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The recently released list of 2009′s top websites from Time Magazine provides a peek into the diverse mix of educational, commerce, entertainment and practical tools that help web users stay organized, share information and quench their ever-increasing thirst for knowledge, information and immediacy, MarketingCharts reports. While many of the top 20 sites on Time’s “Top

1. Electromagnetic Pulse: A nuclear weapon detonated at high elevation could knock out the country’s electrical infrastructure, sending us back to the Stone Age. The congressional EMP Commission says an electromagnetic pulse “is one of a small number of threats that can hold our society at risk of catastrophic consequences.” 2. Foreign Invasion: The Red

Shah Rukh KhanWhat: ActorHow much: Rs 247 per minuteThe King Khan, who started off modestly as a ‘Fauji’, made about Rs 13 crore last year.This included his endorsement deals for Pepsi, Hyundai Santro – and of course, wetting himself in a bathtub, surrounded by women for HLL’s Lux.Brij Mohan Lall MunjalWhat: Chief of Hero GroupHow

Here’s a little timeline about some of the more immediate effects of quitting smoking and how that will affect your body right now:In 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop back down to normal.In 8 hours the carbon monoxide (a toxic gas) levels in your blood stream will drop by half, and oxygen levels will

In 2002, he won a battle for life. Seven years down the line, he has won a match of muscles with his toned abs. Meet the man with a big heart, Mr Universe Mahadev Deka. The 40-year old engineer from Assam on Saturday clinched the title in bantam weight category for India at the 2009

While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

(Click on image for bigger view.) Adland has unearthed an old 1979 ad for Pakistani Airlines promoting its flights to New York City using an ominous plane shadow cast upon the Twin Towers. Certainly in the seventies, everyone was enamored with the stature and size of the then amazing looking towers but unless you were

If you still believe that the dollar is strong and the United States is set up to be a world superpower forever, these videos are a must-see. In them, analyst Max Keiser investigates the ill health and possible demise of the dollar. Since 2003, the dollar has lost more than one-third of its value compared

Google may eventually be displaced as the pre-eminent brand on the internet by a company that harnesses the power of next-generation web technology, the inventor of the World Wide Web has said. The search giant had developed an extremely effective way of searching for pages on the internet, Tim Berners-Lee said, but that ability paled

A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a “voiceless” phone call for the first time. With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a