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i went out looking for a BillBoard Top 10 CD but couldnt find one. Does anyone have a clue if these things are still available?

Infographics are something that have always had me deeply interested.

Information graphics or infographics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics are used where complex information needs to be explained quickly and clearly[1], such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. They are also used extensively as tools by computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians to ease the process of developing and communicating conceptual information.

Some of my personal favourites come from WIRED magazine.
here's one illustrating a Denial of Service attack:
Headlines as Tag Clouds there are soooo many more...

nice infographics, ek kanya. WIRED is my personal favourite too for print graphics. here's a coffee and a brownie with chocolate sauce for you. that should be some 800 calories?

thanks param!
i found this tool to make my own Fonts! what fun!

Ek Kanya wrote: Infographics are something that have always had me deeply interested.

Since you like Infographics, this might interest you !!!
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01 ... ographics/

How does one convert URLs into a link on the forum?

thanks for the link pixelfiesta

to add a url to a link, just select the word, then click on the URL tab above. then paster the url like this

[url=http:••www.example.com]this is linked[/url]

picked up an issue of a magazine and was quiet taken aback by whats happening to China, I mean in a good way. I always knew it was one of the world's fastest growing economy, but never knew it looked like a modern day or rather futuristic city full of some of the tallest skyscrapers and amazing buildings. Am doing some searcching for Shanghai and will post some pictures of architecture, art and cuisine etc. enjoy.



Shanghai 'traditional' market and modern housing
(from Tom Spender's photostream on flickr)

Shanghai Pudong Architecture

(from kexi's flickr stream)

Shanghai SWFC at night

The Shanghai World Financial Center is currently the tallest building in Shanghai. Located at the Century Avenue in Pudong. Construction completed in 2008.
(from cnmark's flickr stream)

Some utterly delicious places to eat thanks toNew York Times

and more as i keep digging...

Its dinner time and am cooking Basil Chicken with croc and mantis. Read the recipe from an email from my friend R in US...

Will post the recipe if I am able to make something nice of it... See ya till then...

oh! I forgot to mention! Yesterday I went to a pub and had rice and curry! Ate with my fingers! Then i asked for the finger bowl, and the rather annoyed waiter reminded me it was a pub, so I would have to use the washbasin!

(the basil chicken didnt turn out to be that exciting so i am not mentioning anything more about it)

have been down with the flu. will write soon sniff...

ok i am back!

and just for the folk here, who are probably not aware that the ever hot Lisa Ray did a movie called "Kill Kill Faster Faster" somewhere in the US, I think. Posting some footage from the movie!

have a good morning

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I have decided to stop buying bottled water. I am buying a good food grade quality water bottle and carry my water from my home water purifier and or from the one at work.

BOTTLED WATER IS WORLDWIDE A 46 BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY

Ounce for ounce, it costs more than gasoline, even at today's high gasoline prices; depending on the brand, it costs 250 to 10,000 times more than tap water.

Why has bottled water become so popular?
It cannot be the taste, since most people cannot tell the difference in a blind tasting. Much bottled water is, in any case, derived from municipal water supplies, though it is sometimes filtered, or has additional minerals added to it.

Nor is there any health or nutritional benefit to drinking bottled water over tap water. In one study, published in The Archives of Family Medicine, researchers compared bottled water with tap water from Cleveland, and found that nearly a quarter of the samples of bottled water had significantly higher levels of bacteria. The scientists concluded that "use of bottled water on the assumption of purity can be misguided." Another study carried out at the University of Geneva found that bottled water was no better from a nutritional point of view than ordinary tap water.

from here

Admittedly, both kinds of water suffer from occasional contamination problems, but tap water is more stringently monitored and tightly regulated than bottled water. New York City tap water, for example, was tested 430,600 times during 2004 alone

Clean water could be provided to everyone on earth for an outlay of $1.7 billion a year beyond current spending on water projects, according to the International Water Management Institute. Improving sanitation, which is just as important, would cost a further $9.3 billion per year. This is less than a quarter of global annual spending on bottled water.

Some water treatment experts recommend not refilling bottled water containers with fresh water from the tap. The plastic bottles may leach toxic chemicals into the water as they degrade, which only becomes more problematic as the bottles become older. Fresh drinking water should be kept in glass or more permanent plastic containers, not in disposable plastic bottles.

from here

"In addition to the strains bottled water puts on our ecosystem through its production and transport, the rapid growth in this industry means that water extraction is concentrated in communities where bottling plants are located," says the Earth Policy Institute Report.

"In India, for example, water extraction by Coca Cola for Dasani bottled water and other drinks has caused water shortages for over 50 villages.

from here

whoa! interesting! all of it! logging in after some time so am reading it all together. skirt. u should go for a skirt (in response to something somewhere above).

thanks kikikikikiki... thanks for the appreciation. you write well too. hope you start writing soon.


heres somethjing for the design geeks. Peugeot Metromorph. The idea is that real estate for parking will be scarce in the future, so the Metromorph will go vertical up the side of your building and park outside your apartment, at which point it becomes a balcony. With space for two, the Metromorph features seats held by rotating arms to keep them vertical regardless of the car's orientation. Two in-wheel electric motors housed in the rear wheels motivate this balcony-on-wheels, while two giant doors will slide up and over the vehicle to allow entry and exit. Is this what the future holds for urban dwellers? Time, and the movies, will tell.

woah!! that's one balcony where i would luv to sip some coffee...

yeah anirudh1986. this one is really cool. people are really think hard on what next to do. How's your job hunting going?
check the jobs section of desicreative. lots of jobs have been posted.

Last night I shot my hands and traced them. Theres a surrealistic feel to it.