Marketing 101 – throw a shoe

The world’s most notorious pair of black leather shoes, that made history, has even generated 100 jobs in Turkey.
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Ever since the incident, Ramazan Baydan, the owner of the Istanbul-based Baydan Shoe Company, has been swamped with orders from across the world. (Rediff reports)
Well,  an order of 300,000 pairs is not too bad. Imagine, if Bush [...]

Paparazzi +tabloid+nonsense = Telugu movie and news sites

A sample of how ridiculously cheap regional sites are becoming:
idlebrain.com  – purportedly a good source of film reviews, has a photo gallery(20 odd pics) of a dead couple – an upcoming actress and her male partner after a possible murder-suicide tragedy. No link love. What in the world are they trying to show in this [...]

Mumbai aftermath

Skewed or Un-skewed – you tell me.
Pak Govt  – The perpetrators are ’stateless’ actors – they are not Pakistanis.
Info: Terrorist caught red-handed: Mohammad Ajmal Amir (kasab’s?), names of parents, found in voters list in a remote area of Pakistan (by a reporter from Observer – article cites numbers of national id cards of the gunman’s [...]

The stepford wife?

A robot-enthusiast having the required skill set, builds a robot that resembles a woman in appearance.  And this definitely is an innovation – but what next?
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Apparently, Aiko – as the robot is named can do a whole range of staff – communicate in about 13,000 sentences (and still learning), do simple cleaning stuff, provide companionship, [...]

Mujhe ammi ke paas jana hai

TOI reports (link), that the lone gunman captured from the horrific massacre in Mumbai now wants to go back to his country and see his Mom.
“Mujhe maaf kar do, mujhe apne desh Pakistan jana hai, meri emmi ke paas” (Please forgive me, I want to see my mother, I want to go back to [...]