Ramblings for 2008-05-17

The Microwaved CD : Wacky Archives Bad... Where Are India’s Innovative Companies, Products and Solutions? - Seeking Alpha Well thought out... But I would say that to innovate requires 1 magic ingredient - You need to work on something that u are passionate about. Then you will innovate. Otherwise you will always be a businesswalla... Like the motherfuckers in Queensway shopp Standing Alternate Dumbbell Bicep Curl | MuscleHack The Indian Investor's Blog: ICICI Commercial Vehicle Loans Downgraded Same story as in US.... lending to people who cannot afford to pay it back unless things are going swimmingly well for them The Indian Investor's Blog: Inflation, Oil and Exchange Rates "It's not the result, but the action that counts. Our country is doomed to behave, financially, like a Balaji Telefilms TV serial - all emotion and no substance." LOL Can Money Buy Happiness? — The American, A Magazine of Ideas Too fuckin long a read.... I am unhappy for the author who cant contain himself within 1fuckin thousand words... Slashdot | Lockheed Martin Awarded GPSIII Intelligence: Google Earth Smokes Chinese Missiles "The missiles appear aimed at targets in Russia and India, and are fired from roadside launching areas." Los Angeles Eyes Sewage as a Source of Water - New York Times Singapore has a similar system called "Newater". I avoid it like the plague High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers - New York Times Peter Paul and Mary will soon have to sing "Where have all the engineers gone". The chorus: Gone to structured finance. Everyone of them... Peter, Paul and Mary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Where Have All the Flowers Gone? - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Interesting... This is inspired from an Ukrainian folk song referenced in "Quiet flows the Don". Could have been written during the Austro-Hungarian invasion of Ukraine... And Quiet Flows the Don I grew up on a diet of Russian folk tales... The Russkies used to supply amazing quality hardbound story books to the Kerala marxists... and the Trivandrum "Prabhad Book House" was the distribution point for commie propoganda. Mom's office was nearby and she used to buy some books every month... The images of the Taiga and siberian wilderness that I had drawn in my mind when reading those books are all coming back now... From Where I Sit: Creating WOW Product Experiences WOW experiences just happen when you get the right people together... dont try to create a model for this... 3 Nordic Banks Help Iceland Prop Up Currency - New York Times Lots of problems bubbling beneath the surface... Iceland was one of the pivot points of the carry taede as their bonds were paying a very high interest rate earlier In Siberia, Shopping Malls Are Sprouting All Over - New York Times "As retail businesses shrink in the United States, provincial Russian towns like this one have become targets of retailers and shopping center developers from around the world. Malls in this area are even poaching managers from as far away as California." LOL Retail management experience arbitrage Survey: MBAs Search for Google The beginning of the end The Orgasmic Mind: The Neurological Roots of Sexual Pleasure: Scientific American "When a woman reached orgasm, something unexpected happened: much of her brain went silent." Like the so-called Mommy Wars. Does the ‘Real’ Ireland Still Exist? - New York Times NO