Another waste of eyesight... I spent last night reading this. What a waste of rainforests and ink.

Da Vinci Code was ok, but only because it was a little different and some (much controversial) historical references. Then I read Angels and Demons which had nearly the same plot as DVC. I mean, both have the same guy (the brilliant and dashing whats-his-name), in both he gets his sleep disturbed because some guy's croaked with a symbol on his ass.. gimme a fukken break! Couldnt the stories start a little different? WTF!

Then it's off to a tour of entire europe while assasins follow u. And in one total stroke of (unorginal) genius the assasin is of the Hashshashin variety. (Applause) The illuminati.. freemasons... jesus's lovechild... gimme a break.

Fine, Digital Fortress is about cryptography. Another term which the average person doesnt know jackshit about, hence, a fertile ground for weaving a halfbaked story. But since literary wisdom says that no horse is too dead to beat, we have the BRILLIANT AND BEUTIFULL leggy Ms SOMEONE, the only female cryptographer in the NSA and the ONLY-MAN-SHE-EVER-LOVED Mr SOMEPROFFESSOR. All through the story they're on different sides of the atlantic and there's no sex scene. Which is ok, the rest of the novel is fucked anyway..

Rule no. 1 for Movies/Tech books

If there's a huge computer (multiple stories) it WILL burn out in the end. Explosivly. Now i havent seen computers melting down because of heat, but I dont think supercomputer which overheat will explode in the way they're depicted. Apparantly the cooling freon mixed with oxygen and generated a huge fireball. The fact the freon is an inert gas is obviously not important. Hell liquid nitrogen will burn if it can add one page to the story.

Rule no 2

Huge computers which gets locked by hacker/virus/alien/in-general-bad-guy will have to switched off manually. The switch is always located in dark basements with flickering lights. The person who goes to switch it off manually WILL die of an accident, killed by the bad guy or eaten by dinosaurs (assuming there ARE dinosaurs in the plot).

Good thing regular comps have a Control Alt Del feature, i wouldnt like to go to my dinosaur infested basement evrey 5 mins. I run windows.

Rule 3

Female mathmaticians/nuclear scientists are beutifull. Its a prerequisite for nuclear science colleges. Brilliance is directly propotional to beuaty and inversly propotional to dress size.

They also manage to find time for self defence lessons, but that usually doesnt help and its up to some other GUY in the story to get her out of shit city. Also, self defence usually involves a well placed kick in the groin region of the adversary.

This quite unlike real life, doesnt incapacitate the attacker, but only makes him squirm for 5 seconds, before he comes back with a vengenance.

Enough rules. Back to specific suckiness of Digital Fortress. The NSA's the perfect organizaion for this. Since noone known what it does, it could do anything. No one known anything abotu crytogrphy too, so say ANY shit and ppl belive.

IT SUCKS! Some japanese cryptogrpher's made the unbreakable code and hell breaks loose.. the beutfiull heroine gets called to office on a saturday and her boyfreind (the only man she evre loved) gets sent to europe on a wild goose chase to find the ONE code.. then he runs from clue to clue in the quest of the one ring and the ring has an incriptoin to unlock the super code. But its not in elvish though. Its in latin :p

Anyway.. the europe part of the story is totally unbelivable.... too many coincideces just to get the story going... its amateurish. I know its tough to write a novel, but there have been a million better ones. Just everything seems to happen to the poor bastard (the only man she loved), then theres a auto-shooting sequence on the airport. Theres the ubiquitous assasin following the dude killing everyone he has the misfortune of meeting. Unneccisary murders.. just for the sake of showing (writing) blood. Insane plot.

The author manages to pad out the story nicely with unneeded references for everything... half the novel is probably explnations of cryptography or computer speak. Misses no opportunity to display how much he learned from other sources. Even manages to mention why a computer bug is called a bug.

Another sign of a fucked plot. Every small nuance mentioned in this "explanatory" way will have relevance. IN the begining theres the mention of the code system used by caesar and sure enough u have the thing being used in the end.

