As a kid I remember watching the Friday night 10:00 PM TV program on Doordarshan called “The World This Week”. It was a very good program – a weekly news update about events outside India, telecast in a very western manner, significantly more engrossing than the rather staid staple news programs of DD. An enduring [...]
I came across this really interesting collection of signs in the London Telegraph while browsing. Enjoy!
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For all the money a consultant makes, the job is often thankless. Nothing exemplifies this better than today’s Dilbert:
There are some parallels and some non-parallels between Asok and me:
Asok, like me is an IIT graduate. Worse still, like me he is trained to sleep only on national holidays
I must have flunked the course where they [...]
I came across this interesting page on this interesting site called PicDumps. It has graffiti done on currency notes from different countries. Enjoy!
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I was looking for Photoshop-free options to create pencil sketches from photos. Photoshop and most other tools apply desaturation filters to different extents to create these effects. These are a couple of nice online tools that I found:
Befunky
Dumpr
Let me know how you like them
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I had written about Nadal and Federer at this year’s Australian Open, applauding the spirit displayed by Nadal after his victory. Today I came across an article in the Guardian (yes, I read all the British and Australian newspapers whenever India does well in Cricket, just to see what other countries think of it) that [...]
No – this is not a bad blog by any stretch of imagination. It is actually a Badminton player’s blog. Saina Nehwal’s, to be precise. Unfortunately it is not a blog in the classical style – there is no RSS / Atom feed or a place to enter comments. Nevertheless, it is a very enjoyable [...]
You have probably heard of the quote: “Capitalism civilizes greed just like marriage civilizes lust”. I wanted to get other such civil analogies, when I came across this site. Add those places to your travel plans! Oh, and by the way, if you know the rest of the analogies please let me know.
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Did you know that a company called Despair, Inc has copyrighted the frownie (the “:-(” that you put on your text messages and chats)? They sell “Motivational products and posters for pessimists, underachievers, and the chronically unsuccessful” and call their products “Demotivators”. They start off with a picture of their COO:
Check their site out – [...]
Have you come across any signs on the road or elsewhere that really scare you? This is a photo taken on a freeway near San Francisco. It is not a very uncommon road-sign and can be seen on several roads where there are sharp turns. I am sure the drivers of trucks feel very confident [...]
