Life Of Navin

We all have, at some point over the last few years used Google Earth to have a look at the neighborhood from a bird's perspective, accept it!! Now you can catch a glimpse of the ancient Roman neighborhood using the same tool.

While satellites weren't around to give us a bird's eye view of the city in 320 A.D., Google's "Ancient Rome 3-D" offers a 3D simulation of the ancient city at the height of its glory. The new layer for the tool allows virtual time-traveling tourists to fly around the city and zoom in to explore ancient structures as they likely looked at the time, including the Colosseum, the Forum, and the Circus Maximus. Pop-up windows offer historical information, and are written by experts on Ancient Rome. Developed in collaboration with researchers at the University of California and the University of Virginia, the project is the first ancient city to be incorporated into Google Earth.

The computer graphics are based on the Plastico di Roma Antica, a plaster model that was created by Italian architect Italo Gismondi and finished three years before his death in 1974. The digitization project began in 1997 and took 10 years to complete. It then took 15 people the better part of a year to transfer the project on to the Web.

Check out this Youtube video showcasing the Ancient Roman city in Google Earth:



I'm just waiting for Google to come up with a 3-D map of India during the Harappan civilization or during the Mughal era.....Its sure to leave quite a few mouths gaping in amazement!!

Albert Einstein had once said "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." And somehow, the world comes out with ample examples proving him right!! I'm pretty sure you've figured out what this post is about: Batman has been sued. But what is funny is the fact that he has been sued for name-stealing...... now you wonder who names himself Batman. Well, its not a person, but a whole town named after the caped crusader in Good ol' Turkey!!

The mayor of Batman, Huseyin Kalkan, is suing Warner Bros. and The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan for using the Cape Crusader's name without the city's permission.

Kalkan claims to have evidence that will prove the city of Batman was founded much before the 1939 debut of DC Comic's superhero by the same name.

Why the city is complaining now about its name being used for masked justice may have something to do with The Dark Knight having grossed over $995 million worldwide so far. So even a small cut would be more than enough to fulfill the mayor's deepest desires!!

There is only one Batman in the world. American producers used the name of our city without informing us --Huseyin Kalkan

Wow...Once in a while, there comes a video so mind-bogglingly cool that pretty literally knocks your socks off and gets you glued to your monitor. This is definitely one of those videos!!

The technology is called Upscaling, or in more human terms, Timesculpture. Timesculpture is a stunning progression of the ‘bullet-time’ technique made famous by films such as, no prizes for guessing, The Matrix Trilogy. Rather than showing a 3-D rotation of a still moment, this groundbreaking new filming process manipulates moving snapshots of time using Toshiba technology, redefining cinematic human movement.

The shoot was made possible via the construction of a purpose-built camera rig, weighing over half a tonne and housing 200 Toshiba Gigashot HD camcorders. Over 20 Terabytes – 20,000 Gigabytes – of video data was used, taking over 336 continuous hours to process. And the whole production cost was $4.7 Million!! Whoosh!!

You simply have to watch this



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A few days back I came across this song from Aditya Chopra's new movie Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi which stars SRK and newcomer Anushka Sharma

The title of the song was Haule Haule and it instantly caught my attention. It isn't one of those overtly emotional songs but it does convey its message effectively!!

I wrote down the lyrics to the song...do correct me if I'm wrong. You can use my contact page to do so!!

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Here goes:

Haule Haule
Haule Haule
Haule Haule
Haule Haule

Haule Haule se hawa lagti hai
Haule Haule se dava lagti hai
Haule Haule se duwa lagti hai naaaaaaaa

haiii
Haule Haule chanda badhta hai
Haule Haule ghunghat uthta hai
Haule Haule se nasha chadhta hai naaaaaaa

[Chorus:]
Tu sabr to kar mere yaar
Zara saas to le dildaar
Chal fikar noo goli maar yaar
Hai din jhindadi de char

Haule Haule ho jaayega pyaar chaliya
Haule Haule ho jaayega pyaar [2X]

Haule Haule (Haule Haule, Haule Haule) Haule Haule (Haule Haule Haule Haule Haule)

Haule Haule ho jaayega pyaar chaliya
Haule Haule ho jaayega pyaar

Fiske di galiyaan tang hai
Sharmon sharmile band hai
Khud se khud kiiiiii kaisi yeh jang hai
Pal pal yeh dil ghabraye
Pal pal yeh dil sharmaaye
Kuch kehta hai aur kuch kar jaye

Kaisi yeh paheliii mohe dil mar jaana
Ishq main jaltiiii bada jurmana

[Chorus:]
Tu sabr to kar mere yaar
Zara saas to le dildaar
Chal fikar noo goli maar yaar
Hai din jhindadi de char

Haule Haule ho jaayega pyaar chaliya
Haule Haule ho jaayega pyaar [2X]

Haule Haule (Haule Haule Haule Haule Haule)
Haule Haule (Haiiiiiiiii)

Haule Haule ho jaayega pyaar chaliya
Haule Haule ho jaayega pyaar

Rab tha bhi tab koi hona
Kare koi yoon jaadu tona
Man jaya man jaaye hai mera sona
Rab de sahaare chal de
Na hai kinaare chal de
Doorie hai naaaaaa, kaha re chalde

Kya kehke gaya thaaaaa kya yar-vas yaana
Aag ka dariyaan, doob ke jaana

[Chorus:]
Tu sabr to kar mere yaar
Zara saas to le dildaar
Chal fikar noo goli maar yaar
Hai din jhindadi de char

Haule Haule ho jaayega pyaar chaliya
Haule Haule ho jaayega pyaar [2X]

Haule Haule (Haule Haule Haule Haule)
Haule Haule (Haiiiiiiiii)

Haule Haule ho jaayega pyaar chaliya
Haule Haule ho jaayega pyaar

Haule Haule se duwa lagti hai naaaaaaaa

cheers!!

Something that's sure to get you ROFLMAO-ing....This is so stupid, that it makes Homer Simpson look like Albert Einstein!!

OK, so lets start from the beginning:

All official road signs in Wales are bilingual, to help the local population. So when the local authority planned to put up a "No entry for heavy vehicles" sign at a road near a supermarkethe e-mailed its in-house translation service for the Welsh version of: "No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only".

The reply duly came back and officials set the wheels in motion to create the large sign in both languages.

The notice went up and all seemed well - until Welsh speakers began pointing out the embarrassing error.

Here's the sign:

Seems OK?? unfortunately you do't know welsh, coz if you did then you'd have noticed that the sign , in welsh, says "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated".

It seems that this was a reply generated by the auto-responder of the English-Welsh translator!!

Thankfully though, the sign has been removed from public view following the embarrasing error!! :)

When they're proofing signs, they should really use someone who speaks Welsh --Journo Dylan Iorwerth.

Something that can be simply described as

• Freaky!!
• Cool
• Funny
• Definitely Weird!!

Daito Manabe shows us what low-voltage shocks to the face at various speeds can do resulting in a, well how do I describe this??...... A twitch-fest!!

The end shows the inverse effect, using muscle flexes to control the sound on the computer as well as the muscles on his face.

See it to believe it!!



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