader Meinhof Group, the Italian Red Army Brigades, the Basque ETA, and the various Palestinian organizations, among others, came out empty, however.

More : http://www.desihotmasala.com/2008/09/inside-terrorist-mind-paper-by-arie-w.html

Maniar told The Telegraph yesterday: “I have drawn from my own experiences of arriving in the UK eight years ago as a 24-year-old student.”

The computer game has a separate set of questions for men and women and takes them through various options of how to behave in particular situations.

“I’m not blindly adapting the Iranian film Children Of Heaven. I’m moving completely away from the original material to set the story in Assam with the insurgency as the backdrop,” Priyadarshan said.

There’s an unofficial Hindi adaptation of Children Of Heaven titled Salaam Bachche. But Priyadarshan isn’t aware of that.

As celebrated every year by Booksellers magazines:

1978: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice (University of Tokyo Press)
1979: The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution (Transaction Press)
1980: The Joy of Chickens (Prentice Hall)
1981: Last Chance at Love: Terminal Romances
1982: Population and Other Problems (China National Publications)
1983: The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling (MIR)
1984: The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History and Its Role in the World Today (Constable)
1985: Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Power: How to Increase the Other 90% of Your Mind to Increase the Size of Your Breasts (Westwood Publishing Co)
1986: Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality (Brunner/Mazel)
1987: No Award

more : http://www.desihotmasala.com/2008/09/30-oddest-book-titles-so-far-funny.html

More than 30 people were killed by the Baader-Meinhof gang, or the Red Army Faction as it later became known.

Created a gallery of the posts… will keep that updated … thought of sharing it …

(c) Flickr User Jonathan Moreau

Now Facebook, despite bouts of indecision, may be leaning toward a plan: The social music service iLike announced Monday that Radio Retaliation, the forthcoming album from electronica duo Thievery Corporation will make its exclusive debut Thursday on its site. (It probably wasn’t a coincidence that Thievery Corporation was the headlining musical act at Facebook’s F8 conference in July.)

iLike became a runaway success on Facebook’s platform and was selected as one of the social network’s preferred “Great Apps” at F8. The music site has debuted albums before, most notably R.E.M.‘s Accelerate in February, but this one will be officially promoted by Facebook in a “listening party” that lasts until the album’s wide-release debut on September 23.

Diagram of the Kaaba: Interior and Exterior of the Kaaba in the Courtyard of the Grand Mosque in Mecca
The name Kaaba means “cube,” but the structure isn’t a cube: it measures 12m long, 10m wide, and 15m high (33 feet x 50 feet x 45 feet). The Kaaba is built from grey granite and each corner points to one of the four points of the compass. The single Entrance is on the northeast, side, 2.3m above the ground. The interior of the Kaaba is bare except for three supporting wooden pillars and gold hanging lamps. Affixed to the eastern corner of the Kaaba, about 1.5m up, is the Black Stone of Mecca.

http://specials.rediff.com/money/2008/sep/10slde1.htm

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons charged with very high energy. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. It is theorized that the collider will confirm the existence of the Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and missing links in the Standard Model, and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass…

This statue of the Hindu deity Shiva was a gift from India. As the only obvious religious symbol at a facility built for science, it has proven controversial (Image: Cern/Maximilien Brice)

more : http://www.desihotmasala.com/2008/09/what-is-hadron-collider-dummies-guide.html

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Researchers have found that people who drink are more likely to remember the good things and least likely to recall the bad things, say, the worst experiences of being drunk in a party as alcohol affects memory in a selective manner.

“The discovery that alcohol helps us remember the good and brush aside the bad could explain our fascination with alcohol. This bias towards positive memories means that people are more likely to drink heavily the next time they go out because they only remember the good memories about the last time,” said lead researcher Theodora Duka.

Duka of Sussex University and colleagues at Liverpool University came to the conclusion after looking at a group of volunteers who were recruited for the study, the British media reported.

The researchers looked at how well people recalled flash cards shown just before and just after drinking several units of alcohol. Their answers were compared with those from a similar group given alcohol-free drinks.

In fact, both the drinkers and non-drinkers remembered the first set of cards better than the second. However, the drinkers remembered the first set of cards better than the non-drinkers and recalled emotive images particularly vividly. But they scored worse than the non-drinkers when asked to remember the second set of cards, with emotional scenes proving especially easy to forget.

“Blogs are big fun and the website I’m planning to launch shortly will also have a section dedicated to blogs. My website will be highly interactive and there will be some very cool features in it. It will have an archive of my pictures from my early modelling days to recent films,” Arjun told After Hrs.

Narrator: “Martha Stewart. ”

Tyler Durden: “F*ck Martha Stewart. Martha’s polishing the brass on the Titanic. It’s all going down, man. So f*ck off with your sofa units and Strinne green stripe patterns. ”

The movie fight club is filled with memorable quotes like this one…But embedded in the movie are also some great lessons that can be applied to everyday life.

SATISH SHAH clad in a burqa being wheeled along on roller skates by Ravi Baswani and myself on the crisscrossed pavement of Napean Sea Road and remarking that all his fillings seemed to have turned loose. The entire unit asleep in their positions awaiting the arrival of Bhakti Barve at 3 am, returning to shoot in Alibagh after a stage performance in Bombay. Organising a coffin to come barreling down Malabar Hill, then moving back uphill from the direction it came. The costume person being dispatched to Goregaon from Marine Drive at three in the morning to collect the laundered white suits which were needed but hadn’t been delivered. Discovering, after boarding a local train which wouldn’t stop till the next station, that my camera had been filched on the platform. Spoofing the Mahabharata on practically empty stomachs, arguing about logic in the telephone scene — just a few of the myriad memories of the making of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro that shall never fail to turn me moist-eyed and nostalgic

I tied a disposable camera to a bench with a sign that read:

Good afternoon,
I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I’ll be back later this evening to pick it up.
Love, Jay / The Plug

When I retrieved the camera that night, I was happy to find that the entire roll of film had been shot. Below are the photos that were taken.

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“This is my homage to one of the most underrated filmmakers of the country. When I met Mr. Samanta, he was so pleased to know his films would reach out to a new generation,” Nandy told IANS.

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