There's this website called Maps Of War that has a whole collection of maps which explain a particular aspect of human history in detail, in just 90 seconds per map. Its very basic knowledge, something that is quite lacking in most of us, like the various governments and eras of history that preceded us. I've embedded two maps here.. check them out, and if interested check the website out too!
Democracies Thro History: This is remarkable cuz India figures right in front, with the city of Vaishali being one of world's first democratic cities.
The Birth Of Religion:
As usual, it all begins with the birth of Krishna. Damn, we guys were so the men back then!
The website has a lot more of these, so whenever bored, just click it out~!
Cheers... free..(StumbleUpon rocks, btw!)
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With the ease with which it shifts across genres, Rammstein never ceases to amaze me. And after the fervor with which I followed Reise Reise, Asche Zu Asche and Amour... Stein Um Stein is yet another awesome song discovered by the me while surfing through the contents of my PC.
God bless Kman.. he gave me all the dope on Rammstein way back in Class 11 when we both had no idea of how awesome the band was.
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No, this is not a new Ricky Martin song, but its about a rather cool website- VideoJug, that Dipak stumbled upon and recommended to me. I checked it out when I had absolutely nothing to do and it was kinda good.
It has all these things guys wanna know about relationships and dating, and other pretty useless daily stuff about how to handle your common problems quite efficiently. Orey the two-minute videos, maybe not so useful for an ascetic like me with zero girls in his life, but this will really light the day up for the rest of my bunch.
What can be more annoying than four days of live coverage of the Mumbai blasts? You guessed it right, the guys in Orkut.
Social networking sucks. It used to suck, but now its got this whole new level of sucking that makes it kinda really unbearable. For the four months that followed my Class 12, I was an Orkut regular, having just signed in with my pals and we used to rate each other, become fans, write testimonials just for the heck of it and kalaaichifyAnish's virtual avatar. And then the gaerls entered Orkut, followed by this legion of nerd fellows looking for a lay. Then the process of deterioration started, starting with the big time flirting thing.
Orkut became this haven for all the geeks who would never in their right minds ask a girl out in the real world, and the nerd girls who enjoyed flirting with these guys while maintaining their 'homely' exterior. Orkut also provided a virtual identity, and hiding behind the movie star-display picture, these nerd boys turned into greek gods with the click of a mouse. The 'Testimonials' fiasco followed, and what churned out was unimaginable. In a bid to jollu-vittufy at the girls cleverly in a diplomatic fashion, guys wrote up these mushy testimonials hailing the girls, where layers and layers of flirting were buried under 'she-is-my-best-friend' crap. Add some smileys for perfection, some 'sis' 'bro' lines, a whole lotta adjectives(nice,smart,handsome,beautiful,funny,sweet,cute,naughty,hot,cool etc),some recommendations('she's the best friend one can ever get, ur missing out on a lot if u don't add her!') and you have a potential recipe for a disaster.
But that was not it. The next generation took Testimonials to a whole new level, they wrote small crappy one liners that made no sense even to the recipient, let alone the voyeur. And the much more recent photo-comments, with the fellows scrambling to comment on a photo the girl recently uploaded. Its almost like they wait with bated breath 24*7, fingers oiled and held ready near the keyboard so that as soon as Orkut alerts them of a recent upload they fire on all cylinders, tearing their keyboard apart, typing stuff like 'Aww... cho chweeet..!' 'You look really cute, duh!', and other crap. Girls predominantly make it a habit to load their albums with pictures of so-called-cute sleeping babies and puppies, rather than their own photos. But being the matter-starved species that guys are, they comment on these crap pictures too. Its like nobody has the guts to go to a girl's photo and say 'Ye chi photo nalla illa'. I tried it once and got my ass shot to timbuktu.
Facebook is no different. I always end up checking my Wall really(read:really)late, so late that I end up replying "Exam? What exam? Its not until tomorrow!" for a question some guy posted six months back during the end of my previous semester('Macha how did exams go??'). The applications entertain for a while, but then it gets boring. Personal note... Orkut applications suck.
But still, there are buggers like Anees who swear by Orkut even if there are a million other sites, boasting about having reached 20,000 scraps, hitting on girls he once knew way back in Mysore when they were both kids wearing diapers, doing ultimate vetti things like commenting on Harry Potter forums and uploading Daniel Radcliffe photos and photos of their so-called Workstations(ancient PC's running on Pentium Celeron), and later terming it all as 'Machan, gethu da'.
Scum of the Earth, man.
Even I'm no different, and so are the rest of you buggers with an Orkut ID. :p
Ezzhh... Warsst... Free..
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