We believe that the Taliban to a very, very great extent — to a very, very great extent — are controlled by establishments in Pakistan, stay in Pakistan, have their headquarters in Pakistan, launch attacks from Pakistan. – Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday, October 20, 2011 Source: New York Times It’s a shame that […]
Netbooks (small form-factor, lower-priced, less powerful laptops) took a beating in the second quarter. When the folks at market researcher ABI Research tallied the numbers, they found media tablet shipments in the second quarter reached 13.6 million units, compared to just 7.3 million for netbooks. In Q1, netbooks were ahead with 8.4 million units compared […]
Hey, we’re no strangers to weird movies. After all, 99% of Indian movies, past and present, occupy pride of place in the pantheon of weird shit. But the Mexican production Año Bisiesto (Leap Year), a 2010 award-winning Spanish language film, is a different kind of weird film. Very bleak. Very sexually explicit (now, this should […]
Apple today announced record fiscal fourth quarter results, the company’s first earnings announcement after its iconic co-founder Steve Jobs died earlier this month. For the three months ended September 24, 2011, Apple reported a profit of $6.62 billion (7.05 cents per share) on revenues of $28.27 billion. During the same period last year, Apple’s net […]
We rented the 2010 Canadian movie Good Neighbors after reading the blurb about a serial killer on the loose and three nervous young people in an apartment. Well, our fertile, febrile imagination conjured up scary visions of a thriller, a whodunit and a fierce-looking serial killer scaring the bejesus out of the gals he’s raping […]
After the great New Jersey Samosa lawsuit, the stage is now set for the Mother of All Biryani Battles. Big Indian legal fights in the U.S. are all about life-changing things like Samosas, Biryanis and, who knows, maybe in the future, even Gulab Jamuns and Jalebis. 😉 No kidding, guys. And the venue for the […]