Pretty sad.

Another trend in dan brown novels. The GOOD guy is the bad guy. the person who calls in the leads is the bad. There's another HIDDEN IDENTITY PERSON who is dealing with the bad guys and controlling the assasins, that too is the guy who called in the leads. It all comes out in the end, but if u have ANY imagination u know after reading 1 chapter who'll do what.

Anotehr D.B. trait. Every one has illegitimate children who are revealed in the end. In angels and demons it was the Pope who had a son, in da vinci code he went a step higher and Jesus had children, in digital fortress, a bad japanese business man discovers the crytogrpaher is his son. SUCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKSSSSSSSSSSSSSS !!!!!

Then again japanese businessmen in movies/novels. I've never been there. But they're all serious faced people in blue business suits who talk about honor and nothing else. Everythign is honor this honor that, and in between there's a lot of "face saving" then theres some more honor talk and then it's off to the sushi bar with a blond silicon queen (the american poor family girl stuck with kinky japanese bosses). They're all racist and u wont find a japanese woman in the place of business. Half the japanese are named Tanaka san. If there HAPPENS to be a japanese business woman, she'll probably be American born (or half american) and will be against japanese and 8 out of 10, she'll be played by Lucy Liu.

Then there's the boring over predictable end. THe virus takes down the firewalls for the NSA supercomputers, and theres this long line hackers waiting.. all this is visually depicted on screens and the computer geeks are using terms like Sharks int eh water, Hyenas waiting outside... sick sick sick. The depiction of computer geeks/terminology in hollywood/novels is sick. The firewall "shield" disintegrates in a very video game like fashion.. slowly with a countdown...

"Shields are 50% down" WTF?

And finally the thing that turns my stomach is the final breaking the code.. imagine this, a room full of NSA. Top minds in the country (which obviously means the world right?) and the puzzle they have to solve is

The prime differece between the elements used in Hiroshima and nagasaki bombs.

And the hint is its a numerical value. Now what do these geniuses do? THey search the fucking internet for this!! Gimme a break PLEASE i cant suspend reality to this level just to read a book! Even i knew the answer as soon as i read this line and the fucking geniuses coudlnt figure it out!! This is beyond bizarre. Its a very very very very bad attempt at lenghtning the end for another suspense filled ending!!

Numerical difference between ELEMENTS

The genious are surfing the net (and that too on NETSCAPE!! THE HORROR!) and discussing about what elements could the ridle mean. And the lead guy figures out the answer (the only man she evre loved, who at this moment has been shot by the assasin, then stunned by soldiers, and has spent the entire day running around dodging bullet). This great man figures out the answer while the director of NSA and a team of comp experts battle out the sharks!!

It just makes u wanna throw this book down the toilet! This one sucks.. it sucks sucks sucks.. why bother. I am never gonna read another dan brown... same goes for Micheal Crichton. State of fear? Gimme a break.. the anti-kyoto-protocol propoganda is fine, but where's the story kenneth? Shooting rockets to create rainstorms!! But of course.....

And its not just me who doesnt like this trash. Here's 22,000 people who agree.

Thus spake the screaming monkey:



My advice: If someone gave it to u and u have time to kill, fine, read it. But Dont spend money on it. Buy real toilet paper instead.

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Originally uploaded by artraj.

Theres a good contest on Worth1000.com.. its about mixing 2 movies.

U get the idea.. [Over here]

I shall now delve into the mysteries of making the perfect cup of coffee. You'd imagine if you're paying 40 bucks for a cup of coffee at Barista u'd get somethign good. Unfortunatly the mix-masters at these places are just doing their job, which happens to be, pouring coffee for customers. They are NOT coffee lovers, they're robots trying to pull the perfect shot of espresso...

There were 2 baristas which made excellent coffees, one is in Shivaji Park, Mumbai and the second was on CG Road in Ahmedabad, unfortunatly the Ahmedabad one got demolished for some reason.

