All Time Famous People in One Package

Can you name all of them? :D

Interesting Aspects of Life Warren Buffet

There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity. Here are some very interesting aspects of his life:

1. He bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late!
2. He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers.
3. He still lives in the same small 3-bedroom house in mid-town Omaha, that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence.
   Very modest, eh? :)
   
4. He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him.
   Well, did someone planning on doing evil thing after reading this? :P
5. He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world’s largest private jet company.
6. His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes only one letter each year to the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis. He has given his CEO’s only two rules. Rule number 1: do not lose any of your share holder’s money. Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number 1.
7. He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His past time after he gets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch Television.
8. Bill Gates, the world’s richest man met him for the first time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had anything in common with Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half hour. But when Gates met him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of Warren Buffet.
9. Warren Buffet does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk..
   Who said we need to invest in high technology?
   

His advice to young people: ‘Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself and Remember:
A. Money doesn’t create man but it is the man who created money.
B. Live your life as simple as you are.
C. Don’t do what others say, just listen them, but do what you feel good.
D. Don’t go on brand name; just wear those things in which u feel comfortable.
E. Don’t waste your money on unnecessary things; just spend on them who really in need rather.
F. After all it’s your life, then why give chance to others to rule our life.’

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Your Sleeping Position and What Does It Says About You

So which one are you? Mine is side sleeper lying in one arm.

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Obama Muslim Faith

This is a recap from an ABC show when Barack Obama slips up on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos and refers to his "muslim faith"

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9/11 Divorce Disaster

This is a piece of a news after the 9/11 tragedy. The man was lucky, but not lucky enough to save his marriage lol... :P And to make it better I'm posting it on the blog, September 11th as well....

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Powerhouse Trailer

If this doesnt make you buy precious metals, I don't know what will :)

an interesting video on the worthless value of the US Dollar, or so people say

PS: thats real money bills, not fake one ;)

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One Stroke

This is done all with one stroke. Take a look at the copyright. Cool isn't it? Starts at the tip of the nose and ended below. Take a closer look by clicking the image.

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How Companies Got Their Names

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Miss Tiffany Thailand 2008

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's Big and Colorful Family

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The Most Beautiful Passport In India - Aishwarya Rai

And the most beautiful passport in India belongs to Aishwarya Rai.

If you don't know who she is, here's a recap:

Aishwarya Rai is an internationally renowned Indian actress. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model, and gained fame after winning the Miss World contest in 1994. Often acclaimed as the most beautiful woman in the world, she also has appeared on several Hollywood movies and the coming up The Pink Panther Deux movie.

No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted

Don't get trick with those magazines.... See how they get all those model looks.

Few Interesting Facts

1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions.
2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
14. Our eyes (Pupils) are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
18. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot .
19. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
20. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
    

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One Hundred and One Reasons to go Vegetarian

People, Land, Air, Water Efficiency, Animals, Health

PEOPLE



1. Every year in the UK we feed our livestock enough food to feed 250,000,000 people while in the world 30,000,000 people die of starvation


2. 20 vegetarians can live off the land required by one meat eater


3. Every 3 seconds a child dies of starvation somewhere in the world


4. If Americans reduced their meat consumption by 10% it would free 12,000,000 tons of grain - enough to feed 60,000,000 people (the population of Great Britain)


5. If all Americans became vegetarian, it would free enough grain to feed 600,000,000 people (the population of India)


6. Intensification in animal farming has displaced 1,000,000's of people from their traditional lands - eg. indigenous people in south & central america, native americans in north america & crofters in Great Britain - this is continuing today


7. People displaced from their lands into cities succumb to dietary deficiency, diseases, parasites & opportunistic diseases


8. In third world countries 1 in 10 babies die before their first birthday


9. The UK imports ?46,000,000 worth of grain from third world countries to feed our livestock


10. Due to overgrazing 850,000,000 people live on land threatened by desertification & over 230,000,000 already live on land so severely desertified that they are unable to sustain their existence & face imminent starvation


