Is Mercedes Benz Desperate?

When luxury car makers like Mercedes Benz start offering 0% financing deals for 72 months on 2008 cars, you know that the auto industry in America is well and truly screwed. Our local newspaper today has a Mercedes Benz advertisement for 0% financing for 72 months on the E-Class 2008 models. Yes, they are for new […]

Is Dasavatharam Sinking?

Kuselan – Judas Rajinikanth Spits on Tamil Movie Fans Sitting in the U.S. it’s hard to definitively say how Kamal Haasan’s crappy freakshow Dasavatharam is faring at the box office. But news reports trickling in from India suggest that Dasavatharam is not doing well at the box office. If that is indeed the case, we […]

Hollywood Guru to get $500m from Bollywood Arriviste

Hollywood director Steven Spielberg’s and his fellow principals at Dreamworks SKG are close to a deal with Anil Ambani’s Reliance ADA Group that will provide them with $500 million-$600 million to create a new movie venture, according to Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required). Although a new comer to the entertainment business, Reliance ADA Group […]

Dream On, Kamal. Dream On

The bigger our Indian movie stars, the greater the bullshit that falls from their lips on occasion. The latest to earn the title of BS King is none other than our Ulaganayagan (Universal Hero) Kamal Haasan, whose embarrassingly bad Dasavatharam is now running on movie screens in several continents. Some of Kamal’s recent comical statements […]

Walter Mossberg Lavishes Praise on Firefox 3

The technology priest at the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) Walter Mossberg has heaped praise on the upcoming Firefox 3.0 browser upgrade in today’s issue of the newspaper. Here’s an excerpt from Mossberg’s review of Firefox 3.0 in the WSJ: I’ve been using prerelease versions of Firefox 3.0 for months, and have recently been testing […]

Bomb Blasts Rock Jaipur; 60 Dead, 200 Injured

Multiple bomb blasts rocked the Indian city of Jaipur today. Early reports suggest that several dozen people have been killed. One news report said over 60 people were killed in six blasts. Dozens of other people have been injured. Capital of the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, Jaipur is known as the Pink City for its pink […]

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