Update: Kavya Shivashankar is Spelling Bee 2009 Champion Folks, two rounds of the Spelling Bee 2009 are already over. And so far, our desi kids have covered themselves with glory. As we type this post, Round Three is going on in Washington DC . There are at least 31 Desi students among the 293 contestants who […]
(Based on recommendation of SI reader yourmate) Fast horses. Fast guns. Fast women. Is there any other movie genre that has captured the imagination of millions of movie fans the world over as much as the Western? We doubt it. And when you think Western, you think of Once Upon a Time in the West. […]
We watched a horror movie called Uninvited earlier today. The not-so-terrifying movie is alright but not remarkable. What is remarkable though is the solid performance of the 20-year-old Australian actress Emily Browning, who plays the role of a young girl released from a mental hospital, some 10 months after the death of her mother’s death. […]
First, Ishita Sukhadwala set about finding a bitch for your stud or vice versa through DogMateOnline. Now, the London-based Ishita has turned her helpful sights to the biped kind. To be precise, senior Indians and NRIs (non-resident Indians). This morning Ishita announced the launch of a new social networking site called Verdurez to help Indian […]
As promised in his campaign, U.S. President Obama has initiated steps to make it tough for U.S. companies that create jobs in Bangalore while screwing American employees in Buffalo (a dying city in upstate New York). Yesterday, Obama set the ball rolling for reforming the U.S. tax code that currently rewards companies for shipping jobs […]
We think Sanjay Jha, the overpaid co-CEO of Motorola and CEO of the company’s Mobile Devices unit, will join the ranks of the unemployed in the not-too-distant future. Horrible Disaster Motorola’s mobile phone business continues to fall off the cliff. This morning, Motorola announced its first quarter results and the Mobile Devices business headed by […]