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Environmental Graffiti should get the award for “worst possible bar chart ever” for this unbelievable piece of art…

Image (c) of Environmental Graffiti

Who said bar charts are only for serious data interpretation, they can be used to have such fun

Also read Garr Reynold’s comments on this as well. Happy Thursday..

How geeky are you? Show off your geekness to others with this kickass room decor ideas,

Just click the images to follow up. live geek, love geek

1. Lets start with the door. You can experiment with the door locks to create your own puzzle:

2. Now that you are in how geeky would you like to make your sofa? how about a pixel couch?

3. Dont fancy a couch, why dont you create your own ball-pit?

Not sure how much this would cost, you can find out using this ball-pit-pocket-hole-calulator

4. Now that you are sitting, what about those window curtains, would like them ASCII?

5. May be ASCII is a bit too old, why dont you buy a G(O)oogle saree and hang it up as a curtain?

At 299.98, this Ooogle sari can make great (expensive ;)) curtain

6. what about the ceiling, isnt it too bland, why not decorate it up with old CDs & DVDs?

7. Now that the ceiling is taken care, what about that dull wall paper, why not mario-fy it?

8. What about the lighting in the room, why the lame lights when you can DIY some ambient lighting?

9. Now lets geekify the furniture, how about a Tetris book shelf?

10. Finally what is a room without something to eat, why not say hello world with slice of bread?

So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and make your room geekier than ever. Happy Friday

Images are not mine, hosted here. Click on them to see the original ideas and make your room geeky

Also : Make your charts super cool

One of the latest news is that Yahoo has launched BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) using which you can build search based apps. Being a part geek who loves to show off my part knowledge to other part geeks during parties, I went to their website to register for my own app.

The registration process was smooth, and soon they gave me my app id which has 64 case-sensitive alpha-numeric characters.

64 Frigging Characters.

A quick calc tells me that is roughly “5,164,973,859,965,250,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000″ combinations possible.

That is even more roughly 5.1 × 10¹¹⁴

Do you know what is less than that? No. of Atoms in observable universe, number of atoms in whole frigging observable universe my dear blog reader, which btw are roughly 10⁸⁰, are less than the number of applications that Yahoo is hoping to create. For the curious out there, the observable universe contains anywhere between 30 to 70 billion trillion stars.

May be they REALLY want to make sure that no one guesses away the app id. I am not sure why they bother to go even way beyond GUID limits to come up with these freakishly large appIDs, I mean who are we competing with here? Some aliens trying to steal away my apps by guessing the appIDs? Huh!

Huh! this has to be the most bizarre sari ever …

Related google stuff you may find odd: Google park bench, Google fools day present to time travelers, Google life

original source:New Launches

Fridays can be immensely fun, as I anticipate 2 days of doing-nothing while sipping coffee working on excel sheets. But nothing can make my day better than this immense suckmanship displayed by Naukri with their job recommendation for me.

All the Japanese I know can be summarized to 1 word - “omurice“, now that I think of it, the rice part of it does look like an English word, that makes me think, how many companies are out there who fail miserably in their area of core competency?

We are going to big apple on this weekend, its going to be a really long drive, almost 1000 miles both ways put together, I will see if I can post something while resting, but don’t hope to see anything here for the next 3 days. You have an excellent weekend, drive carefully - more so if you are going anywhere east, stop your car and run towards the closest rest area if you see a compact car (goddamn you rental car company for not telling what car I will be driving) that looks like its chased by grawp. If you are not the kind who uses their right leg and left hand during the weekends, then I am happy for you, do something fun (oh, I am sure you will, afterall you are reading Pointy Haired Dilbert ), be merry, just watch out if your house is anywhere east. Tada!

PS: photo from net_efekt

Rat rides cat, cat rides dog, that rides on your t-shirt

I am just numbed seeing this outrageous hilarity in the name of news making and selling on CNN, apparently you can buy t-shirts for some of the hand picked news items on CNN by clicking the t-shirt icon next to headline link on their website. I dont know what to say, except that I want to wear a shirt that says “flying fish stays aloft for 45 seconds“.