Update: Telugu Bidda Arvind Mahankali is 2013 Spelling Bee Champion Here’s my prediction for the 2013 Spelling Bee contest. If it’s not a Dum Biryani (Telugu), it’ll be an Idli-Sambar (Tamil) who will take the top honors at the 2013 Spelling Bee championship. The 86th Spelling Bee competition will take place from May 28-30 at […]
Statistics put out today by the U.S. Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics show that in Amazing America, jail occupancy rates are far higher than hotel occupancy rates. Justice Department statistics show jail occupancy rate stood at 84% in mid-2012 (latest period for which statistics are available). Unlike federal or state prisons, jails are usually […]
For how much longer will Vivek Bhardwaj, BlackBerry’s Head of Software have a job? If I were to guess, not more than 12-months to 18-months. My prediction is that BlackBerry is in an unstoppable death spiral that will snatch not just Vivek Bhardwaj’s job but eviscerate many, many jobs at the Canadian company. Blackberry – […]
By Madmax673 I’ve drawn flak on several occasions for not watching “Star Wars”. The movie from which that Kollywood “genius” Maniratnam stole visuals from. Or was it E.T? Or was it both? The idea of characters pulling action/adventure shit together in space or in some wonderland excluding the earth with some unimaginable ugly robotic nonsensical […]
Any time we open a digital media news blog, we read about the cord-cutters (those who have pulled the plug on cable) in America making life miserable for large cable companies like Comcast, Cablevision, RoadRunner etc. So where are the hoi polloi going for their entertainment fix every night then? Besides online porn, that is. […]
The box office zombies made mincemeat out of the Saif Ali Khan production Go Goa Gone. The film, touted as India’s first with a zombies theme, did miserably at the U.S. box office. Go Goa Gone notched up a mere $170,044 in its opening weekend (May 10-13, 2013). Reports from India suggest the film did […]