ज़िंदगी भर बिस्तर बिछईबा करबा तो सुतबा कब? Sing the beauty of these words, and their meaning. (I don’t really mean sing. I mean, write in a way that’d really make me appreciate the beauty. But without going overboard. I mean, some wicked humor is always welcome! In fact, I’d love for you to think about who are some of the best authors who achieve this balance, and write in THEIR style.) ...
Out of curiosity, I ran Deep Research to compare all horoscope predictions for Sagittarius (my sign) on 16 Jun 2025. Here are highlights: Should I act on financial opportunities? India Today: Unambiguously bullish-“Wealth and resources will increase,” “New sources of income will emerge,” “Profit levels will continue to increase. Indian Express: Advocates inaction-“The day does not favour financial focus… Postpone critical financial tasks or decisions if possible. Should I plan social events? ...
Hilarious articles from Ramesh Mahadevan, including the exploits of Ajay Palvayanteeswaran.
Google Purge. Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can’t Index. Comments ritzkini 31 Aug 2005 10:28 am: hey the picture slidehsow is affecting the contact and faq section and recently updated blogs section ! S Anand 31 Aug 2005 10:57 am: Oh, what browser and version do you have? ritzkini 2 Sep 2005 12:48 pm: IE 6.0 S Anand 2 Sep 2005 3:18 pm: That’s strange… I have the same version. Having no problems. Could you mail me a screenshot?
Uncyclopedia. As Arnab points out, this is much tougher than Wikipedia. Comments Jetru 30 Mar 2005 6:38 am: what the heck is this? TOUGHER???! S Anand 30 Mar 2005 6:41 am: Yeah. The lies have to be consistent with all previous lies. Jetru 30 Mar 2005 1:21 pm: oh.lol
Scientific American gives up. In retrospect, this magazine’s coverage of socalled evolution has been hideously one-sided. For decades, we published articles in every issue that endorsed the ideas of Charles Darwin and his cronies. True, the theory of common descent through natural selection has been called the unifying concept for all of biology and one of the greatest scientific ideas of all time, but that was no excuse to be fanatics about it. ...
Amul ad hits. Comments BINDU NAIR 8 Dec 2011 12:50 pm: LOVE THE JINGLE OF THE AD UTTERLY BUTTERLY DELICIOUS AMUL
Some people think The Onion is serious.
US high school seniors can’t read Perl. Not even a simple DeCSS program (obufuscated, of course).
Yahoo on a time traveler busted for insider trading. Unfortunately, the urban legends site denounces it. via Sid
The Onion on the plans of top Indian physicists.
RIAA sues radio stations for playing their music. (No, not really. It’s a spoof. But I wouldn’t be surprised.) via Scripting News
God has been talkative lately. via andersja
If Microsoft released Linux… but then, they may not need to.
While on the subject of spoofs, gatt.org is a pretty good one on wto.org. WTO doesn’t like it, though. Links: 1 2
Where do you want to go today?
Nice of whitehouse.gov not to have sued whitehouse.org.
Enron’s voice mail. No, that’s not true, but it’s pretty similar to Enron’s real voice mail at 1-703-853-6161. (And funnier, too).
The Onion on Indo-Pakistan tensions.
The Tolkien sarcasm page.
I’m back, after a Diwali break. So’s the late Douglas Adams, with A Salmon of Doubt.
Alcohol is injurious to self-respect.
Financial cartoons.
The Internet Oracle (ultimate source of Internet humour, IMHO) is alive and well.
Nuke the Hamptons: a very interesting site.
The Nervous Dog competes with Onion to be the funniest satire on the Web.
A one-minute summary of movies. For some movies, if you’ve read it, you’ve seen it.
If you’ve been following the Nobel prize broadcasts, don’t miss the Ig prizes – for the goofiest achievements.
What’s more of a rage than profitable dot-coms? Bankrupt dot-coms, as listed by dotcomfailures, startupfailures, and fuckedcompany. Scepticism’s gone far enough to make this web economy bullshit generator a great hit.
There’s a whole series of articles on Umashankar Dikshit – a Silicon Valley pujari. Not a bad idea – epujari.com (which incidentally is on sale.) Following the articles on Rediff and USA Today, there’s this really funny piece. Now I’ve heard everything. The San Francisco Chronicle reported some weeks ago that a Hindu priest in Silicon Valley called Umashankar Dixit is in great demand to perform Lakshmi poojas when e-commerce startups are launched by Indians, as an increasing number are. Mr. Dixit says modestly that he is considered a ’lucky hand’ because his God is Ganesha, the remover of obstacles. He – Mr. Dixit that is, not Ganesha – has been compensated in cash and stock options by several startups and says he has already done very well from the IPOs of successful companies like Exodus Communications. Rediff’s US edition and USA Today have since come up with their own breathless takes on Mr. Dixit, reporting among other things that he spends an hour every morning, presumably just after sandhyavandanam, on the Internet monitoring the financial markets. ...