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Schedule incoming phone calls

I’ll introduce you to two kinds of services where they’ll call you on your cell phone any time you choose instantly.

If you’ve ever felt left out in a room full of people talking into their cell phones instead of to each other? The Popularity Dialer schedules recordings to call your cell phone at a predetermined time to give the impression that you too are “in demand.”

The recordings are hilarious – and pretty realistic! – one-sided conversations with a male or female “friend” or your “boss” timed just so that you’d respond in kind. Ok fine, we’re not suggesting that you actually use this to seem more popular, but it could be just the thing to escape a bad date or drawn-out meeting.
get it at [The Popularity Dialer] [via kottke.org]

another similar service is provided by PhoneMyPhone, it helps you find your lost cell phone, if lets say you’ve misplaced your cell phone around the house and don’t have another phone on hand to call it up to locate it? Give your number to web site PhoneMyPhone and they’ll instantly ring you up. Aside from instant calling to locate your phone, PhoneMyPhone will also schedule phone calls at specific times, similar to previously mentioned Popularity Dialer, to get you out of that boring meeting or awful date if you need it. As for sounding off the ring when you misplace your phone—it may not get a pizza to your door like Google Maps used to, but the easy-to-remember PhoneMyPhone should ensure a quick recovery from the recesses of your couch cushions.
get it at [PhoneMyPhone]

watch TV shows online

i did a little research and if you don’t have cable TV at home, or simply want to watch TV series/movies online without downloading or with downloading here’s the place for you.

there’s goods and bads about watching online, one of the good things that you don’t have to download it especially if you have limited space on your HD or just doesn’t want to use the space for that.

on the other hand when you watch online there comes the buffering problems, for some websites if you lost connectivity you might have to refresh the page and wait all over again for it to load. and you’ll need a reasonably fast connection too.

you might find the following list quite long for you to check them out one by one, but i think you should try a few, while they differ in terms of buffering speed, video quality and being up to date.

1. Free Tv (Lists thousands of TV links, Movie links, and Live TV channels online.)

2. FreeTube (completely free alternative to cable television that lets you watch tv channels and TV shows online using just your browser.)

3. Tape it of the Internet (Over 2,000+ TV shows or 90,000+ episodes, including all the big shows like Lost, Prison Break, etc)

4. Streamic (More then 300 real TV channels to choose from including NBC, ABC, ESPN, BBC1 and many more, organized in categories and ranked by the site users)

5. TVlinks (A directory that amalgamates the most popular tv shows, cartoon & anime series.)

6. PPStream (Sports, movies – all in one please. Just choose a show from the list of available channels)

7. ABC (Watch popular shows like Lost, Desperate Housewives, Alias etc online)

8. PeekVid (Over 700 episodes of popular shows such as 24, Buffy, Desperate Housewives, Family Guy. Shows can be downloaded)

9. PPlive (a popular service for watching many foreign channels)

10. TV-Video (All the latest TV shows as they aired including 24, Smallville, Prison Break, Lost etc)

11. TVU Player (TVU is a nifty little player that offers users a variety of channels that can be used to watch normal TV or Sport. US channels are also found on this player.)

12. Chooseandwatch (It’s a free TV portal where you can watch more than 250 online TV channels. Some of them have to be good.)

13. Channelking (Channel King provides the best selection of free Internet TV channels. Free broadband TV channels from around the world enable you to watch TV from anywhere with broadband.)

14. Streamingtvepisodes

It has some good shows too. You have to register to watch though.It has a custom google search engine that you can use to search for streaming TV episodes. The search engine currently searches YouTube, GoogleVideo, Dailymotion and Bolt for videos.

15. Yourtvlinks

A simple designed site where visitors can even make money watching tv shows.
Categories: TV Shows, Cartoons, Anime, Music Videos, Funny Commercials, Movies.

16. Cbs News Channel

All the cbs news at a click of a button.

17. Video Glath

Another good site, which offers a few shows not available elsewhere: Chappelle’s Show, Entourage, Jackass, Mythbusters, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, The Sopranos, Weeds and many cartoons.

18. Video Glath

Is one of the best Tv replacement website out there. It has A LOT of movies as well as TV episodes to choose from. The player they use allows fullscreen viewing and looks great too!
If you’re over 18 you can turn the family filter off

19. Worldwide Media Project

Your home for Audio and Video Broadcasts from around the World. Tv and Radio stations by country. The good thing is that you can download the list of tv and radio stations in the playlist format.

