Pets are Great Stress Relievers!

Pets are a part of your lives. Ask any dog owner, parrot lover or even a turtle owner – they’ll vouch for anything under the sun for their loving pets.

Pets can be great stress relievers. The best part of a hard day’s work is the love and affection you get from your dog when you get home. Everyone loves the fact that your pet expects nothing from us but only complete unconditional love. Men love they way their dogs carry the newspaper to their beds. Women love the way their cats stylishly cuddle around the fireplace. Kids love their turtles when they make the slightest turn. And grandmas love the parrots that keep them company, when no one’s around.


Most people love their pets than their friends and experience a deep sense of loss when they’re gone. Being a pet owner is a privilege because not many can keep one in their house, for various reasons like allergies, building rules etc. While you’re having one at home, take good care of your pet, ‘cause he’s the one who’s taking away all your worries and stress.

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Lets Spread Harmony – Prevent War at any Cost

Why should war be treated as the final and fitting solution to any political discord between two countries? Governments are elected with the prime objective of protecting every citizen’s safety. When that government cannot bring harmony to its people, but provoking or instigating war related activities, then people should understand that it is not worth having elected them.

This truth has many classic examples. The west Asian countries have always been under war environments. India-Pakistan is forever threatening to break into war. SriLankan army and LTTE are at war. Iraq, Israel, Gaza, every name invokes different kinds of empathy – because its people are subjected to unforeseen war miseries that may abolish the human race from that part of the world.


Every man has to live and die with dignity. War and its aftermath creates both economical and health problems for a country. Every person on this face of earth, with full empathy and responsibility to his human race, must work towards a war-free environment for his country.

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Siftables

Check out the latest technology from MIT Media lab.



Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them - piling, grouping, sorting - to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications.

Siftables was created by David Merrill and Jeevan Kalanithi at the MIT

Check back at this page and the Taco Lab Blog for updates.



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DAD at 13!

This is so creepy. Where is this world going to? Babies are having babies. What this world wants are responsible adults as parents and not kids. What were the responsible adults doing, the doctor, the parents? So is the government going to give them rented house and expect them to care of the baby? Come on these kids are expected to be at school!

There is this whole lot of couple who are yearning to have a baby in their mid ages and here is this couple, the boys voice still not cracked, managed to have a baby over a single night stand! What to say about the tabloid which covered this story for over 3 pages, and ran video of the 13 year old on its website and also boasted that the story broke its record for online web traffic.

Are they aware about the Clause 6 (iv) of the Editors code of practice “"Minors must not be paid for material involving children's welfare, nor parents or guardians for material about their children or wards, unless it is clearly in the child's interests,"



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Google Earth acquired itself a new dimension: Depth

While at graduation we were amazed by www.google.com. Type any word, and it would throw relevant pages. I was amazed at the way Google popularized it Gmail. Google amazes again with ocean in Google Earth. You could now look under water and learn in 3D.

Approximately 70% of the world’s surface is covered by water and contains nearly 80% of all life, yet less than 5% of it has actually been explored. Google Earth now gives way to new explorations.

You could visit anything from underwater Volcanoes, Shipwreck, watch running video of marine life et al. Just name it and it will be on your screen.

The system has been developed in collaboration with oceanographer Sylvia Earle and an advisory council of more than 25 ocean advocates and scientists

Whats more at Google Earth?

• Historical city maps, accessed through a clock icon that lets you turn back time on screen !
• Google Mars 3D, a project developed with NASA's help, through which users can see high resolution 3D imagery of Mars' topography

So what’s next Google?


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Barbie turns 50

Barbie turns 50. Is she looking aged? Absolutely not! Infact she is going to be feted in a series of Fashion celebrations. Babs will take centre stage at the first ever Barbie runway show at New York Fashion Week on Valentine’s Day.
Here are some interesting facts about Barbie.
• Barbie doll was introduced in 1959 and first appeared in the now-famous black and white striped swimsuit and signature ponytail.
• The inventor of the Barbie doll is Ruth Handler, co-founder of Mattel. She named the doll after her daughter, Barbara.
• The first Barbie doll sold for $3.00.
• During the first year of her introduction in 1959, 351,000 Barbie dolls were sold.
• An original 1959 Barbie doll in mint condition has sold for up to $10,000.
• Italian was the first nationality Barbie doll represented in the Dolls of the World Collection.
• The Barbie doll is currently marketed in more than 150 nations around the world.
• Placed head to toe, Barbie dolls and family members sold since 1959 would circle the earth more than seven times.
• .Every second, two Barbie dolls are sold somewhere in the world.
• Barbie doll has represented 45 different nationalities.
• Barbie doll has had more than 80 careers -- everything from a rock star to a paleontologist to a presidential candidate.
• Barbie doll's first career was a teenage fashion model


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Rafa is the REAL winner

Roger Federer cried uncontrollably after losing to Rafael Nadal. For a guy who was sooo close to beating Sampras record of 14 titles, this is a shocking loss. I am a huge fan of Fedrer. But this time my heart was with Rafael Nadal.

Nadal showed good sportsmanship by consoling Federer. Federers outburst kind of made it ackward for Nadal to express his joy over the Historic Win (he is the first Spaniard to win the Australian open). I don’t think Nadal received the acknowledgement and credit that he deserves as an No.1 tennis player.

My heart goes with Nadal, for the tenderness that he showed to Federer. Rafa is not relishing his win, but is trying to console his defeated friend. Three cheers to you Rafa

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Why not Yoga for Muslims?

Malaysian and Indonesian Muslim religious leaders have issued a Fatwa against muslim practicing yoga. The leaders reason to have Hindu roots and that “It could destroy the faith of a muslim”.

True, Yoga is of Indian origin. But people need to look beyond that. Yoga is a science that helps in controlling body and mind. As an excellent form of exercise for the mind, yoga encourages relaxation through breadth control, meditation and striking body poses. Practicing Yoga regularly helps our muscle to become more flexible that makes it less vulnerable to injuries.


It is also true that many people practice Vedic Chantings during Yoga. Take for Instance the “Suryanamaskar” involves chanting of mantras or the divine “OM” and is considered as a salutation to the sun god by the Hindus. But the 9 -10 asanas or body postures practiced during “Suryanamaskar” us considered as the best form of exercise, that activates important muscles and points in our body to keep us going healthy and fresh all through the day.

Keeping the religious thing apart, yoga can be practiced as a good form of exercise. Breath control need not be practiced through chanting of “OM” but by just inhaling and exhaling as and when required. One should consider the overall advantage that yoga provides to the body and not brand it and set it aside for trivial reasons.

I think Muslims who are interested in Yoga should be encouraged to practice it as an good form of exercise, more than anything else.

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