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Flying 101
Posted on February 5, 2010
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Posted on February 2, 2010
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Apple's 9 Biggest Flops
Think that Apple, with its new tablet, can do no wrong? A look back at some of the company’s misfires may change your mind. WATCH VIDEOS of hilarious commercials for Apple’s biggest flops.
Posted on February 2, 2010
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What leaves me at a loss, though, is how many otherwise sane and sensible people give their time and energy freely to help support a company like Apple that, despite its elegant designs and generally excellent products (I use many of them), certainly doesn’t need free PR from some of the most talented people on the web.
Posted on January 27, 2010
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What made my blood boil was “If blood has to be shed, let it be ours.
Atanu Dey on India’s Development » Blog Archive » Bose, Gandhi, Ghadar and India’s Independence
Spot on!
Posted on January 22, 2010
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Dancing House - Gehry, Gehry, Gehry…how do you do it!
Posted on January 22, 2010
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France must write Haiti a reparations check for $22 billion.
Why? Read Why Haiti’s Earthquake is France’s Problem - The Daily Beast by Tunku VaradarajanPosted on January 15, 2010
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What matters is not who the rulers are but what the rules are.
Atanu Dey on India’s Development » Blog Archive » India needs a New Set of Rules, not Rulers
And that, dear friends, is precisely why Singapore has prospered.
Posted on January 15, 2010
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There’s one more thing that distinguishes the British colonization of India from the Islamic invasion of India. India could learn a lot from the English, and more generally from the Anglosphere. Rule of law, how to manage a large economy, modern science and technologies, the importance of institutions, etc. There was nothing that India could have learned from its Islamic invaders because in practically all aspects, the invaders were primitive relative to Indians. The invaders destroyed whatever they could — especially thousands of temples — and whatever their primitive mentality could not comprehend. India, in the words of V S Naipaul, became a wounded civilization.
Posted on January 15, 2010
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The reason why the government hangs on so tenaciously to the control of the Indian education system is simple. The educational system is designed to be maximally dysfunctional so that it is impossible for Indians to become educated. Indians who do go through the system become incapable of rational thought and inquiry. A vanishingly small percent is technically competent (but only technically) and the modest achievements of this minuscule minority is the basis for the building of huge imaginary edifice which is hailed as India, Inc.
Posted on January 15, 2010
