Mixing Metaphors

Watch this old video all the way to the end to hear Condi Rice say "I will stay on top of it till I get to the bottom of it".

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Why..

Here's a fun exercise: start typing in a commonly used keyword in the google search box, and look at the auto suggestions that come up! If you're lucky, you will get ridiculous suggestions like "why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch" & "Why did I get married" (of course, both of these questions are from the world of entertainment, but it's fun looking at them out of context). Enjoy!

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Separation of Church & State

There seem to be at least 10 American cities that don't believe in the separation of Church & State:

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What's your theme music?

In the opening sequence of Farhan Akhtar's Don, Don is sitting in a cafe in Paris, and his phone rings. He picks up his sleek Razor and spits out his name into it: Don! And then, magically, Don's theme music starts playing.



Imagine how cool it would be if you could do this in real life - every trime you introduce yourself, your theme music started playing in the background. I was hanging out with some friends yesterday, and my question to them was: if you could do this, what theme music would you pick? Their answers ranged from the Pink Panther theme to classical and operatic music (I am not making this up), reflecting the personality of the individual.

So go ahead and tell me something about yourself - what's your theme music?

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Can the tip melt the iceberg?

I was amused to see the headline of this Washington Post article: Global Warming is Just the Tip of the Iceberg - in other words, "global warming, which is melting all icebergs, is just the tip of the iceberg":)

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New year's resolution

A very happy 2009 to everyone. In case you haven't made up your new year's resolutions yet, you'd do well to read these gems from Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes:

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Apple to launch iPhone shuffle at Macworld

Many phone calls you receive might soon start with the called shouting "who's this?", instead of the more customary "hi" or "hello". And that's because Apple is all set to launch a phone version of its popular iPod shuffle at the Macworld expo, according to a senior executive who contacted this blog. The iPhone shuffle seeks to answer the eternal dilemma of "who should I talk with today", by making all your calls randomized. The phone will randomly pick one of your contacts and call them, whenever you hit the call button.

This is being touted as the new social revolution by Apple. While several social networking applications have opened up social interaction on the web, the mobile telephony world hasn't experienced this phenomenon so far. According to an analyst at Forrester Research, 83% of cell-phone users call no more than 3.7 contacts every month. The iPhone shuffle aims to change that by introducing its users to the joys of serendipitous calling.

We're told that it shuffle be available for free with a subscription AT&T voice plans starting at $69.99. AT&T is betting that if the shuffle takes off in a big way, the company might be able to do away with expensive infrastructure for caller ID.

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