The image on the right is all that remains of the joint. Dont know about the shivaji park one, probably its still there. I just went there ONCE....


And for all the machines that they have, u'd think there'll be SOME consistency among the different branches of Baristas all over India. Unfortunatly, there isnt, except that most suck. My suggestion: Fire the staff, invest in an army of automatic coffee machines.


Now these bad boys (on the left) can make an excellent cup of coffee, and there's no shame in using an automatic. The benefit is it makes the perfect cup everytime. There's no room for human error, (unless you manage to fuck up the beans) and is ideal for a joint like Barista. Where HUMAN INTERVENTION does not add to the product, it just fucks it up.

This baby grinds the beans, tamps them, shoots out espresso, then foamed milk/hot chocalate for cappucino/mocha repectivly. Operator has to make sure the beans and water is loaded. That's it. Not like barista where they keep this Grinder in your face just to show how serious they are about coffee (SEE WE HAVE BEANS!). Then they get the grounds and tamp it non seriously. Then just plug it in the machine and out comes half-ass espresso, which they further ruin by adding badly foamed milk etc. Sometimes, u get MALAI in the cappucino !! THE HORROR !!!

Anyway, enough of Barista rants. Here's how to make a great cup of coffee at home, for cheap, using indeginously procured raw material.

Recipe for making South Indian coffee in North India
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If you're a coffee lover and have the misfortune of living in North India.. well, join the club. It's awfull up here. Anyway, eversince the Honorable Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company, aka, Cafe Coffee Day started enchroching upon barista's territory, the struggle has been easier.

Not that I'm promoting CCD over Barista, both suck, what with their trashy stale food and overtly loud yuppy customers and snobbish waiters (Sir, do u know americano is a black coffee?). The reason is coffee day has better ground beans for sale than the barista pack. Also, CCD Arabica pack costs half of the barista trash.

Anyway.. onto the recipe.

Ok... first u need coffee powder and a filter. Two options there, the Arabica pack is for 50 bucks (100g) and another option is Dark Forest for 100 bucks. Dark forest is a good blend, good aroma, finely ground powder, makes for a good wake up drink in the morning. But lacks the strength of the plain old Arabica. Experiment and decide.

Note: CCD sells two other blends called Charge and somethign-else. Both suck, they're Coffee and Chickory blends. Ignore them. Buy the 100% arabica thingy.

You also need this ingenious south indian filter coffee device thing. Its a two part container with the top one having holes in the bottom. You put ground coffee, then comes the tricky part. You have to tamp the grounds. What it means is compress the grounds with a seive press that comes along with the filter. This step cannot be overemphasised. It can ruin a perfectly good shot. There's no specific instructions, only experience and a rabid dedication towards perfection will tell. Heres what the experts have to say:

This is a small art-form in itself, with espresso fanatics going to great lengths to achieve the perfect puck, and prevent the pitfall of uneven extraction that occurs with uneven compression of the coffee. It is not unusual for the tamping process to involve several steps, including compression with different tamps, at different pressures. A small set of scales is useful to quantify the pressure used for each tamp. Increasing the tamping pressure will increase the brew time of a shot of espresso, and thus increase the extraction from the coffee, resulting in a stronger shot.

Dont be so rabid that u buy a bunch of scales to mesure the pressure. Just do this: Put the beans, then press lightly (almost tap) the sieve on the beans once, then rotate the sieve and tap again, rotate and tap. Repeat till u do ONE whole circle, this will make sure the coffee is spread evenly. A very important point to note at this stage is that the filter should be straight, dont hold it in a slanting position. The grounds would be tilted to one side, whcih means sucky espresso.

Once u;re done with the tapping, press it firmly. U should feel the grounds compressing. Do it too much and it'll take hours for the water to seep through, do it too little, and u'll get weak ass espresso. Experiment. We'll discuss ways to check for strength later.

Now quantities. For one cup of coffee, the ideal amount of beans would be 3 heaped teaspoons. If you're making a mug, then go for 4. If you want to bring a corpse back to life, use 5. Four is ideal, trust me.

