The high drama of the IPL auction unfolded today with some mind-numbing numbers. Dhoni was sold for the highest (yet) for Rs. 6 crores! Check out the list of prices some of the top players netted: Andrew Symonds Rs 5.4 Crores, Murlidharan 2.4 Crores, Shane Warn: 1.8 Crores, Jayasuriya 3.9 Crores!
That’s a lot of money [...]

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I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently: Why do cellphone operators charge as much as Re. 1 for sending a simple SMS? It just doesn’t make any sense.
Consider this: A SMS is basically 160 chars + some headers = about 200 bytes of data transfered over the network. Cost = 100p/200 bytes = 0.05 [...]

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Exxon Mobil, one of the world’s largest oil companies, today posted a PROFIT, not revenue, of $40.61 Billion. That’s $1,300 every second of the whole year - during day and night!
How can this be possible? Oil companies, that are increasing prices saying that “Global Oil Prices are increasing” are also increasing their own margins, and [...]

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Hollywood weddings seem to get shorter and shorter. It seems that Eddie Murphy had an extravagent wedding just 2 weeks ago in French Polynesia, and two weeks later, has filed for divorce!
I don’t get this. Are they just getting married for the media attention? Maybe, but I think the real reason is that they want [...]

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Citigroup, the parent of Citibank, declared its quaterly results yesterday. And it had a lot of interesting things to say. They were like “Yeah, dude! We can’t find some $18 billion. It’s evaporated. And oh, BTW, on top of that, we lost $9 billion these last 3 months.”
The scale of the numbers involved is staggering! [...]

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Everyone seems to be discussing whether the Indian Cricket Team should abandon the Australian tour and just return home. I say Just Do IT! No point playing like this. Is it just me, or does it seem that whenever India visits Australia, there is heaps of controversy around Bad Umpiring, Sledging and other assorted crap [...]

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And now for the absurd story of the day: The Egyptian government wants to enact a law that will extend copyright retrospectively by 3000 years! That’s to say that they want to copyright the sphinx and the pyramids. So now, if anyone wants to make a copy of these, they’ll have to give a [...]

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This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard all week. Here’s the story: A Chinese mining company was mining a mountain and this was making the mountain look bare and dull and grey. It so happened that this Chinese Official’s office was overlooking the mountain (he’s probably a big shot), and he complained the the [...]

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This video is quite unbelievable. This dude goes out on the street asking people ‘Which Country should America attack next?’ and people say all kinds of things. He also has a map where he’s labeled Australia as IRAN and so many people fall for it. Hilarious!

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The Japanese are a crazy bunch. A fashion designer in Japan has come up with a ‘Safety Skirt’ that can instantly turn the wearer into a -get this- CocaCola vending machine. Has to be seen to be believed!

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