Kaun Banega Crorepati...
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Earlier the crazy maulana from Meerut offered Rs 51 crore to waste the blaspheming Danish cartoonist, now the Hindu personal law board is offering 51 crore to waste MF Hussein for painting naked goddesses. There's a side bounty of 11 lacks for those who just want to chop off his hands.
Price hasnt been set for individual fingers yet...
This has the making of a great gameshow... people can send in hit requests by SMS (or if you have Hutch, call 1-800-WASTE-HIM and say KILL). Then the targets can come on the stage and do a little song/dance sequence and say if you want to waste me, sms this and that. There will be 3 judges and an audience poll also.
The winner gets wasted on national TV with proper stage lighting etc. One lucky winner from the SMS campaign gets to pull the trigger.
[Gawker has an interesting post]
Price hasnt been set for individual fingers yet...
This has the making of a great gameshow... people can send in hit requests by SMS (or if you have Hutch, call 1-800-WASTE-HIM and say KILL). Then the targets can come on the stage and do a little song/dance sequence and say if you want to waste me, sms this and that. There will be 3 judges and an audience poll also.
The winner gets wasted on national TV with proper stage lighting etc. One lucky winner from the SMS campaign gets to pull the trigger.
[Gawker has an interesting post]
Memory lane...
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Anyone remember those 5 inch floppies? The one's which had 1.2 MB storage and the naked magenetic medium thingy?
I remember buying them for 30-50 rs... Maxell floppies were supposed to be good. Those were reliable floppies if u took care of them. Unlike their 1.44 mb succesors.
Anyone remember those write protection tabs? Small stickers that came with the box... Such a cool hardware piece.
I remember buying them for 30-50 rs... Maxell floppies were supposed to be good. Those were reliable floppies if u took care of them. Unlike their 1.44 mb succesors.
Anyone remember those write protection tabs? Small stickers that came with the box... Such a cool hardware piece.
V-Day forced marrieges
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Got the link from Sepia Mutiny. [Read the story]
In a cool attempt at reverse psychology...
Way to go ABVP people. Two couples who disagreed were made to tie raakhi. Woohoo!! Excellent.. although there wasnt any archies gallery burning etc, since they probably pay hafta to these organisations to ensure peace.
No one seems to be beaten... but must have been a fucking aggravating incident. Some self proclaimed fuckers making you do shit which you dont want to do (or at least not on their orders) or making your girlfreind tie a raakhi.. fucking invasion of privacy. Isnt ABVP supposed to be a student union or something...
What about such romancing couples on 15th Feb? I'm sure there's a bunch of people getting personal in the gardens right now, but why arent the moral cops checkin them today?
People... dont go out on V-day.. the rest of the year you can do whatever you want, wherever you want (unless u live in meerut) it's just during this phase these morons start foaming at the mouth, howling at the moon, and complaining about indian sabhyata.
Which brings us to the point of Gay couples (actually it doesnt bring us, I just want to talk about that). What about gay couples at Valentine's day... they have it easy dont they. Two guys sitting in a park.. . no one gives a flying fuck. Two girls sitting.. cool. Girls holding hands is fine.. hell, even guys holding hands is fine in India. As long as they dont start tounging, no one cares. Take yer lover to a stroll in the park, fancy dinner, do whatever... aint fair, aint fair.
I wonder if the ABVP/RSS/SHIV SENA people would force marry a gay couple on V-day.. that'll be some progressive thinking for these sexually starved medivial morons.
P.S. And here's a hilarious post by the Renegade of Junk: Tired of masturbating, BJP youths take to the streets.
In a cool attempt at reverse psychology...
Hindu rightwing activists in Jharkhand claimed to have married off five romancing couples on Valentine's Day Tuesday, saying they were celebrating the day even though it was against Indian culture.
Way to go ABVP people. Two couples who disagreed were made to tie raakhi. Woohoo!! Excellent.. although there wasnt any archies gallery burning etc, since they probably pay hafta to these organisations to ensure peace.
No one seems to be beaten... but must have been a fucking aggravating incident. Some self proclaimed fuckers making you do shit which you dont want to do (or at least not on their orders) or making your girlfreind tie a raakhi.. fucking invasion of privacy. Isnt ABVP supposed to be a student union or something...
What about such romancing couples on 15th Feb? I'm sure there's a bunch of people getting personal in the gardens right now, but why arent the moral cops checkin them today?
People... dont go out on V-day.. the rest of the year you can do whatever you want, wherever you want (unless u live in meerut) it's just during this phase these morons start foaming at the mouth, howling at the moon, and complaining about indian sabhyata.
Which brings us to the point of Gay couples (actually it doesnt bring us, I just want to talk about that). What about gay couples at Valentine's day... they have it easy dont they. Two guys sitting in a park.. . no one gives a flying fuck. Two girls sitting.. cool. Girls holding hands is fine.. hell, even guys holding hands is fine in India. As long as they dont start tounging, no one cares. Take yer lover to a stroll in the park, fancy dinner, do whatever... aint fair, aint fair.
