I am not against porn. It has its place but that place is not in the pages of newspaper that pretends to be a national newspaper. It’s a dismal situation. Here’s a picture compiled by someone — graphically illustrating the fact that the Times of India peddles porn. They have been in that business for a long time. I wrote about it in June 2004 — Peddling Pornography. See also this April 2004 post about the Slimes of India.

Steve, a friend who teaches at UC, sent an email with that subject line. Enjoy.

Apparently according to this test, my brain works quite like that of the vast majority of humans. Take this quick test to check your thought pattern. Do tell what happened in a comment but please don’t spoil the test for others by revealing your answer. Just say whether you are with the majority or not. It would be interesting to see how the numbers stack up. Thanks much. (Caution: Don’t read the comments if you want to do the test and not prejudice yourself.)

Just in case you need to go to China from the US via Japan, check google maps for directions.

Broken News: All India Radia reports that Madam Sonia will recommend both Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi for Padma Bhushan.

A tweet by @indianalltheway reminded me of this Irish joke from a while back. Some of my closest friends are Irish. What we — Bongs and Irish — have in common is our love for a good ‘addaa’. Over a glass of whiskey (not whisky, which is Scottish), we can sit for hours talking our heads off and telling jokes. Here’s an old favorite Irish joke.

A mashup of Kellogs Frosted Flakes tiger and Sylvester the cat.

This is very disturbing news that was brought to my attention on a mailing list I subscribe to.

In the face of all that is grim and distressing, there’s always the relief of reading the TOI — affectionately referred to by its admirers as TOI-let paper or the Slimes of India. This hot Summer Sunday morning was brightened by an article, “The Benefits of Surya Namaskar.”

I got my own supply of Google Gulp yesterday. It does not come for free though.

“I see dead people,” whispers the little guy in the movie “The Sixth Sense.” That must be very unfortunate for the ability is of dubious utility and seeing dead people walking about certainly would scare the crap out of the normal fellow. It’s more of an affliction than a talent. My affliction is that I see stupid people.

[via Fantasising Zombies.]

NOT FOUND . . . You’re looking for something that does not, has not, will not, might not or must not exist . . . ERROR 404

This is posted under the category “Humor and Silliness.” It’s funny stuff. Actually, it’s hilarious.

They say you can’t take it with you. So the only alternative is to keep it in safekeeping till you get back and reclaim what was yours when you reincarnate. Now you need not wonder where to stash your cash. There’s Reincarnation Bank for you.

You know that you have arrived when you find that your writing has been banned in some place. Nihar, when he was traveling in Iran, found that some blog posts of mine are banned there. He sent me a screen capture which you will find below the fold. Now at least I hope you are impressed. Or will you be impressed only after the Indian government bans this blog?
PS: I don’t think it will be long before the government of India bans this blog. There are too many things here …

Google has to be the most technologically advanced company on earth, if not the whole universe. They have the capacity to bring you emails before they are sent.
Here’s the screen capture of an email that Google delivered to me about 2 minutes before it was sent. I had to wait for 2 minutes and then the counter said “0 minutes ago” — for the world to catch up with gmail.
I tell you, wonders will never cease as long as Google is around.