Statutory Warning: All Religions are Equally Stupid Ever since Osama bin Laden’s henchmen rammed planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center at 9:00 AM on a September 11 there has been enormous interest in Islam and its holy book, the Quran (a.k.a. Koran). Both Islam’s staunch defenders and its bitter detractors invariably […]
20% of Avatar Work Still Incomplete The mailman brought us our latest issue of the New Yorker (Oct 26, 2009) yesterday. And what do we find? A huge, 13-page piece on James ‘Titanic’ Cameron and his upcoming 3D/2D movie Avatar, the director’s first movie in 12 years. In production for over four years, the $230 […]
Jai ho, Karuppiah. Oh boy, our Karuppiahs a.k.a Tamils are all over the place. No kidding. Indian-American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on mapping the ribosomes at the atomic level. Born in 1952 in the temple town of Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu, India, Venkatraman got a Ph.D. […]
Ravana-Linga Raju a.k.a. Ramalinga Raju was blessed with a heart attack a short while ago. Architect of the Satyam scam, Ravana-Linga Raju had been cooling his heels in a Hyderabad jail for the last several months. Raju has been shifted to the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, according to media reports from India. Related Stories: […]
To all the Indian schmucks who failed to make it to the IITs and graduated from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Deen Bandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science & Technology, Periyar Maniammai University, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University et al, we say take heart. All is not lost, there’s still hope even for y’all imbeciles. 😉 Ever […]
We’re no great fans of science fiction or alien movies having watched few-to-hardly-any movies in this genre. But with some SI readers slyly recommending District 9, we figured it’s time to take a look. So after quickly skimming through a few reviews and finding them mostly adulatory, we hotfooted over to the mall and watched […]