Archive for May, 2008

New age match fixing

May 30, 2008

Santosh at Uberdesi, has a behind the scenes article on the recently held Cricket matches in Florida.
Well, since I couldn’t get behind the scenes, I went behind their minds

Original image source: uberdesi.com
Edited by: Browsekid

‘Uncontacted’ tribes in Amazon

May 30, 2008

Source: Link
According to reports, there are 100 such groups existing all over the world. Read here about a description of the elements in the pictures.

My best friend’s wedding

May 28, 2008

And I don’t even have a pic, worse, couldn’t even send a bouquet.
Nine years ago, if I had told you, this guy will fall in Love, fight against the girl’s family and marry someone of his choice, I would die laughing before I finished the sentence. Not that he is not capable of anything miraculous [...]

The next big internet star is….

May 27, 2008

Janaki Purushe, on CNN’s Ireport, which features a pic of herself (most probably sent to CNN by herself)..
some good marketing, I must say
Ok people, I’ve no new information on this blog, at least not more than her facebook profile or her LiveJournal profile…pah.

Source: Cnn.com home page for the last 45 min!

E Pluribus unum – Indiana Jones

May 23, 2008

I Saw at least 5 movies last night, in the price of one. ‘e pluribus unum’ – out of many, one. The same words that you see on a quarter dollar coin. Indiana Jones is a hodge podge of a mixture of a few movies, imagine seeing Alien, or ET, National treasure, The [...]

POI – Missile Mommy

May 20, 2008

In the Persons of interest category , we have India’s Missile Mommy.
India’s Agni -III missile project, has a woman in the position of Associate Project Director.

Source: India Today
The story of Dr. Tessy Thomas, a 45 year old from Kerala who has been given the monikers of “Agniputri” and the “Missile Woman”. And in here she [...]

Google Health

May 19, 2008

With the motto of storing all information at “one place” and making it accessible, google heats up the battle turf with electronic health records. For noobies, this is just like checking your personal health information online, say like checking your e-mail, similar to Microsoft Health Vault and various other available websites.
https://www.google.com/health/p/
The ease of accessibility and [...]

I Beat You Jessica

May 16, 2008

And with eyes like those, I could beat you any day, anytime. sigh!
Guys, I usually start off the game when she starts talking, a good 40 sec before she starts staring. And I win.
Girls, ain’t u got nothing better to do than to stare at Jessica?
And what a smile at 1:18, SIGH!
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The story of forgiveness

May 15, 2008

Dear reader,
I hope you have heard about or seen a movie called ‘Hotel Rwanda’, a movie based on the real story of a genocide of Tutsi tribe by the Hutu tribe, both belonging to Rwanda but divided by ‘Social class’ (source: wikipedia) by “Belgian and German” colonists, who were following the simple yet effective policy [...]

India – Terror strikes again in Jaipur, Rajashtan

May 13, 2008

Video link
5-7 medium intensity blasts triggered within a gap of 12 minutes, nearly 50 people dead. Most people gathered for a “Hanuman” festival at a temple.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/may/13rajblast.htm
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080049771
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1396596
Link (Hindustan times)

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http://www.rajasthanpatrika.com/NewsOnHome/InnerNews.php?Id=2082