Another Cartoon Network Gem

I am genuinely excited about "Batman: The Brave and the Bold," which makes its debut in November on the Cartoon Network. This is why my 8-year-old son thinks I’m the best mom in the world. (That is, when he’s not telling me I’m the worst mom ever.)

Because Batman is such a jackass, it’s always fun to see him interact with other characters. I don’t know how far the show will go with the jerk persona, but I'm looking forward to seeing him work alongside fellow rich-kid-turned-costumed-hero Green Arrow. Yeah, that'll go well.

Since I'm dropping the increasingly lame "Brave & the Bold" comic, this should make up for it.

Bookish

I have a few friends who have written books or are in the process of writing one. Like many people, I've entertained fantasies of seeing my own book (as yet unwritten) in a prominent position at Borders, and answering probing questions from Terry Gross about said book. It seems like such a cliched idea on my part, though. For all I know, my son is working his memoirs during recess.

Anyway, Boston Globe columnist Penelope Trunk made a mighty good case for not turning one's ideas into a book. Just as interesting are some of the comments that follow.

Depending on what mood I'm in, writing can be its own reward. I have a job. God knows I don't want to contribute to the pile of mediocre-to-bad novels taking up bookstore space — especially since so many of my friends are writers. (Though I told a friend I was going to write a parody of one of those glossy, contemporary "urban" novels and see if anyone gets the joke.) Still, it's hard not to envy people who make a splash with novels that are thinly veiled memoirs, or those who make no pretense of aspiring to be Alice Walker or, for that matter, E. Lynn Harris.

On the other hand, Trunk offers this cold blast of reality: "Many people think they have a ton of ideas and they are brimming with book possibilities when in fact, most of us have very few new ideas. If you have so many ideas, prove it to the world and start blogging."

Dag! Even if you don't agree, you have to respect the woman's honesty.

Fact or Fiction

• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• The minarets ofthe Taj Mahal in India are angled at 88 degrees outwards so that they would not collapse into the structure should an earthquake occur. Read more after the break...
• The model of King Kong used in the original movie was only 18 inches tall.
• The mola mola or ocean sunfish lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.
• The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The rarest, Type A-H, has been found in less than a dozen people since the type was discovered.
• The most common street name in the United States is Second Street. First Street isn't first because many times the designation is replaced with the name Main Street.
• The most expensive book or manuscript ever sold at an auction was The Codex Hammer, a notebook belonging to Leonardo da Vinci. It sold for $30.8 million.
• The most expensive movie memorabilia ever sold at an auction was Clark Gable's Academy Award for It Happened One Night. It sold for$607,500 on December 15, 1996.
• The most searched thing on yahoo.com every year is p0rn.
• The most snow accumulation in a one-day period was 75.8 inches at Silver Lake, Colorado, in April 1921.
• The most used line in the movies is "Lets get out of here."
• The name "Uncle Sam" for the U.S. came from a person known as Uncle Sam Wilson of Troy, NY, who supplied food for the U.S. army in the war of 1812.
• The name for the middle part of the nose (the part that separates the nostrils) is called a chaffanu.
• The name 'Intel' stems from the company's former name, 'Integrated Electronics'.
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
• The nearest relative of the hippopotamus is the common pig.
• The Netherlands is the lowest country in the world. An estimated 40% of its land is below sea level.
• The New York phone book had 22 Hitlers listed before World War II .. and none after.
• The number 111,111,111 multiplied by itself will result in the number 12,345,678,987,654,321.
• The number 2,520 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 without having a fractional leftover.
• The number 37 will wholly divide (no decimals) into 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888, and 999.
• The number of atoms in a pound of iron is nearly five trillion trillion: 4,891,500,000,000,000,000,000,000.
• The number of possible ways of playing just the first four moves on each side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
• The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
• The only bird that can fly backwards is the hummingbird.
• The only bird that cannot fly is the penguin.
• The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the voice box. Its function is to support the tongue and its muscles.
• The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in the inner ear.
• The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
• The only difference between brown eyes and every other colored eyes is that brown eyes have more pigment.
• The only food cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers.
• The only painting by Leonardo da Vinci on permanent display in the United States hangs in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. It's a portrait of Ginevra di Benci, the wife of a politician in Florence.
• The only rock that floats in water is pumice.
• The only state allowed to fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag is Texas.
• The only three non-Presidents pictured on U.S. paper money are: Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill, Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill, and Salmon Chase on the $10,000 bill.

 “Necessity, who is the mother of invention.”

Can You Guess ?

          Its a hard disk in 1956....The Volume and Size of 5MB memory storage in 1956.In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.

“I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage”.

K. Jo: Where Is The Love?

My 4-year-old daughter apparently has a crush - to the exent that a preschooler can - on Joe Jonas, the sleek-haired lead singer of the Jonas Brothers. Or, as her 5-year-old friend R. hilariously deadpanned, "the hot one." She has repeatedly stated her intention to marry Joe, and frankly, I'm a little disappointed by this decision.

