Operator : ‘Thank you for calling Shanti Sagar Fast Food. May I have your…’

Customer: ‘Helloo, can I order..’

Operator : ‘Can I have your multi purpose card number first, Sir?’

Customer: ‘It’s aah…, hold on…… 889861356102049998-45-54610′

Operator : ‘OK… you’re… Mr Singh and you’re calling from 1715B, 18th Cross Malleswaram. Your home number is 23440946, your office 56452302 and your mobile is 9823426625. You are now calling from your mobile now, Sir?’
Customer: ‘How did you get all my phone numbers?

Operator : ‘We are connected to the system Sir’

Customer: ‘May I order your Seafood Pizza….’

Operator : ‘That’s not a good idea Sir’

Customer: ‘How come?’

Operator : ‘According to your medical records, you have high blood pressure and even higher cholesterol level Sir’

Customer: ‘What?… What do you recommend then?’

Operator : ‘Try our Low Fat Hokkien Mee Pizza. You’ll like it’

Customer: ‘How do you know for sure?’

Operator : ‘You borrowed a book entitled ‘Popular Hokkien Dishes’ from the National Library last week Sir’

Customer: ‘OK I give up… Give me three family size ones then, how much will that cost?’

Operator : ‘That should be enough for your family of 10, Sir. The total is Rs 999.99′

Customer: ‘Can I pay by credit card?’

Operator : ‘I’m afraid you have to pay us cash, Sir. Your credit card is over the limit and you owe your bank Rs 39,720.55 since October last year. That’s not including the late payment charges on your housing loan, Sir.’

Customer: ‘I guess I have to run to the neighbourhood ATM and withdraw some cash before your guy arrives’

Operator : ‘You can’t Sir. Based on the records, you’ve reached your daily limit on machine withdrawal today’

Customer: ‘Never mind just send the pizzas, I’ll have the cash ready. How long is it gonna take anyway?’

Operator : ‘About 45 minutes Sir, but if you can’t wait you can always come and collect it on your scooter…’

Customer: ‘ What!’

Operator : ‘According to the details in system ,you own a Scooter,…registration number KA 04 X 1123…’

Customer: ‘ ????’

Operator : ‘Is there anything else Sir?’

Customer: ‘Nothing… by the way… aren’t you giving me that 3 free bottles of cola as advertised?’

Operator : ‘We normally would Sir, but based on your records you’re also diabetic……. ‘

Customer: #$$^%&$@$% ^

Operator : ‘Better watch your language Sir. Remember on 15th July 1997 you were convicted of using abusive language on a policeman…?’

Customer: [Faints]

26 years ago to the date Scott Fahlman posted the following electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University:

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:
: – )

Fahlman says he came up with the idea after reading “lengthy diatribes” from people on the message board who failed to get the joke or the sarcasm in a particular post.

With that post suggesting funny emails be marked out, Fahlman became the acknowledged originator of the ASCII-based emoticon. Today the emotion+icon combination has spawned a thousand others and rarely is an online conversation complete without one.

Meet the guy who started it all…

Jorn Barger coined the term “weblog” to describe the list of
links on his Robot Wisdom website that “logged” his internet
surfing.

In the decade since then, blogs have come to dominate the
net, from 100 million personal diaries to the breaking news
sections of the august The New York Times.

There are more than 100 million active blogs, according to
Technorati – a monumental leap forward from the relative handful
of geeks posting online just a few years back. And things just
look as bright for the future of blogs.

V12 Design, an Italian industrial design agency, developed a dual LCD laptop called the Canova and is now working with a major US manufacturer for a commercial release.

The cool design will support a multi-touch point and will have advanced voice-recognition technology. It can also transform into an e-book allowing users to turn pages with the swipe of a finger.

The breakthru design will be out in 2010 and is expected to completely change personal computing as we know it today.

Pranav Mistry at MIT is spearheading Sixth Sense – a technology that that augments the physical world around us with digital information and proposing natural hand gestures as the mechanism to interact with that information.

Check out this video where a mobile phone connected to the internet, a projector and colored-bands on the fingers result in some wonderful applications.