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The Southern Ground Hornbill or cafer (Bucorvus leadbeateri), is one of two species of ground hornbill and is the largest species of hornbill. Tweet

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The Alexandrine Parakeet is named after Alexander the Great, who is credited with the exporting of numerous specimens of this bird from Punjab into various European and Mediterranean countries and regions, where they were considered prized possessions for the nobles and royalty. Though still classified as a species of “Least Concern” Alexandrines have all but [...]

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I'm watching The Big Bang Theory (387 others checked-in) http://t.co/LblyKTfw @GetGlue @BigBang_CBS # I unlocked the The Big Bang Theory: Penny sticker on @GetGlue! http://t.co/Mnl26o4f # I'm watching Crazy, Stupid, Love http://t.co/LblyKTfw @GetGlue #crazystupidlove # Millions Download New Trojan Discovered in Android Market http://t.co/DYEVmomi little late but… # Five Million Android Users Might Have Fallen [...]

Here’s a prediction: this weekend, Twitter will go down. I have a lot of friends in Twitter and I am very much trusting their abilities (which I know to be awesome) but there will be a fail whale. I am so convinced about this that if there is no outage and next time I am [...]

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The Common Woodshrike (Tephrodornis pondicerianus) is a species in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae. The woodshrikes were formerly placed in the Campephagidae (cuckooshrikes) Tweet

Tomorrow I will be at Microsoft London to make IE10 support classList speak at news:rewired – media in motion on the topic of open web video and what you can do with it. For this, I got 10 minutes and then answer questions (or ask them) in a panel. Update: The audio is now available [...]

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World Wetlands Day occurs on February 2, every year. It marks the date of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands, called Ramsar Convention, on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Yellow Bittern is a very shy bird of the wetlands and is protected under [...]

As part of the “Creating thumbnails with drag and drop and HTML5 canvas” post on MDN today, I spent some time creating a short and working resizing function that takes an arbitrary image and re-sizes it to fit into a thumbnail of a certain width and height. After a few failed attempts I googled around [...]

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This picture may not have much aesthetic merit but I am pleased that I could manage it! Black Eagle is a rarity in Nagpur. This picture is full frame and was taken at 1000mm handheld, with 400iso at 1/50sec with subject at a distance of 21m, in retrospect I can easily say I could have [...]

Things that made me happy this morning: Morning Star is a monophonic bassline synthesizer controlled by a step sequencer, designed to run on Web browsers and made entirely with HTML5 and JavascriptGirls in a Tech World is a promotional video about women in tech – interviews with engineersVanilla JavaScript FTW is a side-by-side solution comparison [...]