Pony-tail...

Got around to reading some blogs after many days.

Reached Gaurav Sabnis and his critical review of the continuing fraud in education in our country.

Tip of my hat to Gaurav ! Interesting reactions from IIPM.  

Thanks Annie at Known Turf for leading me there.

Steely eyes...

Sanjubhaia was earlier giving C3PO an identity crisis. But now he’s turned smarter, pushing the ball into my court… he challenges “kya aapmey hai woh steel ?” (checkout the new “Elegant” steel ad on the idiot box). No way Bhaia, i’ve told you earlier, i’m all skin n bones !

So, blogs are contributing to improved copy-writing, eh ?!

Awakening...

Heat wave makes plants warm planet - A new study shows that during the 2003 heatwave, European plants produced more carbon dioxide than they absorbed from the atmosphere

Cameroon lakes spew killer gas

Stretching the social security paradigm - A disabled Danish man is fighting for the state to pay for him to have a prostitute visit him at home ! ah. oh !

All’s fair in love, war and politics - Peru's ousted President, Alberto Fujimori, has announced that he intends to run for the presidency in 2006. Mr Fujimori escaped prosecution by fleeing Peru to the protection of a hurriedly-bestowed Japanese citizenship

deep impact

Esoterica : Chief Internet Evangelist - Google employs Internet pioneer

The mushy General plays to the gallery, once again, in sync with his visit to the US

The future of democracy - Taleban rebels shoot dead seven people carrying voter cards ahead of the Afghan parliamentary elections

No bangs, so no “impact” on astrology ! The Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft approaches within 20km of asteroid.
btw, did the Russian astrologer win damages from NASA, for disturbing her astrological predictions by landing the Deep Impact probe on the asteroid Tempel-I ? Don’t asteroids influence Indian astrologers ?

Peeking

Some West Bank wall paintings and also here

Hue and cry - the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina (our own fair lady in Bollywood is now infamous!) was awesome and my sympathies go out to the thousands affected. This calamity only drives home the power of Nature’s forces, their ability to wreck havoc and how puny our engineering and technology really is.

Interestingly, the public statements by officials of state administrations reminded me of our dear own country - the central (read federal here) government did too little, too late ?!
To think about it, large tracts of our country - UP, Bihar, W Bengal and Assam, in particular, are inundated by rivers in spate with unfailing regularity every year. The images from New Orleans would have appeared unsurprisingly familiar to Indian viewers, specially the residents of Mumbai, fresh out of their own ordeal. Does all of that qualify ours as a developed country ? Or does it pull the US down onto a level playing field ?

A peek at the past - Astronomers have witnessed the most distant cosmic explosion on record. A gamma ray burst that has come from the edge of the visible Universe