42 Quirks

The story so far:
On my way back home, I encounter disembodied voices. Takes me a while to actually figure out they are disembodied. But when I do, I freak out. The story continues…
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Very slowly, I started to back out, throwing occasional glances all around, trying to ascertain if the voice-without-a-body was just that, or if it had other surprises in store, hidden away somewhere.

I must have hardly taken a few steps, when I heard the same wheezy, “Excuse me?”

“Yes?” I noticed that my voice came out an octave higher, what was commonly called a squeak.

“We detect fear. Are you a-fear?”

“Afraid. The word is afraid,” my TA instincts took over, “And the answer is yes. I don’t talk to disembodied voices everyday, you know!!”

“No, no! You have gotten us all wrong. We are not dis-whatever-ied. We are humanoid voices!”

“Humanoid?”
(more…)

Did I tell you about the time when I saved the world?

No, really. I did.

It happened like this.

I was on my way home after a long day’s work. And I was really looking forward to some R & R, mindless channel surfing on the telly coupled with a hot cup of coffee and jelly-filled cream biscuits…

Along the way I was cogitating - thinking, that is - about the problem I had left half-solved on my lab desk.

The solution to it was just around the proverbial corner. Except, the proverbial corner was not in proverbial sight, far as the proverbial eye could see.

Too many proverbial what-have-yous spoiling the proverbial whats-it-called.

Engrossed in my thoughts thus, I was traversing my daily route, almost robotically, when I heard a wheezy, “Excuse me?”

I stopped to see who it was that the voice addressed.
(more…)

If you are getting some dirty thoughts in your head, well…

Don’t reel them in. You are pretty close. The knobs in the title refers exactly to the knobs you are thinking of. Or at least the ones I presume you are thinking of.

On the occasion of World Aids day (December 1st, for the blank stares) WebChutney, (an Indian full service consultancy that delivers innovative, interactive marketing solutions) came up with a really innovative idea to spread HIV/AIDS awareness.

Difficult in conception, simple in execution. Go ahead, click the image and “Cap the knobs“.
My best in a few times that I attempted was 21 seconds. Do let me know how you fared.

Ah, did I mention it was probably NSFW - Not Safe For Work? Unless you like to argue about it being educational and all that…

Spread the word, is what I’d say. Every little bit helps and heck, this is info-tainment, right? Or something like that…

Among other news:

1. I have added a small sidebar widget called “Read These Yet?” to each post. What this snappy li’l widget does is display related entries calculated according to a certain algorithm. Thanks a ton to the developers Alex@w-a-s-a-b-i and Jonas Israelsson
   
2. This website will see a lot more of template changes. But don’t worry, most of it will happen, while you guys aren’t looking. So rest easy on that one.
3. I will also add a shoutbox soon. Am currently evaluating the possibilities available out there on the web.
4. If there’s anything else you guys think is missing on the site. do let me know, via the comments or by mailing me. I’ll see if I can scrounge it up.

Keep visiting, fellas. And, spread the word, if you can…

This post by Doug (a Xoogler) talks about how different people with different visions read differently into one and the same thing. Well, actually he talks about the Google-Dilbert Logo that *almost* caused quite an internal scandal in the Googleplex.

Those of you who have seen it, know what I am talking about. Those who haven’t, follow this link and read this.

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Blake Ross of Firefox comes up with his own list of 10 ‘predictions for the year 2006. Who knows, may be some of them will actually turn out to be true. He he.

Here’s a collection of my favs:

This one seems to be A take on 37signals, what say, Blake?

Although 37 venture capital firms will invest in AOL following the announcement, the blogosphere will scoff that AOL is “only for people who know nothing about the Internet.” Rupert Murdoch will thus acquire the company immediately, then merge it with his other recent acquisition to create online powerhouse AOL Gore.

This had me ROTFLMAO…

Yahoo, acclerating its bid to dominate the social space, will announce that it is buying the actual societies of 32 cash-strapped governments. Citizens will be allowed to link their existing names to their Yahoo accounts.

Will they, won’t they?

A uncanny sense of humour combined with fiery sarcasm makes Blake’s post a must-read. Those of you who haven’t yet seen it, I have one word for you: Subscribe!