I’m Too Sexy For This Vest

What's left to say?

I'm Sexy and I know it..

 

Sexiest song of all time

Olivia Newton-John's playful 1982 hit Physical has topped a new poll to find the Sexiest Song of All Time.

Billboard.com bosses compiled the new countdown based on the performance of songs about sex on America's Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Physical beat Rod Stewart'sTonight's The Night to the top spot, while Boyz II Men's I'll Make Love To You came in third.

Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On and the late Donna Summer's Hot Stuff also made the top 10.

Stewart was the only artist with more than one entry - his Do Ya Think I'm Sexy was at No. 10.

Billboard's Top 10 Sexiest Songs:

1. Olivia Newton-John - Physical
2. Rod Stewart - Tonight's The Night
3. Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You
4. Next - Too Close
5. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
6. Donna Summer - Hot Stuff
7. Captain and Tennille - Do That To Me One More Time
8. Madonna - Like A Virgin
9. Exile - Kiss You All Over
10. Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy

Want the World’s Best Restaurants? Look to Asia

According to Restaurant Magazine, they assembled 800 international restaurant experts and asked them to make a list of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants. A challenge any foodie would love to take up.

However...it's hard to quantify as  “What constitutes ‘best,’” they coyly concede, “is left to the judgement of these trusted and well-traveled gourmets.” The magazine then proceeds to reassure us the list can never be definitive, but nevertheless “we believe it is an honorable survey of current tastes and a credible indicator of the best places to eat around the globe.”

Read the whole article here

Amazing Race's Rachel and Dave Win!

Dave and Rachel Brown made history on The Amazing Race 20, claiming the $1 million for a franchise record eighth victory on Sunday's finale - but not before making some other dubious history. The married Army couple accidentally skipped a second Roadblock and arrived at the finish line, where they became the first team ever to be turned back by Phil Keoghan for not completing the final course. They managed to recover and officially win the Race.

There's a whole interview for you here to gobble up!

 

IPL Funny Moments

With the latest edition of IPL ready to kick off, here are some funny moments compiled from the previous editions!

Resurgence of the Sexy Pin-up

Two Tampa, Fla., photographers are bringing sexy back -- back from the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Richard Strawn and April Catalano publish a magazine called "Pin-Up America" and shoot photos of professional and amateur models.

The Google+ Cheatsheet is here!

Here's a handy quick reference with common things you should know about Google+, like how to prevent a post from being shared and hotkeys for more quickly navigating conversation streams.

Shortcuts and cheatsheets are always useful and we love them. Since I've started using google plus recently; this was very useful. Credit goes to Simon Laustsen. You can click on the image below for a larger view and then save it.

1/3rd Of iPhone Owners Think Their Phone Is 4G

According to a survey found that 34% of iPhone owners think the “4″ in iPhone 4 stands for 4G. LOL!

It looks like, they could have been fooled by the previous 3G moniker, but still…

Twenty-four percent of Blackberry owners think their phone is 4G (which is also impossible). 61% of iPhone owners don’t actually care about 4G and will buy a next-gen iPhone with or without the service. Blackberry and Android users are also interested in the new iPhone, regardless of 4G speeds.

What's the ultimate conclusion? That 4G is confusing and not many consumers quite understand it, want it, or believe they can afford it. Sadly, given the prevalence of marketing around the 4G concept I wonder if it isn’t too soon to be flogging this technology to a world that has just gotten comfortable with Wi-Fi.

In case you still didn't quite get what 4G stands for...it's represents the 4th generation of iPhones. It doesn't mean the iPhone 5 will be called 5G. but who knows :)

In$ide The World'$ Fir$t Billion-Dollar Home

While visiting New York in 2005, Nita Ambani was in the spa at the Mandarin Oriental New York, overlooking Central Park. The contemporary Asian interiors struck her just so, and prompted her to inquire about the designer.

Nita Ambani was no ordinary tourist. She is married to Mukesh Ambani, head of Mumbai, India-based petrochemical giant Reliance Industries, and the fifth richest man in the world. ( Lakshmi Mittal, ranked fourth, is an Indian citizen, but a resident of the U.K.)

Forbes Magazine estimated Ambani's net worth at $43 billion in March. Reliance Industries was founded by Mukesh's father, Dhirubhai Ambani, in 1966, and is India's most valuable firm by market capitalization. The couple, who have three children, currently live in a 22-story Mumbai tower that the family has spent years remodeling to meet its needs.

