Archive for August, 2009

Hospitality in Inhospitable Spiti Valley – Part 1

Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.Powered by WP Greet BoxI have been offline for quite some time and so much has happened on Ghumakkar! Looks like everyone has been busy travelling. Many interesting blogs and so much to catch up on my reading!My last trip was back in May, inspired by a couple of Ghumakkar blogs on the Spiti Valley in Himachal Pradesh. I flew in from Bangalore to Delhi, spent a couple of hours in the capital be

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Celebrity Paycut » Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. (2009-08-30 22:02)

New skeptical paper from Germany A big new scientific paper from Germany is just out. It’s title is “Die aktuelle globale Wärmeperiode endet” (The current global warm period has ended). It is by physicist Horst Borchert. He attributes temperature fluctuations to the sun. I provide a rough translation of the intro…

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Maybe They Could Get a Supercomputer that Runs on Wind Power

Aug 31 Maybe They Could Get a Supercomputer that Runs on Wind Power It’s a shame that climate modeling has turned out to be almost completely wrong. Otherwise, we could perhaps excuse the global warming cult’s rampant hypocrisy. Great Britain has a supercomputer with 15 million megabytes of memory. It can do 1,000 billion, or a trillion, calculations a second. They use it to predict the weather, and it’s considered one of the most valuable tools in the fight against c

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Highlights of Hollywood’s fall, holiday schedule – San Jose Mercury News

THE AGE OF STUPID: An archivist (Pete Postlethwaite) in 2055 looks back on the world’s global-warming catastrophe in this documentary-style cautionary tale. ALL ABOUT STEVE: Sandra Bullock stalks the man she considers her true love in a romance co … Original Post By Google News Click Here For The Entire ArticleLive Online Psychics- Share and Enjoy:

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Tuvalu Visualization Project Preview

Preview movie of “Tuvalu Visualization Project” ” Tuvalu Visualization Project ” is an art project that visualizing information of Tuvalu on Google Earth. This project is composed of two elements. Visualization and communication system for ” Build the Future with 10,000 Tuvaluans ” project by NPO Tuvalu Overview ” Tuvalu Mapping ” constructed with 3300 GPS photographs of Tuvalu The purpose of project is to disclose actual information about ”People” and ”Scenery” in Tuvalu to the world.

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#126 No Agenda For Sunday August 30th 2009

NA-126-2009-08-30published on Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:26:33 -0700Play mp3 #126 No Agenda For Sunday August 30th 2009 Sell Your Kidney! Discover Simple, Private Sharing at Drop.io American rift with Karzai worsens over ‘drug-dealer’ ally – Asia, World – The Independent : Did Israel hijack Russian ship to stop Iran arms shipment?� Bush’s Search Policy For Travelers Is Kept Warning on Possible Pot Growers Called Profiling Dutch Royals Win Privacy Case Against AP The swine flu call centres where s

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Our Environment: Raising a Voice of Concern

Ordinary measures like installing rain water harvesting systems and minimizing the use of electricity by installing energy efficient appliances along with recycling water… Visit The Viewspaper to read the full article.

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Highlights of Hollywood’s fall, holid… – ABC News

Highlights of Hollywood’s fall, holiday schedule ABC News AP THE AGE OF STUPID: An archivist (Pete Postlethwaite) in 2055 looks back on the world’s global-warming catastrophe in this documentary-style cautionary … Highlights of Hollywood’s fall, holiday schedule The Associated Press all 93 news articles »

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Gangsta Ass Monday – New York New York – City of Secrets

What do you know about the underground, In New York ? we were suprised when we watched this video, at some of the secrets and history of the Underside of Gotham City. this is such a long video that we suggest you get yourself a beverage, and possibly a snack before you settle in for this very interesting view of the Underside of New York. We never considered the undercurrent of economic control that runs beneath New York; until we watched this video. it’s quite enlightening wh

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Tweeks for the Week Ending 2009-08-30

so yeah, I like watching design star on hgtv. # Reading: Tech Support Cheat Sheet: http://bit.ly/2gr5hX # Reading: Introducing Typedia: As SXSW 2006 came to a close, I was having lunch with friends at the Moons.. http://bit.ly/oQlYa # //sigh// still getting a login error when try to sync with my @ tweetdeck account from work,– even with the new version. # Reading: Make Firefox Faster by Vacuuming Your Database [Firefox Tip]: Firefox tip: Firefox 3.0’s Aw.. http://bit.ly/E4d

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