20. Democry

Democry is a free application you need to install in order to get access to the free tv.
“It’s pretty simple. You get a better internet video experience with Democracy Player because you can do more and you can do it more easily. Some people call it a ‘TiVo for the internet’ or a ‘Firefox for videos’”.

21. Live Footy

You can watch LIVE football/soccer, basketball matches etc, without having to pay a cent! On LiveFooty you can watch all the interesting sporting events FREE.

23. Alluc

It’s very similar to Peekvid and it has a large database of TV shows, movies, music videos, cartoons, anime and sport clips. One of my favorites

24. AlloTv

AllofTV.net constantly provides you with the latest and greatest streaming episodes on the web. You can watch any episodes of such popular cartoons and TV shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, South Park, CSI, Prison Break, Lost, 24, and many more online, for free and without waiting for downloads. Just click on the show, choose your episode, lean back and enjoy.

25. World Wide Internet TeleVision

WWITV: World Wide Internet TeleVision
Your Portal to watch live and on demand online TeleVision broadcasts. Required bandwidth: From 28.8Kb/s to 1500Kb/s.

26. EZTV

EZTV gives you the best TV torrents online, each and every day!

25. Channelchooser

Channelchooser is a free TV-portal. You can watch here best online news, entertainment, sports ,music TV-channels and videos and adult channels. Pick, push and play on Channelchooser.

Sufiah Yusof with video, interview and new photos

as keeping up with my last post about Sofia Yusof, News of the world managed to interview her and get a video shoot of her adding to that clear photos of here posing to their cameras.

By Sara Nuwar & Rachel Spencer [News of the world]

MATHS genius turned hooker Sufiah Yusof reveals how she drives men wild… by reciting EQUATIONS to her clients as they have sex.

Watch her sexy videoshoot and interview

And the Asian beauty defiantly claims that selling her body for up to £1,000 a time provides her with a far more glamorous life than she ever dreamt of when she went to Oxford University aged just 13.

Click here for more pics of Sufiah

“My clients love the fact that I can stimulate their minds AND their bodies,” she boasts in a shockingly frank interview with the News of the World. “And I don’t believe my education has been wasted—in fact I usually take problem sheets with me to solve before appointments.” Sufiah decided to CONFESS ALL after we revealed how the former child prodigy was working as a £130-an-hour prostitute while studying for a masters in economics. It is the latest heartbreaking twist to a life that seemed so full of promise—but went tragically wrong when she cracked under the pressure of her bullying father’s cruel academic regime and fled university at 15. Eight years on, he is now in jail for sexually assaulting two girl pupils and Sufiah has somehow convinced herself that her seedy new career is the answer to all her problems. “People think escorting is sleazy and terrible but I don’t see it like that,” she says. “I’ve always had a high sex drive—and now I’m getting all the sex I want—and guys are much better in bed with an escort than a girlfriend. “I have men who are thrilled about my passion for mathematics. In fact one made me recite equations while he pleasured me, then I gave him oral sex while he chatted about algebra. It drove him wild.” And brainbox Sufiah has worked out that subtracting your respectability to become a prostitute can equal big money.

