The Burglar and the Beatlecam

An American helped foil a burglary in northern England whilst
watching a Beatles-related webcam over the Internet,
police said Friday.

The man from Dallas was using a live camera link to look at
Mathew Street, an area of Liverpool synonymous with the Beatles
and home to the Cavern Club where the band regularly played.

Madooo Visits Chicago Beatlefest

Madooo generously sent these exclusive first-look pics
taken at the recent Beatlefest in Chicago. Some of you
may ask, "Who are all those people with Madooo ?
Should I know them?"

So for the uninformed , here are the answers from wikipedia:

Horatio Sanz is from the cast of Saturday Night Live
Mark Hudson is a record producer, musician and songwriter living in Los Angeles, California. He was a member of the Hudson Brothers [1], and has produced albums for Ringo Starr, Aerosmith, Hanson and the
Baha Men. Hudson co-wrote the Aerosmith hit "Livin' On The Edge" as well as co-writing and producing Ringo Starr's last three albums
Vertical Man, Ringo Rama and Choose Love. In 2003 he formed a record label with Ringo Starr called Pumkinhead Records [2] Klaus Voorman
a German artist, musician, and record producer who was associated with
the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg and later designed the cover of their
album Revolver. He also played Bass guitar for Manfred Mann,
the Plastic Ono Band), George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Lou Reed, James Taylor
among others.

Madooo made it to number 1 again on AOL's John Lennon downloads :

http://tinyurl.com/zp29l

http://tinyurl.com/k5zt3

Zappa on YouTube

YouTube™ – Broadcast Yourself

frdmilltx at yahoo dot com wants to share the following video with you:

Frank Zappa - Dinah-Moe Humm

Hey Guys, this one's especially for you

and for the VC daze.

You know who you are !

Fred

John Mclaughlin: Remember Shakti: Ma No Pa

I remember seeing John live at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai in 1997 with Hariprasad Chaurasia and his old Ghatam player from Shakti. So finding this amazing video at You Tube was an absoute delight !

Das ist Blunderbar !

Where's Mel Brooks when you need him ?
This article from Reuters says it's like if 'The Producers'
had opened an eatery.....

MUMBAI (Reuters) - A new restaurant in India's financial hub,
named after Adolf Hitler and promoted with posters
showing the German leader and Nazi swastikas, has
infuriated the country's small Jewish community.
'Hitler's Cross'**, which opened last week, serves up a wide
range of continental fare and a big helping of controversy,
thanks to a name the owners say they chose to stand out
among hundreds of Mumbai eateries.

"We wanted to be different. This is one name that will stay
in people's minds," owner Punit Shablok told Reuters.

**I don't think Hitler's cross. In fact I think he may be saying
to himself, " It's a gas! "

Watch this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoIm7OdKkVU

Nerd, Geek or Dork ?

On occasion, I come across an Ask Yahoo question worth sharing........

Dear Yahoo!:
What's the difference between a nerd, a geek, and a dork? -
- Josh, Michigan

Dear Josh: We've been called all three, and to be honest,
we always assumed they meant the same thing. However,
according to the cool kids, there are differences.
Official definitions for nerd, geek, and dork each use the
words "inept" and "foolish."

Nerds have the added distinction of being "unattractive." Ouch.
While it's hard to argue with the dictionary, we sought out
definitions from the Internet at large.

According to Whatis.com, nerds are people of above-average
intelligence who place little importance on their appearance.
Nerds are often aware of their status, but they don't mind.
In fact, many take pride in the putdown, as it means they're
smart and not wrapped up in superficial worries. Geek is a more
specific term. Back in the day, geeks worked at carnivals, and
(according to the dictionary) "bit the heads off live chickens."
Thankfully, the term now has a different connotation.
Like nerds, geeks are smart, but they tend to focus more on
technology. As Urban Dictionary explains, these are the
people you make fun of in high school and later work for as an adult.

Being called a "dork" is the biggest insult of the three. There's no
way you can spin it into something positive. After all, even the
dictionary writes that dorks are "stupid" people. And to make
matters worse, dorks assume they're cool. Oh, and they smell, too.
So, to sum things up, if someone calls you a geek or a nerd,
thank them. If someone calls you a dork, consider going back to
school and investing in some new deodorant.

