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It is Satya, Company, and D all over again. Two kids ran away from their homes to pursue a career not in the movies, but in the mafia. The lure of easy money and feeling of [...]
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A real-life incident in Japan:
“This happened on the JR Chuo line this morning. A guy made a dash for the train door and the door almost closed but he pried it open. A train conductor announced “rushing to get on the train is dangerous so please be careful.” This is the normal announcement. But then [...]
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"A US artist in a harness has thrown himself off a five-storey building more than 30 times to create photographs recalling the 11 September attacks. He had the idea after seeing Twin Towers workers fall to their deaths. "I was so distraught, I needed some way to find an artistic response," he said."
[source: The [...]
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The local lass from Georgia, Jennifer Wilbanks is setting an absurd example and a dangerous precedent to get rich quick. Yup, she is the infamous ‘runaway bride’ that sent rescue squads on an imaginary “woman hunt” after she fled to New Mexico, developing cold feet upon her impending wedding. Latest news confirm that she has [...]
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Indian Express is running a fine series on the state of our world-heritage monuments. They presented two contrasting case studies over the past weekend; one in Sanchi and the other in Aurangabad – the Stupa and the Ajanta Caves respectively. Personally, these monuments are close to my interest since I have studied them both during [...]
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Typepad is offering ‘pennies for your thoughts‘ now. After seeing Google’s amazing success with Adsense, they have introduced their own contextual text-ad service. They are offering this service exclusively to Typepad owner but you have to be a Pro User i.e. shell out $14.95 each month for your blog. I think I will pass up [...]
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I brought a glass for $0.50 from a lemonade stand run by kids in my apartment complex. I had always read about kids doing this in the summer but unfortunately had never seen any (maybe I have never really lived in the American suburbia). It was refreshing not only to drink the cool lemonade on [...]
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Target advertising at its best! This billboard ad for Ford’s Escape Hybrid contains 900 real plants, kept alive by an irrigation system and tended to weekly by a landscape crew [via Adrants].
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More proof emerges that there is a serious disconnect between Pakistan’s polity and military. Pakistan has been repeatedly ruled by military dictators who have deemed duly elected political leaders unfit to rule. Recently, Dawn, Pakistan’s premier English newspaper conceded that “Pakistan’s military had prepared a nuclear-tipped missile to fight back a possible Indian attack during [...]
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The new minister for planning and administrative development in Kuwait is…. (gasp!) a woman. Massouma al-Mubarak was sworn in yesterday signaling a new era for women in Islamic political circles in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia unfortunately still languishes in the stone-age by not allowing women to vote let alone contest an election. Kuwait has [...]
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Michael Cera is the only bright spark in an otherwise listless comedy.
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Love political movies so loved this one too. Frank Langella plays a terrific Nixon.
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Outrageously funny. Not recommended for watching with your kids or parents.
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