Peeling

“I have a nice life and I am in control,” she says. “I hate this stereotype society has of escorts being exploited. It is so far from the truth. “My clients treat me like a princess. One guy I see in London took me shopping on Bond Street. He bought me a beautiful black Gucci dress for £700 and then took me to Selfridges and told me to pick any handbag I liked.” She chose a £600 Gucci clutch. “I’m a Primark and Topshop girl normally! I felt like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. “Later that night we went for dinner. I wore my Gucci dress and sexy lingerie and took great pleasure in peeling it off for him later on back at his hotel.” Sufiah was working as an administrative assistant earning £ 16,000 a year in Manchester when an escort agency boss approached her in a bar four months ago. She’d run up debts of £3,500 in rent arrears and credit cards. And she was still haunted by her hellish childhood—subjected to her father Farooq’s Accelerated Learning Technique where she studied maths day in day out in rooms kept freezing cold to improve her concentration. So the big rewards the agency boss promised seemed more than tempting. “I have studied so intensely for so many years I wanted to have fun,” she says. She can’t see the sordid side of prostitution—and instead likens herself to Belle De Jour—the saucy hooker played by Billie Piper in the TV drama. “I’d read Belle De Jour’s Diary of a London Call Girl and was fascinated,” she said. “When this immaculate lady in a designer suit asked if I had ever considered escorting, I found it appealing. “I went home, researched agencies on the internet and found one I thought looked professional. I sent them photographs and they put me on their site.” A couple of days later Sufiah was offered her first client. She recalls: “I felt quite nervous but excited too. I slipped on some black lace underwear and stockings and suspenders and a dress, and just though, ‘Wow, this is thrilling.’ “He was waiting for me at the bar of the Hilton. I expected him to be older but when I saw him he was lovely. “He was only in his late 20s, tall and handsome. I thought, ‘I can’t believe I’m getting paid to have sex with this man.’ “I’d have been thrilled if he chatted me up in a bar. We had a drink then went upstairs to his room and had fantastic sex. I left that night feeling totally elated having had an amazing time with £250 in my purse.” Since then, she has built up a base of regular rich clients and sees between five and ten men each week. Her sugar daddies have treated her to fabulous clothes, designer bags, trips on yachts and even helicopter rides. Sufiah, whose interview can be seen on video at notw.co.uk, brags that she can earn more than £1,000 in a night by having diner with a client and staying over. “It’s like they want to rescue me. One man asked me how much I earned a year. I said £60,000. He told me, ‘I’ll pay that amount straight into your bank and buy you a flat and you can be my mistress.’ “But I don’t want that because I’m happy doing what I do. Now I wonder if I could go back to a normal relationship, where you watch EastEnders and have boring sex. I’ve got used to being treated like a princess.” It is as if she has run away from reality—just as she ran away from university and her father’s dominance at 15. Sufiah becomes solemn and subdued when she talks of her upbringing. “As I grew older I began to clash with my father,” she says. “He was violent on occasions. Because he pushed me so far academically, I became more confident for a girl of my age. I grew up too quickly. “From 11, I was studying maths all the time. I didn’t have any friends. I wasn’t in the Brownies. My father said they didn’t teach Muslim values. I hardly ever played with other children.” She passed her maths A level aged 12 and started at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. “It was an amazing place but I was too young. By the time I was 15 I wanted to be in control of my life. I fought back.” Sufiah sparked a two week nationwide police hunt when she ran away instead of going home at the end of term, saying she’d “had enough of 15 years of physical and emotional abuse”. Her father claimed she had been kidnapped and brainwashed by members of a socialist organisation. But now, speaking about it for the first time, Sufiah says: “I couldn’t bear the thought of going home so I ran away. I’d saved up £200 and found a hostel in London for £14 per night. After a week I moved to a hostel in Bournemouth. I knew I could survive on my own.” When she was found in an internet cafe, Sufiah refused to go home and was placed in foster care by Bournemouth social services. She says: “I stayed with two families who were very good to me. My mum and dad would call me and ask me to go home—but I didn’t want to.”

Rich

Her 50-year-old father is now in jail for 18 months after being convicted of sexually assaulting two 15-year-old girls he taught at his home in Coventry. When Sufiah reached 18 she returned to Oxford to continue her studies—and fell in love with fellow student Jonathan Marshall. They married a year later but it barely lasted a year. “At the time I thought we would be together forever, but we married too young and grew apart,” she says. After the split she moved back to London where she taught maths in the evenings to make ends meet. Then six months ago she moved to Manchester—and stumbled across her new career. “I’m still only young and I can’t decide what I want to do,” she says. “My escort work provides me with a fabulous life. “I still enjoy learning and I find it puts me in the right frame of mind for an intelligent conversation with my clients.” But she admits not all her sexual encounters work out. “At the end of the day you don’t have to sleep with a client if you don’t want to. I’ve done that twice now. Both men were young and very nervous. I just left. “The dullest client I’ve ever had was a rich man who talked about cars all night. It was really, really boring.” Sufiah is well aware she could easily find a job in the City where she could match her £60,000 a year sex earnings. But she said: “I don’t want to take anything away from people who do jobs like that but it’s not for me. I have a nice life. I don’t want for anything.” Her mother Halimahton is now divorcing jailed Farooq and is desperate for her daughter to get in touch with her. “I was shaking when I found out what had become of her,” she says. But talking about her bitter split with her parents, Sufiah says: “I would describe our relationship as estranged. “I have contact with them occasionally but I couldn’t speculate on what they will make of my new life. “I don’t have any regrets. I’ve never felt more confident about my body and I’ve had some of the best sex of my life.”

