A thought on Elections

Elections maintain the illusion of opposing parties exchanging ideas rather than political animals competing for power. Selling voting as the ultimate expression of citizenship serves two purposes: it legitimizes the process that keeps them in control and makes the public docile by enforcing the notion that we rule ourselves.

~Kara Hopkins (http://www.amconmag.com/2004_11_08/cover5.html)

jalebi

my cube-mate at work returned from a long vacation in india .. he brought with him the customary sweets - burfis, jalebis and the like .. one of my colleagues, an american, ate a jalebi in the morning and liked it .. he came back a while ago asking for the "yellow-orange, gelatinous, pretzel-like thingie" :)

Google and April 1st!

Anybody keen enough to observe wouldn't have missed the interesting products that Google comes up with every year on Fool's day. Here's a peek at a few of those. Apologies for having missed out a couple of years in between ..


First they came up with MentalPlex^TM in 2000.

MentalPlex^TM

Then came the Pigeon Ranking Technology^TM which got quite a bit of limelight!

PigeonRank^TM

Opened their first offices on the Moon in 2004.

Lunar Office

And today, the all new Google Gulp^TM!

Google Gulp^TM

Watch out next year!