Writers on digital media are getting into a frenzy over the upcoming launch of the Palm Pre smartphone on June 6. But we think any excitement over the launch of the Palm Pre mobile phone is completely unwarranted. < Even if the new Palm Pre is a decent phone (and we still don’t know if […]
Women judge of books as they do of fashions or complexions, which are admired only ‘in their newest gloss.’ That is not my way. – William Hazlitt in the essay On Reading Old Books P.60 in Hazlitt: Selected Essays, edited by George Sampson (Cambridge University Press, 1963)
The Terminator is returning tomorrow. We first watched Terminator some 10-15 years back. With Terminator Salvation set to release here tomorrow (in the U.S.), we thought it was time to revisit the original. Released in 1984, Terminator features the Austrian-American body-builder, steroids user and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn. In Terminator, Arnold […]
Oh, no. Don’t get your hopes up. We are not doing what Padma Lakshmi did recently in Allure. No way. But ever since we espied our Tamil ponnu Padma Lakshmi favoring us with a tantalizing glimpse of her delectable orbs as she crunches down into a Hardee’s Western Bacon Thickburger, lazily throwing back her head […]
* Prabhakaran dead, war on LTTE over: Lanka (Times of India) * Sri Lankans Say Rebels Crushed and Leader Killed (New York Times) * Sri Lankan rebel leader ‘killed’ (BBC) * LTTE chief Prabhakaran dead (Hindu) * Prabhakaran shot dead while trying to break army siege: Army (DNA) * Sri Lanka: Tamil leader has been […]
Are struggling U.S. taxpayers helping Pakistan to expand its nuclear arsenal? The unfortunate answer to the important question seems to be: Yes. The New York Times has an interesting story today that Pakistan is boosting its nuclear weaponry. Here’s an excerpt from the piece: Members of Congress have been told in confidential briefings that Pakistan […]