Pan-IIT's disgraceful 'program for spouses' (1)
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Did I want to really say 'disgraceful'? No. I want to amend it, so make it disfuckinggraceful. Just as Ludwig called it 'unfuckingbelievable'. But a more serious question is this: Why is IIT-M putting up with these morons? As if dissing women in general and IIT alumnae in particular wasn't enough, these guys have put together "a mystic trail" -- right within the IIT-M campus -- that will feature "some of India's most well known ...
The class of 2012 is super wired (18)
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Out of 438 incoming freshman students at Amherst College, 432 of them are on Facebook and only 5 have landlines. 6. Number of students in the class of 2012 who brought desktop computers to campus: 14.7. Number that brought iPhones/iTouches: 93.8. Likelihood that a student with an iPhone/iTouch is in the class of 2012: approximately 1 in 2. Another interesting stat: 94% of all incoming email is spam. (via cd) (link)
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dare said:
Ua!
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Cartwright Reed said:
landlines and desktops are dead. And 50% of the students of iPhones or Touches. Courtesy Kottke.
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Yan said:
The future has arrived
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month (21)
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Families, caregivers, charities and research groups across the United States are observing September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. In the U.S., over 12,000 children under the age of 21 are diagnosed with cancer every year, approximately 3,000 of them will not survive the disease. A diagnosis can turn the lives of a family upside down - days suddenly filled with alternating moments of courage, frustration, boredom, anxiety and pain. The objective of Childhood Cancer Awareness ...
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Sara said:
This breaks my heart.
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Agatha said:
Lindo!
Rent-a-lactator idea emerges amid China milk scandal (1)
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JAY DIRECTO/AFP/Getty ImagesAmid China's tainted-milk scandal (the subject of this week's photo essay), parents are frightened of buying milk and formula off the shelf for their children. A Chinese entrepreneur was bound to find a way to provide parents an alternative, and one owner of a domestic services company has: the milk nanny.The entrepreneur, Lin Zhimin, put an ad on the Internet offering the service of milk nannies -- lactating women who get paid for ...
NEN explains the goofup..but is still a goofup (1)
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After our post regarding NEN using pluGGd.in name to nominate startups, Livemint interviewed NEN’s Laura Parkin regd. the goofups and here is an excerpt from the interview: LiveMint: What was the issue with source attribution to Pluggd.in while nominating a start-up? Laura: That was a very early glitch because we were so scared of not giving people credit. I’m sure we’ve looked at companies all over India, we’ve also been in touch with CII, contacted ...
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Abhilash said:
Ok. I hate this process of 'voting' for startups. The real voters are the customers/market of the startup. But then, let's cut these guys some slack, shall we?
Communists of the World Unite! (4)
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This was a full page advert in today's New York Times, paid for by Bill Perkins > UPDATE: September 24, 2008 9:44am The WSJ picked up the advert in this morning's paper:The president has run into a wall of skepticism over his plan. Troubled voters are calling their congressmen. Academic economists are churning out sound bites. Democratic lawmakers are demanding that the plan include perks for the working classes, while Republicans are saying the plan ...
Killing Management (1)
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Labor and management have often collided over contracts and worker rights but never have matters crossed a line. Well, they did yesterday when the CEO of a Noida company “was bludgeoned to death by a 200-strong armed mob of dismissed workers.” It is a severe setback for labor movement when the rule of the law is openly flouted not only when public property is damaged due to bandhs but as in this case utterly despicable ...
Probably not stupid (37)
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Your difficult boss, customer, prospect, voter, student... probably not stupid, probably just uninformed. There's a huge difference. Every person makes decisions based on their worldview and the data at hand. If two people have the same worldview and the same data, they'll make the same decision, every time (unless they're stupid.) So, there are plenty of times where a lack of information leads to a bad decision. Plenty of times where an out of sync ...
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Adriana said:
agreed. Mental models of the world is where it's at. Let's go and change some. :)
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Vero Pepperrell said:
"The easiest way to grow is to sell to people who share a worldview that endorses your position." Or don't throw their entire worldview out the window, but build upon their fading old media models, suggesting changes as improvements, not a complete replacement of what they know/are comfortable with.
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ghuth said:
More Seth goodness... we should consider our focus on informing.
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ckstevenson said:
Great points by Seth Godin. If your customer doesn't "get it", then you've done a bad job explaining it, including presenting the context.
