Posted in Friends, funny, Jokes on May 25th, 2007
Tweet ABC News is reporting that Viagra could be the potential cure to jet lag: Perhaps Viagra Can Soften Jet Lag’s Impact Erectile Dysfunction Drug Shows Promise in Animal Study By JOSEPH BROWNSTEIN, ABC News Medical Unit May 21, 2007 — The little blue pill known for making time in the bed more enjoyable may [...]
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Posted in Academia, Fraud, funny, Jokes on May 25th, 2007
Tweet Straight from Jim Zhuang @ Google China comes one of the more hilarious education fraud stories that has come across my IM window. IMPOSTER CAUGHT High school graduate pretends to be a Stanford student, even living in the dorms, buying textbooks and ‘studying’ for exams Azia Kim was like any other Stanford freshman. She [...]
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Posted in business, Fraud, internet on May 24th, 2007
Tweet If you use the internet regularly, I’m sure you’ve mistyped a URL at least once or twice, and come across a webpage with nothing but useless links. This is actually a phenomenon called “domain squatting”. Almost every single domain name that remotely sounds like a word, or even the combination of two words have [...]
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Posted in computers on May 21st, 2007
Tweet For the past few years, I’ve stubbornly held out against HDTV and railed against Vista. Well, let’s just say I’m now a convert on both counts. I bought two HDTV panels a month ago and I’m absolutely addicted to it now. Nature shows are absolutely stunning on HDTV (check Discovery HD Theatre). It’s actually [...]
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Posted in Friends, Globalization on May 17th, 2007
Tweet A good friend Aswin is leaving the States for good and returning to India to lead his startup. What’s particularly cool about his startup is that it’s actually based on the theory of social contract. A company that revolves around solving infrastructural problems in the developing world, how cool is that?! Incidentally, I would [...]
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