I wonder if the ABVP/RSS/SHIV SENA people would force marry a gay couple on V-day.. that'll be some progressive thinking for these sexually starved medivial morons.
P.S. And here's a hilarious post by the Renegade of Junk: Tired of masturbating, BJP youths take to the streets.
Old places, wierd people, good photos
Monday, February 13, 2006
Some of the best people photos I've shot have been shot at old monuments in Delhi. For unknown reasons... but maybe these places attract wierd people who are setteled in the compounds, maybe people are less concious of a camera, maybe there's nice light in these areas and maybe the different atmosphere (architecture/surroundings) make the photo more interesting... or maybe a little bit of all of them.
Anyway, as I said, some of the best photos I've shot have been shot at old monuments in Delhi.
This lady was seemed to be living in Humayun's tomb complex. More or less setteled along with another woman. Didnt have time to compose a proper shot, just took this at a half crouch... she was just begining to form a WTF Expression. Got this hanging on my wall.
Anyway, as I said, some of the best photos I've shot have been shot at old monuments in Delhi.
These two were around Qutub minar. It's fun to take photos of people sleeping or taking photos... they're not bothered/conscious about you pointing the camera at them, and they're not staring at the camera with a dumb expression.
This guy was semi-residing in Firozshah Tugqlaq's tomb in the Hauz Khas complex. He had his undies and stuff drying on the other side of the room, and was sitting and smoking next to the king's grave. Again, got some good light on this, although clothes got ruined because of squating/leaning against cheap plaster.
Burn that rag !!
Friday, February 03, 2006
[From the Hindu]
Good going.. Only 150 copies? From ALL OF CHENNAI? And that too one month after the magazine's been in the stands. I remember buying this one long time back. Useless late action or what.
[Background]
Chennai, Feb. 2 (PTI): Nearly 150 copies of the Indian edition of a London based magazine 'Maxim' have been seized from various shops in the city, in connection with a complaint lodged by South Indian film actress Kushboo, a top police official said today.
City Police Commissioner R Nataraj, told newsmen here that further investigations into the complaint was on.
On January 30, the actress had submitted a petition to the Nataraj, pleading for action against the magazine, for publishing an 'immodest' picture of hers in its latest edition.
Good going.. Only 150 copies? From ALL OF CHENNAI? And that too one month after the magazine's been in the stands. I remember buying this one long time back. Useless late action or what.
[Background]
A long time in the past.... In China
Thursday, February 02, 2006
defineOne year ago... in good old China I was analysing Engrish poetry found on biscuit packets.
Aah.. those were the days...
In case you missed the ealier posts, Biscuit packets here have "poetry" on it. In English.... here's how they probably do it.
Get a text file of all words in a dictinary.
Write a program to fetch random words from it.
Make a paragraph. Print it on the pack.
Some previous examples of poetry: Here and Here
So today bought another packet which said THUS:We like the new taste. we need the quality and we ned the best food. here you will find what you want. need cool taste. you are the new man. cool. not forget, special taste. how delicious can not forget. speacial taste. Return the true flavour.Apart from the YOU ARE THE NEW MAN thing.. it's ok.. makes vague sense. But what's with the manly biscuits thing? Is this some kinda viagra biscuit? Do you feel like a new man after eating them?
I dont know.. i feel the same still....
....
Hey wait, I see a WOMAN.... there.... i'll be back.. wait here... ..
(leaves desk and runs after the woman. Drooling)
Aah.. those were the days...
Road rage cards
Road rage's never been easier. Forget getting out of the car and exchanging blows or cuss words. Just flip through the easy-to-find message and flash it to the offending driver.
Messages are categorized, so they're easy to find. The reserve side is the flipped version of the same message, so the guy in front can read it in the rear view mirror. Brilliant information design!
Messages are available in 2 versions: 1. Totally rude with cuss words, and 2. Just rude "for..", as the site says, "those with slightly smaller balls".
A brilliant product, I must say, specially for one commuting daily from Delhi to Gurgaon with those call center qualises (?? qualisi ??) trying to get that one crucial extra inch of the (non existant) highway. If only someone comes up with a haryanvi version of it.
[Link]
Messages are categorized, so they're easy to find. The reserve side is the flipped version of the same message, so the guy in front can read it in the rear view mirror. Brilliant information design!
Messages are available in 2 versions: 1. Totally rude with cuss words, and 2. Just rude "for..", as the site says, "those with slightly smaller balls".
A brilliant product, I must say, specially for one commuting daily from Delhi to Gurgaon with those call center qualises (?? qualisi ??) trying to get that one crucial extra inch of the (non existant) highway. If only someone comes up with a haryanvi version of it.
