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 […]
Ah, finally getting around to our coochie-pie Audrey Hepburn. Besides our inamorata, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) features George Peppard. Blake Edwards directed the film based on Truman Capote’s eponymous novella. Update Just finished watching this rather tedious movie.
So you quidnuncs want to know about our meal the other day at Mysore Woodlands, the “Pure Vegetarian South Indian Restaurant” in Parisppany, NJ. As they say in Mysore of bad cooks, Baddi makkalu, adigae aen aenu baralla (these worthless fellows are clueless in the cooking department). Crappy Then, Crappy Now You can change the […]
Sweet. We always knew that this is how it would play out in the end – Intel on its knees in front of AMD’s open fly. Uncork the Dom Perignon Today Intel agreed to fork out a whopping $1.25 billion to AMD to settle all outstanding legal disputes between the two companies. The settlement covers […]