satire on S Anand

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 08:12:09 +0000

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?

Indian Express: “You may feel emotionally reserved today… tendency to withdraw from social settings, despite invitations from your partner.
India Today: “go out for travel or entertainment” and “warmly welcome guests.

Will I get stuff done?

India Today: “Indications of great success are strong,” that “Your goals will be achieved,” and that “Professional tasks will pick up pace”. “You may receive attractive offers during meetings or interviews”.
Times of India: “You may struggle to complete tasks” and that “minor mistakes may disrupt your workflow”.

Will I feel fit today?

India Today: “Your health will remain good. Your personality will be impressive… Your morale will stay high.
Times of India (“rest”): “Your body is asking for a break. You may feel back pain, tired legs, or even mild feverish feelings if you don’t stop and listen.

Therefore, I:

should and should not invest
should and should not be social
will and will not feel fit.

Such Zen!

Full prompt and analysis: https://github.com/sanand0/datastories/tree/main/horoscope-2025-06-16

Ramesh Mahadevan articles

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Hilarious articles from Ramesh Mahadevan, including the exploits of Ajay Palvayanteeswaran.

Google Purge

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:00:00 +0000

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

Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:00:00 +0000

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

SciAm gives up

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:00:00 +0000

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.

Moreover, we shamefully mistreated the Intelligent Design (ID) theorists by lumping them in with creationists. Creationists believe that God designed all life, and that’s a somewhat religious idea. But ID theorists think that at unspecified times some unnamed superpowerful entity designed life, or maybe just some species, or maybe just some of the stuff in cells. That’s what makes ID a superior scientific theory: it doesn’t get bogged down in details.

Get ready for a new Scientific American. This magazine will be dedicated purely to science, fair and balanced science, and not just the science that scientists say is science. And it will start on April Fools’ Day.

I didn’t notice the last bit about the April Fool’s joke until now.