Monthly Archives: December 2008

Eating Race Anyone?

December 27, 2008 – 14:58 | By sridharo | Posted in I | Comments (0)

A story script written in ASCII

I follow TED talks and one of my favourite speaker is Storyteller and Poet “Rives“.His talent and power of expression is amazing! One of his talks, a gem according to me is his story narration using just keyboard/Ascii symbols.See it to believe it! Also check out one of my earlier posts about Ascii Art here.

December 26, 2008 – 01:41 | By sridharo | Posted in Art | Comments (0)

Best of Youtube

Here’s a video by Matt Harding called “Where the Hell is Matt?” In the video Matt dances for a little more than 4 mins.And there is only step (that’s a cute step imho) for the the entire video.Check out the video here: This is precisely the reason why YouTube is so successful!No poppadams, No Ads, …

December 22, 2008 – 13:56 | By sridharo | Posted in web | Comments (0)

Ads Overload

I got used to the ads through rss feeds.But this feed stands out.Forget the feed,it just feeds the ad! PS: Also something to say Wow! For the festive season,vlan guys have changed the icons of their very popular media player.Click the image to check it.Could be hard coded but has the user smiling!

December 19, 2008 – 12:09 | By sridharo | Posted in Ads | Comments (0)

There’s something about Honda…

Honda declared 1% sales increase(car sales up 20%) in 2008 while most of the car makers are shutting down plants and trying to keep themselves operational… Is it just the product line?I quote John Mendel, the company’s U.S. executive vice president.””We’re not geniuses,We’re consistent.” All Honda plants are so flexible that they can meet any …

December 18, 2008 – 17:10 | By sridharo | Posted in Auto | Comments (0)

Plagiarism in Art

I understand that something scientific can be easily ‘patented’ and protected from common use. But in music or other arts,how do you differentiate between plagiarism and ‘inspiration’? I’ll digg more into this. In case you are still wondering about this post,two of my favourite musicians Joe Satriani and Coldplay are in a legal case.Sach(J.S) is …

December 10, 2008 – 20:12 | By sridharo | Posted in Music | Comments (0)

Book Catalogue

Considering that Shelfari has started prominently displaying ads(flashing ads of matrimonial sites & flat stomachs in 5 days) on its site,I have decided to move to GoodReads for cataloguing my books. Though UI of GoodReads is simple,it repeatedly failed to import my list of books from my shelfari profile.I wonder whether this is for a …

December 9, 2008 – 20:51 | By sridharo | Posted in Books | Comments (0)