Here’s how our great country the United States of America is fighting the recession. * Stop paying for the funerals of 10,000 poor people (Illinois state) * Considering release of prisoners early (proposal in California) * Adding taxes on cellphone ringtones (Kentucky) * Throwing billions at desi butcher Vikram Pandit’s Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, AIG, Morgan […]
If history disturbs you, and you long to forget, don’t backup your data and sooner or later you’ll be free of it. – Virginia Heffernan in The New York Times Magazine, p.24, June 14, 2009. All hard-drives fail. Some hard-drives fail earlier than the others. Most of us have precious and priceless memories on our […]
Remember Satyam Computer Services, the mother of all Indian corporate crooks. Yes, the same scumbags that falsified years of accounts to boost revenues and profits. A short while ago, the Indian IT software house (now under new management) announced a new technique to screw upto 10,000 of its India-based employees. Describing it in corporate BS […]
If the availability of 40,000 applications has not swayed you, here’s one more reason to get an iPhone. iPorn (no, it’s not a Hindu Puja site) plans to roll out a new version of its free mobile adult entertainment site tailored to the iPhone on June 8 to coincide with the Apple iPhone World Wide […]
If Akshay Kumar’s forthcoming Kambakkht Ishq is indeed a remake of the 2002 Kamal Haasan-Simran film Pammal K. Sambandam, it’s a harbinger of more crap for Akshay Kumar fans and Bollywood addicts. And a reflection of the utter poverty of ideas and the current comatose state of Bollywood. Because Pammal K. Sambandam is garbage, plain […]
We just noticed something interesting. As many of you know, Microsoft is getting ready to launch its Bing search engine on Wednesday. Guess, where Microsoft is advertising Bing? On Google! Yes, Microsoft is using its arch-enemy Google’s AdWords text ad program to peddle its Bing search engine. How galling and how humiliating it must be […]