The Great Ganesha

From The Onion: “This just goes to show that if you whine longer and harder than the rest of your classmates, you can achieve your goals.” Following a lengthy two-hour conversation with Wagner, Principal Ron Schroyer named him Class of 2007 valedictorian. [link] It may be The Onion, but in my teaching experience, students are [...]

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Google Maps has just released a new feature: Street View. This lets you get really down ‘n dirty and actually check out pictures of a neighbourhood at street-level, as if you were walking around. It’s pretty cool – you can pan, zoom and even move in intervals of around 100 feet (or so). The pics [...]

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I have to say – Indian advertisements rock. Now this may be because of a cultural bias, or because they really do kick ass. Nonetheless though, some of the adverts that I saw in India decades ago still strike a chord in a way that no ad commercial in the US has done. And from [...]

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Sometimes, when it’s really, really late at night here, it’s day time in India. And that’s when I don my costume, zip across the Pacific, then South East Asia, and finally get to India, where I kill vicious crime lords in my spare time. But not to worry, I’m back before the night has ended, [...]

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Today is Towel Day. So live it up, I tell you! Live. It. Up. That’s all I have to say. Well, that and the stuff below. Douglas Adams with a H2G2 Towel The day actually originated in tribute to Douglas Adams, with reference to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. If you’ve read the book, [...]

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If Elvis were Indian, he’d definitely go for this. I mean, there’s a reason why the pan-fried, peanut butter, bacon and honey sandwich is called The Elvis. A company called (aptly) P.B. Loco has come out with Peanut Butter – the Asian Curry Spice edition. Incidentally, if you go to About.com’s “Elvis Presley’s Favorite Foods” [...]

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Around a year or so ago, I posted a link to a video about what would happen if Microsoft designed the box for the Apple Ipod. Well, here it is again. Then, the NYT‘s Technology columnist David Pogue found out that: Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla on Tuesday confirmed with iPod Observer that his company initiated [...]

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Michel Gondry, Oscar-winner and filmmaker extraordinaire, has directed such classics as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep. But he also has a few other talents up his sleeve nose. In this video, he solves a Rubik’s Cube with his nose. His nose, dammit! [via Neatorama]

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Perusing last month’s Men’s Health I came across an ad for one of those super-duper, miraculous pills which, when you just have 150 of them (each costing $1), you lose all the fat on your body. As it is, they are all ripoffs. The makers are just aiming to exploit overweight or extra-vain people who [...]

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There’s a rusty, circular metal contraption bolted to the wall in our dingy garage. I don’t know what it does, nor do I want to know. And to top it off, for some reason, there’s a yellow construction helmet wedged in there. Don’t ask – I have no clue. So where am I going with [...]

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