The teams that will comprise of the Indian Premier League are supposedly going to be listed on the stock exchanges. In other words, legalized cricket betting!
I think this is a great idea. It’s much better to legalize-and-control than to ban-and-drive-underground, especially around things like betting and gambling. In fact, I think we should go a [...]

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Have you seen those Mac vs PC ads? They get really down and dirty, often outright abusing Windows. Here’s the latest installment. They’ve cleverly used 2 banners on normal websites and co-ordinated them. Gives you a surreal feeling watching it. Here’s a video:

Click here for a direct link to the video. Standard Disclaimer: I’m a [...]

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If you open up today’s Times of India, Bangalore Edition to page 7, you’ll see an interesting article that quotes an article from the Pointless Wanderings blog! See the last para in the article. Woohoo!
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Does this make me a mini micro nano celebrity?

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This video is making the rounds on the popular sharing sites, and is absolutely hilarious. This so-called “expert” is giving his views on the oil spill that happened recently. Hilarious! Mindblowing analysis!

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Remember, when Gmail started out, it was so cool that they were offering 1 GB of space. 1 GB! Who on earth would need 1 GB?
As users quickly found out, 1 GB can get filled up really fast when you’re sending 7 mega-pixel photos of your kid from 12 different angles to everyone in your [...]

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Did you know that your precious chocolate was actually invented by drunk Aztecs? That’s right. Some 3,000 years ago, a group of drunk Aztec teenagers were trying to make some of their own beer (presumably because the high-priest refused to give them some), and stumbled upon the recipe for Chocolate.
Not much different from College kids [...]

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These TV reporters are a crazy bunch. They’ll say whatever they want, physics and the laws of the universe be damned. Here’s their latest exploit, as seen on CNN:
(Original Here)

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Apparently, young South Koreans are so addicted to the internet, that their parents send them off to ‘cure’ their addiction to some sort of bootcamp! Seriously.
Here’s my question: If all these Koreans are spending all their time on the internet, does that mean no school? And if you have to go to ‘anti-internet camp’, does [...]

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Predictably, after my post about the Charming Chitradeep appeared on the blog, I received several death threats from an unrelated person calling himself Chirdeep Again, I used my brilliant planning for this post because, I’m in Bangalore and Chirdeep is on the other side of the planet in Chicago. So I’m safe. For now.
And [...]

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Super-Smart beauty Queens are a favorite with me, and here’s another classic response from a Miss USA in a beauty contest.
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?Miss Alabama: I would like to live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were ever supposed to live forever, then we would [...]

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