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In this experiment they put eight monkeys in a room. In the middle of the room is a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling. Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder, all the monkeys are sprayed with ice water, which makes them miserable. Soonenough, whenever [...]

My pal Nazly, the open source sage has twisted two local geek portals.http://www.vplanetworks.com/http://www.lkgeeks.org/lkgeeks.org was originally classified only for FOSS guy, but my good old pal has let me in. Thanks!nazly: lkgeeks.org will not only be limited to FOSS blogs since few of my .NET friends are interested in getting listed. But only geek blogs.

Do you remember Viper, the TV series telecasted few years ago staring a face lifting sports car? Or the all new Knight Rider pilot episode? Making the imaginations in to reality, BMW has revealed their GINA (”Geometry and functions In ‘N’ Adoptions”) Light Visionary Model is a fabric-skinned concept car which has the capability of [...]

A man in Singapore has been banned from owning a camera phone for a year after being caught secretly filming a woman in an airport bathroom. 19-year-old Samuel Ong, simply slid his camera phone under the cubicle door to catch a few shots. Not surprisingly, the woman caught Ong in the act and reported [...]

This fellow was resting on our front fence wall a few weeks ago. Good that anyone else didn’t see.

We know how awkward and dirty it is when it comes to elections in Sri Lanka. The world’s biggest election, US presidential is coming ahead and both candidates are progressively fighting on the web as well. They have gone far even to facebook, youtube, flickr and twitter. This article on redwriteweb.com compars Obama’s and [...]

Google is playing around with April 1st every year now. Google Romance, Google Writer, Google TiSP and Google Paper were centered with April fool’s day. This time they have introduced two new services. Google Custom Time and gDay. gDay, which was introduced by Google Australia is capable of searching content on the [...]

On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 businesses in Sydney, Australia turned off their lights for one hour (between 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m) - Earth Hour. If the greenhouse reduction achieved in the Sydney during Earth Hour was sustained for a year, it would be equivalent to taking 48,616 cars off the [...]

From another 30 years, the internet will stop working. Apparently, a bug similar to the millennium bug will affect Unix-based systems, like those that run the tubes, in the year 2038. This bug has being dubbed as “Unix Millennium bug”, “Y2K38,” “Y2K+38,” or “Y2.038K” by analogy to the Y2K problem. It arises because Unix-based systems [...]

BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped robot created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics with Foster-Miller, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field StationBoston Dynamics keeps working on their BigDog quadruped robot, which will probably grow for the use of the Pentagon. It looks like an actual biological quadruped. But bit freaky to [...]

Can you guess the most popular video of all time on YouTube? Its Evolution of Dance by comedian Judson Laipply. It was added to YouTube on April 06, 2006 and has since gone on to attract 78.8 Million views. It’s had 127,001 comments so far and has been favorited 280,915 times (making it the number [...]

Microsoft has launched Sky Drive (previously known as Windows Live Folders) on Feb 21st. Basically a file holding/sharing service. Currently offers a 5GB space with a maximum upload size of 50 MB per file. File drag and drop options available within the windows explorer if the separate ‘upload tool’ is installed.

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45th Thurstan Isipathana Big match is happening today and tomorrow at SSC. It was supposed to call off due to security concerns but I have seen it’s really happening without any doubts with tight security and no publicity. http://thurstancollege.net/unityblock2008/

Majority of Sri Lankan cricket fans are not enthusiastic on today’s encounter as they are certain about getting hammered. As the kangaroos are making it a reality isn’t it great that the speculate performances of retiring Gilchrist. He just walked off for the last time from MCG after smashing 83 outta 50 balls. This man [...]

Its more than half a year has past since my last blog entry. (the blog was here for the sake of having a blog) Almost everything has changed, everything means everything. A new life, a new career, a new lifestyle, many things in the list. To list here a few, I said Good bye to [...]

I captured this last Sunday on the road infront of Ananda College.

Express your condolence to Prof Samaranayake :http://www.danuma.lk/condolence/

Just got the news about the decease of professor Samaranayake. We owe a Big salute to this great father of Sri Lankan ICT industry.

Microsoft announces its all new mobile web browser, DeepFish.Said that its designed to offer mobile users quick and convenient web browsing that more closely resembles the experience of browsing the web on desktop computers.Deepfish provides users with a full “as-designed” view of virtually any Web site on their mobile device and looks as you would [...]

All you classical music lovers out there, something is happening around Colombo next evening. Our Good+Bad electronic media company organizing a superb concert of classic music with the participation of Kasun Kalhara, Deepika Priyadharshani, Victor Rathnayake & Somathilaka Jayamaha. Location: Elphinston Theater, Time: 1900 hours onwards.