Like many families with the means to do so, the Ambanis wanted to build a custom home. They consulted with architecture firms Perkins + Will and Hirsch Bedner Associates, the designers behind the Mandarin Oriental, based in Dallas and Los Angeles, respectively. Plans were then drawn up for what will be the world's largest and most expensive home: a 27-story skyscraper in downtown Mumbai with a cost nearing $2 billion, says Thomas Johnson, director of marketing at Hirsch Bedner Associates. The architects and designers are creating as they go, altering floor plans, design elements and concepts as the building is constructed.

The only remotely comparable high-rise property currently on the market is the $70 million triplex penthouse at the Pierre Hotel in New York, designed to resemble a French chateau, and climbing 525 feet in the air. When the Ambani residence is finished in January, completing a four-year process, it will be 550 feet high with 400,000 square feet of interior space.

The home will cost more than a hotel or high-rise of similar size because of its custom measurements and fittings: A hotel or condominium has a common layout, replicated on every floor, and uses the same materials throughout the building (such as door handles, floors, lamps and window treatments).

The Ambani home, called Antilla, differs in that no two floors are alike in either plans or materials used. At the request of Nita Ambani, say the designers, if a metal, wood or crystal is part of the ninth-floor design, it shouldn't be used on the eleventh floor, for example. The idea is to blend styles and architectural elements sospaces give the feel of consistency, but without repetition.

Antilla's shape is based on Vaastu, an Indian tradition much like Feng Shui that is said to move energy beneficially through the buildingby strategically placing materials, rooms and objects.

Pricey Pad
Atop six stories of parking lots, Antilla's living quarters begin at a lobby with nine elevators, as well as several storage rooms and lounges. Down dual stairways with silver-covered railings is a large ballroom with 80% of its ceiling covered in crystal chandeliers. It features a retractable showcase for pieces of art, a mount of LCD monitors and embedded speakers, as well as stages for entertainment. The hall opens to an indoor/outdoor bar, green rooms, powder rooms and allows access to a nearby "entourage room" for security guards and assistants to relax.

Ambani plans to occasionally use the residence for corporate entertainment, and the family wants the look and feel of the home's interior to be distinctly Indian; 85% of the materials and labor will come from outside the U.S., most of it from India.

Where possible, the designers say, whether it's for the silver railings, crystal chandeliers, woven area rugs or steel support beams, the Ambanis are using Indian companies, contractors, craftsmen and materials firms. Elements of Indian culture juxtapose newer designs. For example, the sinks in a lounge extending off the entertainment level, which features a movie theater and wine room, are shaped like ginkgo leaves (native to India) with the stem extending to the faucet to guide the water into the basin.

On the health level, local plants decorate the outdoor patio near the swimming pool and yoga studio. The floor also features an ice room where residents and guests can escape the Mumbai heat to a small, cooled chamber dusted by man-made snow flurries.

For more temperate days, the family will enjoy a four-story open garden. In profile, the rebar-enforced beams form a "W" shape that supports the upper two-thirds of the building while creating an open-air atrium of gardens, flowers and lawns. Gardens, whether hanging hydroponic plants, or fixed trees, are a critical part of the building's exterior adornment but also serve a purpose: The plants act as an energy-saving device by absorbing sunlight, thus deflecting it from the living spaces and making it easier to keep the interior cool in summer and warm in winter. An internal core space on the garden level contains entertaining rooms and balconies that clear the tree line and offer views of downtown Mumbai.

The top floors of entertaining space, where Ambani plans to host business guests (or just relax) offer panoramic views of the Arabian Sea.

What do you think of Ambani's home? Weigh in. Add your Comments below.

Wrong Turn - Lost Tribe Revealed in Brazil

Dramatic images of an isolated Brazilian tribe believed never to have had contact with the outside world were published by officials Friday to draw attention to threats posed to their way of life.

The pictures, released by the Brazilian government's National Indian Foundation (FUNAI), showed alarmed natives pointing bows and arrows at the aircraft carrying photographers.

Apparently the foundation had known of the existence of the tribe for years -- located in thick rainforest near the Peruvian border -- and many photos had been taken. This time, they decided to reveal the material to prove that there are Indians living in complete isolation, and to call attention to a serious problem that exists, which is the threat of interlopers from the Peruvian side.

