Onion’s prophesy comes true!
“The Onion” had predicted (rather parodied) some time back that Gillette will somehow put 5 blades in its razor, even if it were to put one of it across! I had even blogged about it earlier. The Onion story is here!
Now Gillette has really come out with a 5 blade razor christened “Fusion”! You can read more about it here.
My friend Mr. Badri once lamented that there is no equivalent to The Onion in India. Will there be any?
Has Wordsworth erred?
I was brought up on Wordsworth during the school days. And “Daffodils” was staple and inescapable! Now what is my gripe? It is the first line of the poem which goes like this:
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
You will readily agree with me that it is very rare to spot a cloud wandering alone? They (almost) always ramble in a bunch. So I am of the view that a cloud is not an appropriate similie to describe lonely wandering. But what an audacity! A nondescript non-native speaker of English venturing insolently trying to criticise the great William Wordsworth, romantic poet of 18th/19th century.
But will there be at least a single homo-sapien who will dare to agree with me?
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The world’s greatest “encyclodictionalmanacapedia“!
Well, that is how Answers.com describes itself to be!
You can read more about this here.
Live on blogging?
Are you considering making a living (if not a killing!) on blogging?
If you are good, it is not enough. You must be smart enough too!
Urban legends galore!
The world is full of nihilists, naysayers and conspiracy theorists who repudiate and negate all accepted beliefs, proven theories and obvious events. And the cynics amongst the mankind are ever ready to lap up the antitheses and weird fantasies.
Here are a few of such phantom theories:
- Our ears are quite full of those golden words spoken by the first man on the moon, “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind”. If you are to accept it, you have to first believe that a man actually landed on the surface of the satellite that is associated with lunacy. In fact, one whole generation has grown in the belief that man did land on moon. But a certain group of individuals find it hard to get convinced, They have advanced cogent evidence and convincing proof that the whole video clip of Neil Armstrong’s goose step was filmed in a studio or on the Nevada desert.
Moon Truth has further details.
Confused? Read The Moon Landing Hoax and listen to the audio rendering over there.
And to keep you engaged during the weekends, here are the whole lot of web sites vying with each other to propagate the “fake theory”!
- The entire world (almost!) was outraged by the savage attack on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on the infamous morning of 9/11/2001. But there are some members of human species who claim that the whole thing was a hoax and it was made up by the press. You can get the dope from the “fake-video theorists“.
- The present era can be termed as the “age of the Google”. Yes. Google is touching every aspect of your virtual as well as real life. One should get a daily dose of Googling, whatever be his walk of life. Children do their homework by googling (a generic term now!) and grown-ups subsist on them. Software geeks almost entirely earn their bread thanks to Google. There Will be no writers and doctorates if there be no Google to help them scourge and plagiarize! Folks are going gaga about every new offering that unfolds from the Google stable. Already you have almost everything: Gmail to Gtalk through maps, shopping, blogging, pages, aggregators….. and now an OS too!
And Google made a paradigm shift from the way business is traditionally run. They have made nerds rich by adwords. They have caused a veritable net revolution. They have clustered low-end computers and are running such a successful e-commerce stuff with minimal infrastructure costs. They have made history by their financial success. They promote open source. The do no evil!
But wait a minute. There are folks who think otherwise. They see a conspiracy at every corner. Go to this website: “Fu@#ed Google dot com“
- And to cap it all, The World is Flat! Yes. For a few, the earth is not a globe spinning and revolving around the Sun. It is flat!
There is never a dull moment with such homo sapiens around!
Weird advice!
Life Is Too Precious To Be Enjoyed!
Sounding weird?
May be. But true to an extent. Like saying, “Ignorance is Bliss”, “Inaction is safe!”
Onion never disappoints you!
Life’s secret
Here is an excellent PowerPoint presentation on life’s basic values and empathy towards our fellow beings.
Really thought provoking!
View it by clicking here!
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