Now water. Water and coffee ratio is another thing which can fuck up a good espresso. From now on we'll talk in cups (not mugs, and I dont know the volume in mililiters or !GASP! ounces).

Remember, what we're making right now is espresso, or decoction if u please. We'll dilute it with water later on. So, for now heat 1/2 cup water in the microwave for 1 min on high. It shouldnt boil, use whatever time, but half cup of water should be heated, but not boiled. No bubbles. Use clean water.. not mineral water, not tap water. Clean filtered water. Aquaguard is great.

Back to the "now-tamped" filter. Place the sieve on the coffee and leave it there. Now place one finger on the sieve and pour the 1/2 cup hot water over the grounds. The reason for folding the sieve is that sometimes it starts floating. Which is wrong.

Self Check: If you tamped the coffee properly the water will remain slightly clear. There will be a few undisolved beans floating, and it gets discolored, but the whole thing is still clear. Thats a sign u got the tamping right. It could also mean u tamped it too hard and the grounds are as hard as concrete.

Now put the cover on, and leave it. Make sure the top part of the filter is straight. Just out of curiosity, lift the top part and see if coffee is dripping, this may take some time. In the meantime do somethign constructive, fetch the coffee mate and sugar.

A pin-up girl is a woman whose physical attractiveness would entice one to place a picture of her on a wall. Such photos often appear on calendars, which are meant to be pinned up anyway. Later, posters of “pin-up girls” were mass produced.


Many “pin ups” were photographs of celebrities who were considered sex symbols. One of the most popular early pin-up girls was Betty Grable. Her poster was ubiquitous in the lockers of GIs during World War II. Others pin-ups were artwork, often depicting idealized versions of what some thought particularly a beautiful or attractive woman should look like.
[Wikipedia]

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Originally uploaded by Valleia.

*OUCH*

-- from lil

Some photos from the National Science Museum, Tokyo. The exhibit on the left is a tree of life, lighted panels on the floor show connections among species. The exhibit on the right has these screens which have the info about the animals (in different languages) and videos of the animals in their own surroundings etc etc

Overall.. an interesting museum I'm sure. Obviously there are far more interesting ones in the world, but we seem to specialize in making the best YOU ARE NOT WELCOME museums in the world. Forget the upkeep of the artifacts, forget the "welcome to the morgue" smell. Start from the sullen guards. Its not my fault that you're placed in this boring job, in fact they hardly have anythign to complain about. Its a cushy job, and unlike their other brethren who are out on the street upholding they law, these guards just sit and do nothing. The least they can do is be polite to anyone who decides to grace the museum with his/her presence. Guard rant some other time....

Anyway, we need cool museums. We need exhibits that are interesting. Not just informative in a "Garfield's Tree Channel" way, but exhibits which suck in the guest. I want all encompasing, all experiential, interactive immersive spaces. I want total immerision.. And I want freindly, attentive, knowledable people to staff our museums. People who dont get paid even if they fuck around and NOT help people... and can we have people who know something? Its a fuckin museum, people are expected to ask question and the staff that populates most museums doesnt know their elbows from their assholes.

And stuff the WHO WILL FUND THIS EXORBINANT INTERACTIVE MONSTROSITY? Hell I dont know, if they can finance vitrified tiles to be put on garbage dumps (and the garbage dumped outside) they can scrape up some dough for my cool museum.

Another thing... I want hands on museums.. people should be allowed to touch the exbhibits. Not like, every time a viewer comes back u have a whole army of people yelling DO NOT TOUCH YOU BARBARIAN, git yer filthy hands off my museum. Wont do.

And the reverse too... people.. public.. when u're in a museum that DOES allow touching, be a little respectfull. This aint yer fucking drawing room u inconsiderate basards. Repect other people's stuff. Do not spit in corners, do not piss on the walls.

