Archives: 2009 April - Random Ruminations

100days

The best humorous piece I have seen on the fist 100 days of Barack Obama in White House is in the online magazine Slate.

Its designed like a facebook news feed. Here’s only a sample to get you started …

Tweenbots is a great idea, and a wonderful social experiment. The premise is simple: make a cute, helpless little robot, and see if people will help it to reach its destination. What makes this a great story is that, in fact, it does reach its destination, helped on by complete strangers.

Stories like this help us restore the faith about the essential goodness in human.

April

11:04

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Indian calendar art adorns laptops

saraswati

The Hindu goddess of education, Saraswati, adorns the cover of laptop in this advertisement. The much-maligned calendar art from India is seeing new acceptance as the new ‘cool’?

April

01:04

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Taco-Bell drive thru song

Things people would do for that fifteen-minutes-of-fame on youtube!

But these guys are good singers, and that makes it worth a listen.

#include <stdio.h>
int main( int argc, char **argv) {
    printf( "Hello, world!n");
}

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