Make A Snowflake

I know this is a bit too snuggly for your normal taste (okay maybe just mine), but I'm in the holiday mood, so would'ya just save the critism and make me a snowflake.
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Diesel Almighty

Top 30 facts about Vin Diesel. Probably a good idea to remove any potential lethal object from the room, that might prove fatal to a person laughing and rolling on the floor.
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Jesus's Real Birthday

You probably already know this. Which is probably just a close estimation. Which nobody is gonna give up their holidays even if God came down and said "you got it wrong, you idiots!"
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Dodge This

Probably a good idea to train yourself, if you're thinking of moving to the bronx.
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Ice Shot Glasses

Now this is cool. Literally. Step by step guide to make your own ice shot glasses.
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18 Tricks To Teach Your Body

Unfortunately, nothing sexual. Cures for common body hitches.
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Print Money

Monopoly money that is.
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Still in the Family Mood

This basically is as complete as a family picture can get. So complete you cant even make out half the faces cuz its all so small . So small that i can look at my face without puking my lunch and half of last nights dinner out. This picture was taken in PD, so if ur wondering why some us have hair that look like we've been electrocuted by a 10000 watt christmas tree..now ya know.

I So Do Have Good Genes..

I just never inherited much of it. And hers proof to boot. Below are pictures of my cousins and me. And i dare anyone to make fun of my families bad looks after this. To steal Arvins word, I may not be a Miss World of sorts, but my cousins surely are lookers, eh? See, you cant hv both beauty and brains, cuz then Arvin will have nothing to make fun of.
Then his life would be pointless.













Thats all me and tribes mate stuffed horizontally on an unlucky sofa. We might be smiling but our butts aren't. Gosh, i cant get over how humungous my arms look like.















On the same very unlucky sofa, this time vertically. See my sister at the bottom screaming bloody murder. She has not walked upright since. This pose is highly recommended for anyone with contipation woes.














Dawn, Dew and Laveena. Looking good there, sistas.

Santa Clause: An Engineers Perspective

Something to kick you into the holiday mood. WARNING: Contains dramatized expressive violance. May be unsuitable for children and adults who are brainwashed into still believing in the guy in the red suit cause they were forced (by children) to watch The Polar Express for the gazillionth time.

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There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18)in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average(census) rate of 3.5 children per house hold, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each.

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Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west(which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house.

Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second--3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour.

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The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them--Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).

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600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance--this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to centrifugal forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo.

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Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.

Reuters Pictures Of The Year

This is picture number 8. If you don't have time/busy/plain fucking lazy to view all the pictures, just check out numero 15.

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That's One Huge Diamond Mine

The World's Largest. Too fascinating for a sarcastic remark. Which is actually much harder than it sounds.
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Answer Like An Artist At Work

Because people don't have to know that you're never busy at work.
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Hate Comic Sans

It's comforting to know that there's a whole lot of other people who feel the same way.
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How To Deal With Loneliness

Nirash probably already has a degree in this.
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Horny Men Make Excellent Decisions

And this article proves the exact opposite.
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Hottest Harry Facts

Hot???? Anyway, 50 things you absolutely need to know 'bout Harry Potter.
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Last Chance, Vote For Me.

She may not be a miss world contestant (for obvious reasons) but she's 'special' in more ways than one. Vote.
Update: Voting Closed.

Serena C

This was taken during a talk show in TGIF the curve last Tuesday! I think she is really hot!! You guys should check her out in person!

why dont you guys join me on the 20th Dec in TGIF the curve? there will be free food, (nirash, dont get excited) and it will be fun!

AD & Shankar, you guys take the lead!!!