Die World Die!

Jeremy Clarkson while testing the: Ferrari Enzo, Jaguar XJ220, Pagani Zonda, McLaren F1, Ferrari F40, Porche Carrera GT (all togeather)

"Supercars are supposed to run over Arthur Scargill and then run over him again for good measure. They are designed to melt ice caps, kill the poor, poison the water table, destroy the ozone layer, decimate indigenous wildlife, recapture the Falkland Islands and turn the entire third world into a huge uninhabitable desert......all that before they nicked all the oil in the world."

Obviously he got carried away a bit by the moment.. :D

The video link (watch after 2:10)

tagged

Shruti: "There is this game that I have seen people play on the blogosphere, usually when they are out of topics to rant and rave about. Called Tag, it asks you to blog about something in particular, favorite songs, disastrous dates etc and then you pass the baton on, asking others to do the same. The rules of this one are as follows:
“Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Tag up to 15 friends, including me because I'm interested in seeing what books my friends choose” "

Whatever. I, like my preceder, stick with books.

Now all that I have done in this internship of mine, is read. Read books, articles, presentations, papers and ocasionally write. So here goes my list of 15 books:

1. The Toyota Way: The ultimate book, if you want to understand what's the future of making stuff (i hate the word mfg.) and why toyota beat the brains out of GM, Ford, Chrysler, Renault and later even BMW, Merc, Jaguar etcetera..
2. Reality Check: Two words: Guy Kawasaki. The guy's brilliant, and his writing is 'brillianter' still. Explains everything abt entrepreneurship: from getting that billion dollar idea, to getting those first 1000 bucks as investment to finally managing ur own MNC. In his own words, hes a 'kick butt'
3. Angels and Demons: Mast fast pace thriller. Da Vinci's nthing in comparison.
4. Twenty Years After: From the romances of D'Artagnan, this is a very mature book about court intrigues in 17th century France. Reality dips in every line, nothing fancy, still classy.
5. Three Musketeers: An age old classic. Focuses on brawn more than brains. Still works because of all the honour that the musketeers attach to their words.
   
6. Lord of the Rings: Guess this should come very high in the list. HP is nothing in comparison. A very long and tiring read indeed, but the world is so carefully built, u cant help but be engrossed. PS: the level of detail. The bloke's invented languages for this, and comes with very detailed history about every tom, dick and harry (and there are several of them) that pops up in his world..
7. Harry Potter saga: Problems - logical inconsistencies, crappiest ending ever, every blokes already read it, analyzed it, re-read it, saw the movie, read the fan-fiction, read extra details, and a few also know more than the author.
   
8. Godfather: the book makes an offer, you cannot refuse :)
9. Da Vinci Code: loved it more for the historical stuff then the storyline
10. Sherlock Holmes: THE best detective of all times. But ofcourse, he always knows the answer, so seems far-fetched..
11. Brave New World: is kinda scary..
12. The Alchemist: transporta you to a different world altogeather
13. Dracula: rocks
14. The Dilbert Future: read it, re-read it.
15. Right Ho, Jeeves: u need to read P.G.Wodehouse to understand why he is considered by many as the best comedy writer of all times. The loyal Jeeves always rushes in the dying moments to save the day. Reminds u of O'Henry style of sudden change.
    

That's it. My part's done. I was tagged by Shruti I inturn tag: Mamme, Bhondu, DAS, Arbit, Modda, Robo, Damroo, Nichoda.

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design in depression

flicked this from Bruce Nussbaum's blog, who flicked it from the guys at Smart Design.

the best designs eras came in after all the historic recessions. we are heading for one now? the pic has iphone at our pointing towards a shift in design thinking..



http://www.flickr.com/photos/40496231@N05/3727174110/sizes/o/

milliondollarhomepage.com

Ever heard about things which are cool and appaling at the same time? No, obviously (well apart from sach ka saamna.. and umm.. rakhi ka svayamvaar.. and umm.. big boss.. ..)

Neways, stumbled on this articles on wired.com.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/posts.html?pg=2

Some bloke's just uploaded a blank page with no content and decided to sell the pixels on the page. And guess what.. people bought all the million pixels on his page!

check his page: www.milliondollarhomepage.com

connecting the dots

..steve jobs called all the events in our life as small dots

used to think that most of these small events are after all insignificant in the long run. but then hit upon this literal analogy:

"its easy to discount these events or dots as small and insignificant when they are the all important links that make up the chain. its simply difference in viewing stuff..a simpler way to understand this difference is
you can have an infinity of dots in a simple line. hence, dots are insignificant. but all it takes to form that line, is 2 dots. and 2 of those, from that infinity of dots, are more than enough to form the same line." ................

open source != freeware

i am doing my summer project on the topic of 'Open Innovation'. that brings me in touch with a lot of stuff like 'open source', 'freeware', 'outsourcing', 'core-competencies', 'creative commons' etc etc

wanted to hammer out my views on the following somewhere:

-->open source is a nice concept, but a concept which cannot be really copied in any other industry (products more so).

--> freeware is either:

-> an idea whose time never was, and is of the nobodies, by the idiots, for the selfish.

{{Obviously I use freewares. Why not use a freebee when somebody is throwing it like that? (ok, wont call them idiots probably..)}}

->or A cunning business strategy, next only to companies which allow piracy initially to gain mass markets later, because nobody can really go back.

-->IP regime (patents, trademarks, copyrights) rocks.