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Day before yesterday was my cousin’s wedding, everything went great. The part I liked most, I was chatting with him that evening and found out that he had 500GB ext. HardDisk (HDD), almost filled with movies. This was something I loved, considering the fact that I am watching 1-2 movies everyday from Oct ‘07.

Well, the reason for this post, One of the movie from the collection “The Gods must be Crazy“, made me realize the fact that there can really be names with a click in it. (You can download this sound sample of the “click” I am talking about.) . I didn’t actually believe when Russel Peters said this in one of his shows.

There actor was this actor in the movie who plays a African bushman (Tribe people / Aadiwasi), who does not know the modern world or man, called Xi whose actual name is “N!xau”. Now, many of you might wonder what the exclamation mark doing there. Well, its the click I was talking about.

The exclamation mark in his name is a symbol for a click consonant in his native tongue, Ju|’hoan. The spelling of his full name Gcao Coma suggests that it is a voiced dental click. The dental clicks are a family of click consonants found, as constituents of words, only in Africa and in the Damin ritual jargon of Australia.

Interesting eh ? If so, you should watch movie. Its about a bushman “Xi” who starts his quest to throw the evil thing (a coke bottle) of the edge of the world and encounters Western civilization for the first time. The film presents an interesting interpretation of civilization as viewed through Xi’s perceptions.

Yahoo! recently announced a program called Smart Ads.

Yahoo!’s New “SmartAds” Meld Brand and Direct Response Advertising
Innovative, Patent-Pending Ad Delivery Platform Allows Marketers to Present Highly Targeted Online Display Ads in Real Time to Match a User’s Distinctive, Expressed Interests

That is, the ads will be more relevant to the content of website, know where is the visitor from etc.

Well, recently steve baldwin came across something interesting ..

You might have seen the popular Mac vs PC ads. Well, here’s a Funny commercial from the South Park Fans, in South Park Style .

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एक वीशेष सूचना ………. अगर आप बस, रेल या कही से भी आ जा रहे हो और किसी लडकी के हाथ मे फूल, धागा, चैन या ऐसी ही कोई चमकती वस्तू नज़र आये तो आप तुरन्त वहा से दूर हो जाये। ये चमकती वस्तु ऱाखी भी हो सक्ती है. आपकी थोडी सी लापरवाही आपको भाई बना सक्ती है। पुरुष हित् मे जारी ।

Jeba sent me this via IM .

Happy Rakshabandhan !, I have 12 on my hands

Here’s a funny prank, played by someone who is perhaps annoyed by the ads especially of Google adsense. j-walk.com’s Google Content Blocker, which blocks all the content but the ads.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s advertising for maximum exposure to Web users. Unfortunately, annoying Web content often overwhelms the page, causing many users to become distracted and overlook the ads.

That’s where Google Content Blocker comes in. It effectively blocks all Web site content, leaving only the advertisements.

lol

Birdflu is the recent big thing , but I feel the media has BROADcasted it a bit more. Right now it’s getting blown out of proportion. All the human tests here have proved negative though as Grace says, we can’t even have a descent meal.

India found no human infection of bird flu as all 95 human blood samples tested negative for the disease in India, local media reported Saturday.

Well the funny thing I saw about this on the web is that, at namepros lot of domainers are buying domains related to birdflu that are so silly , worth a laugh … but they might feel offended if I mention it here :p .