Ramblings for 2008-06-09

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Cattle farms lure Australia women Because of watching MacLeod's daughters LOL. I read CSI is also having a similar impact. Wonder about "Prison Break" though.. BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Inside one of Britain's cannabis factories Just a regular house Photographic Proof: Women Like Tumblr TCS hedges $1.5 bn to tackle rupee fluctuations Good thing to depend on core business rather than fx gains for profit. The Only Laugh-Out-Loud Letter from a Corporate Raider You Will Read This Week Fuck Icahn and his mercenary financial raiders... White Asparagus from Rogacki, Berlin Lehman posts massive loss Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people Bloomberg.com: Exclusive:: Wealth Evaporates as Gas Prices Clobber McMansions A move back to the cities? IRS Targets Billionaire's Lucrative Tax Strategy - WSJ.com All the brains misspent on these financial strategies could be used to create some clean tech Wages/Profits Awesome take on an Escher drawing. Real wages have been stagnant in the US for the past 3 decades Now, AIIMS course for Marriage Open-book exam Pregnant lady's ordeal in Mumbai rain Better have a lot of moolah in India Military Supercomputer Sets Record Time to upgrade to RSA 2048 How Bush Widened The Wealth Gap Normally inequality is good as it motivates people to move up the chain. But here, inequality came not thru innovation that lifted all boats, but thru offshoring that was a zero-sum game Pharma firms rejig portfolios to cash in on lifestyle-segment boom Heh.. I thought of something else on seeing the headline DNA - Mumbai - ‘There is a Samantha in every housewife' - Daily News & Analysis "Four lanky teenagers walk out of a Bandra multiplex looking utterly bewildered. Sex And The City (SATC)? Sex? they bellow. “It was about old women. Humne socha kuch ‘aur’ hoga. [We thought it was about something ‘else’]." LOL... Reminds me of when I snuck out in High Scool to watch Heat thinking it had sizzling scenes IT companies using bonds to retain freshers- Jobs-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times Sign of the times.. Employers getting advantage