September 02, 2007

Go veggie!! Save earth



Animals raised for food generate more greenhouse gases than all cars and trucks combined according to a report by UN.

Environmental groups released that billboards featuring a cartoon image of Mr. Gore eating a drumstick next to the tagline: “Too Chicken to Go Vegetarian? Meat Is the No. 1 Cause of Global Warming.”
These Billboards are targeted at Algore who fights against global warming, but a non-veggie ..poor chap more on it here

August 29, 2007

Thursday Trivia

I am starting a new series form this Thursday known as Thursday Trivia, will be posting interesting titbit's and trivia I came across in a week. Dear readers, do shoot a mail to praneeth82@gmail.com if u came across anything interesting, for now enjoy this weeks dose


Ram Chandra Agarwal, CMD Vishal Retail started his career in 1985 in a rolling shutter company at Rs 300 a month, next year he opened a 50 sqft garment shop the rest is history

If the per capita consumption is Rs 13 a day, then the individual is above the poverty line, according to Arjun Sengupta report on the Conditions of Work and Promotion of Livelihood in the Unorganized Sector

The only fictional character with a higher degree of recognition than Ronald McDonald is Santa Claus

The British Parliament adopted the first legislative act concerning trademarks in 1266 under the reign of Henry III, and according to that act, every baker had to put his or her mark on the breads that were produced

Ray korc(McDonalds) worked with Walt Disney in World war 1 Red Cross Ambulance Corps, after war Kroc played piano in Chicago Bars and restaurants and sold paper cups

McDonald's franchise owners were trained at McDonald's "Hamburger University" in Elk Grove, Illinois, where a training course led to a "Bachelor in Hamburgerology with a minor in french fries

Cable television, formerly known as Community Antenna Television or CATV, was born in the mountains of Pennsylvania in 1948

ISO is a Greek word, with meaning "equal"

Thomas Edison received his first patent for an electric voting machine.unfortunately, politicians did not want such a machine since they used a delay in the counting of votes to influence the opinions of their colleagues

The Newyork Times cut their costs by $10 million per year by reducing the width of their newspaper by 1.5 inches

August 27, 2007

Why orkut is popular in Brazil

Loren Baker on why Orkut is popular in Brazil:

Orkut sounds like Yakult or 'iogurte' (yogurt). Yakult is the Brazilian version of the popular Japanese Yakult yogurt drink. Everyone drinks it in Brazil when they’re kids. There is a totally unintentional instant association between the words Orkut, Iogurte and Yakut in Brazi

Plagairism

First it was Quizzing Society of DoMS, IIT Madras blogger(he Deleted it now), next a Delhi Lover ripped of every word from my TC Hyderabad review.

I don’t hold any copyrights for content; I don’t mind anybody using it for any purpose as long as they give proper credit.

Google is watching, beware!!

August 26, 2007

first of its kind

The Wispa bar first appeared in 1981 for a trial in the North-East. A rival to Nestle's Aero, it had the slogan "Bite it and believe it".

Cadbury's discontinued Wispa in 2003 and replaced under the name of 'Dairy Milk Bubbly'.

Cadbury's was relaunching Wispa in Oct,2007 after which unusual event?

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Ninja Loans

Named by Mizuho Corporate Bank, ninja loans are syndicated loans arranged in Japan for foreign companies or institutions that are mostly denominated in yen.

The other kind of Ninja loans are given by banks and main cause of sub prime crisis in USA.

Banks have started extending loans to people who have no realistic way of paying back these loans. these category of laons are known as NINJA Laons..wat does Ninja stand for

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August 23, 2007

first SMS

On December 3, 1992, an engineer named Neil Papworth sent the very first SMS with "MERRY CHRISTMAS" on it, to his collegeagues at which company in Great Britain.

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