11. 1,000,000,000 people in the west gorging on meat & dairy leave 1,000,000,000 to waste away & 3,500,000,000 teeter on the brink
    
    
    

    LAND

    
    


12. If they continue to clear American forests to raise cattle at the present rate, in 50 years there will be none left


13. 1 acre yields 165 lbs of beef or 20,000 lbs of potatoes


14. 8/10 of cultivated land in the UK is used to grow food for animals (14,732,000 hectares)


15. It takes 16lbs of high protein soya to produce 1 lb of beef


16. Since 1945 in the UK we have lost 95% of flower meadows, 50% of ancient woodlands, 40% of heathlands, 50% of wet lands & 224,000 km of hedgerows all due to animal farming


17. Pressure on land due to meat farming leads to soil erosion 6billion tons/year in the USA


18. If everyone went vegetarian upto 90% of land used for animal farming could be taken out of production & used to replant woodlands, leisure activities etc.


19. 25% of Central america's forests have been destroyed for cattle grazing since 1960


20. Between 1966-1983 38% of the Amazon rain forest was destroyed for cattle grazing


21. 90% of cattle ranches established on cleared forest land go bankrupt in less than 8 years as the land becomes barren due to nutrient loss & overgrazing


22. Overgrazing by cattle is destroying the land & increasing desertification, nearly 430 million acres in the USA alone has suffered a 25-50% reduction in yield since first grazed


23. An inch of topsoil takes 200-1000 years to develop - yet in the USA they have lost around 1/3 of their prime topsoil in 200 years (around 7 inches) due to animal farming


24. Land will be lost due to rises in sea level due to global warming due to animal farming
    

    AIR

    
    


25. The destruction of the rainforest by cattle farmers is destroying the lungs of the planet & reducing the worlds capacity to replenish our oxygen supply


26. The 1,300,000,000 cattle in the world emit 60,000,000 tons of methane per year (methane is a greenhouse gas & leads to global warming)


27. Burning of forests, grasslands & agricultural waste associated with animal farming releases 50-100,000,000 tons of methane per year


28. Combining these figures, 25% of methane emissions are due to animal farming (not including the billions of sheep, pigs & poultry so the real figure is much higher)


29. Fertilizer used to grow crops to feed to animals releases nitrous oxide - thought to account for 6% of the greenhouse effect


30. Fertilizer, weedkiller & pesticides sprayed on crops enter the atmosphere creating a noxious carcinogenic cocktail


31. CFCs are released into the air from refrigeration units used to store decomposing flesh (meat), milk & butter - CFCs are destroy the ozone layer


32. Ammonia from animal urine also pollutes the atmosphere


33. CO2 is released by burning oil & petrol in lorries, ships, abattoirs, dairies, factories etc. associated with meat & dairy production


34. Emissions from large chemical plants which produce fertilizer, weedkiller & other agricultural chemicals are also poisoning our air
    
    

    WATER

    
    


35. 25 gallons of water to produce 1lb of wheat & 2500 gallons to produce 1lb of meat


36. UK farm animals produce 200,000,000 tonnes of slurry (liquid excrement) every year, the majority of which ends up in our rivers


37. Bloody waste water from abattoirs ends up in our rivers


38. In the USA every second humans produce 12,000 lbs of effluent while farmed animals produce 250,000 lbs


39. Nitrates & pesticides used on crops grown to feed livestock end up in our rivers


40. Meat & dairy farming uses 70 litres of water per day per animal in the UK or 159,250,000, 000 litres per year in total


41. The water used to produce 10 lbs of steak is equivalent to the average consumption of water for an entire household for an entire year


42. Depletion of groundwater reserves to grow crops for animals & to supply abattoirs will lead to greater water shortages


43. Aquafers (stores of underground water) in the San Joaquin valley in the USA are being drained at the rate of 500,000,000, 000 gallons/year to produce meat


44. 18% of all agricultural land in the world is irrigated & as global warming increases (partly due to animal farming) it will cost $200,000,000 to keep these systems going