And those who write their and their significant others' names on monuments are the lowest form of scum there is. They should be castrated with the same instrument they defaced the monument with, then they should be hung upside down, naked, at the door of the same monument as a warning to other would-be scum. Like the good old days.........

Gimme a break.... Raj Loves Anjali. Well the chances are Anjali never heard of raj, cause Raj is a puny-pricked basatrd who never had to balls to talk to Anjali, and all he COULD do was chisel this shit on some monument. Might have been that Anjali chiseled it, in which case, She's a Bitch.

back to museums.... how cool is this:


-- from lil

A parasol garden on the roof, they open up when someone is near, and close when the person moves away. I love interactive shite.

All the pictures are taken by Lil on Flickr. Click here for a slideshow of her museum pics

Two strings walk into a bar. The first says, "Bartender, bring me a beer."
"Sure thing, string," says the bartender.
The second string says, "I'd a like a beer too.*#50Dlkoe@#4->koid4oib 098ad#)@s@kiu opid)(@g8LD3=_#@0...", spewing gibberish until he falls down unconscious.
The first string pipes up, "Excuse my friend, he's not null-terminated."

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A 32-year-old Haitian male walks into a bar.

He presents with ankylosing spodyarthirits and a duck under his arm. He tells the bartender, "My serum alkaline phospatase is elevated with .05 mg/L of meperidine in my plasma and I bet $100 my duck can shit into a shotglass ten feet away."

The bartender says, "Is this just an ordinary duck who has not been administered a dose of Baclofen or Cyclobenzaprine?"

The Haitian says "Well, lumbar puncture has been performed and revealed gram-negative cocci and decreased leukocytes, but other than that, it's an ordinary duck."

"You got a bet if I can perform a rectal biopsy and independent bloodwork."

"Of course."

The bartender puts a shotglass on the bar about seven feet away indicating either excessive confidence or a partial loss of visual acuity. The duck passes a reddish, gelatinous-looking stool right onto the bar and nowhere near the shotglass. The bartender laughs and says, "Either you're the dumbest ankylosing Haitian I ever met or you're suffering from cerebral hemorrhage."

The Haitian, without increase in BP, pulls out a hundred dollar bill and says, "I may be a dumb ankylosing Haitian, but I just bet those first-year interns in the corner 500 bucks a piece I could get my duck to shit all over your bar and you'd laugh about it."

The duck is most likely suffering a deficiency of:

A. Ceftriaxone
B. Erythromycin
C. Methicillin
D. Tetracycline
E. Vancomycin

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Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: A fish.

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An Indian chief had three wives, each of whom was pregnant. The first gave birth to a boy. The chief was so elated he built her a teepee made of deer hide. A few days later, the second gave birth, also to a boy. The chief was very happy. He built her a teepee made of antelope hide. The third wife gave birth a few days later, but the chief kept the details a secret. He built this one a two-story teepee, made out of a hippopotamus hide. He challenged the tribe to guess what had occurred. Many tried, unsuccessfully. Finally, one young brave declared that the third wife had given birth to twin boys. "Correct," said the chief. "How did you figure it out?" The warrior answered, "It's elementary. The value of the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides."

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3 statisticians are out bowhunting. They spot a deer. The first one shoots, and his arrow lands 3 feet to the right of the deer. The second one shoots, and his arrow lands 3 feet to the left of the deer. The third one says, "We got him!"

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Mrs. Noah Webster walked into her bedroom to find her husband in bed with his mistress. "Noah," she cried, "I'm surprised!"

"No," he replied calmly. "You are shocked. I am surprised."

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The ever present ubiquitous Indian House Lizard. They're in our bedrooms, they accompy us to the bathroom, they're hiding behind the closet door, they're in your kitchen, in the dining room, they're crawling over your utensils, they're scampering away among your desk stuff.. to put it mildly, they are FUCKING everywhere!

Goddam them to hell the TOP reason why i hate summers is not the 50 degree C temperatures but because these spawns of satan rise up form their hibernation and start running around the house!

