If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times. On all the things that matter, India is the pits. Be it tackling poverty, addressing corruption, making watchable movies or fast Internet access the benighted country is hopeless. Take for instance, Internet download speeds. Despite the incessant noise about India harnessing IT and the […]
Thousands of America’s libraries got better today with Amazon rolling out the Kindle Library Lending program to 11,000 libraries. This means that members of several thousand of America’s county and town libraries like yours truly will be able to borrow Kindle e-books and read them either on the Kindle e-reader or on competing devices like […]
(Recommended by SI Blog reader ‘Hari‘) Most Indian movies are horror shows churned out by thieves and dodos, featuring murderers, convicts, rapists and retards and watched primarily by half-wits who can’t/won’t wank off without the crutch of a skimpily-clad Bollywood siren gyrating obscenely on the screen. Mercifully, once in a rare blessed while, like the […]
We couldn’t be happier. In a matter of weeks, the actions of the greedy chutias at Netflix have triggered a loss of $8 billion in the company’s market capitalization. The online DVD rental and movie streaming firm’s shares have fallen over 50% from a high of $304.79 in mid-July to $143.75 on Monday. Why the […]
Madness. Sheer Madness! As we’ve said often, this daily deal/coupon madness has reached epic heights in the U.S. Perhaps, it’s because of the recession with fewer dollar bills in consumers’ wallets. Perhaps it’s a greedy frenzy that’s consumed the people here into an orgy of consumption. Or perhaps it’s clueless businesses desperately trying to get […]
By Chennai Arun Engeyum Eppodhum is a new Tamil film that hit the screens the other day. Directed by M.Saravanan, previously an assistant to the thieving swine aka A.R.Murugadoss and jointly produced by the Thiruttu LaKaBa (thieving wine) and Fox Star Studios, Engeyyum Eppodhum stars Jai, Anjali, Ananya and Sarvanand. Sathya has composed the music. […]