Now, now before y’all politically correct folks get your knickers in a twist, the above headline is borrowed from a scene in Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger. We just watched the DVD (thank you, RedBox). A HBO presentation, the DVD features Black comedian Chris Rock’s live performances in Johannesburg, London and New York City. This […]
Let’s acknowledge the ugly facts first – Microsoft’s Live search engine is a piece of shit. Utter garbage. So it hardly comes as a surprise that even Microsoft employees (a.k.a. Microserfs) don’t use this junk search engine. As Google gets better and extends its search hegemony, Microsoft’s trashy search engine continues to lose ground. Look […]
Notorious Indian IT crook Satyam Computer Services’ new board has picked Tech Mahindra as the highest bidder to acquire a controlling stake in Satyam. Tech Mahindra bid Rs 58 per share and will pay $351 million (Rs 1,756 crore) for an initial 31% stake in the company. Tech Mahindra must also make a cash offer to […]
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a disgrace to the Indian-American community, has gotten himself a book deal, according to the Times Picayune. Due out in 2010, the book will be ghost written by Peter Schweizer and focus on Bobby’s ‘life and policy ideas,’ the paper reports. A Republican, Right-wing extremist and Christian fundamentalist, Jindal is an […]
Over the years, we’ve wandered hither and thither across the vast landscape of the WWW (World Wide Web). Newspapers, blogs, movie sites, government sites, corporate sites, risque sites and more. You can see our spoors on all of them. But very few web sites are really interesting. Most have no reason to exist except to feed […]
Not for us roasted lamb, ham, hardboiled eggs or cakes this Easter. We decided to try something novel this year – Strawberry Kesaribath. Indians are no strangers to Kesaribath a.k.a Rava Kesari or Ksheera. Walk into any Indian vegetarian restaurant and there it is staring at you with that order-me-now look on the menu. Whether you […]