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Trust Swaminathan Aiyar to put the entire cola pesticide issue in perspective.
Let’s accept CSE data, regardless of what others say, and compare these with EU norms for various edible items in Europe.
You will find that Pepsi has 37 times as much pesticide as the EU norm for water. How dreadful!
But compare Pepsi with other […]

This is why Scott Adams is perhaps the best cartoonist around.

Update: I don’t feel so bad when another blogger beats me to it. (Good show Shanti). But when the Economic Times is so quick on the draw, makes me wonder. Maybe bloggers have influenced the speed of news and views. Chalk one up for us!

Tech Central Station has an Asia Pacific page with a lot of friends writing. Browse through. The pieces are succinct and a refreshing change from the muddled leftist Indian media blatherings (Prafool and his foolowers).

Browsing through Tech Central Station, I came upon this.
There is a moral case to be made for a Palestinian state. There’s a strategic and “realist” case to be made for it, too. But it is trumped by the need to contain a fast-spreading barbarism. No country on Earth should appease or surrender to terror. Peace […]

Who says Indians are not innovative? This latest invention could make waves.
Shanti, surely this will help us poor Indians, eh? ;)

I’ve been a volunteer for this wonderful event for many years and it requires all the support it can get. The site has the details. Just click on the logo to go there.

Mexican Town Forgoes Law for Order: Mayor Abolishes Traffic Fines in a Bid to End Bribery by Police Officers
Park where you like, speed if you want to, run a red light, don’t bother renewing your driver’s license and let that seat belt flap in the wind. Nobody’s going to bust you as long as Mayor […]

A believer and an atheist were neighbours. The believer was poor, jobless, lonely and hence completely depressed in life. On the other hand the atheist was rich, had a lovely home and was a happy person. The believer never understood this dichotomy.
Once he sat in front of the idol of god and complained. “Why, […]

Charles Bronson, 81, Movie Tough Guy, Dies
I remember seeing Death Wish on video in the early 80’s. It was the first really violent movie I saw with my cousin thanks to the new video player his parents had got. Surprisingly, I liked it.