I received this in an email, thought it would be nice to share:

A man wanted to buy his son a parrot as a birthday present.
The next day he went to the pet shop and saw
three identical parrots in a cage.

He asked the clerk, “how much for the parrot on the right?

The owner said it was $250.
“$250″, the man said. “Well what does he do?
“He knows how to use all of the functions of Microsoft Office 2000,
responds the clerk. “He can do all of your spreadsheets and type all of your letters.”

The man then asked what the second parrot cost.
The clerk replied, $500, but he not only knows Office 2000, but is an expert computer programmer.

Finally, the man inquired about the cost of the last parrot.
The clerk replied, “$1,000.”
Curious as to how a bird can cost $1,000, the man asked what this bird’s specialty was.

The clerk replies, “Well to be honest I haven’t seen him do anything.
But the other two call him ” Project Manager ”

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A UNIX way of removing Bin Laden.

Will you also work for Bandwidth?

clueless? (SQL T-shirt)

Click on the images above to go to http://andrewhitchcock.org where he maintains several more such T-shirts.

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Check your reaction time using this flash game from BBC.

Shoot the sheep leaving the flock using the tranquilizer. The faster you shoot the better you are. You have to shoot five sheep (beware of the penalty!)

I was very slow and rated lowest. I hope you have better luck. Best time to try: after a cup of black coffee

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Recently my wife forwarded me an email which had a collection of funny ways in which students have attempted mathematics problems.

I thought it would be something nice to share with my readers.

Peter was asked to expand (a+b)^n and here is his sheet for you to review:

Some calculus fun:

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The Walt Disney Internet Group is making available daily comic strips and full-length stories on mobile phones in India. ‘

In the daily comic category, one can choose “Mickey” and/or “Winnie the Pooh” while the first full book available for download will be “Pirate of the Caribbean”.

Aptly called “Disney Mobics”, the daily comics strips will be available for download for Rs. 3 for Reliance Users. the entire story will be available to Hutch and Airtel users for Rs. 50.

Mobile users with GPRS capability can download the comics from http://wap.disney.in. Mobile users can find tons of fun things from Disney at the site: http://www.disney.in/mobile/

A startup http://www.rokcomics.com/ allows you to create and serve comic strips for mobile devices.

ROK Comics is lining up a range of material from Manga and Sci-Fi comics to old classic strips including Garfield, Doonesbury and Ninja Turtles. These can be selected from the ROK Comics website and delivered to your phone via MMS.

This should be an interesting service and should be fun for the young crown to create their very own personal comic strips or even deliver messages through comic strips.

Source: (Rediff, Tech.co.uk)

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