45. The water used to produce a 1000 lb beef steer is enough to float a Destroyer battleship


46. The liquid waste from the various parts of the meat & dairy industry flow into the rivers & from there into the seas polluting them & encouraging huge algal blooms to grow
    
    

    EFFICIENCY

    
    


47. To produce 1calorie of energy from meat takes 60 calories of petrol, whereas growing grains & legumes to directly feed people produces 20 calories for each calorie of fuel used ( thats 1200 times more efficient)


48. Meat & dairy farming uses billions of gallons of oil to run tractors, fuel ships & lorries (to move animal feed & animals), pump billions of gallons of water to irrigate fields & run slaughterhouses, power refrigeration units to prevent the corpses from decomposing & to power sewage plants to clean up some of the pollution produced


49. Cattle convert only 6% of their energy intake (mainly grains & soya) into flesh, the remaining 94% is wasted as heat, movement (which is why they keep many animals in very close confinement) , hair, bones, faeces etc


50. 1lb of beef takes 1 gallon of petrol to produce


51. A family of four eating beef for a year uses enough petrol to run a car for 6 months (obviously depending on how far you drive!)


52. If the full ecological cost of meat was passed onto the consumer - the price would be quadrupled (at least)


53. The EC spends ?100,000,000' s to subsidise animal production resulting in lakes of unwanted milk & mountains of unwanted meat & butter. This money could be better spent encouraging organic fruit, vegetable & grain production


54. In the USA in 1979 145,000,000 tons of crops were fed to cattle resulting in only 21million tons of animal bodies - the cost of the wasted crops was $20,000,000, 000


55. Between 1950 & 1985 grain production in Europe & the USA increased massively but 2/3 was fed to animals


56. 70% of all grain is fed to animals


57. Eating vast quantities of animal flesh, eggs, milk & butter is a luxury that most of the planet can not afford
    
    

    ANIMALS

    
    


58. Fishing with drift (and other modern) nets weakens & destroys ecosystems by indiscriminately killing billions of sea creatures & disrupting the sea bed


59. Fishermen's nets kill 10 times as many other animals as the fish they are hoping to catch


60. Fish caught in nets die an agonising slow death of suffocation


61. Each year 15,000,000,000 land animals are slaughtered for food & an unknown but much larger number of sea creatures (including 1000's of dolphins caught accidentally)


62. Chickens are crammed into battery cages with upto 3 other birds, they are unable to even spread their wings & many can not even stand up


63. Unwanted male chicks (because they can't lay eggs) are gassed or pulped while their sisters go to the battery sheds


64. Chicks are debeaked without anaesthetic to prevent them injuring each other in the unnaturally confined conditions they are kept in - this is equivalent to having your fingernails pulled out without anaesthetic


65. Modern farming methods using growth hormones & artificial lighting mean that many chickens out grow their bones, resulting in fractured & broken legs


66. Sows are kept tethered in stalls 1.3 x 1 metre on concrete or slatted floors - they can not even turn around


67. Poultry raised for meat are kept in windowless broiler sheds, with around 20-30,000 in each shed, they live in an area of 10-20 cm square - fighting due to overcrowding is common & like battery hens they commonly suffer from supperating bed sores


68. Broilersheds are artificially lit 23 hours a day to produce rapid growth


69. Animals travel between farms & to slaughter in overcrowded transporters with no food or water - resulting in stress, injuries & deaths - legal requirements are widely ignored


70. 95% of poultry suffer injuries before being killed & 30% suffer broken bones


71. Problems with stunning practices mean that many animals have their throats slit while still conscious (around 6% of cattle or 200,000 per year) & are then dipped in tanks of scalding water (to loosen feathers, bristles etc.) again while fully conscious


72. 4000 animals die spurting their blood out every minute in a British slaughterhouse


73. Calf leather comes from animals killed at just 2 weeks old


74. Cows were fed on the ground up remains of other cows & sheep - the result is thought to be BSE (mad cow disease) in the USA cattle are fed partly on recycled plastic pellets