Pregnant man on Oprah

By STAFF REPORTER
Published: 02 Apr 2008
[The Sun]

PREGNANT man Thomas Beatie will appear on Oprah Winfrey’s TV show tomorrow.

Transsexual Thomas, 34, shocked the world when a picture was released showing his bearded face and growing belly.

The Hawaiian ex-lesbian kept his female reproductive organs and is nearly six months pregnant.

In clips from the show, which will be aired tomorrow, Thomas says: “I’m a person and I have the right to have my own biological child.”

The amazing revelations have been questioned by sceptics, but the Chicago-based talk show said Oprah had interviewed Thomas, his wife Nancy, their doctor and pals of the pair.

According to the clips from the show, Nancy tells how a hysterectomy left her unable to conceive.

Thomas said: “If Nancy could get pregnant, I wouldn’t be doing this.”

When he switched gender, Thomas had his breasts removed and began taking testosterone in a bid to grow facial hair.

But after keeping his female reproductive organs, Thomas fell pregnant through artificial insemination.

He expects to deliver a girl around July 3.

In an interview with an American magazine, he wrote: “Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire.”

Sufiah Yusof, Math prodigy now a £130 hooker claim

here’s your full coverage of the story

[The Star] PETALING JAYA: Sufiah Yusof, the child Maths genius who won a place at Oxford University when she was just 13, has been found to be working as a prostitute, according to a report in London’s News of the World.Sufiah, now 23, whose father Farooq is a Pakistani and mother Halimathon is from Johor, was reported to have entertained an undercover reporter in her flat in Manchester.Claiming that she had posted her services for £130 (RM829) on the Internet, the newspaper said she had called herself Shilpa Lee on a hookers’ website. She is said to have advertised herself as “a sexy, smart student” who preferred “older gentlemen”.

The story in the newspaper comes just days after her father was jailed for sexually assaulting two 15-year-old girls as he home-tutored them in Maths.

Sufiah passed the Maths A-Level she needed for entry into Oxford at the age of 12.

Three years into Oxford, she sparked a massive police hunt after running away.

At the time her father bizarrely claimed Sufiah had been kidnapped and brainwashed by an organisation seeking the key to her intelligence.

But Sufiah sent an e-mail to her family describing her life under her father as a “living hell”.

She was found in an Internet cafe in Bournemouth where she had been working as a hotel waitress.

She refused to go back to her parents and instead was taken into the care of social services.

By then Farooq was in jail for three years for his part in a £1.5mil (RM9.57mil) mortgage swindle.

Sufiah returned to Oxford to complete the final year of her Masters in Maths but failed to finish the course after meeting trainee lawyer Jonathan Marshall.

They were married in 2004 but her parents and siblings failed to turn up. They divorced a year later.

The report, which carried grainy photographs of a semi-nude woman it claimed was Sufiah, said the girl met the reporter who posed as a client wearing a tiny skirt, leather boots and a tight T-shirt. She was carrying three mobile phones.

She also told the reporter that she was studying for a Masters degree in Economics.

Sufiah gave no indication of any sadness at the jailing of her father the previous day. On Wednesday, Farooq, 50, was sentenced to 18 months at Coventry Crown Court for touching two 15-year-old girls when he was home tutoring them.

The report quoted her friend as saying: “Sufiah has suffered so many knocks in her life. I just hope she can drag herself out of this life she has got herself into.

“She deserves a much better life than this. Her gift has been a curse.”

Another Article: [news of the world]

By Keith Gladdis

SHE was a child maths genius who won a place at Oxford University aged just 13—but now the only sums Sufiah Yusof is interested in are the ones she earns as a HOOKER.

For sad Sufiah the daily equation she has to solve is simply sex equals £130 as she sells her body to punters over the internet.

The gifted girl with the winning smile had the world at her feet ten years ago and should be a rich woman by now—but last week she was busy subtracting her underwear for our undercover reporter in her dingy back street flat.

“Would you like to start your half hour now?” said Sufiah, 23, as she danced on the bed, displaying her body for examination.

Then she listed all the sleazy plus points she would throw in for our man if he took up her offer.

Calling herself Shilpa Lee, the former child prodigy still juggles with figures on a hookers’ website, describing herself as a “very pretty size 8, 32D bust and 5’5″ tall—available for booking every day from 11am to 8pm.”

She says she is a “sexy, smart student” who prefers “older gentlemen”— but a former pal who has witnessed her downfall told us: “It is all desperately heartbreaking.

