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Psychic Computer Tells What's on Your Mind

There are many psychic websites that are able to tell what you are thinking. Here's one example (this one from CBS)...just follow the instructions.


Impressed yet?

* SPOILER ALERT *

Here's how they do it: The fact is that whichever number you choose, the answer will always be 9 or a multiple thereof. Thus all multiples of 9 have the same symbol as 9. The software does not "read" your mind; it just shows you the 9 symbol. To make the effect more believable, the 9 symbol changes each time you hit "Try Again"

Success - It's a Mind Game

Ads I Love: Honda Accord - Isn't It Nice When Things Just Work

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This is incredible. No SFX (special effects), no CG (computer graphics) involved. Everything actually happens. And, it works. Isn't it nice when things just work?

Ads I Love: The Axe Effect

Industrious Clock

Yugo Nakamura's industrious clock

Any better, and I'd be twins

Jerry is a restaurant manager in America. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would always reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"

Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs, so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant.The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude.

He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there, telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it! No one can be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied,

"Each morning I wake up and say to myself, I have two choices today. I can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose to be in a bad mood. I always choose to be in a good mood.

Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I always choose to learn from it.

Everytime someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I always choose the positive side of life."

"But it's not always that easy," I protested. "Yes, it is," Jerry said "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. It's your choice how you live your life."

Several years later, I heard that Jerry accidentally did something you are never supposed to do in the restaurant business: left the back door of his restaurant open one morning and was robbed by three armed men.While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the hospital. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.

I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Want to see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. "The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or choose to die. I chose to live."

"Weren't you scared?" I asked. Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great.They kept telling me. I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the Emergency Room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'He's a dead man.' I knew I need to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there was a big nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything."

'Yes,' I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Please operate on me as if I am alive, not dead'."

Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day you have the choice to either enjoy your life or to hate it. The only thing that is truly yours that no one can control or take from you-is your attitude, so if you can take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier.

Ads I Love: British Council English Learning Programme

The irony, of course, is that you need to know English to get that ad :-)

Ads I Love: Fevikwik - Fishing

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Oh, what an ad! A gentleman is fishing in the country, when a village lad comes along humming a tune. Naturally, the gent shushes him, as all that noise can drive the fish away. Snubbed, but not despirited, the country guy walks to the river bank to fish in his own style. He places a few drops of Fevikwik on a stick and submerges in water. And lo and behold, fish get stuck to the stick in no time flat! That's the stength and quick-sticking power of Fevikwik. Superb ad! Transcends language and cultural boundaries.

VIDEO: CBS 60 Minutes segment on the IITs

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CBS segment "Imported from India" on IITs calls them "the most important university you have never heard about."

An eyeful a day keeps the doctor away

VIDEO: Dhara - Daughters-in-Law

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This is not a spectacular ad by any stretch of imagination. But it has an endearing quality, and an all-India appeal. More importantly, in my opinion it conveys the message effectively and efficiently.

VIDEO: LML Freedom

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Hmm...seems like all motorcycle ads these days are using the same formula: soft songs and feel good images. What the heck, I still do like them. Here's the one for LML Freedom.

The song goes:

Manzil se kehdo,
meri raah na dekhen.
Main na rukoonga,
Main aazaad hoon.

(Tell the landing
Not to wait for me
I will not stop
(because) I am free)

VIDEO: Monday vs Friday

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Penguins' impression of you on Monday vs you on Friday.

Sick and tired of your PC? Give it hell!

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Beat up your PC to your heart's content.

VIDEO: Steffi (Graf), will you marry me?

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She's exhausted and completely drained, but manages to find humor in this somewhat embarrassing situation. Steffi, you really are the best.

The Perfect Husband

There are several men sitting around in the locker room of a golf club after a round, showering and getting changed for the 19th hole.

Suddenly a mobile phone on one of the benches rings. One of the men picks it up, and the following conversation ensues:

(H - Husband, W - Wife)

H - "Hello?"

W - "Honey, it's me. Are you at the club?"
H - "Yes."

W -"Great! I am at the mall two blocks from where you are. I just saw a beautiful leather coat. It's absolutely gorgeous!! Can I buy it?"

H -"What's the price?"
W - "Only $1,000."

H - "Well, OK, go ahead and get it, if you like it that much."

W - "Ahhh, and I also stopped by the Mercedes dealership and saw the 2003 models. I saw one I really liked. Its a SLK model. I spoke with the salesman, and he gave me a really good price . Since we need to exchange the BMW that we bought last year, how about I buy this?"

H - "What price did he quote you?"
W - "Only $65,000."

H - "OK, but for that price, I want it with all the options."
W - "Great! But before we hang up, something else..."

H -"What?"
W - "It might look like a lot, but I was reconciling your bank account and I stopped by the real-estate agent this morning and saw the house we had looked at last year. It's for sale!! Remember? The one with a pool, English garden, acre of park area, beach front property."

H - "For how much are they asking?"
W - "Only $450,000 - a magnificent price...and I see that we have that much in the bank to cover."

H - "Well, then go ahead and buy it, but just bid it down to $420,000. OK?"
W - "OK,sweetie...Thanks! I'll see you later!! I love you!!!"

H - "Bye...I love you too..."

The man hangs up & closes the phone's flap. The other men are looking at him in astonishment and derision. The husband raises his hand while holding the phone and asks "Does anyone know to whom this cellphone belongs?"

Only in America: Politicians of America

These are REAL quotes!!

I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job
(George Bush, during his Presidential campaign)

This is a great day for France!
(Richard Nixon, while attending Charles De Gaulle's funeral)

For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex ... uh... setbacks.
(George Bush)

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy. But that could change.
(Dan Quayle)

I am honored today to begin my first term as the Governor of Baltimore - that is Maryland.
(William Donald Schaefer, first inaugural address)

The caribou love it. They rub against it and they have babies. There are more caribou in Alaska than you can shake a stick at.
(George Bush, on the Alaska pipeline)

If I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough I would be convinced that we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
(Ronald Reagan)

My fellow Americans, I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.
(Ronald Reagan, about to go on the air for a radio broadcast, unaware that the microphone was already on)

Now we are trying to get unemployment to go up and I think we're going to succeed.
(Ronald Reagan)

Walter Mondale: George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize.
Bush: Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time.

Here's where the idea for 9/11 came from

What were they thinking?

These renowned authors wrote some interesting stuff...

Jane Austen
Such was Catherine Morland at ten. At fifteen appearances were mending; she began to cut her hair and long for balls...
from Northanger Abbey

Charles Dickens
No public business of any kind could possibly be done at any time, without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution Office. Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart.
from Little Dorrit
After having given vent to this beautiful reflection, Mr Pickwick proceeded to put himself into his clothes; and his clothes into his portmanteau.
from Pickwick Papers

Henry James
Next after that slow-coming, slow-going smile of her lover, it was the rusty complexion of his patrimonial marbles that she most prized.
from The Last of the Valerii