Vijay For Victory

What can you accomplish in 360 hours?

The Chinese sustainable building company, Broad Group, has yet attempted another impossible feat, building a 30-story tall hotel in 360 hours, after building a 15-story building in a week earlier in 2011.

It can stand against 9 magnitude earthquake having 20 times purer air inside the building. And it is fully furnished.

The building was built over last Christmas time and finished before New Years Eve of 2012.

A small group of people dedicated to making the Web a safe, open and accessible tool for communication, collaboration and community came together to create Mozilla – and how that work continues today.

This is the story of Mozilla.

Do you believe that it is a border line between two countries? Just a line beside a cafe.

This is an unusual border line runs between Netherlands and Belgium in a small town called Baarle-Nassau.

Baarle-Hertog consists of 26 separate sections of territory surrounded by Baarle-Nassau, but some parts of Baarle-Hertog Baarle-owned areas also Nassau.

Order Dutch Coffee with Gouda cheese from Netherlands and have it with Belgium chocolate!

Image credit – Wikimedia

Alexander Samuelson of the Root Glass Company in Terre Haute, Indiana, designed the distinctive shape, and it was patented on November 16, 1915.

The bottle was modified and slimmed down to work with the current bottling equipment and went into broader production in 1916. This contour bottle was the only packaging used by The Coca-Cola Company for 40 years until the king-size package was introduced in 1955.

Today, it is still the most recognized bottle in the world, and the shape is used for packaging from the new aluminum can to the 2-liter family size.

Where did the phrase ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’ come from? And when did scientists finally get round to naming sexual body parts?

This video ‘The History of English’ squeezes 1600 years of history into 10 one-minute bites, uncovering the sources of English words and phrases from Shakespeare and the King James Bible to America and the Internet.Bursting with fascinating facts, the series looks at how English grew from a small tongue into a major global language before reflecting on the future of English in the 21st century.

Yes, Google is one more step closer to Apple.

Chrome Zone is a  Google owned retail shop running inside Currys/PC World in London. Soon we may see few more shops across the UK.

Google Street View service is a huge hit since the day one of its launch from USA.

Finally Google India officially confirmed that, it is bringing the service to India. It is official now.

Here is the photo of the street view car and the cycle in Bengaluru.

Guys who are roaming on the streets, say a cheese and pose the camera (Your faces will be blurred though)

Exciting to see Indian streets in Google Street View.