In the last year, e-books have started taking off in a big way. E-books have been around for a long time, of course, but a few events in the last year suggest that they're really starting to get traction as a viable alternative to paper-based reading. One is the success of e-books like Leo Babauta's Zen to Done (read my review). Another is the emergence of e-book-only publishing concerns and widespread self-publishing made possible by the availability of cheap tools and widespread Internet access. The third is the release of viable e-book readers, especially the Kindle.

Another sign of the success of e-books, though, is not such a happy one: the huge glut of poorly written, scammy, second- and third-rate e-books that has suddenly started flooding the market. As with music and video, the Internet has made publishing and distributing books easy and next to free, and it can be hard to find anything worth reading.

Still, there's some gems out there if you know where to look. For those of you who are just discovering e-books, or are ready to take another look, I offer this basic guide to finding and reading e-books, with a few tips and tricks thrown in.

1. Bombay has no bombs and is a harbour not a bay.
2. Churchgate has neither a church nor a gate. It is a railway station.
3. There is no darkness in Andheri.
4. Lalbaag is neither red nor a garden.
5. No king ever stayed at Kings Circle. Nor did Queen Victoria stay at Victoria Terminus.
6. Lower Parel is at the same level as Parel
7. There are no marines or sailors at Marine Lines.
8. The Mahalaxmi temple is at Haji Ali not at Mahalaxmi..
9. Teen bati is a junction of 3 roads, not three lamps.
10. Breach Candy is not a sweetmeat market, but there is a Hospital.
11. Safed Pool has the dirtiest and blackest water
12. Lokhandwala complex is not an Iron and steel market.
13. Hanging Gardens are not suspended.
14. Mirchi Gully does not sell chillies. But it is true that you may get fleeced at Chor Bazaar!

Amazing video of a 7 year old kid dancing. This is a great job, and great video!

The Coldest Place in the Universe

Physicists in Massachusetts come to grips with the lowest possible temperature: absolute zero

• By Tom Shachtman
• Smithsonian magazine, January 2008

Finally, the folks at Nintendo have answered everyone's prayers, presenting Nintendo Wii - Kamasutra Edition. This is gonna be an orgasmic experience!

ARIES: Drinking style Impulsive Aries people like to party and sometimes don't know when to call it a night. Their competitive streak makes them prone to closing-time shot contests. They're sloppy, fun drunks, and they get mighty flirty after a couple tipples. Getting Aries people drunk I saw good way to get what you want out of them, should other methods fail. Aries can become bellicose when blotto, but they will assume that whatever happened should be forgiven (if not forgotten) by sunrise. They can be counted on to do the same for you -- so long as you haven't gone and done anything really horrible to them last night, you sneaky Gemini.

By using this tip you can hide the useless icons on the bottom of your system screen (right end of the taskbar). Because some of the icons will useful for you on system tray area but may be others list of icons not useful for you so you can hide all extra icon very easily. Many programs that run in the background on your computer but you are not using regularly such as anti virus software, volume controller, backup applications. The system tray can get cluttered with useless icon, so you may not wants to display them on the tray.

 To hide those icons that you do not use regularly, follow these steps.
 
First of all right-click on the windows taskbar and choose Properties.

Here a new dialog box will appear with title "Taskbar and start Menu Properties" and then click on "Customize…"button that  appears on   lower right portion.
anything anywhere

Now again a new dialog box will appear with title "Customize Notifications".

Under Current Items area, select the program that you want to change the behavior. On the right of the program name a drop-down menu appears for example "Always hide, Always show and Hide when inactive".

You choose to hide the program's Icon, when it is inactive, to always hide the icon, or to always show it.
 
Select the option you want and click on OK button, then again click on OK button to finish the process.