Of the countless movie opening scenes I’ve watched (nay endured), nothing comes remotely near the thrill of Dom Hemingway. The audacity of the lines, the expressions on Jude Law’s face and the volcanic eruption at the end, oh, believe me, it’s a timeless, peerless moment. Yeah, the ‘unluckiest son of a bitch in the world’ […]
Update: Kickstarter Freezes Anonabox Privacy Router Project Anonabox has turned out to be a phenomenal success on the crowd funding site Kickstarter. Against a target of $7,500, Anonabox’s promoters have already received commitments for $581,943 from 8,927 contributors (as of 22:06ET on October 15, 2014), just two days after the project went live on Kickstarter. […]
Surface Pro 3 – Discounts Start Some companies are like some people – Plain stupid. They never learn from their follies. Take Microsoft and its doomed Surface tablets for instance. Over the last few years, Microsoft has incurred losses nearing two billion dollars on its disastrous forays into the tablet arena. No matter that Microsoft […]
[T]he age of mercy is over and …the day of Judgement has arrived. But as the Messiah is running late, we have to do his job for him. – The Son by Jo Nesbo, p.299 I hate it when Western writers don’t know the basics about India or its majority Hindu inhabitants. A short while […]
It isn’t right that everybody should know that they’re going to kill her son and she the only one who doesn’t. – Luisa Santiaga as she goes (belatedly) to warn Santiago Nasar’s mother Placida of her son’s imminent death Source – Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez In Gabriel Garcia […]
Begging pays handsome dividends. And Indian crook Dinesh D’Souza is perfect evidence of that. Despite pleading guilty to the felony crime of violating U.S. federal campaign election laws, Dinesh has managed to escape a prison term. Instead, he was sentenced today to five years of probation, with eight months during the first year to be […]