The pictures were taken from several flights over the apparently sedentary tribe's thatched-roof village in the remote Brazilian state of Acre.

Survival International, a British group lobbying on behalf of indigenous people around the world, said on its Web site there were fears illegal logging in Peru could endanger the Brazilian tribe's habitat, by forcing displaced Peruvian tribes into contact with it.

It said there were an estimated 500 isolated Indians living on the Brazilian side of the border.

"The world needs to wake up to this, and ensure that their territory is protected in accordance with international law. Otherwise, they will soon be made extinct," Survival International director Stephen Corry said.

His group said there were more than 100 uncontacted indigenous tribes worldwide.

Earthquake hits Philippines

A magnitude-6.4 earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean off the northern Philippines Sunday morning and was felt as far as southeastern Taiwan.

The epicenter was about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Basco, the capital of the Batan Islands in the Philippines and about 340 miles (550 kilometers) south of Taipei, Taiwan.

No injuries, deaths or damage were immediately reported (thank the Lord) by the National Disaster Coordinating Center in Manila, Philippines. The center put the earthquake at a 6.3 magnitude.

"Indiana Jones" unearths more gold at the box office

The massively hyped "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" movie whipped up an impressive $56 million in its first two days of release across North America but will struggle to break industry records during the U.S. Memorial Day holiday weekend.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the fourth film in the adventure series to hit the big screen (after 19 years), earned an estimated $31 million on Friday, according to Paramount Pictures.

"Indiana Jones" reuniting actor Harrison Ford as the eponymous archeologist, director Steven Spielberg and executive producer George Lucas, also opened in 61 foreign countries on the heels of its glitzy world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last Sunday.

In North America, industry observers expect "Indiana Jones" to earn more than $150 million in its first five days.

Comparisons with the record-holder for the Memorial Day weekend, last year's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, are a little difficult. The third film in the swashbuckler franchise also opened on a Thursday -- but in the evening, whereas "Indiana Jones" screened for a full day. Ticket prices have also risen since then. Still, "Pirates" also managed to earn $56 million for the two-day period, on its way to $153 million for the five days through Monday. The five-day record is held by Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith, which opened to $173 million in 2005, a week before the Memorial Day holiday in 2005.

"Indiana Jones" siphoned off some of the audience from last week's leader, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, which opened to a disappointing $55 million last weekend.

The superhero smash Iron Man, which kicked off the summer in fine style three weeks ago, was No. 3 on Friday with $5.3 million, off about 39 percent. The total for the Marvel Entertainment Inc production, also distributed by Paramount, rose to $237 million.

Well, regardless of paradigm reviews & box office collections, I'm eagerly awaiting it's release here in India this Fri, May 30. I've got the champagne & a pair of Gold Class tickets, now all I need to find me is a "pair of Double Ds" with a taste in Crystal Skulls ;-)

Oh! & here's a look at the official trailer (I'm guessin' you haven't seen this version).

Indiana Jones 4 - Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Official Trailer

Playing GOD !?!

This week, 400 of around 600 kangaroos on the outskirts of the city of Canberra, Australia are being killed by lethal injection. Their crime? Living and thriving.

According to officials, this part of Australia has (or had) three times as many kangaroos as human inhabitants. They say the iconic down-under animals have overgrazed grasslands and put other species in jeopardy. These include the Golden Sun Moth and the Grassland Earless Dragon, one of the world's rarest lizards.

Grassland Earless Dragon (Tympanocryptis pinguicolla)

Resettlement had been considered for the kangaroos, but that was deemed too expensive and too risky, since the marsupials could multiply elsewhere, they said.

Come to think about it, kangaroos aren't the only ones to blame. Studies indicate the worst drought to hit Australia in a century has changed the region, leaving grasslands dry, bare and scarred. Australian Aborigines also used to inhabit the land and were sensitive to ecosystem sustainability issues. Now urbanization and intensive agricultural practices have fragmented the landscape and changed natural water distribution patterns.

Kangaroos are smart and fairly adaptable in their native environment. Like pigeons, they can coexist in areas of high development, taking advantage of human-made food and water sources, such as those set out for farm animals.

Kangaroos grazing at a military site in Canberra.

I honestly wish city officials in Oz would put more effort into developing an effective birth control method for the kangaroos. Someone there apparently had that bright idea but it needs further development, in my opinion. While even that option is risky and rather invasive, I think it beats cutting the lives short of so many innocent creatures. It looks like most researchers support the kangaroo killing, however, to save the other threatened species.