“With her amazing brain she should be able to make money any way she wants. But instead her life has spiralled completely out of control.”

Life has never quite added up for Sufiah. Her descent into prostitution in Salford, Manchester, is the latest in a long line of tragedies to have engulfed her since the sunny day when she posed with her university mortar board for the world’s press outside prestigious St Hilda’s College.

Our shock revelations today come in the week her domineering dad Farooq was jailed for sexually assaulting two 15-year-old girls as he home-tutored them in maths.

And he was always at the root of all her troubles— even as she passed the further maths A-Level she needed for entry to Oxford at the age of 12. In those days Sufia was a strict Muslim child who prayed five times a day and was subjected to her father’s famous Accelerated Learning Technique.

Her days involved stretching and breathing exercises in freezing rooms to keep her brain attentive.

Sufiah would then study hard and be forced to play tennis with just as much intensity as fanatical Farooq drove her on. The routine was so effective Sufiah was seeded number eight in the country for under 21s.

But three years into Oxford, the 15-year-old sparked a massive police hunt after running away.

Abuse

At the time her father bizarrely claimed Sufiah had been kidnapped and brainwashed by an organisation seeking the key to her intelligence.

But Sufiah sent an email to her family describing her life under her father as a “living hell”.

One message to her sister read: “I’ve finally had enough of 15 years of physical and emotional abuse. You know what I am talking about.”

Sufiah was missing for two weeks before being found in an internet café in Bournemouth where she had been working as a hotel waitress.

She refused to go back to her parents and instead was taken into the care of social services.

It was then revealed that Farooq had been jailed for three years in 1992 for his part in a £1.5m mortgage swindle. Before that—at the age of 19—he had been sent to borstal for his role in a conspiracy involving £100,000.

Free from the spell of her father, Sufiah returned to Oxford to complete the final year of her Masters in Maths.

But she was now more concerned with enjoying herself—and failed to finish the course after meeting trainee lawyer Jonathan Marshall.

They were married in 2004 when Sufiah was just 19 and Jonathan 24. But the strains with her family were still there.

Despite being invited, Sufiah’s parents and four brothers and sisters failed to turn up to the wedding.

Her dreams of a happy life with Jonathan were shattered when the couple divorced just a year later.

Now, in her sad little flat, she uses her body to pay the rent. Sufiah met our man, posing as a punter, at the entrance to her building wearing a tiny skirt, leather boots and a tight t-shirt. She was carrying three mobile phones.

She laughed and joked as she led him to her small apartment where a bed was already set out in the lounge.

She told him it was £130 an hour and offered him a glass of water before putting some music on to a cheap portable stereo and nervously stripping down to her red lace bra and knickers.

Sufiah then peeled off her underwear and danced on the bed. She told him she did full sex with a condom and oral sex without protection.

After our man had made his excuses, Sufiah kept him talking by telling him how she was studying for a Masters degree in Economics on a part-time two year course in London.

The former prodigy added: “I’ve got exams coming up and I’m thinking ‘Oh my God!'”

Once described by her parents as “naïve and unstreetwise”, she works alone from her flat without any obvious physical security or protection.

She even admitted to our reporter: “It’s always a surprise who you are going to meet.”

Cheerful Sufiah gave no indication of any sadness at the jailing of her father the previous day. On Wednesday Farooq, 50, was sentenced to 18 months at Coventry Crown Court for touching two 15-year-old girls when he was home tutoring them at maths.

The court heard how in May last year Farooq arrived at one of the victim’s home for a maths lesson.

He started whispering in her ear and kissing her hair and cheek. He also touched her breast and told her she was a genius and pretty before putting her hand on his upper thigh.

Destroyed

Farooq’s defence lawyer Tim Hannam said: “He’s been back in prison for over five months and knows there’ll be no more teaching and any hope he had of gaining an income from the teaching method he had developed to a high degree of success is lost to him. His reputation is destroyed.”

Now it’s clear the daughter who fled his strict regime has almost been destroyed too.

Her friend said last night: “Sufiah has suffered so many knocks in her life. I just hope she can drag herself out this life she has got herself into.

“She is a good person and deserves a much better life than this. Her gift really has been a curse.”

Jabra ditches earpiece design for a dog tag

Bluetooth headsets are necessary, but no matter how cool they try to make them look, not everyone wants to wear an earpiece for fear of looking like a dork or a cyborg. Jabra is doing something different with its BT3030 Bluetooth device.

