Hi all,

Printo - a printing company based in Bangalore, has launched its web services in India. It is a startup based in Bangalore, and they act like popular photo printing websites in other countries.

You can upload pictures to Printo, order prints, calendars, visiting cards, posters and so on. They deliver at your doorstep.

To check it out, visit http://www.printo.in/

Cheers

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Allright guys, this time, Greenpeace has really gone bonkers! Remember the last time Greenpeace went on about toxic substances on an iMac? Well, this time, they’ve hit the iPhone. Well, its pretty funny. Let me take out excerpts.

But before that, a general overview. Greenpeace is protesting about the use of a certain group of organic chemicals called phthalates, which are reportedly used in the vinyl plastic earphone wiring in the iPhone. According to Greenpeace, the levels of usage are more than at levels that are prohibited in young children’s toys in San Francisco and the European Union.

Ok, excerpt fun time!

"The phthalates found in the headphone cords are classified in Europe as ‘toxic to reproduction’ because of their long-recognized ability to interfere with sexual development. While they are not prohibited in mobile phones, these phthalates are banned from use in all toys or childcare articles sold in Europe. Apple should eliminate the use of these chemicals from its products range," said David Santillo, senior scientist at the Greenpeace Research Laboratories, who coordinated the project and deconstructed the iPhone for analysis.

Could someone please answer me : what are iPhones for? I could be wrong, but I thought iPhones were for humans above the "child" age group, for making phone calls, listening to music, and for all other uses a PDA might be put to use. Why would anyone buy a $500 USD item, so that its headphone cable might be utilized by their 2 year old child to jerk off???!!!

Ok, now wait for the fun fact. It seems that Greenpeace has got a missing link somewhere, since Wikipedia, the world’s largest online encyclopedia, claiming to be marginally more accurate than Britannica Encyclopaedia, says -

Phthalates are also frequently used in nail polish, fishing lures, adhesives, caulk, paint pigments, and sex toys made of so-called "jelly rubber."

Uh, sex toys made out of sexual development inhibitory chemicals? Are the people manufacturing sex toys sadists or something? But wait, the article went on to say -

The Dutch office of Greenpeace UK sought to encourage the European Union to ban sex toys that contained phthalates.

Wait a second! Can we look at the first Greenpeace announcement excerpt again?

Chemicals in the Cupertino-based company’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) device include "phthalates" in the vinyl plastic earphone wiring at levels that are prohibited in young children’s toys in San Francisco and the European Union, Greenpeace said.

Taking the basic arithmetic principle a=b, b=c, thus c=a; is Greenpeace suggesting that sex toys are young children’s toys????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Has somebody seriously messed up at Greenpeace? Or is it a lack of coordination between the PR wing and the Action wing? Or is it just a journalistic error?

So let me sum up the implications of the Greenpeace announcement -

1. Sex toys are young children’s toys.
2. The iPhone’s headphone wire contains toxic substances which hamper a child’s sexual development. They should be replaced.
3. iPhone’s headphone wire is primarily used for jerking off by kids. This could hamper their sexual growth.

Greenpeace really needs to review their press releases! Oh, by the way, here are my sources -

News report in San Jose Business Journal (Oct 15, 2007) containing the Greenpeace announcement - http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2007/10/15/daily9.html

Wikipedia entry of Phthalates - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalates

Cheers

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Hi all,

In a phenomenal technological breakthrough today, Hitachi announced that they created the technology to fit in more than 1 Terabyte of space (1 TB = 1024 GB) in a square inch of disk. They promised 4 TB drives by 2011.

Just imagine what sort of content these future drives could hold! An average song is 4-5 MB. Thus, 1TB will hold about 2,33,000 songs! WOAH!

Read more on the topic at Ars Technica.

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