75. Cows only give milk for 10 months after they have a calf - so they are routinely artificially inseminated (ie. mechanically raped) to keep them pregnant & milking - their calves are taken away (usually at 12 hours old) for meat or export to veal crates


76. Cows would naturally live upto 20 years but are slaughtered after 5-7 years when their milk production begins to fall


77. In the UK animals are killed by first being stunned with electricity or a captive bolt gun (ie. a bolt is fired into their heads) before having their throats slit & being plunged into boiling water - all this happens on a production line with the animals being hung upside down from a moving conveyor belt - this is factory farming


78. "Animals are those unfortunate slaves & victims of the most brutal part of mankind" - John Stewart Mill (philosopher)


79. Veal calves are confined in stalls in the dark, unable to move & are fed on pigs blood , chocolate & dried milk (we are drinking the rich fresh milk of their mothers)


80. Cows naturally produce 5 litres of milk per day for their calves - under the intensified systems of modern farming they produce 25-40 litres per day - resulting in swollen & inflamed udders - at this rate they are soon worn out


81. Large areas of land are under monoculture to grow crops to feed to animals - these areas are wildlife deserts supporting fewer & fewer species.
    
    

    HEALTH

    
    


82. Vegetarians have a 20% lower rate of mortality from all causes (ie. they live longer & don't get sick as often)


83. Meat is full of traces of antibiotics, hormones, toxins produced by stress & pesticide residues that become concentrated from all the crops they have eaten


84. Fish contain heavy metals & other pollutants -many of which originated on farms


85. The world health organisation recommends a diet low in saturated fat, sugar, salt & with plenty of fibre - exactly what you get on a vegan/vegetarian diet


86. Farmed animals contain upto 50% saturated fat in their bodies


87. Vegetarians have 24% reduced risk of getting heart disease & Vegans a 57% reduction (heart disease is the biggest killer in the UK accounting for 50% of deaths)


88. Obesity is rare in vegetarians, obesity is related to many diseases


89. Vegans & vegetarians have lower blood pressure & cholesterol levels - high levels are associated with heart disease, strokes & kidney failure


90. Vegetarians have a 50% reduced risk of dying of diabetes


91. Vegetarians have a 40% reduced level of cancer than the general population thought to be because they have a higher intake of vitamins A,C & E


92. Vegetarians have a reduced risk of developing gall & kidney stones


93. 80% of food poisoning is due to infected meat (faeces, bacteria etc.) after all meat is decomposing flesh - most of the rest is due to salmonella in eggs


94. Osteoporosis due to calcium loss from bones is mainly due to the sulphur content in meat & casein protein in milk that cause calcium to be lost in the urine - the countries with the highest meat & dairy consumption are those with the highest levels of brittle bones


95. 50% of people do not have the enzyme to digest milk properly & milk allergy is related to asthma & eczema


96. Meat eaters have double the rate of Alzheimers disease as Vegans & Vegetarians - some people also think that Parkinsons disease is also linked to meat eating


97. Egg yolk is a dense concentration of saturated fat & the white is high in albumin protein associated with leaching calcium into your urine. Butter is 80% saturated fat, cream is 40% saturated fat & cheese is 25-40% saturated fat


98. Meat eaters are two and a half times more likely to get bowel cancer than Vegetarians


99. The cling film used to wrap meat in supermarkets & butchers contains chemicals linked to falling sperm counts in men


100. Chinese people (living mainly on a vegetarian diet) consume 20% more calories than Americans but Americans are 20% fatter


101. Of 2,100,000 deaths in the USA in 1987, 1,500,000 were related to diet (ie. meat & dairy)

AND ONE COULD GO ON !

If you've read this far, I hope that you are beginning to see that the Meat & Dairy industry is a major contributor to misery on this planet. It is destroying the health of people in rich countries, starving those in poor countries, it is torturing & killing billions of animals every year and in the meantime it is one of the major factors in the destruction of the environment - so what does the meat & dairy industry have to say in it's defence?

