Archive for April, 2008

Pictorial

April 28, 2008

A protestor in Bubaneshwar, Orissa jumps over a tyre during a roadblock protest relating to a Temple festval on April 18th. MSNBC clicks a pic, browsekid captions d’ pic.

Original image Source: MSNBC

Playboy PM?

April 28, 2008

Source: The Guardian
No, no nothing to do with Page 3 parties…the new Spanish cabinet where a majority are women, including the 7-month pregnant defense minister. A feminist perspective of how it would be if the world was run by women, well few feminist points from the article,
We’d be less macho, and far more stylish – [...]

Remember Lemon and spoon race?

April 23, 2008

This is simpler than that..

Source: http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=218&sid=634384&pid=10
“Tribal women balance earthen pot full of water as they participate in a hundred meters run during the Suori Tribal festival in Boko, about 70 kilometers (44 miles) west of Gauhati, India, Saturday, April 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)”
Can you hear their thoughts?

Catch-22

April 23, 2008

Catch-22: A situation where no real choice exsts (that would lead to success)
A very much related concept – The Lady, or the Tiger?
…[T]hen all the people had assembled in the galleries, and the king, surrounded by his court, sat high up on his throne of royal state on one side of the arena, he gave [...]

UFO diairies

April 23, 2008

One fine evening, four UFOs dropped by Arizona to celebrate their 11th anniversary, a few days off according to their advanced calendar, danced around in the Arizona night sky, helped people come on to the drudge report link to local news websites driving imaginations crazy. And just like every other video of UFOs, this video [...]

What company was it?

April 22, 2008

….[H]ow, I ask Pandey, did you dream up that idea? “My friend, Subhash Chandra [a TV mogul] bought a British company,” he says. “He did it out of patriotism – to show the British. So what did he buy? “He hunted till he found the original [name of the company here].” It was in shipping, [...]

I’m a physical terrorist.

April 21, 2008

Lynn(Name changed?): Oh, um uh, so you volunteer here, huh? WHat do you do outside?
Me: I’m a software programmer. WHat about you?
Lynn: I’m a physical terrorist.
Me: #*$__&$#)#$!!@@#%^&)_)*#…. What????!!!!?
Lynn: err, Physical therapist.
Me: ooooooooooooooooooooooooookaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy!!!

Fw: A test for those who know everything

April 21, 2008

Straight from an e-mail (answers in the comment section):
This is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry that I didn’t. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers
1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the [...]

Reflection

April 20, 2008

Beliefs, faith, hope, persona – the way you define them is how you know them with respect to yourself. It does not matter, what people, who do not matter think. Life is still beautiful, positive and spiritual.

The man from earth – Movie review

April 20, 2008

A movie shot in a small room in its entirety – more importantly gripping the imagination and senses of the user without any special effects, CGI or graphics is a moviemaker’s dream come true, and to top it all, it’s Sci-Fi. ‘The man from earth’ is a movie, that one should really really watch.
There are [...]