Crushing on Joe Jonas is the equivalent of saying Davey Jones was your favorite Monkee, or Farrah was your favorite Angel: Predictable, Cliched. Plus, Joe flat irons his hair, and I have yet to see him perform while playing an instrument, unlike the other two. This is her intended?

During a particularly obsessive phase of early adolescence, I got hooked on the Monkees via reruns of their classic television show. When my dear friend C. and I came out of the Monkees closet in college, we agreed that bassist Peter Tork was by far the most desirable member, with Mike Nesmith a close second. To this day, we judge anyone who says, "Oh, I was in love with Davey Jones!" Sheep.

I'm a big believer in the nonobvious crush as a sign of discriminating taste. George Harrison as favorite Beatle. Diminutive Eric Murphy of "Entourage" instead of eye candy Vince Chase. As adorable as Matthew Broderick was in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," I always had a soft spot for Ferris' depressive sidekick Cameron, as portrayed by Alan Ruck.

I'd have been more impressed if my daughter had picked Kevin Jonas, who was hilariously tagged "the other one" by Washington Post music critic J. Freedom du Lac. K. Jo just doesn't generate the same level of high-pitched, brain-melting screaming as Joe or Nick, but does he complain? No. He gamely cranks up the guitar every night while facing a sea of "I (heart) u Joe!!" posters. You have to admire that kind of workmanlike indifference to popularity polls. Besides, a good flat iron will only get you so far.

I Want This Girl To Be Famous

Why isn't Fefe Dobson a household name like Rihanna? More to the point, why didn't she exist when I was 15 years old? A Chucks-wearing brown girl who rocks and channels Joan Jett? Who lists Guns 'N Roses, Bob Marley and Depeche Mode among her musical influences? Are you kidding me? That would have changed my life. At the very least, it would have made me aware that, somewhere outside of my hometown, there were other young women of color who spoke my language. I kinda didn't figure that out until college.

When I first noticed the biracial Dobson a few years ago — around the same time fellow Canadian Avril Lavigne's star was rising — I was certain her profile was about to blow up. I'm not the only one, because Kanye West said something similar a while back.

I'm practically old enough to be Dobson's mother, so I'm a wee bit out of her demographic at this point. Nevertheless, I love her style, and she's still out there performing some mighty catchy songs like "Watch Me Move," which is my new jam. She's also still very young, so maybe she'll be a big star by the time my kids are old enough to buy their own music.

Until then, rock on, Fefe.

