Friday, July 16, 2010

Internet meme

"X"ing is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a web link that they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true destination of the link without clicking. When a person clicks on the link and is led to the web page, he or she is said to have been "X"-ed. The song may have been favored for this use by those regarding it as the worst popular song of all time. "X"ing has extended beyond Web links to playing the video or song disruptively in other situations, including public places; this culminated when the song made a surprise appearance in the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a televised event with tens of millions of viewers.

x = What term?

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Movie mania

After a 45 day schedule in the United States, X, the director and the team returned to India to film a couple of scenes in the climax.The team then visited several other countries to shoot a song in the film.During the shooting in Paris the death of Princess Diana had taken place and shooting was delayed in the France, due to her death. For the most part, the film Y was surrounded by world events of all sorts and for X, the cast and crew of the film described the experiences as "tremendously vivid and memorable". Three week prior to the release of the film, on 1 April 1998 a screening was held labeled the Making of Y with prominent personalities invited, however the short film showed the real manufacture of Y. The prank was claimed by X and his crew who utilized an April Fools joke

X = who?
Y = which film?

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Again connect

Sweden - Albin, Metallica, Superman, Veranda, Ikea and Elvis
Germany - Matti
New Zealand - Stallion, Yeah Detroit, Fish and Chips, Twisty Poi, Keenan Got Lucy, Sex Fruit, Satan and Adolf Hitler
Japan - Akuma, meaning "devil."
Denmark - Anus, Pluto and Monkey.
China - @

What??

Connect?

To become tiny as the atom or transform himself into an atom(Anima).
To become big in unshakable proportions (Mahima).
To become as light as vapor in levitation (Laghima).
To become as heavy as the mountain (Garima).
To enter into other bodies by transmigration (Prapti).
To be in all things or being omni-pervasive (Prakamya).
To be lord of all creation or being omnipotent (Isatvam).
To be everywhere or being omnipresent (Vasitvam).

What?

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Etymo

During the colonial days, British steamers regularly plied between London and various far flung out posts of the Empire. Journeys on these steamers took anywhere from a week to 3 months. Due to prevailing tides and wind conditions on the high seas, passengers preferred a cabin on the port side of a ship, when heading out of Britain, and the starboard when heading home. Hence passengers who could afford it paid higher fares for these cabins. Hence the rich and moneyed were able to secure the best cabins on a voyage for themselves. This has given rise to a term which is usually associated with the rich and fashionable.What is it?