Sarko and Carla enjoy 'le jogging' in NYC (1)
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ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/Getty Images French President Nicolas Sarkozy (left) has brought his right-wing activity of "le jogging" to New York City today. He and wife Carla Bruni (center) are in the Big Apple so he can attend the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. For unknown reasons, he is not wearing his favorite NYPD T-shirt.Earlier this month, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a champion judoka who has coauthored a book on judo, said he ...
Fidel Castro bedded 35,000 women! (2)
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Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has slept with 35,000 women in his 82 years of life, according to an upcoming documentary.
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the new Brand Ambassador for Viagra
India Wakes Up To Securing the Wifi connections. Thank You, Mr. Terrorist ? (1)
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So, all the recent terrorists have been tracked to Mumbai. Also, it was made clear than the terrorists were smarter than the average Indians. The terrorists used others Wi-Fi networks to carry out their communication. The terrorists were smart enough. The Indians were not. I cannot help but remember the tag line of the recent Hind film, “Phoonk”. It said - it’s superstition until it happens to you. Translated to this episode, it becomes “security ...
Guess who's dominating the world in Paralympic medals? (1)
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There are many ways to count Olympic medals for country rankings, but by the two most common ways -- by total medals or just golds -- China is leaving the rest of the world in the dust when it comes to Paralympic medals.The Paralympic Games close tomorrow (or today, if you're several time zones ahead of Passport), and the standings as of the timing of this post show that China has won 207 total medals, ...
Be in the first 1000 signups to get $1000 at Expensify! (19)
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Business expense accounts may sound glamorous, but for most frequent travelers they’re more of a hassle than anything. Sure, there’s always the novelty of being able to go out to to dinner on the company’s dime, but this wears thin after a few days of stuffing your wallet full of receipts. Expensify, the startup that took second place at TC50’s DemoPit, is hoping to ameliorate these issues as much as possible by keeping track of ...
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Joel said:
Having just submitted an expense report, and forgetting to include a receipt, this may be very handy to business travelers.I wonder if Mint.com could do this - I could just list when I'm on business travel, and it would remember all 'business' purchases. Missing would be the upload receipt feature.
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Tyler said:
This application is definitely worth a look. . .
Mysterious Ways Of Steve (7)
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"good ideas have lonely childhoods" (31)
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The first chapter of my upcoming book is called "Ignore Everybody".1. Ignore everybody.The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you. When I first started with the biz card format, people thought I was nuts. Why wasn't I trying to do something more easy for markets to digest i.e. cutey-pie greeting cards or whatever?You don't know if your idea is any good the moment it's created. ...
Once upon a time, when the plane flew overhead (1)
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S.R. RAMAKRISHNA writes from Bangalore: Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, who died earlier this week, was a rare combination of violin maestro and clown. One evening, as we sat listening to him at Visveswarapuram in Bangalore, a plane flew over the Ganesha pandal, its drone making his music inaudible. He stopped in the middle of his raga exposition and looked skywards. The sound of the plane didn’t subside for a long time. The audience waited, slightly puzzled. It ...
Sex, Drugs, Rock and Oil … (1)
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It reads like something from a sordid novel rather than the government’s dealings with the oil industry. But an extensive investigation has found an extraordinary cozy relationship between the government and the industry. Officials in charge of collecting billions of dollars worth of royalties from oil and gas companies accepted gifts, steered contracts to favored clients and engaged in drug use and illicit sex with employees of the energy companies. US Federal investigators examined the ...
Mahabharata Through The Eyes Of Bhima (And Savita Bhabhi) (4)
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My friend Prem Panicker has just begun a recreation of MT Vasudevan Nair’s Randaamoozham: The Mahabharata told from the point of view of Bhima. He’s uploading it on his blog, and it promises to be a hell of a series. In this post, he explains why he’s attempting this. And here are the first two installments in the series: 1, 2. * Maybe someday I’ll attempt writing the Mahabharata from the point of view of ...
The talking violin suddenly decides to go silent (2)
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Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, the versatile violin maestro, passed away in Madras last night. He was 73 years old. An ardent admirer of Mysore T. Chowdiah, Vaidyanathan was renowned for his bowing skills which famously enabled him to “talk” to the “class”—and to the “mass”. Above, Vaidyanathan performs Marudamalai mamaniyae murugaiyya…from the movie Deivam. Below, he takes part in a fusion effort with Zakir Hussain from the album Colors. A.R. Rehman, (then A.S. Dilip Kumar) is on ...
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