The Apple digital media juggernaut shows no sign of slowing. On the first anniversary of the rollout of its digital media application repository App Store, Apple said customers had downloaded over 1.5 billion applications from the store. The applications run on Apple’s popular iPhone and iPod devices. Apple did not say whether the downloads were […]
Oh, no. Don’t get your hopes up. We are not doing what Padma Lakshmi did recently in Allure. No way. But ever since we espied our Tamil ponnu Padma Lakshmi favoring us with a tantalizing glimpse of her delectable orbs as she crunches down into a Hardee’s Western Bacon Thickburger, lazily throwing back her head […]
Whoever said America is the Land of Opportunities is wrong. Dead wrong. Folks, America is the Land of Coupons. The dominant motif of this land is a discount coupon. No more, and certainly no less. But even we – yes, cynical we, who think we’ve seen it all – were surprised at what we found […]
In an age of airplanes, motor cars and asinine ‘reality’ shows, it seems there are few challenging frontiers left for man to conquer any more. So it is with delight we’re reading Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold by Michael Benanav. The 220-page book is a first person account […]
A spectre is haunting the Republican Party: The specter of Arlen Specter (the sentence is a modification of Karl Marx’ Communist Manifesto). Folks, God Exists He/she/it most definitely does. And now, don’t you dare disagree with us because we have proof. After serving four decades in the company of a whole bunch of Republican loonies, […]
Future historians will most certainly describe Pakistan’s craven surrender to the Taliban pigs in the Swat region as a Himalayan blunder. Emboldened by the surrender of Swat Valley, the Taliban has already ushered in Sharia (Islamic law) in parts of Swat and taken over the neighboring Buner district as well. How far from Buner to […]