10 Interesting Web Sites

Over the years, we’ve wandered hither and thither across the vast landscape of the WWW (World Wide Web). Newspapers, blogs, movie sites, government sites, corporate sites, risque sites and more. You can see our spoors on all of them. But very few web sites are really interesting. Most have no reason to exist except to feed […]

Sun’s Shares Crash 23%; Dark Days Ahead

Shares of Sun Microsystems fell nearly 23% to $6.56 today on the Nasdaq after its acquisition by IBM fell through. The share price decline is said to be the biggest drop since July 2002. We’ve said this several times – Sun Microsystems has no future, the company ought to be shut down, the schmucks kicked out and […]

Wi-Fi Mobile Phone Shipments to see Explosive Growth

We don’t know about you. But over the last 12 months we’ve slowly got addicted to our Wi-Fi mobile phone (in our case, the Apple iPhone). No, we are not embarrassed to admit that it even accompanies us to the bathroom. 😉 We use our Wi-Fi mobile phone for reading news, responding to comments on […]

Sudhir Venkatesh on Why no Bandhs in America

Since all ye wide-eyed schmucks worshipping at the altar of the blue-eyed Hrithik Roshan and the bountiful bosomed Namita have no clue who Sudhir Venkatesh is, let’s first introduce the fella. Sudhir Venkatesh, a Columbia University professor, is an acclaimed sociologist in the U.S. who owes his reputation to his work on the street gangs of […]

Incredible India 19; Next Rohini May be Your Daughter

Folks, time now for yet another episode of Incredible India, those only in India stories. * Your child goes to a school in India. But will she come back or will it be her corpse that you see in the evening? Six-year-old Rohini, an UKG student at a private school near Trichy in South India, died after […]

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