A Mudaliar friend of ours who has far too much time on his hands e-mailed us the below Tamil Names list the other day. Sorry, folks. If you don’t know Tamil, this one ain’t for you. Here you go: Doctor — Vaidyanathan Dentist — Pallavan Lawyer — Kesavan North Indian Lawyer — Panjabakesan Financier — […]
Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. – from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner For a change, we’re watching a documentary. The film Blue Gold: World Water Wars focuses on a commodity more valuable than gold – Water. Based on the book Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the […]
The best thing we can say about the labor market right now is that it may be getting worse more slowly …. Jobs are likely to remain scarce for some time. – U.S. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke in a talk delivered at the The Economic Club of New York in New York City a few […]
People discover of SI’s existence in various ways: friends, family, enemies and, of course, search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing et al. But what are the key words people type on the search engines that ultimately lands them on the SI blog. Here’s a sample of the key words that brought people to SI over […]
For a long time, we’d been scouring the net for a good, pithy definition for celebrity. Eureka, there it is buried in the New York Times, that vade mecum of the thinking classes. In a cover story on Megan Fox, the New York Times Magazine (p.58) has come up with a peerless definition: noise plus […]
You hear us, Half-Dak, Vetti Jijaji, rgh3176, vivek? Give us our $6 back. Is this junk the movie that scared the bejesus out of all you pussies. Thank God, we are cheapo desis and went for the Super-Bargain Matinee ($6 tickets) and didn’t fork out $10 for an evening show. Not Scary in the Least […]