February 2012
1 post
A little essay about driving in India
It’s that time of year when foreign tourists flood into India. These days, many choose to drive on the roads.Here is a little essay about driving in rural India that I’ve been working on.Indian road safety;I’m not going to say too much about the operation of the vehicle; I’m going to assume you already know about that.But a couple of things about riding Enfield motorcycles;They have the brake on...
January 2012
3 posts
World in 2000 as Predicted in 1910
Illustrations by French artist Villemard in 1910 of how he imagined the future to be in the year 2000. In the 21st century, in order to control traffic jams in the air, there will be more and more flying policemen. Firemen will be equipped with “bat wings” to be able to easily access top floors and roofs. Just one for the road… Wars will be fought by “combat cars”. Schools...
If Logic Tells You Otherwise, Ignore Your Gut
The brain, it turns out, is wired early on with an intuitive sense of logic, but we often ignore it to go with our gut reaction, which often means people let their stereotypes rule the action. When making these decisions, people still have a sense that something is off, but don’t let logic prevail in the decision. via lifehacker.com Now will you believe me, Humans? Even Lifehacker does! ...
The Eloquent Sounds of Silence by Iyer Pico (via...
We have to earn silence, then, to work for it: to make it not an absence but a presence; not emptiness but repletion. Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. In silence, we often say, we can hear ourselves think; but what is truer to say is that in silence we can hear ourselves not...
December 2011
2 posts
Obi-Wan Kenobi's Home Planet Named After Jon...
Lucas jokingly replied “This is one of the first things I wrote in the very first script. He comes from the planet Stewjon. via thenextweb.com A fitting tribute. Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
The ONE guy in GOP that actually makes sense - Ron...
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November 2011
6 posts
Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's...
Mr Cole was taken to a secure mental health facility in Geneva but later disappeared from his cell. Police are baffled, but not that bothered. via crave.cnet.co.uk Nobody is bothered?!?!?! Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
MUMBAI MERI JAAN!
! goosebumps :) Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
ummm.......
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Magic Kingdom: Is Qatar Too Good To Be True? -...
If there ever were a country that resembled a fairytale kingdom as imagined by Disney, it would be Qatar: A benevolent monarch and his beautiful queen rule over a peaceful populace, untroubled by the revolutions in neighboring lands even as they support those revolutions financially and through the modern-day equivalent of a magic wand: the government backed satellite news channel al Jazeera....
Fascinteresting - Comixed - 4 panel comic strip...
via comixed.memebase.com All I can say is “ Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
Steve Jobs last words: Oh wow! That was a clever...
When Voltaire was on his deathbed, a priest asked him to renounce the Devil. He replied: ‘This is no time for making new enemies.’ And then, with perfect timing, he died. But, with such a good witticism under his belt, what if he had struggled on for another few days? The same goes for Oscar Wilde, who is always meant to have looked at the vulgar curtains of his cheap hotel, and then to have...
October 2011
6 posts
Halloween Light Show 2011 - Party Rock Anthem
via youtube.com Beats the Marching Band Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
Political Commentary on MSNBC
via whatreallyhappened.com not so lamestream media after all Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
Making Friends in Mumbai | Mumbai Boss
Hothouse friends, he called them. Like exotic flowers suddenly in full bloom, there’s no telling how long they’ll last. And the hothouse was Zenzi. This was six years ago, and I’d come to the city more or less alone. For people like me, it was a living room. You’d expect to see everybody you knew; anyone you didn’t know, well, you’d know soon enough. That kind of awkward, desperate manoeuvre,...
Steve Jobs in heaven. A cartoonist finally gets it...
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The Adventures of Helen Keller - Comixed
via comixed.memebase.com LMAO Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
How to Read More: A Lover’s Guide :zenhabits
1. Don’t read because you should — read for joy. Find books about exciting stories, about people who fascinate you, about new worlds that you’d love to visit. Forget the classics, unless they fit this prescription. 2. Carve out the time. We have no time to read anymore, mostly because we work too much, we overschedule our time, we’re on the Internet all the time (which does have some good...
September 2011
1 post
Artificial rain project in Horn of Africa...
