kareena kapur- new size packed gal...

She came. She saw. She turned Size Zero. She conquered. Yes, we are talking about our very own Bebo, who grabbed eyeballs with her ''Size Zero'' in TASHAN. Her hot bod made headlines in the media, bought her hours of air time, and created waves on the radio. While some gave tips on how to sculpt that much coveted body, others pointed out the health hazards associated with the ''Zero'' flu! But this borrowing from the global fashion industry was here to stay and how! Many B-Town babes followed suite to keep up with Bebo's new style statement. For all the men who waited in anticipation to check her out in a lime green bikini, the wait was....worth it? Hmmmmm...we are still trying to figure!

So what is this ''Size Zero'' craze all about? In layman's language, it is a women's clothing size in the US Catalog size system, to fit measurements of anywhere from 30-22-32 to 33-25-35. But Bollywood has given this concept its own colour. A sleek body, washboard abs, celebrating the absence of those sensuous curves which typically make many a men gasp for breathe on seeing those garam thumkas! While Bebo looked sweltering hot in her brand new avtaar, did the boys in the house go yeah????

Those in favour of this fad in Bollywood argue that skinny is attractive, and this global phenomenon is a great way to grab attention by moving away from the stereotype definition of a bombshell. This concept seems to have brought into Bollywood a breathe of fresh air, redefining a Sex Symbol. It seems to be riding on the mantra, ''If you have it, flaunt it'', giving a renewed sense of confidence to our heroines. Having said this, when talking about our global celebs, Victoria Beckham has been touted by the Indian media as being ''painfully thin'', Beyonce's well rounded butt still has many takers with Kate Winslet's voluptuous figure being a favourite male fantasy. There are many Indian men who still swear by plunging necklines and the orgasmic rush of a peek-a-boo! They can go to any length to preserve this definition of a true diva, who always has ''more'' to show.

Many actresses too have brought out their weapons stating that Indian men would not like to have a size zero woman by their side, and like women to be yummy. Metrosexual men have gone on record to say that size zero is a turn off and that this perfection that women like to personify can be quite intimidating at times. The babe's obsessive streak could be enticing in a fling, but could wreck havoc in an emotional link-up. While size zero can make a woman's body flat, what about her attractive assets?? So while the ladies can slog it out to achieve the enviable stats, are those who they do it for watching in delight? The Big Size Zero Debate still continues...

India launches Bhuvan, rival to Google Earth

India has launched a rival to Google Earth, the search engine's hugely popular satellite imagery service.

The online tool, dubbed Bhuvan (Sanskrit for Earth), has been developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro). Its debut comes as India redoubles its efforts to reap profits from its 45-year-old

state-sponsored space programme, criticised by some as a drain on a country where 700 million people live on $US2 a day or less.

The new site also follows in the slipstream of the country's first moon probe, Chandrayaan-1, which successfully reached the lunar surface last November.

Bhuvan uses a network of Indian satellites to create a high-resolution, birds-eye view of India that is accessible at no cost online and will compete with Google Earth.

The service has been specially designed to run smoothly on the low bandwidth internet connections that most Indian web users have to make do with. Even so, attempts by me to access yesterday morning failed - possibly because of a flood of

users eager to test the site.

The data gleaned by the state-sponsored project will be available to India's civil service to help with urban planning, traffic management and water and crop monitoring.

Speaking last year, G. Madhavan Nair, the Isro chairman, said: "This will not be a mere browser, but the mechanism for providing satellite images and thematic maps for developmental planning."

There could also be commercial spin-offs. Experts believe that Google Earth is being built as a platform for advertising that could be worth billions, and that Bhuvan will also address one of the issues taxing the web's biggest companies: how to engage

users amid the mass of digital detritus that has accumulated on the internet.

Alex Burmaster, of Nielsen, the web analysts, said: "The amount of time that people spend online is reaching a plateaux and websites are battling furiously for attention. Anything that relates to where a person is, saves a user time, and makes the web more relevant - especially geographically - is big news."

However, mapping the shifting contours of the subcontinent may prove particularly difficult. One big challenge for Bhuvan will be keeping up to date with the explosive growth of India's cities.

