A few quick thoughts on the movie that I watched last Friday:
– Canon is really going all out in India given the number of photographers portrayed in recent movies, and all use Canon gear obviously
– Nice touch (intentional or not) with the Windows XP PC and Internet Explorer 6 being used by Deepika Padukone in the flashback, plus no smartphones either
– The present day of course has our hero Ranbir Kapoor using a MacBook, plus smartphones in the hands of the entire gang
– The MacBook did seem to be a tad outdated though with an older version of iTunes, but it did have Firefox installed
– The movie plot itself was pretty staple stuff as numerous reviews have noted, and Bollywood ladies as usual are a lot less sensitive to the cold as evident from their attire in the freezing Manali weather
Author: Aditya
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Yeh Jawani Hai Diwani: Tech portrayal gets accurate
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The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’ by Julian Assange
Makes you think differently about what Google is doing for sure:
The book proselytizes the role of technology in reshaping the world’s people and nations into likenesses of the world’s dominant superpower, whether they want to be reshaped or not. The prose is terse, the argument confident and the wisdom — banal. But this isn’t a book designed to be read. It is a major declaration designed to foster alliances.
“The New Digital Age” is, beyond anything else, an attempt by Google to position itself as America’s geopolitical visionary — the one company that can answer the question “Where should America go?” It is not surprising that a respectable cast of the world’s most famous warmongers has been trotted out to give its stamp of approval to this enticement to Western soft power. The acknowledgments give pride of place to Henry Kissinger, who along with Tony Blair and the former C.I.A. director Michael Hayden provided advance praise for the book.
The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’ by Julian Assange – NYTimes.com.
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Has the Joker ever been sane?
Pretty interesting answers – most based on The Dark Knight movie, while a few are based on the graphic novels\comics
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Quora: Why are Indian girls crazy about pani puri?
That’s one way to answer such a question.
Answer by Jaganathan Abhinav, Mediocre. Wants to marry Arya Stark (Follow up question to him would be: Does Arya Stark like pani puri?):
In the Mahabharata, as soon as Draupadi was married to the Pandava brothers, she was taken to their house. Kunti was worried that her daughter-in-law might create a rift amongst her sons by showing extra affection to one over the other. It was tough times and she also wanted to see whether this new bride would be able to successfully manage resources. So she decided to test her
Kunti gave her just enough dough (atta) to make one puri and told her to satisfy the hunger of all five of her sons. There was also some left over potato masala from last night. It was then that the ingenious Draupadi invented Pani Puri. This also goes on to explain why every standard plate has 5 pieces. Kunti was so amazed with her daughter-in-law’s creativity that she blessed her dish with immortality.
Thus every Indian girl eating pani puri secretly wishes for a good husband and wants to show to the 5 men ogling her at a pani puri wala that she is more than capable of being a good wife..
Hope your intellect is satisfied. And on a more serious note, your intellect needs to get a life.
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Hacking into the Indian Education System
The case of the missing marks it seems. Of course, the first thing that authorities will do if they get wind of this will be to shoot the messenger.
Post by Debarghya Das:
Hacking into the Indian Education System
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Lawyers & ethics – an Apple saga
In the high stakes patent games, trust no one, especially not the lawyers whether working for you or against you:
But the documents in the public record thus far may just be the tip of the iceberg, and big questions remain. Why didn’t Morgan Lewis—which knew the lawsuit was coming before it was filed—see an ethical problem in letting one of its partner invest in a patent troll, especially one specially designed to target one of the firm’s big clients? And how many other big-firm lawyers are entwined with “start-ups” that are actually holding companies, created to attack the very corporations they are supposed to be defending?
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Thinking about the box – one click selling
Very interesting premise, particularly the box part. Really odd that the e-commerce giants didn’t try this:
With Sold’s app, you take a picture of the thing you want to sell and write a description. The company uses a mix of algorithmic and human judgment to figure out how much you can probably get for the item and sends you the proposed price. If you accept, Sold posts your product on whatever online marketplace the company determine is best—eBay, Amazon or smaller niche sites, depending on what you’re selling.
via Why 3 MIT Grads Want to Send You an Empty Box | Wired Business | Wired.com.
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Mary Meeker’s 2013 Internet Trends Report
Some very interesting insights, particularly focused on USA and China. A fair number of takeaways for India too if you read between the slides – the huge smartphone market potential and the upcoming mobile-enabled services revolution – given that we have a population similar to China’s, and one that is a lot better versed in English.
http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/kpcb-internet-trends-2013
via Mary Meeker is Back With Her 2013 Internet Trends Report Slides – Jason Del Rey – D11 – AllThingsD.
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The Star Wars logo
A really close look at the evolution of the Star Wars logo and typography.
