AWAD

AWAD - A Word A Day is a service which sends you a word a day with lot of information relating to the word. I subscribed to this group a while before and it is really kewl. You will start getting to know new words everyday. By year end you can improve your vocabulary by another 300+ odd words! Checkout the AWAD website for more details.

Actually it was the inspiration behind for naming this blog as AIAD.

Playing video games makes you intelligent!

Recently came across this CNN post which tells playing video games will make you intelligent. So guys, start and keep playing :).

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Time Traveller Update!

For those who suspected that the time traveller news is bogus, an article says that it is indeed bogus ;)

One need know about this article is that it originated with the Weekly World News, an entertainment tabloid devoted to inventing fantastically fictitious stories while keeping its tongue firmly embedded in its cheek to a depth not measurable by any instrument known to man. Unfortunately, Yahoo!, a primary news source for many people on the Internet, reprints some Weekly World News articles in their TV News section under a heading of "Entertainment News & Gossip," a title that doesn't convey a strong "bogus" warning to readers who don't notice the original source is the Weekly World News (or don't know what the Weekly World News is).

Despite this item's tabloid origins (and the fact that it was covered nowhere but in the Weekly World News), it has showed up in a variety of magazines and newspapers, reprinted verbatim as a "real" news item -- to the amusement and consternation of FBI and U.S. Security and Exchange Commission officials, who have been flooded with a rash of inquiries from journalists seeking confirmation for a bit of fiction:
The spokesman at the US Security and Exchange Commission in Washington gives a weary sigh and then a slightly strained chuckle when he hears the words "time traveller" and "inside trader".

"This story is pure fantasy. There is no truth in it at all," he says. "This is the kind of story that belongs in the same file as 'Elvis Shrine Found on Mars.'

"You know something? We have had an enormous number of calls from the media on this one. It has been absolutely amazing. Of course, we had to look into it, but as far as we know, it's just not true."

As if this tale weren't already implausible enough on its face, the Edinburgh Evening News wryly noted:
"Even a non-time traveller could have told him that profiting from 126 consecutive high-risk trades over two weeks was sure to get him noticed," commented
the Guardian.

A handful of others pointed out that any time traveller with half a brain would not bother popping back to 2003, just when the stock market is in free fall and anyone
who actually makes any money at all would stick out like a 25-ft. tall green alien with two heads.

In a follow-up article on 29 April 2003, the Weekly World News reported that mysterious time-traveling Andrew Carlssin had been bailed out by an "unidentified benefactor" who ponied up $1 million, then jumped bail before an April 3 court hearing and disappeared without a trace.

Time Traveller Skips Town!

Two weeks back I was mentioning about a Yahoo! tabloid about a Time Traveller. A person who was caught in the US share market has amassed $350 million with an initial investment of $800 in just 2 weeks. Law enforcement officials had arrested him and on investigation the person claimed to have come from 23rd century using his time machine. Recently the officials are saying that the person escaped into nowhere. May be time travel is true?!!

Original yahoo site: Time Traveller Skips Town!

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