Sure supposedly they're more scared of us then we are of them, they say. Sure, they're puny and we're bigger, they say. The point being... they evolved without human intervention didnt they? I mean.. fuckin reptiles came before mammels didnt they? Well go live in the fucking wilderness then. It's been sitting on my door for 2 hours and not moving although i'm shouting, stamping and waving things at it. This usually worked with most lizards till now but this particular one is either:

1. Blind and Deaf
2. Got more balls than the rest of them combined.. or more likely,
3. Havent faced the consequences yet, of pissing off the speciy at the top of the food chain.

Now I'm all FOR peacefull coexistence with animals, mosquitoes are no problem, all creatures of God need food to eat and if some mosquito is sucking a little blood, no harm done. It's all a risk... But these fuckers.. NO they're different..

Look at it...



It's smiling!! They arent natural.. they're just snake with legs!! What with the forked tongue and all.. they're poisounous.. and they talk! O YES LIZARDS TALK.. they make a loud cliking noise. And if u make the same noise, they talk to you. (Not in English you wierdo). Snakes wouldnt do that, they just wanna kill u.

But these slithering, slimy bastards... kill em all.. a final solution. Well, keep a few for research or whatevre, propogation of the speciy or whatever, take em out from my home please.

When a person is taking a dump in the loo, the most important thought on his mind shouldnt be "is there a lizard under the sink". No sir.. i think it's the so called DOCILE nature of these house lizards that people arent as strict about them. i mean, if they hissed and attacked evreyone in sight, ppl would feel different. BUT NO! 90% of the human population who doesnt suffer from severe lizard phoebia are indifferent about this menace.

They dont understand.. ugh.. its not that they're ugly (which they are), its that... they're.. ugh.. slimy and slithery... and u konw... they scamper around.. ugh..

Was googling about getting rid of lizards... and guess what the ppl are saying.. they say.. dont get rid of them, let mother nature be.. lizards help in controlling your pesticide intake becuse they eat the insects.


Whatever logic that was... well fuck mother nature, mother nature ends at the doorstep of my room.. inside aint a jungle.

Another solutoin was to get a cat.

A C...A...T......

Here's some info on lizard phobias: From here:

Onset of fear started in childhood in 118 (94.4%) and 3 (2.38%) in adulthood. 32 people exactly remembered the triggering incidence. Family history of similar fear was present in 49 (38.9%) and absent in 77 (61.11%).

Lizard was the most commonly feared in 74 (58.75%) followed by cockroaches in 64 (50.79%) and rats in 34 (26.98%)

That's true, i've been shit scard of lizards for ever... family history too....

Screaming was present in 110 (87.3%), avoidance in 63 (50.7%), help seeking in 61 (48.41%), panic reaction in 34 (26.9%) and others like immobilization in 3 (2.38%)

Well I've never screamed.. at least not OUT LOUD, but i YELP in my head, if thats a consolation. And never been immobilized, except like rightnow when it's FUCKING sittign right on the door!!

28% felt the fear was excessive or unreasonable, 28 (11.2%) felt that fear was interfered in their daily routine and 20 (8%) realized both the fear as excessive and unreasonable and interfered with daily routine

Yeah well.... excessive and unreasonble fear is a relativ term. And yeah it DOES interfere, if only as mildly as checking every door u open for lizards.

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Also, some geniuses proposed to use traps for capturing lizards.. hell, nuke the fuckers!

I got a follow up in my jury. Well, Let's be diplomatic (said the jury) and NOT call it a follow up, being a dirty word, rather, lets call it "ADDITIONAL RESEARCH".

It's all for my own benefit actually, now that my project's been done and dead for about 4 months, its about time i did some actual research.

Unfortunatly MY work didnt show ENOUGH Chinese influence, nor did it show ENOUGH Indian influence. Apparatly, India and China have a combined history of 10,000 years, yet my work in the Honorable Microsoft Corp wasnt good enough cause it didnt show that 10,000 year influence.

