The Amazing Folding Chair

I'd like a couple of these, please!
Found the link to this video at Boing Boing

George Carlin's New Rules for 2006

New Rule: Stop giving me that pop-up ad for
Classmates.com! There's a reason you don't talk
to people for 25 years. Because you don't particularly
like them! Besides, I already know what the captain
of the football team is doing these days:
mowing my lawn.

New Rule: Stop saying that teenage boys who have
sex with their hot, blonde teachers are permanently
damaged. I have a better description for these kids:
lucky bastards.

New Rule: If you need to shave and you still collect
Baseball cards, you're gay. If you're a kid, the cards
are keepsakes of your idols. If you're a grown man,
they're pictures of men.

New Rule: Ladies, leave your eyebrows alone.
Here's how much men care about your eyebrows:
Do you have two of them? Okay, we're done.

New Rule: There's no such thing as flavored water.
There's a whole aisle of this crap at the supermarket?
Water, but without that watery taste. Sorry, but flavored
water is called a soft drink. You want flavored water?
Pour some Jack Daniels over ice and let it melt.
That's your flavored water.

New Rule: Stop f***ing with old people. Target is
introducing a redesigned pill bottle that's square,
with a bigger label. And the top is now the bottom.
And by the time Grandpa figures out how to open it,
his ass will be in the morgue. Congratulations, Target,
you just solved the Social Security crisis.

New Rule: The more complicated the Starbucks order,
the bigger the a****le. If you walk into a Starbucks and
order a "Decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla,
double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice,
with one Sweet-n'-Low and one NutraSweet," oh oh,
you're a huge a*****le !

Now, that's Globalization !!!!

Just something I read on the net.....

Question: What is the height of Globalization?

Answer: Princess Diana’s death

Question: How come?

Answer: An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend
in a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian
who was high on Scotch whiskey, is followed closely by
Italian Paparazzi on Japanese motorcycles, and crashes in
a French tunnel, is treated by an American doctor using
Brazilian medicines!

Furthermore, this is sent to you by an Indian, using Bill Gates'
technology stolen from the Japanese. And - you are probably
reading this on a Korean-made monitor plugged into an IBM
clone that uses Taiwanese-made chips assembled by Bangladeshi
workers in a Singapore plant, transported in lorries driven by
Pakistanis, hijacked by Indonesians and finally sold to you by
the Chinese!

Now, that's Globalization !!!!

Nursebots !

Overworked nurses, take heart : help is on the way

I saw an early 'bot', actually an 'orderly bot' in action at
a hospital in Denville New Jersey about 12 years ago
and as it glided (glid ? glade? glode?) by we stuck
a greasy bag of store-bought Samosas (an Indian snack)
on it to deliver to the patient we were visiting.
Just one of the many fun things you can do when these
nursebots start showing up in hospitals.......

Hamburg: Prototype robot nurses could be bustling
around hospital wards in as little as three years,
according to scientists in Germany who have developed
ground-breaking software.

The mechanised "nursebots" being developed by the
EU-funded scientists will perform basic tasks such as
mopping up spillages, taking messages and guiding
visitors to hospital beds.

They could also distribute medicines and even monitor
the temperature of patients remotely with laser thermometers.

Link to article from IBN Live

The Simple Life at the World Bank

(AP Photo/Nadir Alp/Anatolia)

Nothing to laugh at here I guess, if you are
busy traveling like World Bank President
Paul Wolfowitz, seen here as he leaves from
the Ottoman era Selimiye mosque in Edirne,
western Turkey, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007.
Wolfowitz was in Turkey for a two-day official visit.

The last World Bank annual report, for 2006,
puts the president's salary as of 1 July, 2005,
at $391,440 (£200,279).

Blank Noise update

[Blank Noise Project]
March 8: Blank Noise Action Heroes-Call for Submissions

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:39:01 AM
From: jasmeen patheja

Hello,

Last year just before March 8, International Women's Day,
Blank Noise set up a blog-a-thon , linking all of you and
many other readers not on our mailing list, to each other
through a particularly sensitive and private subject -
the re-telling of experiences of street sexual harassment.
We thought the solidarity in numbers, the anonymity the
Internet offers and the significance of the day itself might
allow some people to tell stories they had never told before.
We expected some thoughtful stories, some provocative ones,
some that would disturb and stay with us, perhaps forever.

But we did not expect over 240 deeply personal testimonials
to come rushing out. We did not expect 131 comments on a
single post. We did not expect the media to pick it up the way
they did, with coverage ranging from regional to international.

This March 8, we're hoping to take the journey begun last year
one step forward. We've heard each other's testimonials, now
let's share each other's actions. On March 8, 2007, Blank Noise
launches an Action Heroes website, which collects no 'victim'
testimonials, no stories of bit-back hurt, no stories of
indifferent onlookers.

This archives and builds your testimonials of a situation where
you emerged as the hero! This space will launch with the
stories of action plans. Give us your strategies.
Your interventions. The time when you subverted a situation,
flipped it on its head and gave the 'perpetrator' no chance but
to stop what he was doing. Give us your success story. Tell us
which action hero you are. We will post strategies and
interventions from eight countries up on our brand new
space on International Women's Day.

We're also looking for volunteers to help on this project:

Please email us if you can think you can help out: this is a
two-month project only and we could do with all hands on
board! Especially with reaching out to people who might not be
on the Internet or able to write....

We will have lots more details for you when you email
blurtblanknoise@gmail.com , the words
"march 8 volunteer" in the subject line.

And of course, start writing straight away!**

Hope to hear back soon!
The Blank Noise team
--
BLANK NOISE PROJECT

Ph:+ 91 98734 85284 (In Delhi)

+ 91 98868 40612 (Bangalore)

www.blanknoiseproject.blogspot.com

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**A sample piece along with guidelines
is available in PDF format
e-mail: frdmilltx (at) yahoo (dot) com

The People have spoken, Big Brother

Here is the outcome of the Shilpa Shetty uproar
on the UK Reality show Big Brother as reported
by CNN. Guess who won.

Prince at Super Bowl XLI

Prince has sold nearly 100 million albums
and is a member of The Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame. He has won six Grammys
(he's one of the leading nominees this
year with five Grammy nominations)
and five American Music Awards.

The Super Bowl is annually America's highest
rated TV program. More than 141 million viewers
watched last year's game in the U.S.
Super Bowl XLI will be broadcast to a potential
worldwide audience of 1 billion in more than
230 countries and territories.

Read about The Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show

Previous Virtual Poona Football-related post

Bollywood Hits Comedy Central Pt. 2

Previously on Virtual Poona we learned of the
Amitabh-Shahrukh Khan dance-off as
presented by Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central
LINK

Here is the equally funny follow-up via You Tube

Wise Beyond His Years

I must admit I care little about Football, the great
American pastime. If I do watch the Superbowl
Halftime show it's for the prospect of seeing who's
on the star-studded Entertainment line-up and
in the TV commercials which cost in the millions for
a 15-second spot. But this item from Yahoo caught
my eye .....

College at 16. Degree in 3 1/2 years.
Job interviews with several companies and
an NFL prospect?
» Who is he?

Read
http://www.yahoo.com/s/493147