In Qatar, ORA has also proven effective bringing four gigalitres of rain in Ramadan last year, equal to the volume of water supplied in the country for 10 days. And as a follow-up, they again delivered 35 gigalitres of rain in the country. via thepeninsulaqatar.com Oh Kay!! Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
August 2011
3 posts
Angry Anna
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Untitled
Angry Anna 1.0 geekmentors Info via gsa7.gamesalad.com Angry Anna Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
Squibble (from @gitangalic 's blog)
I have forgotten what it feels like to finish a book. The physical turning of a page, or the filling up of that electronic status bar. It’s all the same to me, really. At this point I just want to pick up something and read it from start to finish and I just can’t seem to do that any more. I’ve never had to beg anybody to lay my hands on something interesting to read, I’ve been lucky that way....
July 2011
4 posts
Manmohan SINGHAM - YouTube
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And there are things you aren't proud of
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Things you're proud of
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It was all lies, says Qatar 2022 'whistleblower'...
Upset at being sacked, Almajid later fabricated what she now admits were lies about the bid having offered bribes to FIFA executive committee members Issa Hayatou, Jacques Anouma and Amos Adamu and that it had been considering financial support for the Argentinian federation led by Julio Grondona, FIFA’s senior vice-president. via sportsfeatures.com Go Qatar Posted via email from...
June 2011
1 post
Tweeting the Truth - Comixed - 4 panel comic strip...
via comixed.memebase.com couldn’t have tweeted it better Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
May 2011
2 posts
jtnimoy - Tron Legacy (2010) (via Meg Richards)
via jtnimoy.net If you haven’t, go watch the movie…if you have…ENCORE! Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
Obama Jokes About Birth Certificate Controversy...
via youtube.com Certainly an improvement over the last one! Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
April 2011
8 posts
World's last typewriter factory 'shuts down' in...
London, April 26 (ANI): Godrej and Boyce - the last company left in the world that was still manufacturing typewriters - has closed its production plant in Mumbai, India. The company is now left with its last 200 machines - the majority of which are Arabic language models. Although typewriters became obsolete years ago in the west, they were still common in India - until recently. But with...
Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song [Official Video] (via...
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Million Dollar Question: Name of Kochi IPL Team? -...
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April Fools 2011: Complex Numbers in Math Class
via youtube.com GENIUS! Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
Solarized Terminal- Ethan Schoonover
via ethanschoonover.com this is actually pretty awesome Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
The World’s Simplest Cell Phone Has The Perfect… |...
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Shahid Afridi on rivalry with India - RESPECT!
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India Pakistan match fixing tape (via...
via dominatingseo.net :( Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
March 2011
8 posts
How Did You Discover Your Ideal Career?
When you don’t have a job in IT, working at a help desk sounds good. Until you have to deal with end users all day. Or get to support users on alpha-level software someone like the CEO decided must be deployed before it was ready. When you work at a help desk, working in data center operations sounds good. Until you have to work 3rd shift for 3 yrs as projects are deployed and be on call...
The Most Aggressive Defense Of Teachers You’ll...
via front.moveon.org Seen this all over the place today…. Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
Amazing things will happen
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Date a girl who reads.
“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve. Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking...
The More You Know - Spiked Math
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In Perspective: 1.76 lakh crore INR or 39.27...
Most of us know that this figure is the CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) loss estimate caused by the 2G spectrum scam, one of the biggest scams in India, or at least that’s what I would want to say. This post is just to actually convert some of the numbers (:D) that have come out in certain reports and putting them in perspective to, well, whatever.Total loss estimate: Rs. 1.76 lakh...
Wadah Khanfar: A historic moment in the Arab world...
via youtube.com “Spectacular and inspiring TED talk from Wadah Kanfar of Al Jazeera. I’ve had a hard time articulating to my friends and family in the US how I feel about the uprisings going on throughout the Arab world but his talk captures the basic sentiment remarkably well.” - Bob Monroe Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
xkcd: Major in the Universe
via xkcd.com Nothing describes it better :D :D Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
February 2011
7 posts
RAP NEWS 6 - Wikileaks' Cablegate: the truth is...
via youtube.com love the Berlusconi Posted via email from Reductio ad absurdum | Comment »
First real camera experience :D
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Harley Commercial
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When You Write Your Essays in Programming...
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the 46 stages of Twitter (via @Nivivacious)
1. Hear the word Twitter. Scoff. 2. Hear it again from someone else. Scoff again. 3. Hear about famous celebrity who is apparently “On Twitter.” Scoff, but make mental note to check it out. 4. Log into Facebook to comfort self. 5. Sign up for Twitter. 6. Give up because it seems dumb. 7. Loudly criticize others on Twitter. 8. Follow @howardstern, @aplusk, @rainnwilson, @wilw,...