Coldplay, Pussycat Dolls Set To Perform At 2008 MTV Movie Awards

From Jason Bourne to Juno MacGuff, the 2008 MTV Movie Awards are about celebrating the best names in film — but it wouldn't be MTV if some of the biggest names in music didn't get their chance to shine as well.

Set your "Clocks" for June 1, when Coldplay will take the stage live at the Gibson Amphitheatre to perform the single "Violet Hill" from their first new album in three years, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. Released April 29, the song was downloaded more than 2 million times from the Coldplay Web site.

Mr. Gwyneth Paltrow (Chris Martin to his friends) and the rest of the band will no doubt be hoping to follow in the footsteps of already-classic MTV Movie Awards performances like the ones from Rihanna and Amy Winehouse at last year's telecast.

They'll have plenty of friendly competition from their fellow performers, the Pussycat Dolls, who will also hit the stage during the irreverent awards show, broadcast live this year on Sunday, June 1. The girls will grab the mic from host Mike Myers to perform "When I Grow Up" from their upcoming second album.

Only time will tell whether Coldplay and PCD will shine brighter than the other mega-watt stars in attendance, particularly those who find themselves vying for the coveted Golden Popcorn. This year, expect to see stars from movies like "Superbad" (which led all films with five nominations) and "Juno" (which came in a close second with four) — not to mention actors from films like "Enchanted," "Transformers," "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" and "Knocked Up" which were right behind the leaders with three nominations each.

FYI voting closes on May 23, so any of you fans interested in voting for your favorites visit MovieAwards.MTV.com now coz you don't have much time.

And in spirit of the upcoming movie awards, how about getting warmed up with a look at Fergie & Cameron Diaz sizzle the already 'Red Carpet' at last year's movie awards !?!

The Sexiest Woman on the Planet

Gentlemen, prepare for a "transforming" experience. FHM Online has revealed its "100 Sexiest Women in the World for 2008," and 'Transformers' babe MEGAN FOX sits atop the list!

I'm sure you'd agree with me when I say there’s not a woman alive who looks better bent over a 1976 Chevrolet Camaro in a denim miniskirt. With a sultry glower, capricious pout and six tattoos, she’s the junior Angelina Jolie (but without the orphan addiction).

I think I'm in love :-)

FAA Accepts Blame for Air Traffic Errors

Anne Whiteman has had some particularly bad days on the job helping to man Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport's air traffic control system. Whiteman said she has seen air traffic controllers playing a game of chicken with airplanes. She even recalled one day when the system had a dozen or so operational errors in an hour's time frame -- so many that pilots calling to complain were being put on hold.

She said two colleagues once played a trick on her by putting two planes on a collision course. Distracted by the ruse, one of the men forgot to monitor his aircraft and the plane flew past the airport.

"I thought two aircraft were going to collide, and I didn't have anyone in my corner, and I was scared," Whiteman recalled Thursday. "I was scared not just for me but for everyone else."

Something happened every shift, she said, "where somebody would do something outside the boundaries of normalcy."

US alleges baby-selling in Vietnam

Vietnam has failed to police its adoption system, allowing corruption,
fraud and baby-selling to flourish, the U.S. Embassy says in a new
report obtained by The Associated Press.

The nine-page document describes brokers scouring villages for babies, hospitals selling infants whose mothers cannot pay their bills, and a grandmother giving away her grandchild — without telling the child's mother.

"I'm shocked and deeply troubled by the worst of the worst cases," said Jonathan Aloisi, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi.

Vietnam's top adoption official called the concerns "groundless." Bribery of orphanage officials may occur, but serious offenses such as baby-selling or kidnapping are not a problem, said Vu Duc Long, director of the Department of International Adoptions.

The dispute comes amid a boom in adoptions from Vietnam. Americans — including actress Angelina Jolie — adopted more than 1,200 Vietnamese children over the 18 months ending March 31. In 2007, adoptions surged more than 400 percent from a year earlier, with 828 Vietnamese children adopted by American families.

While China remains the most popular overseas country for adoptions, a growing number of Americans are looking to Vietnam, which has fewer restrictions. The wait for adoption approval has also gotten longer in China after authorities there tightened rules.

U.S. adoption agencies active in Vietnam said that despite some cases of wrongdoing, most adoptions in the country are ethical.