Shaped like a dog tag, the BT3030, can be worn around the neck or clipped onto a bag or jacket for easy access.

 

It connects to two Bluetooth devices, so you can pair it with a phone and a laptop at the same time, and listen to music without worring about missing any calls. The tag has a microphone that picks up your voice, and features several control buttons to answer calls, play, pause, rewind or fast forward the music. I guess what I liked the most about this device is you can use your own headphones with it. The whole setup comes with a removable chain, clip, headphones, and power supply. The cool street stylin’ dog tag is available for $79 on Jabra’s website.

 

Adobe launches web-based Photoshop service

   Adobe has launched a public beta of its web-based Photoshop Express image editor aimed at average consumers who want to quickly touch-up their photos and share them with friends online. Similar to Flickr, the service offers users two gigabytes of online storage, but does set some limits, so photos can’t be bigger than 4,000 pixels in height and width or 10 megabytes.Either way, the service is very handy for beginners looking for a simple image-editing application. Some of the basic editing functions in Photoshop Express include red-eye removal, auto correct, crop and rotate. Filters that let you add highlights, soft focus, saturation, and sharpness to your photos are also available.You do have to set up an account to start using the service, but I thought it was worthwhile especially if want to correct some of your older photos. Once logged in you can allow the service to automatically connect to sites like Picasa, Photobucket, and Facebook.

After authorizing the application to work with Facebook, all my images were immediately uploaded to the new service, which I found quite useful. Once the images show up in your new Photoshop Express account, you can edit them and save any changes to your Facebook account.

The image editing application is Flash based, so you do need to have that installed. You’ll also need a computer running Windows XP or Vista or Mac OS 10.4. Overall, the application is slow at times, but useful for newbies that don’t need a heavy duty image-editing program.

How to set up an intruder alarm on your email account

This may or may not come as a shocker, but according to a recent FTC survey on identity theft, 16 percent of the victims said their information was stolen by people they knew, which included friends, relatives, neighbors, and coworkers. This is very important because it serves as a reminder that we need to take extra precautions whether we’re at home or at work. It’s probably a good idea to disable cookies, so you don’t save login and password information of your accounts, and you should never keep sensitive information where thieves can easily find it.

I’ve gotten several emails from readers asking me how they can find out if someone has accessed their personal email account, so I thought I’d point you to an excellent post written by PCWorld’s Erik Larkin on how to set a hacker alarm on your web mail box. This is a good way to find out if anyone besides you is logging into your email account.

Here’s the gist:

1. Open an account with OneStatFree.com, and use a disposable e-mail address to complete the registration process.
2. You’ll receive an email from OneStat with an attached file. Save the file, note the account number, and then delete the email.
3. Rename the file with a name that would catch a hacker’s eye like “AccountPasswords.” Save the .txt file as an .htm file so it opens up in a web browser.
4. Send an email with the .htm file to the account you want to monitor. Use a subject title that is eye catching.
5. Wait for the hacker to take the bait. If the attachment is opened by anyone else but you, the hit counter will record their IP address.

Hackers are very clever, so you want to change your password frequently to something that’s a little harder to crack.

Anyone else have any suggestions?

Dropped your Mobile Phone or iPod in Water? Rush to the Kitchen

here’s something  i found funny, but possibly true. enjoy

 

What is the next step that you would take if your expensive mobile phone or iPod gets wet in the rain or your drop it in a wash basin?

Such accidents are not very uncommon. Adam Curry once dropped his iPhone in the toilet. Venadium went for a swim while the iPod was still in his pocket. Leo Laporte did something similar to his cell phone. Virgo soaked his iPod when a bottle of Diet Coke fell over his trousers. 

Since the warranty for most electronics does not cover water damage, what can you do to revive that wet gadget ? The answer is in your kitchen.

Power off the device (if it’s not off already) and try to completely cover the iPod or iPhone in a bowl of rice. Rice being a natural desiccant will help absorb the excess moisture. Let it try for at least 24 hours and DO NOT try to charge the device.

 If your gadget has a removable battery, dry it separately to speed up the whole drying process.

This home-remedy is cheap and worth giving a try before you rush to the Apple store for a replacement.

Ernesto Londoño successfully managed to fix his wet BlackBerry phone after he left the device soaked overnight in a bowl of uncooked rice.

[Link]

why not to try next time your gadget gets wet, might not have many options anyway.