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The International Society for Krishna Conciousness (ISKCON) would like you impressionable and misguided young fools to know that Bollywood movies are demonic and “the aim of most Bollywood movies is simply to destroy morality and India”.
Oh, and one other minor point: please do not, at any cost, fall in love and then decide to get […]

Cricket madness has seized this country once again and Sony is back to televising the tournament with its regular band of clowns, freaks, and other assorted circus characters in “Extraaa Innings”. (No sign of Venkatesh “Mumbling” Prasad so far, but nobody has silenced Kris “Switched Mouth with Arse” Srikanth yet.)
The tarot card reader Ma Prem […]

Watching journalists unravel their biases is an engrossing though time consuming activity. (and often others do it better). Here are two examples that caught my eye today.
Aniruddha Dutta exposes the anti-gay prejudices in the press coverage of the recent double murder in Delhi.
Davids Medienkritik has a nice satire on how the German media condones crimes […]

Ever seen something in design stage where the web designer / publisher has put what seems to be random text with “Lorem Ipsum” as the title? Check out the design templates in MS PowerPoint for an example.
Lorem Ipsum has a pretty interesting history. For one, it’s not random text, it’s Latin (sometimes mangled, but […]

I love the way Don Boudreax connects computer viruses, war and government bureaucrats.

A movie I’d want to catch as I like both the book and Ms. Witherspoon.

Busting some myths about trade unionism.
The shorter work week is entirely a capitalist invention. As capital investment caused the marginal productivity of labor to increase over time, less labor was required to produce the same levels of output. As competition became more intense, many employers competed for the best employees by offering both better pay […]