Correlation between Facebook status crypticness and attention starvation

Musharraf admits crimes, this time using rhymes.

Shoot.

A brief history of prizes won by men from the Bachchan family

The awesome art for this comic is courtesy my friend and super-phenomenal Flash artist Blaisy R.


And no, neither of us has anything against Abhishek Bachchan. This was just fun to do.

Kalmadeceptions

The most honorable @krishashok has come out with another template for us mortals to fill in. Here were a couple of my entries for #kalmadeception.

#Kalmadeception 1

#Kalmadeception 2

Here's an excellent self-referential template that someone had made. [Thanks to unnamed guest for providing the link.]

Burn, Bedi burn! Flames-a-get-a-higher.

The whole Muttiah Muralidaran-BSB (I love how that shortens to an ignominous short form) flare-up is such a waste of time.

It's the equivalent of two children going:
"You stole my mucus ball."
"No you gave it to me."
"Who gives away a mucus ball?"

I really think BS Bedi (another brilliant abbreviation) is the one who deserves a full toss on the balls. And I don't mean slow left arm flighted deliveries either. He's one of those irritating people who gets his kicks out of calling others names and such; he had this coming to him.

The worst part, of course, is non-entities like Maninder Singh chiming in. Supposed to be the heir to BSB, he only had the hair of BSB and his claim to fame was being responsible for India tying a winning test match. He's so much better off being in the news for 'accidentally' attempting suicide.

And before I end, the J-Rod links the best in this post to the best. The man is quite random, and you must follow him on Twitter for unadulterated cricket fun.

Closed Jobs and open Gates

Apple recently lost a bid to make iPhone jailbreaking a criminal offence. So, on that happy note, here's a mini-comic:

Comic template taken from the prolific @krishashok whose done a bunch of mini-comics like this on Twitpic - comics that aren't even blogworthy for him. Go figure.

The productivity lifecycle for a software tool (or some such)

All right, it's been a day when I've used one too many tools that have become too resource hungry and tried to do too much. But you get the picture!

Lalit Modi's Facebook activities - a webcomic

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Who's the tiger-est of them all?

Match the columns (Types of tigers on the left; Qualities on the right)

The first two correct comments will receive an iPod. (As an image attachment in an email, but still). As always, wrong answers are the most entertaining.

(Images courtesy: mediaswirl.wordpress.com ; im.in.com ; animals.howstuffworks.com)

In which Chetan Bhagat sings a song from 3 idiots

This comic might not make any sense if you haven't watched the movie. It might not make sense even otherwise, but that's a different point altogether.

On the issue itself, I'm not on any side because I haven't read the book. But it does seem like a marketing ploy to get folks that have read the book to watch the movie and vice-versa. I watched the movie and did laugh quite a bit, so that's one down and one to go.

Images courtesy: chetanbhagat.com; www.madinin-art.net; screenindia.com

Video based on XKCD classics

Awesome! :)

I Love xkcd from NoamR on Vimeo.

From the chat status of one Mr Amit Mitkar.

Related to a portion of this.

Image courtesy: http://www.dudehisattva.com/

Jet lag

A little something on the recent Jet Airways pilots who went on strike in India, by taking what is essentially a combined sick leave. The fight is now on between the competition to lap up the spillover traffic.

Just for the record, I quite admire Mallya and this is all in good / bad humor!

Day 27 - IPL 2

It's the first time in the history of the IPL that the Royal Challengers are living up to their team name. What a show beating Chennai and staying in the hunt to get to the semis! As a dozen people crowded around a PC at the office hoping for some of the Dhoni luck to rub off on their team, I had only one thought: "We're toast if Taylor is still there at the end." And toast we were. CSK is now more dependent on Hayden than India were on Tendulkar in the mid-90's - and that's a lot of dependence. Doesn't bode well for the team, even thought they've been winning. Hope they prove me wrong.

Then followed the best match of the IPL so far, even better than the super over one, given the state of the tournament.

Speaking of Sachin Tendulkar, today we saw a master stroke by the Mumbai think tank. "Why open with Sanath and Sachin?", they thought. "Why not make them bat when three wickets are down, the required run rate is ridiculously higher and most of the middle order has melted away?" And it was with this iron-clad philosophy that Mumbai almost muffed up a gettable target. Sachin came it at no 5, Duminy at 6 and Jayasuriya at 4. The supposedly injured Shane Warne was bowling beautifully and ended up with 3 wickets. It was his passion again that seemed to be egging the Rajasthan Royals on. (Was he playing despite the injury, or was he never injured? Can someone fill me in on this?) And then came Abhishek Nayar. Aur usne kya maara na-yaar! An unbelievable blitz of 35 pushed Mumbai right to the brink of victory, but KKR flu was in the air. Nayar got stumped. Only 6 runs were required from 8 balls. But the Royals prevailed after an unbelievable last over from Munaf Patel with two run outs. And that difference of two runs means that Mumbai move a step away from the semi-finals and the Royals, a step closer. What a match - so many twists, and the Royals win yet another very tight game - they have the gumption to do this over and over. Will that be the rush they need to defend their title? The next week shall reveal all!

And guess what, SRK's having a really bad time of late - his team plays with the IQ of Mandira Bedi , his cheerleaders couldn't perform in South Africa and it turns out that that Bollywood role for which those women were selected during the games is all hogwash. They're not going to be in any movie-shovie. Go figure!

Day 18 - IPL 2

A high scoring day - but nothing overly unexpected.

Two complete THRASHINGS! The Royals showing the Kings where it's at - 211! This is the only team that can do something so shocking. Down Yuvi, down! Lose! Except if you're playing for India, that is.

And the ever-pink KKR. The Fake IPL player's team finally managed to squeeze past 150. Only to come up against Gambhir beta's team. Talk about a boring IPL - how about some close matches people!

There seems to be a clear strategy that teams are following these days - keep as many wickets in hand till 15 overs, I guess they're finally figuring out what to do in South Africa. Never too late.

Why Aishwarya Rai turned down the Barbie offer

Jokes apart, I do feel that Ash turned it down because it possibly augmented her 'not natural' image. Or maybe, father-in-law disapproved.

L'amour du La-Mo

This comic was inspired by Gerald Majola (Ge-Mo) and Lalit Modi (La-Mo) actually looking into each other's eyes with what seems like a very deep... er... friendship. Check this photo out.

Dada's rotations

Muthalik's hidden agenda

Also read Bosey's take.

Oh and yeah, happy birthday me. I love me. I love me so much. God bless me.

Base system!

Randall has outdone himself again!