Most Indians, with the exception of aberrations like Mahatma Gandhi, Baba Amte or Mother Teresa, are callous bastards with little or no concern for their fellow human beings. So, it’s with regret we notice from stray newspaper reports that the widespread pernicious Western business practice of layoffs is starting to creep into India too adding […]
The iTunes juggernaut shows no sign of slowing down. Apple is blowing the trumpet that its iTunes digital media store has sold 10 billion songs. We’ve played a tiny part in helping Apple reach this extraordinary milestone by purchasing over 100 songs from iTunes. Besides English, iTunes has a huge collection of Tamil, Hindi and […]
It’s a safe bet that of the numerous manias running amok in the English language all ye lascivious schmucks have only heard of Nymphomania. 😉 But there are lots of other ‘manias‘ out there. Here’s a short list of some manias you probably won’t recognize: * Bruxomania – Practice of grinding one’s teeth. * Oniomania […]
This morning RedBox (the $1 DVD rental kiosk guys in the U.S) put out an announcement boasting that its free iPhone application had been downloaded a million times since its launch four months. Since we are occasional users of RedBox, we thought let’s give the application a spin. So we took out our iPhone and […]
For SI blog readers Nuttesh, VJCool & KD36939 Guess what the postman brought us today. Yes, the fella delivered the seductive nymph Jessica of Biel fame. 😉 Ah, if only. If only. We got the DVD of the Oscar-nominated The Illusionist today. Besides Jessica Biel, The Illusionist also features Ed Norton and Paul Giamatti in […]