Well their only real point is usually "Meat is tasty" - fair enough a lot of people enjoy the taste of meat - but there are plenty of delicious alternatives (just consider the huge range of vegetarian dishes in Indian cooking - one of the oldest & most sophisticated cuisines in the world) and if you really crave meat & dairy, nowadays there are plenty of healthy non animal alternatives - just look in the supermarket & health food shop. So I hope you will agree it's pretty pathetic to consider all the evidence & then say "well I know you're right about the environment & health & the animals - but I just love my meat"

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Behind Microsoft Bid On Yahoo

Ten days later, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was reading the CIO Magazine, and read about this interesting thing called PHP, that according to the author you could use to write "WHAT?!". "WHAT?!", obviously a highly advanced and evolved version of "Hello World", caught his attention. So he called Bill Gates.

Steve: "Hey, you heard about this PHP thing?"
Bill: "Pee Age Pee? You're not that old yet, are you?"
Steve: "What? No, wait, it's a programming language, apparently better than ASP.NET."
Bill: "Who cares if it's better. I mean; we made the worst operating systems ever and still rule. (Checked out Leopard yet? It is SO cool.)"
Steve: "I don't know Bill... remember that internet thing that we didn't know about years ago? Kind of nearly missed the boat there."
Bill: "Right. Didn't we solve that in the same way? Worst browser, highest market share, that sort of thing?"
Steve: "Yes we did, but then we also didn't know about this 'mp3' thing until it was too late."
Bill: "We did manage to make Zune the worst player, but somehow we're not market leader. Guess we got sloppy?"
Steve: "Maybe it's just different times. Maybe we should have a different strategy."
Bill: "Ok, so let's just buy PHP then."
Steve: "It's not a company. But Encarta says it's written by a Rasmus Lerdorf."
Bill: "So let's hire him."
Steve: "Tried that. Didn't want to join. Can't blame him, works at Yahoo."
Bill: "Then I guess we'll have to buy Yahoo."



So it happened.

Two of the most controversial announcements of this month, and both appear to be part of devious plots to take over the LAMP stack. What's next? My prediction: Red-Hat buys Zend; Oracle buys Red-Hat; Sun and IBM join forces to buy Oracle, Microsoft buys Sun, kills IBM and peace is restored in the galaxy.

P.S. Can you imagine Microsoft running sites like Flickr? These guys invented MS Paint!

Behind Sun Microsystem Buy MySQL

So one day, Scott McNealy, founder and chairman of Sun, read in his morning newspaper how the use of Java was rapidly diminishing, courtesy of something called 'The LAMP Stack'. Furiously, he called his accountant.


Scott: "I knew this Java thing was a bad idea in the first place! I see only one solution. We need to buy this Lamp!"
Accountant: "Euh, LAMP is not a company. It's an acronym. It's Linux , Apache, MySQL and PHP"
Scott: "Then buy me Linux!"
Accountant: "But we still have this Solaris thing.."
Scott: "Then buy me Apache!"
Accountant: "That's a foundation. Nothing to buy there."
Scott: "Then buy me MySQL!"

Accountant: "We don't do databases."
Scott: "It's a database?"
Accountant: "What rock have you been living under?"
Scott: "Sweet. I can own the Lamp AND piss off Oracle at the same time!" (waves fake plastic magic wand) "Make it so!"



And so it happened.

What Man and Woman Really Think with Their Brains

A man's brain


A woman's brain

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Animal Hand Paintings

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If You Are Seventy Years Old

If you were to live Seventy years perhaps you would spend:

24 years sleeping

14 years working

8 years in amusement

6 years at the dinner table

5 years in transportation

4 years in conversation

3 years in education

3 years reading

3 years watching television


So If you went to a place of worship every Sunday
and prayed 5 minutes every morning and night,
you would be giving Almighty Lord 5 months of your life.


So what is wrong in giving 5 months out of 70 years to the Lord
who gave you a full 70 years anyway?

Condom Fashion Show In China 2

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