SALARY INFORMATION SORTED BY COMPANY NAME

Salary Information Sorted by Company Name
		Salary In Lakh Per Annum						Salary In Lakh Per Annum
S.L No	Company	Normal	High	Low		S.L No	Company	Normal	High	Low
1	ABB	6.50	0	0		80	KMG	2.65	0	0
2	Accenture	2.30	3.40	2.30		81	KPIT Cummins	2.70	0	0
3	Adobe	5.00	8.05	0		82	Krawler Networks	3.00	0	0
4	ADP	3.85	0	0		83	Kritikal	4.30	0	0
5	Agilent	4.00	4.50	0		84	L&T Engg	3.00	0	2.40
6	Alstom	3.20	0	0		85	L&T Infotech	2.22	3.47	2.22
7	Amdocs	4.00	0	0		86	Lafarge	3.25	0	0
8	Arada	4.50	5.25	4.00		87	LG Electronics	3.50	0	0
9	Aricent	3.50	0	0		88	Mahindra & Mahindra	3.00	0	0
10	Ashok Leyland	4.20	5.50	3.10		89	Manhattan	4.00	0	0
11	Atrenta	5.50	0	0		90	Mapinfo	5.65	0	0
12	Avaya	4.00	0	0		91	Maruti	3.25	4.20	0
13	Aztecsoft	2.40	0	0		92	MasconGlobal Limited	2.50	3.50	0
14	Bechtel	3.15	3.25	0		93	Mastek	3.25	0	0
15	BEL	3.90	0	0		94	McAfee	4.00	4.50	0
16	BHEL	4.00	0	0		95	Mentor Graphics	7.40	7.90	0
17	Birlasoft	2.50	0	0		96	Microsoft	9.12	9.50	8.50
18	BMC Software	3.15	0	0		97	MindTree	3.20	0	0
19	BPCL	5.65	0	0		98	Morgan Stanley	8.00	0	0
20	Canon India	3.75	0	0		99	Mphasis	2.50	0	0
21	Capgemini	3.50	4.80	3.00		100	Nagarro Infotech	3.50	0	0
22	Captronics	2.00	0	0		101	NBC Bearing	3.00	0	0
23	Cdot	3.90	0	0		102	Nestle	6.30	0	0
24	Cerner Healthcare	3.80	0	0		103	Net-App	7.00	11.60	0
25	Cienna	5.00	0	0		104	Newgen	3.75	0	0
26	Cisco Systems	8.50	10.20	7.10		105	Nihilent Technologies	2.80	0	0
27	Citrix	8.00	0	0		106	NIIT	2.20	0	0
28	Coal India	4.20	0	0		107	Nirvana	5.00	0	0
29	Cognizant Technology Solution	3.05	0	0		108	Nous Infosystems	1.80	2.40	0
30	Compro	4.00	0	0		109	NSE Infotech	2.62	0	0
31	Computer Associates	5.20	0	0		110	NTPC	4.50	0	0
32	Computer Science Corporation	3.60	3.75	2.24		111	NvIndia	7.40	0	0
33	Continuserve	2.45	0	0		112	OnMobile	4.50	0	0
34	Cybage	2.46	0	0		113	Oracle	6.00	8	0
35	DE Shaw	10.00	10.04	9.54		114	Pangea	5.00	0	0
36	Dell	2.75	0	0		115	Patni	3.25	3.60	0
37	Deloitte	4.40	5.50	3.20		116	Perrot Systems	2.80	0	0
38	DRDO	4.00	0	0		117	Persistant Systems	3.00	0	0
39	E Q Technologic	3.50	0	0		118	Phillips	5.00	0	0
40	Eicher Motor	5.60	0	0		119	PWC	4.50	0	0
41	EIL	4.40	0	0		120	Reliance Energy Ltd	4.50	0	0
42	EMC^2	6.00	0	0		121	Reliance Industries	3.75	0	0
43	Ericsson	3.00	0	0		122	Saama Techonologies	2.40	0	0
44	eValue Serve	4.00	0	0		123	Samsung(Software)	4.00	5.58	0
45	EXL Service	4.00	0	0		124	Samsung Engg	3.50	0	0
46	Fidelity	3.80	5.50	0		125	Sapient	4.50	0	3.57
47	Fiserv India	2.78	0	0		126	Sasken	5.00	0	0
48	Fluor Daniel	4.00	0	0		127	SatyamComputers Ltd	3.00	3.50	2.40
49	Freescale	5.50	0	0		128	Schlumberger	9.40	28.00	0
50	FSS	6.50	0	0		129	Schneider	3.10	3.50	0
51	Futures First	6.40	0	0		130	Siemens Power	4.60	0	0
52	GCI Solutions	2.85	3.20	2.85		131	SM Creative	4.20	5.00	0
53	GE	3.60	0	0		132	Smart cube	5.20	0	0
54	Geodesic	4.50	9.00	1.80		133	Solid Core	7.00	0	0
55	Global logic	3.60	0	0		134	Sun Microsystems	3.50	0	0
56	Godrej Infotech	2.80	0	0		135	Sungard	4.00	4.50	0
57	Goldman Sachs	5.50	0	0		136	Syntel India Ltd	3.30	0	2.40
58	Grail Research	6.00	0	0		137	T Systems	2.20	0	0
59	GS Engg	3.50	0	0		138	Tacho	2.80	0	0
60	Habinger	2.70	0	0		139	Tata Elxi	2.25	0	0
61	HCL	3.00	0	0		140	Tavant	3.50	0	0
62	Hexaware	3.00	0	0		141	TCE	3.00	3.50	0
63	Honeywell	4.00	0	0		142	TCS	3.25	3.30	3.12
64	Hughes Systique	4.25	0	0		143	Tech Mahindra	3.10	0	2.60
65	IBM GBS	3.26	3.80	0		144	Teradata	3.40	0	0
66	IBM ISL	5.44	0	0		145	Texas Instruments	5.80	0	0
67	I-Flex	2.40	0	0		146	Thoughtworks	5.60	5.08	0
68	iGate	2.50	0	0		147	TISCO	4.48	0	0
69	Impulsesoft	3.00	0	0		148	Torry Harris	3.00	0	0
70	Indorama	7.00	0	0		149	Toshiba	3.80	0	0
71	Infogain	2.50	0	0		150	Total Envt	3.30	0	0
72	Informatica	5.50	0	0		151	Trident	4.50	6.00	0
73	Infosys Technolgies Ltd	3.00	3.50	2.42		152	US Technologies	2.40	0	0
74	Integra	6.00	0	0		153	Uttam Galva	0.96	0	0
75	IOCL	5.50	6.80	0		154	Verizon Data Services India Pvt Ltd	5.40	7.50	0
76	ITC Infotech	3.00	0	0		155	Vestas RRB	3.00	0	0
77	Ivy Comptech	7.20	0	0		156	Whirlpool	3.06	0	0
78	Jindal Steel	3.20	0	0		157	Wipro	3.10	3.50	2.75
79	Kennametal	4.80	0	0		158	Yahoo	7.50	10.89	6.75
						159	Zensar Technologies	2.40	0	0