The Great Ganesha

So it seems that there’s been a flurry of activity after the Google ‘Street View’ feature has come out. First off, we had a woman get frantic about the people circling her streets in vans while taking pictures of her cat. Sounds like 24? Well, think again. Here’s what she wrote to BoingBoing: I’m all [...]

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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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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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Reading the BBC this morning, I came across a story entitled Polygamous Lesbians Flee Sharia. Now, just think: How many controversial items are in the title itself? Firstly, we have “polygamous” which is certain to raise some eyebrows. Then we have “lesbians” – enough said about that. And finally, we have “Sharia” or Islamic law [...]

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Picture courtesy: Andy Day An article by Alec Wilkinson in last week’s double-issue of the New Yorker is about parkour – the art of running up walls, going down the rails (as opposed to the stairs) and jumping across rooftops. As it says in the magazine: Parkour, a made-up word, cousin to the French parcours, [...]

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Last night, The Daily Show‘s “Senior Mumbai Bureau Chief” Aasif Mandvi’s sketch on the Richard Gere incident was lackluster at best. It just wasn’t that funny. Here’s my pause ‘n play analysis. Incidentally, if you haven’t watched it yet, go ahead and do so. Then come back here for the fun-alysis. Play First, Jon Stewart [...]

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Actor Richard Gere has sparked protests in India after kissing Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty at an Aids awareness rally in New Delhi. Demonstrators in Mumbai (Bombay) set light to effigies of the Hollywood star, while protesters in other cities shouted “death to Shilpa Shetty”. The protesters said Gere insulted Indian culture by kissing [...]

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Ordinarily, I’m of the opinion that graffiti is an eyesore. But this guy definitely makes you do a double-take. Some pretty amazing stuff. This one below is apparently on the Westside Crisis Clinic on Turk St. in San Fran. Check it out. [via]

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I was going to post an April Fool’s joke on this blog on April 1. You know, some kind of humorous news item or some other story that I could have claimed to have “discovered” online and reported on here at The Great Ganesha. But then I got to thinking that that is exactly what [...]

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