Free university courses

These are some great universities offering their courses , assignments and lecture notes free on the web. This is part of an initiative called as OCW-Open Courseware.
Knowledge grows when its shared.

UC Berkeley

open2.net

MIT

Stanford

Free background check

Now you can do free background checks on just names
criminalsearches
or If you are searching for apartments, check the below link out. it gives location of various crimes that happened in the vicinity of an address.

criminalsearches.com/neighborhood

Can you Dance !!!

Check this out...Bollywood style dance on American Primetime. and guess what..it was done very well.

Free rice!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check out this site. If you answer the meaning of a word correctly, then this site's sponsors will donate 20 grains of rice to World Food program to feed the hungry. Not you, the dieter but the really hungry.

Now that a swell idea.
Stop reading and do some good and improve your vocubalury. Share what you ...............

$20 trick at Las Vegas

I just heard about this neat trick. If you are in Las Vegas and if you are booking a room, hand in a $20 note along with your credit card and very innocently ask if there is a complimentary upgrade available.
If there is, then you got a great deal for $20 else the clerk will return the $20.

Risk free way to get a great upgrade.

Cheap Pino Grigios

I love white wines and Pino Grigios are my favorite. Correction..Cheap Pino Grigios are my favorite. Here are some good ones from wsj.com

Barefoot Cellars Pinot Grigio Nonvintage (California). $5.99
Good/Very Good
Crisp, clean and well conceived, with tangy fruit and vibrant flavors of white peaches, lime and some earth. This is a steal.

The Hogue Cellars Pinot Grigio 2007 (Columbia Valley). $6.99
Very Good
Best value. Clean, bright, fresh and utterly winning. Fun and alive, with all sorts of tastes of just-picked fruit. Another reasonably priced winner from Hogue


Wine by Joe Pinot Gris 2006 (Oregon). $12.00*
Good/Very Good
Rounder than most, with some honey and plenty of ripe lemon-lime fruit. Nicely crisp on the finish.

One more love story...

Even now, in some parts of India, couples of different castes or religions are prosecuted...not by the law but by Parents, Relatives or even by society. But no where I had read about the Law persecuting couples.

Read the below love story about Race based persecution(with happy ending) in the USA in 1960s.
economist.com

Now I think about it, there are still more countries that persecute people in this regard. KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), Israel (sort of). Do you know of any more ?