Take the Nerd Test- if you dare- here

Badmash TV

Funny Desi videos
Call center newbie
http://badmash.tv/ButterfingerCallCenter/

Aunty G's a Big Bad Mama !
http://badmash.tv/movies.php?v=Aunty

New Low Budget Indian Airline

KERALA AIRLINES

On the menu for your eating pleasure :

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freshly prepared on board by pilot/cook -
seen entering cockpit in picture above -
and served immediately by most charming
flight attendant!

Make your reservations now at 1-800-HOT-DOSA

Sent in by Manvel from Panvel

India by Maciej Dakowicz

Why do non-Indians produce such amazing
galleries of India ?

http://maciekda.smugmug.com/

Nostalgic chain-mail

I got this from a cousin in Minnesota....chain mail
that I actually took the time to read :

I got this from Canada, it is long but cute.
Print a copy and read it at lunchtime. Not all of this was
in my time, but I can relate, can you? A little bit of nostalgia....
you might want to pass on to everyone who is eligible and
also those who are not!

To the wonderful kids who were born in India and
survived the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's.......

First, we survived being born to mothers, some, whose
husbands smoked and /or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate whatever food was put on the table,
and didn't get tested for diabetes. They were mothers who
did not check their blood pressure every few minutes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs and bassinets were
covered with bright coloured lead-based paints. We were put
in prams and sent out with ayahs (maids) to meet other children
with ayahs, whilst our parents were busy. We cried, were
picked up and cuddled by the ayahs" ( maids) and were quiet
again. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or
cabinets, and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets,
not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking or going out on
our own. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts
or airbags. We sat on each other's laps for God's sake.
Riding in the back of a truck or jeep on a warm day was always
a special treat.

We drank water from outdoor taps and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle,
and NO ONE actually died from this.
We would share a dosa, dip a chapatti into someone else's plate
of curry without batting an eyelid. We ate jam sandwiches or
pickle on bread and butter, raw mangoes with salt that set our
teeth on edge, and drank orange squash with sugar and water
in it. We ate at roadside stalls, drank water from tender coconuts,
ate everything that was bad for us from mumfalees to Bhel Puri
to bhajias, puckhas and samosas, but we weren't overweight
because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING! There was
never a child - not one single child -who was obese!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day during the
holidays, we were never ever bored, and we were allowed freedom
all day as long as we were back when the streetlights came on, or
when our parents told us to do so. No one was able to reach us all
day by mobile phone or phone. And we were O.K. We would spend
hours making paper kites, building things out of scraps with old
pram wheels or cycle rims, inventing our own games, playing
traditional games called hide and seek, kick the can and rounders,
ride old cycles and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot
the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to
solve the problem. We swam with an inflated tube which we got from
somebody who was replacing their car tyres, in creeks and rivers.
We ran barefoot without thinking about it, if we got cut we used iodine
which made us jump. We did not wash our hands ten times a day.
And we were OK. Our parents trusted us to go on picnics with
everyone and anyone, a friend of a friend would be OK and we survived.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at
all, no tv, no videos, no surround sound, no mobile phones,
no personal computers, no I-Pods, no internet or internet chat rooms,
BUT WE ALWAYS HAD MUSIC!!

We did not have parents who said things like "what would you like for
breakfast, lunch or dinner". We ate what was put in front of us and best
of all , there were never any leftovers. We polished the lot.
WE HAD FRIENDS, great friends, whose parents we called Uncle and Aunty,
and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees numerous times, got cut, broke bones and teeth
and there were no compensation claims from these accidents.
We ate fruit lying on the ground that we shook down from the tree
above. And we never washed fruit.

We had a bath using a bucket and mug and used Lifebuoy soap.
We did not know what conditioners meant. We made up games with
sticks and tennis balls. We rode bicycles everywhere and someone sat on
the carrier or across the bar to school or the pictures not cinema, or you
walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell,
or just walked in and talked to them!

Not everyone made it into the teams we wanted to. Those who didn't had
to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The idea of a parent
bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of - they actually sided with
the law! This generation of ours has produced some of the best risk-takers,
problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an
explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success
and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If you want to, pass this on to others who have had the luck and good
fortune to grow up as kids in India, before the lawyers and the government
regulated our lives ostensibly for our own good, who changed what was
good into bad and what was bad into worse.

Those were the days, my friend !!