"Our experience has been a good one," said Susan Cox, vice president of public policy with Holt International Children's Services, based in Eugene, Ore., which has operated in Vietnam since the 1970s. "We are concerned about any unethical practices, but I would not agree that these cases are indicative of adoptions in Vietnam."

Another adoption agency, Families Thru International Adoption, of Evansville, Ind., said that corruption exists everywhere and it is up to the adoption agencies to screen who they work with in Vietnam and other countries.

read the rest of the article here

"Jack The Ripper" returns

For those of you that do not know who "Jack The Ripper" was... firstly I gotta say "ignorance is bliss" (in this case at least)... secondly here's a quick lesson in history for ya...

Jack the Ripper terrorized the impoverished Whitechapel area of Victorian London during the latter half of 1888, and murdered at least five women working as prostitutes: Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. Some Ripperologists believe the killer may have been responsible for as many as thirteen other murders in the area, leaving a wake of headless torsos and butchered women up through 1891. There are many theories about the identity of Jack the Ripper. Was he nobility, a physician, a butcher, or a woman? We will probably never know. During the time of the brutal killings, thousands of letters were received claiming to be from the notorious murderer, but only a handful are considered authentic.

Personally, I've always been captivated by the legend of "Jack The Ripper". Oh! & not just me, "Jack The Ripper" has even been an inspiration to Hollywood Directors Albert & Allen Hughes who directed "From Hell (2001)" starring the can-do-anything Johnny Depp as Inspector Frederick George Abberline and a red-headed Heather Graham as Mary Kelly (loosely based on Maria Kelly, the fifth and final Ripper murder victim).

Though this serial killer has been long gone, Jack the Ripper is about to return to the part of London he made his own private killing ground in one of history's most infamous unsolved crimes. The return of the 19th century prostitute killer is in the form of an exhibition looking at the era, the area, the victims and the possible perpetrators of the crimes that shocked the nation and have since become a rich seam of popular fiction.

The exhibition, which opens in London's Museum in Docklands on May 15 and runs to November 2, also peels away some of the myths surrounding the murderer whose identity remains to this day a topic of heated speculation. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of lectures and talks and guided walks down the streets where the Ripper committed his bloody deeds 120 years ago.

Now that's what I call an exhibition !!!

And The OSCAR Goes To...

No film ran away with the night, however, as Hollywood -- home to the 80th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday Feb 24, gave a bruised movie industry a chance to refocus its ever-inward gaze on laurels instead of labor strife.

"No Country For Old Men" won the Oscar for best film and its makers, brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, were named best directors on Sunday, giving the bleak crime drama four of the world's top movie awards.

Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored a wide range of movies, actors and actresses from several countries.

Britain's Daniel Day-Lewis won the Oscar for best actor as a sadistic oil prospector in the early 20th century whose rise to wealth and power comes at a deep cost to his soul.






France's Marion Cotillard was named best actress, Britain's Tilda Swinton took supporting actress and Spain's Javier Bardem won supporting actor. Cotillard earned her Academy Award portraying singer Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose" and became the first French actress to win the Oscar in that category since 1960.

"I'm speechless now," Cotillard said on stage, visibly surprised and overjoyed. "Thank you life, thank you love. It is true there (are) some angels in this city." Swinton won supporting actress playing an ethically challenged corporate lawyer in the thriller "Michael Clayton" and Bardem was given his award for portraying a sadistic killer in "No Country For Old Men."

The fourth Oscar for "No Country For Old Men" also went to the Coen brothers for best adapted screenplay by basing their movie on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name.

To read more about the events of this prestigious night, just visit www.oscar.com

Japan Launches Communications Satellite 'KIZUNA', Designed to Enable Super High-Speed Data Transmission

Granted, most of us here in India would turn our noses up at receiving in-home broadband via satellite -- after all, Cable and Broadband seem to be treating most of us quite alright. However, Japan is hoping to provide access to more regions in Asia-Pacific with its recently launched Kizuna. The experimental satellite is not yet intended for commercial use, but if all goes well, it will enable data transmissions of up to "1.2 gigabytes per second", at a low cost across Japan and 19 other locales in Southeast Asia. (Oh! Pleeeease let that also include India)

Unfortunately, we've no idea when it will escape the bondage of testing and actually be put to good use. Until such time we shall continue to communicate, the primitive way :_(