::Niraj Singh's iLog::

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Sat, 26 May 2012 13:42:00 +0530

curiositycounts: Happy 100th Birthday, Bollywood! May 18th...

Mon, 21 May 2012 21:38:59 +0530

Happy 100th Birthday, Bollywood!

May 18th marked 100 years of what many consider to be the first movie made, “Shree Pundalik” that launched India’s fantastical, musical movie industry. See more in the New Yorker Slide Show here.

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Fri, 18 May 2012 23:35:38 +0530

Taken with Instagram at Cirrus

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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:58:59 +0530

curiositycounts: Absolutely breathtaking time-lapse film from...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:36:26 +0530

curiositycounts:

Absolutely breathtaking time-lapse film from the International Space Station.

*Large screens and surround sound recommended.

(via)

"An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or..."

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:46:09 +0530

““An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.””

- Richard Dawkins

Apocalypse: 1970's Study Predictions Are Still on Target for 2030's Decline of Humanity(via @Gizmodo)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:57:03 +0530

Apocalypse: 1970's Study Predictions Are Still on Target for 2030's Decline of Humanity(via @Gizmodo):

In 1972, The Limits to Growth modeled the effects of unlimited human expansion on the planet’s finite resources. Now, 40 years later, the predicted models are still a near match with reality.

The Go-Nowhere Generation

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:39:07 +0530

The Go-Nowhere Generation:

Since this is not about Americans but generation of Facebookers, this might well be a trend across the globe…I am not in a hurry to arrive at conclusions though. This article was an interesting read.

Tikona: Broadband Services from Hell

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:43:37 +0530

I usually refrain from ranting on the web just because it is so easy. In this instance however the idea is to just forewarn people. It is easy to fall prey to companies who promise right but do not deliver. On this account, Tikona (www.tikona.in) certainly takes the cake. They never installed the service on time. You have to be lucky to get through their call center and mails to customer service take their own sweet time to come back. It is surprising how companies cannot get their basics right in this age and time. I would heartily recommend Tikona to my worst enemies and people who intensely love lot of pain.

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Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:08:03 +0530

Movie Poster Design the Hollywood Way::Infographics

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:57:14 +0530

curiositycounts: The one and only Christoph Niemann on the...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:17:49 +0530

curiositycounts:

The one and only Christoph Niemann on the secret of happiness, work, and creativity.

Flogging the Dead Horse Theory

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:50:47 +0530

Flogging the Dead Horse Theory:

Tribal wisdom of Dakota Indians: when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, your best strategy is to dismount.

However, in business and in Government, more advanced strategies are often employed such as:

Buying a stronger (and more expensive) whip.
Changing riders.
Appointing a committee to study the horse.
Arranging trips to other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
Reclassifying the horse as living-impaired.
Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
Harnessing several dead horses together to increase efficiency.
Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horses performance.
Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horses performance.
Declaring that the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than some live horses.
Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.

…and of course:

Promoting dead horse to a supervisory position.

Via Subbu

Halt! Ponder! Advertising Agencies and Advertisers.

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:47:27 +0530

Halt! Ponder! Advertising Agencies and Advertisers.:

Steve Jobs is to corporate world to what Kolaveri D is to Indian facebookers. Not a day goes when you don’t come across rash of new takes and versions of the person or the song. They both share the RDF (Reality Distortion Field). Steve Jobs stories can make anything sound so profound and Kolaveri versions can levitate any thing to heights of levity. Do love them and hate them both for the same reasons.

But I am digressing. Here is an interesting anecdote on Steve Jobs which makes a very fine point very subtly. This is one of the article, where Steve Jobs has not been contexted just to add the gravitas or rigour to business/marketing arguments. Read on at http://goo.gl/35msH

curiositycounts: The team at Visualizing.org do what they do...

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:50:11 +0530

curiositycounts:

The team at Visualizing.org do what they do best and visualize 2011. See also Visual Complexity, the year’s most notable release on the art and science of data visualization.

The Great Indian Show-Off::Aka the New Money Syndrome

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:55:08 +0530

The obvious thing well said by- Neelesh Hundekari of AT Kearney

For many Indians, wealth is a novelty that they “like to flaunt”…

“If they spend money, they want to get social recognition. They are not buying for intrinsic satisfaction - their primary motivation is to show off.”

Utter Nonscience...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:17:10 +0530

Created by: Clinical Psychology

curiositycounts: Google introduces Zeitgeist 2011 – the year in...

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:29:50 +0530

curiositycounts:

Google introduces Zeitgeist 2011 – the year in review, examined through how the world searched

Julian Assange: iPhone, Blackberry and Gmail users are 'screwed' - video

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:29:10 +0530

Julian Assange: iPhone, Blackberry and Gmail users are 'screwed' - video

ROFL Robin Williams’ Siri Impression! (by TheEllenShow)

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:48:15 +0530

ROFL

Robin Williams’ Siri Impression! (by TheEllenShow)