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Google Calendar and contact syncing for iPhone and Windows Mobile devices

Google just announced a new service for pushing Gmail contacts and Google Calendar updates to mobile devices. This is neat!
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Knowledge Gap of How We ‘Fit In’ is Greatest Threat to Environment

The article does a much better job of describing one of the great questions facing humanity - ‘How do we fit in?’ Maybe we need to ask native cultures around the world the answer to this mystery. Anyway here is the article from Treehugger.
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Help Gaurav

Vaibhav sent me this today, please donate any amount however small
Thanks,
Sayan
www.helpgaurav.com/
Gaurav Tandon is a 34 year old professional working with Datacraft Asia (a private IT firm) in Mumbai, India. His small family comprises wife, a 6 year old son. He has two elder sisters both are happily married and a brother who is serving [...]

God is a DJ !

This is an amazing video by Faithless.

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TED Talks- Matthieu Ricard: Habits of happiness

What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Buddhist monk, photographer and author Matthieu Ricard has devoted his life to these questions, and his answer is influenced by his faith as well as by his scientific turn of mind: We can train our minds in habits of happiness. Interwoven with his talk are [...]

Cyclone in Bangladesh

The cyclone Sidr narrowly missed hitting India directly and instead hit Bangladesh causing widespread devastation. I encourage you all to donate to help alleviate the suffering of one of the poorest countries of the world. Coastal Bangladesh is bearing the brunt of environmental disasters - rising sea levels will make it worse. I support Direct [...]

Rising from the deep: Hydrogen economy

All the major petro-companies are pushing for the hydrogen economy as a replacement for fossil fuels….some argue that this would allow them to keep their existing monopoly on transportation fuel.
My gut feeling is this an over-simplification. I came across the concept of ‘deep hydrogen reserves’ sometime ago. Apparently the Kola Superdeep Borehole, the deepest [...]

Windbelt, Cheap Generator Alternative, Set to Power Third World

The article here and its accompanying video describe this invention as, “…a taut membrane fitted with a pair of magnets that oscillate between metal coils. Prototypes have generated 40 milliwatts in 10-mph slivers of wind, making his device 10 to 30 times as efficient as the best microturbines…”

Rumi: Poems on and about the beyond…

The mystical poems of the 13th century Persian poet Rumi have made him one of the best known poets of our times. UNESCO has declared 2007 as the International Year of Rumi.
Here are couple of video recitations of his poems…

Here a few more Rumi videos from Youtube (I will keep adding more as I find […]

Sitar at the subway station

Watching this video today morning made my day…hopefully it will make yours too! its such an interesting fusion of Indian and Western… and remember the sitar is a very difficult instrument to master. Anyway here is the video, enjoy !

In case you liked the sound of the sitar, I heartily recommend watching Ravi Shankar and […]

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