A report by Gartner, the technology analysts, gave warning of the risk of relying on the "outdated information" used by Google Earth, which is now four years old and has been downloaded some 400 million times.

India's scientists may also be mindful that theirs is not the first country to take on the might of Google.

In 2005, a French plan to create a Eurocentric search engine to defend against the "Anglo-American domination of the net", part of a €2 billion raft of technological grand projets, fizzled without trace.

Undeterred, a year later France unveiled Géoportail, its own answer to Google Earth.

At the time, Jacques Chirac, the then French President, said: "We're engaged in a global competition for technological supremacy ... It's time to go on the offensive." Bloggers quickly labelled the venture "another mind-numbingly stupid boondoggle". Little has been heard of it since.

New Google Chrome beta is “30 percent faster”

Google has unleashed a brand new beta edition of its Google Chrome web browser, promising a speed hike of over 30 percent. Whoa!

The supercharged performance isn’t the only reason to grab the new beta: the Google Chrome blog also promises improvements to the New Tab page and Omnibox. For instance, the New Tab page now allows you to move websites in and out of your Most Visited slot by clicking and dragging.

The Omnibox (which combines URL entry, search and more) now has a better drop-down menu, with new icons added to distinguish between searches, bookmarks, sites from your browsing history and suggested sites.

Lastly, Google Chrome now has themes, allowing you to customise the browser’s look.

If you want to try it out yourself head over to the Google Chrome beta download page. It’s currently only available for machines running Windows Vista or XP SP2+.

Qualify Yourself as a software Engineer....

Whoever claims to be a Software Guru try solving the puzzle given below.Write down the answers in a paper and then post ur answers as comments.: NO CHEATING.

This is a rapid fire test.

You will be allowed 5 minutes to complete the test of 10 simple questions.. Ur time starts now. NO CHEATING!!!!!!

1) Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?

2)If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long would it be before all the pills had been taken?

3) I went to bed at eight o'clock in the evening and wound up my clock and set the alarm to sound at nine o'clock in the morning. How many hours sleep would I get before being awakened by

the alarm?

4) Divide 30 by half and add ten. What do you get?

5) A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many live sheep were left?

6) If you had only one match and entered a COLD and DARK room, where there was an oil heater, n oil lamp and a candle. Which would you light first?

7) A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular construction, each side having a southern exposure. A big bear comes along. What color is the bear?

8) Take 2 apples from 3 apples. What do you have?

9)How many animals of each species did Moses take with him in the Ark?

10) If you drove a bus with 43 people on board from Chicago and stopped at Pittsburg to pick up 7 more people and drop off 5 passengers and at Cleveland to drop off 8 passengers and pick up 4

more and eventually arrive at Philadelphia 20 hours later, what's the name of the driver?

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SMILE IS A CURVE THAT CAN SET A LOT OF THINGS STRAIGHT.

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Try these & check ur english slang......

Tongue Twisters

Peter bought a butter,
The butter Peter bought was bitter,
So Peter Bought A better butter,
To make the bitter butter better.

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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
and chuck as much wood as a wood chuck would
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

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Which witch wished which wicked wish?

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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

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She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

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A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
Said the flea, "Let us fly!"
Said the fly, "Let us flee!"
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

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Betty Botter had some butter,
But, she said, "this butter's bitter.
If I bake this bitter butter, it would make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter that would make my batter better.
So she bought a bit of butter,
better than her bitter butter,
And she baked it in her batter,
and the batter was not bitter.
So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.

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A big black bug bit a big black bear,
made the big black bear bleed blood.

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Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.

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A bitter biting bittern Bit a better brother bittern,
And the bitter better bittern Bit the bitter biter back.
And the bitter bittern, bitten, By the better bitten bittern,
Said: "I'm a bitter biter bit, alack!"

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Mr. See owned a saw.
And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw
Before Soar saw See,
Which made Soar sore.
Had Soar seen See's saw before See sawed Soar's seesaw,
See's saw would not have sawed Soar's seesaw.
So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.
But it was sad to see Soar so sore
Just because See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw!

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Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;
sheep should sleep in a sack.