visual Pi … from wikipedia
0 comments Saturday 20 Jan 2007 | mastmallu | pictures, natural
Doctor’s Bad Handwriting Kills 7,000 People a Year
Doctors’ sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It’s a shocking statistic, and, according to a July, 2006 report from the National Academies of Science’s Institute of Medicine (IOM), preventable medication mistakes also injure more than 1.5 million Americans annually.
read more | digg story
0 comments Monday 15 Jan 2007 | mastmallu | random crap
late for WORK….
0 comments Tuesday 28 Nov 2006 | mastmallu | huh?, video, people, crazy
Official Flickr Camera Guide
Via BoingBoing: “Flickr is publishing an amazing concordance of stats about the cameras used by its members: which cameras are popular, which are gaining, and so on. You can also browse photos by camera to see which ones please you most: this is the world’s best consumer-guide for cameras. “
read more | digg story
0 comments Wednesday 22 Nov 2006 | mastmallu | random crap
Scoville scale of Hotness…
The Scoville scale is a measure of the “hotness” of a chili pepper. These fruits of the Capsicum genus contain capsaicin, a chemical compound which stimulates thermoreceptor nerve endings in the skin, especially the mucus membranes, and the number of Scoville heat units (SHU) indicates the amount of capsaicin present. Many hot sauces use their Scoville rating in advertising as a selling point. The scale is named after its creator, chemist Wilbur Scoville.
| Scoville rating | Type of pepper |
|---|---|
| 15,000,000 - 16,000,000 | Pure capsaicin |
| 9,100,000 | Nordihydrocapsaicin |
| 8,600,000 | Homodihydrocapsaicin and homocapsaicin |
| 2,000,000 - 5,000,000 | Standard US Grade pepper spray |
| 855,000 - 1,041,427 | Naga Jolokia |
| 876,000 - 970,000 | Dorset Naga |
| 350,000 - 577,000 | Red Savina Habanero |
| 100,000 - 300,000 | Habanero Chile |
| 100,000 - 325,000 | Scotch Bonnet |
| 100,000 - 200,000 | Jamaican Hot Pepper |
| 50,000 - 100,000 | Thai Pepper, Malagueta Pepper |
| 30,000 - 50,000 | Cayenne Pepper, Ají pepper |
| 10,000 - 23,000 | Serrano Pepper |
| 7,000 - 8,000 | Tabasco Sauce (Habanero) |
| 5,000 - 10,000 | Wax Pepper |
| 2,500 - 8,000 | Jalapeño Pepper |
| 2,500 - 5,000 | Tabasco Sauce (Pepper) |
| 1,500 - 2,500 | Rocotillo Pepper |
| 1,000 - 1,500 | Poblano Pepper |
| 600 - 800 | Tabasco Sauce (Green Pepper) |
| 500 - 1000 | New Mexico pepper |
| 100 - 500 | Pimento , Pepperoncini |
| 0 | No heat, Bell Pepper |
0 comments Monday 13 Nov 2006 | mastmallu | out of this world, crazy
a seethrough butterfly…
0 comments Sunday 12 Nov 2006 | mastmallu | huh?, out of this world, crazy
248 ways to annoy people… my kinda stuff :D
1. Specify that your drive-thru order is “to go.”
2. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.
3. Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one will “swipe your grub.”
4. Name your dog “Dog.”
5. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions “to keep them tuned up.”
0 comments Thursday 09 Nov 2006 | mastmallu | huh?, humour, crazy
Melting The Diamond
So much for “diamonds are forever.” Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have taken diamond, the hardest known natural material on Earth, and melted it into a puddle.
Diamond isn’t easy to melt, which is why the scientists used Sandia’s Z machine, the world’s largest X-ray generator, to subject tiny squares of diamond, only a few nanometers thick, to pressures more than 10 million times the atmosphere’s pressure at sea level.
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0 comments Tuesday 07 Nov 2006 | mastmallu | expensive junk
a poem by Meer Taqi Meer…
na sochaa na samajhaa na siikhaa na jaanaa
mujhe aa gayaa Khud_ba_Khud dil lagaanaa
zaraa dekh kar apanaa jalwaa dikhaanaa
simaT kar yahii.n aa na jaaye zamaanaa
zubaa.N par lagii hai.n wafaao.n ki muhare.n
Khamoshii merii kah rahii hai fasaanaa
gulo.n tak lagaayii to aasaa.N hai lekin
hai dushwaar kaa.NTo.n se daaman bachaanaa
karo laakh tum maatam-e-naujavaanii
pa ‘mir’ ab nahii.n aayegaa woh zamaanaa
0 comments Wednesday 01 Nov 2006 | mastmallu | senti, out of this world
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