The fact that it's an American company making American Products for the American public is not acceptable for the powers that be. So now, have to write a research paper, to atone for my sins.

Feel like screaming....

Wa! Originally uploaded by Gogi.
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It's time for the final Jury at the National Institute of Design, the premiere design center for India and bla bla. Jury's tommrow and it's 2 30 AM and I'm still stuck on the 4th slide. There will be much screaming and grinding of teeth by the time the panel is done with me.

And to top it, the flight's at the unGodly hour of 5:30! What kind of sick bastards schedule a domestic flight at 5:30 AM?? And that too a one hour flight, so u arrive at the source at a wierd time, and it's still a wierd time when u reach the destination!

Look out for photographs of the Act I of The Rape of an Interaction Designer.

Goodbye cruel world..

Don't ask how I got to this page. But its definitly one of the wierdest ever!

Got a bunch of sheep singing William Blake's Jerusalem (Wikipedia). Apparantly its a ringtone too :(

Here's the link, download the whole movie. It's hilarious in a wierd sort of way.

P.S. By the way, I'm looking for the original song. Preferably sung by human voices. Any clues?

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Originally uploaded by Rit Mishra.

Havent checked the Delhi Metro yet. But Rit here has some illegaly shot photographs which show a (strangely) empty station and (even more strangely) a clean one, with (the strangest thing ever) potted plants as eye candy.

It's cool. I like Delhi.

Why cant we have proper signs? I mean, painting these signs costs right? Why not spend a little more and get an artist to do this? Same for other "social messages" for AIDS, Population and misc projectile vomiting.

All characters look like Happy Content Cows. And there HAS TO be a lame slogan. Any social movement is useless without a slogan, since the wordplay is as skillfull as the artistic quality of these paintings, the slogan rhymes, but doesnt make sense.

AIDS KA GYAN, BACHAEY JAAN.

For fuck's sake, write somethign helpfull and say:

USE A CONDOM, DON'T DIE.

Forget about paintings and poetry.

p.s. I would like to comment on the skill of the Cholera Vomiter in the top pic. He's unloading a whole bucketfull of ex-lunch into this small bowl and that too perfectly! Not a drop fell outside. The tuberculousis phlegm-sprayer on the other hand just unleashes a hail of huge droplets in a totally unruly manner. Also, the Vomitter has a better hairstyle.

Keyboard problem?
Originally uploaded by Really Dead Thing.

Didnt even try to be intelligent..

I'm cute - don't eat me!
Originally uploaded by Cilest.

1. From Sanzen
2. From Eileen Delhi
3. From hurleygurley
4. From Me
5. From Linda6769
6. From Pete Ashton

An exhibition of old india paintings from the time of the Raj and their contemporary photographs.



Link

The India of palaces, towns, fortresses, landscapes and places of worship: the same sites from the same point of view, demonstrating what has or has not changed over 200 years.

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The Englishmen Thomas and William Daniell, uncle and nephew, criss-crossed India between 1786 and 1794. During their long journey, they made many drawings and watercolours of the towns, palaces, fortresses, temples and natural marvels of India

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Two centuries later, after a great deal of research, photographer Antonio Martinelli was able to recreate the itinerary of the Daniells, and set out to retrace their steps during four trips between 1995 and 1997.

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Seems worth seeing.. unfortunatly, NOT in India and link to exhibition not working.

:(

Two blogs I found till now who are using my Flickr images as header pics.

One is Work in Progress and another THIS GUY. W.I.P. guy gave credit at the end of his blog, like a good Creative Common Guy should, Although he skewed the image quite a bit. The other dude "forgot" that the pic he so conviently used is actually somebody else's KHOON PASINA KAMAI. What bastards!

Then this tourism like site called 43places using my Tianemen Square Pics, Here,

Then another site called Nationmaster Encycloedia's Beijing section (which looks suspiciously like Wikipedia) features a Summer Palace Pic here. They took the liberty of taking the high res shot too. With due credit.

That is all for now.. enough mental mastrubation.