xiaonei.com, China
Click on image to visit site. Site looks like below as of right now, July 11, 2008.
vkontakte.ru, Russia
Click on image to visit site. Site looks like below as of right now, July 11, 2008.
hainei.com, China
Click on image to visit site. Site looks like below as of right now, July 11, 2008.
Kootali, India
Click on image to visit demo site. This company sells software to create Facebook clones! Demo Site looks like below as of right now, July 11, 2008.
[Via Reuters] About 12000 students sitting for their GCSE music exams had the answers (accidentally) printed at the back of their question papers! Wish some of us had the same luck! 
Got an Asus Eee PC 900 running Windows XP from Funan last Saturday. The Windows and Linux versions cost the same, i.e., 798 Singapore dollars. The add-on freebies depends on which shop you buy it from. I got a free 1 GB thumbdrive.
Here are some pictures
And it is has been running almost continuously. Someone calculated the light bulb to have clocked in over a million hours!
More at www.centennialbulb.org.
Also check out the live “Bulb cam” there.
If you can spare the time, watch the video in its entirety. The video is an hour and 40 minutes long, but is most definitely the best lecture/speech you have ever heard.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184
Over a million people have viewed the lecture online.
The Wall Street Journal calls it “the lecture of a lifetime“,
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119024238402033039.html
For those who don’t know (or haven’t yet gone through the links above), Professor Randy Pausch’s was until recently a Computer Science Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University. Last month, on Sept 18, he gave his “last lecture”. He has pancreatic cancer and expects to live for just a few more months.
Check out the seat layout for economy class on the Singapore Airlines (SQ) A380.
It fails to start up..
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[Via ITVibe] Google might one day (soon?) start giving away mobile phones for free to users who will accept advertisements being displayed on their phone.
[From an email forwarded by a Singaporean colleague]
There once was a very good old barber in New York.
One day a florist goes to him for a haircut. After the cut, he goes to pay the barber and the barber replies: “I am sorry. I cannot accept money from you. I am doing community service.”
The Florist is happy and leaves the shop. The next morning when the barber goes to open his shop, there is a thank you card and a dozen roses waiting at his door.
A policeman goes for a haircut and he also goes to pay the barber after the cut. But the barber replies: “I am sorry. I cannot accept money from you. I am doing community service.”
The cop is happy and leaves the shop. The next morning the barber goes to open his shop, there is a thank you card and a dozen donuts waiting at his door.
A Singaporean software engineer goes for a haircut and he also goes to pay the barber after the cut. But the barber replies: “I am sorry. I cannot accept money from you. I am doing community service.”
The Singaporean software engineer is happy and leaves.
The next morning when the barber goes to open his shop, guess what he finds there…………
Can you guess?
