And here’s the news all of us have been waiting for!
Yahoo yesterday announced that they’re going to lay off 1,000 of their 14,000 employees. This is all spookily similar to the situation after the 2001 “bubble-burst”. The fun begins now to see where all this ends up

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Have you heard the story of this 16-year old Australian kid, Corey Delaney? So, his parents went out on a weekend, and told him not to make any mess at home. And what does he decide to do? He decides to throw a party instead! He’s also thinking big! He puts an open invite on [...]

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Airbus’s brand new A380 is the largest flying aircraft. It’s a double decker capable of carrying 800 passengers at once! Not only that, but it also has some of the most advanced avionics in the world. Check out this 3-D view of the cockpit. You can look around and even zoom in. Quite cool. Click [...]

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It seems an island in Northwestern Australia has been invaded by 150 million crabs! They are everywhere, on the streets, in the houses and on the golf courses. But that’s not all. It is mating season, so there are soon going to be millions and millions of baby crabs too! Check out this video. It’s [...]

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I’m really starting to like all the cool stuff BCCI is doing with the IPL. As you probably already know, the IPL has contracted the world’s top 80 players to play in the IPL. Now, they have to decide which team gets which players. To do this, they’re going to hold a LIVE auction on [...]

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Well, they’ve not really found superman’s cave, but I’m starting to like sensationalist headlines.
A couple of amature geologists have found a massive crystal cave in Mexico, just like the one shown in Superman! It’s super cool, check out the pics. (Clock for larger images)

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Shell, one of the world’s largest energy company, has on it’s website a letter by the CEO Jeroen van der Veer, where he talks about the energy future of the World. The article is surprisingly frank and honest. Interesting perspective.
But what’s more interesting is that if you read between the lines, I think Jeroen is [...]

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I’m so sick of all the news outlets misinterpreting what scientists say. Scientists will be like “There is a remote possibility that we might have detected, with low probability, the existance of one water molecule, that, hypothetically, could support primitive, single-celled organisms”. Media: “OH MY GOD! THERE IS LIFE ON MARS!!!”
Check out such a video [...]

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Financial frauds, it seems, are universal. The Economist is reporting today that the second-largest french bank, “Societe Generale” has discovered that one of it’s employees was singly responsible for a €4.9 Billion ($7 Billion) fraud.
Isn’t it interesting that when such things happen in India, the Indian media goes bazook over it, but when it happens [...]

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And reuters is reporting today on something I’ve known for a long time - That the more you fight with your spouse, the longer you’ll live. I suspect that it applies not only to fighting with your spouse, but also with your dog, with your car and with the auto drivers.
So go forth and fight. [...]

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