The Great Ganesha

There’s a naked statue of the Parsi prophet Zarathusthra to be recently unveiled in Sydney, Australia. Now, unlike some other religions that shall remain unnamed, the Parsis will not go about rioting and burning down Australian consulates around the world. Here’s why.

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An article in yesterday’s Times OpEd, discusses how search engines today are not making people much smarter. Citation analysis is the practice of judging the quality of an article by the number of times it’s cited in other articles. Putting its inherent ethics aside, Google works in a similar fashion by ranking websites by the [...]

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Because it’s too big and tries to do too much – that’s why! An article in today’s NYT explains not only why Windows is so slow, but also why the release of the new Microsoft Windows Vista has just been pushed back to January.

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So it all started with Dubya announcing that a Dubai company was all lined up to take over handling certain (non-security-related) functions in US ports. Then, because of a huge hulabaloo caused by the Dems in Congress citing “security concerns,” the company itself backed out of the deal, leading to speculation that this would worsen [...]

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Seems that Wall St. execs can no longer hold “meetings” in strip clubs. Thanks to the lawsuits brought on by female execs… She writhes and rubs her nearly naked body against as many as seven men, doing “lap dances” for $400 an hour. (The room costs an additional $200 for the hour.) Hart, who once [...]

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Answer: here. And surprise, surprise. Guess who made the video?

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Not really a die-hard fan of the series although I do watch once in a while. I like the fact that they pretty much ridicule everything in America, no holds barred. But I am a fan of Isaac Hayes. The guy has been in the forefront of the music business for several decades. You have [...]

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Journalists go undercover to break a story. Undercover agents act as journalists to ensure security. Now all we need is to have vice-presidents shoot their friends while hunting and Michael Jackson to take up residence in the Middle East. Oh, wait a sec…

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Prince Roy, a US visa consulate officer stationed in Madras nostalgizes about desi talkings and suchlike…

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You will not believe the realism involved with these Sidewalk Drawings. Amazing!

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