Internet Explorer 7 Beta
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Internet Explorer 7 beta is out. Get it here.
The killer features are: Tabbed browsing, RSS feeds, More security, the usual popup blockers and something called the "Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool Thingy" !! With such a cool name it's bound to win back the millions who migrated to firefox. Firefox may have tabbed browsing and rss and security and what not, but it dont have no MWMSRT.
Observe the gradient of colors. The setup app is a riot of colors and large icons of tick marks and credit cards with locks on it. Even the next/back buttons are redesigned.
Coming to the user experience part, the interface's clean.. most of the buttons (which were never used anyway) are gone. There's no edit this page in notepad button anymore. Interface's clean and looks like firefox with an aqua skin.
The GO button is an arrow and it transforms into the refresh button. Next and previous are where they're supposed to be. Favorites is upfront with a PLUS sign which is ADD to favs.
One cool feature (which means as-yet-unseen-in-firefox) is the thumnailing of the open tabs. Which shows a snapshot of all the pages in different tabs. One bad thing is until a page is done loading it shows as a blank page in thumbnail view. You cant surf in thumbnails, clicking anywhere reverts to normal view. Actually, there IS a plugin for firefox that does this, but I havent used it yet. It shows thumbnails on mouseover on tabs.
This thing is probably on the same lines as the stacking windows in 3D for Windows Vista. Cool things which probably wont be used much because MS designers cant get it out of there heads that PEOPLE DONT HAVE 20 WINDOWS OPEN AT THE SAME TIME. Hope I'm wrong, I like the 3D stacking thingy, and I'll probably use it quite a lot (for 10-15 days) when I get Vista.
One thing I liked about IE7 was the RSS experience. It has a add feed button which lights up if the site you're visiting has a feed. The subscribed feeds go next to the favs, but the reading experience is like a new page with the IE rss control panel over it. The background's a nice grey gradient like thingy.
The panel let's your sort according to date/author etc and the search box is a nice addition. Like the RSS experience. For now I'm sticking to my Bloglines feeds though.
So... it's nice. Most of the changes were long overdue anyway. I dont think any firefox guy is gonna shift anytime soon. The new FF has drag and drop tabs, which is quite addictive... and IE7 is fine.. for sites which still dont support Firefox (Like Citibank and my Intranet).
So download the new IE7Beta... take back the web from Firefox who took the web back from IE. And use the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool Thingy freely... just make sure it doesnt remove windows itself.
The killer features are: Tabbed browsing, RSS feeds, More security, the usual popup blockers and something called the "Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool Thingy" !! With such a cool name it's bound to win back the millions who migrated to firefox. Firefox may have tabbed browsing and rss and security and what not, but it dont have no MWMSRT.
Observe the gradient of colors. The setup app is a riot of colors and large icons of tick marks and credit cards with locks on it. Even the next/back buttons are redesigned.
Coming to the user experience part, the interface's clean.. most of the buttons (which were never used anyway) are gone. There's no edit this page in notepad button anymore. Interface's clean and looks like firefox with an aqua skin.
The GO button is an arrow and it transforms into the refresh button. Next and previous are where they're supposed to be. Favorites is upfront with a PLUS sign which is ADD to favs.
One cool feature (which means as-yet-unseen-in-firefox) is the thumnailing of the open tabs. Which shows a snapshot of all the pages in different tabs. One bad thing is until a page is done loading it shows as a blank page in thumbnail view. You cant surf in thumbnails, clicking anywhere reverts to normal view. Actually, there IS a plugin for firefox that does this, but I havent used it yet. It shows thumbnails on mouseover on tabs.This thing is probably on the same lines as the stacking windows in 3D for Windows Vista. Cool things which probably wont be used much because MS designers cant get it out of there heads that PEOPLE DONT HAVE 20 WINDOWS OPEN AT THE SAME TIME. Hope I'm wrong, I like the 3D stacking thingy, and I'll probably use it quite a lot (for 10-15 days) when I get Vista.
One thing I liked about IE7 was the RSS experience. It has a add feed button which lights up if the site you're visiting has a feed. The subscribed feeds go next to the favs, but the reading experience is like a new page with the IE rss control panel over it. The background's a nice grey gradient like thingy.
The panel let's your sort according to date/author etc and the search box is a nice addition. Like the RSS experience. For now I'm sticking to my Bloglines feeds though.So... it's nice. Most of the changes were long overdue anyway. I dont think any firefox guy is gonna shift anytime soon. The new FF has drag and drop tabs, which is quite addictive... and IE7 is fine.. for sites which still dont support Firefox (Like Citibank and my Intranet).
So download the new IE7Beta... take back the web from Firefox who took the web back from IE. And use the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool Thingy freely... just make sure it doesnt remove windows itself.
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