Madoff’s Ponzi Scam–

Investors sent stocks lower as anxiety over the growing list of firms affected by investment manager Bernard Madoff magnified Wall Street’s concerns about the health of the financial sector. Madoff stands accused of operating an elaborate Ponzi scheme, using cash from new investors to pay off older ones, to the tune of $50 billion. US [...]

The Indian Desi T-Shirt

I was reading a piece of news when I was completely shocked when I saw some pictures that made me laugh and pity the retail market. The headline said “The T-Shirt gets a desi voice” under the section ‘Retail Therapy’. Moreover, these t-shirts were priced at INR 1000/- as their starting price. Couldn’t do anything [...]

Virtual world economy–Gold Farming!!

Gold farming is a game in which a player attempts to acquire certain items of value within a game, usually by exploiting repetitive elements of the game’s mechanics. This is how the Chinese gold farmers earn their livelihood by playing the massive multiplayer game. They then gather the virtual money earned in the game and [...]

Sex Advertisements as Borrowed Interest Devices

I read an article about an ad which was actually a poster across a room and had “SEX” written on it in the largest font size possible. As every human secretly fantasizes about it, I (please consider me a human) would have also gone closer to it; just to read a smaller print at the [...]

The Smoker’s Grave

Adpunch mentioned this ad as one of their favourites. I agree with him.
The print ad shows that the smokers are situated in a room which actually looks like a grave from the top. This is actually true, because that is what smoking does.
One of the best socially responsible ads I have ever seen.
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Rational Religion?

Religion works on a key principle and that is not of belief but of anti-rationality. The fact that it is faith, denies one from asking questions which can have tricky answers or tend to look for rationality. Take any religion, the reason for belief is not faith per-se but Fear. So does fear psychosis drive [...]

Sitting Out Professional Sports

Sports in US is bigger in more ways than one. For starters, its not just about a single sport (cricket), as in the case of India, but is a buffet of sports with equal feeding frenzy such as Super Bowl, Baseball, Ice Hockey, NBA, NASCAR or Golf.
So even though teams such as the Yankees saying [...]

ROBOT- The Perfect Wife!!

A day has come when human beings are not the only one to become soul-mates. A Canadian inventor, Le Trung, who was unable to find his perfect woman created a female robot, Aiko. This lady robot is designed in such a way that she remembers his favourite drink, cleans his house, and is even good [...]

The Titanic Truth

I love conspiracy theories. They are a stable mix of crap and substance at room temperature. One of the best I have come across is Titanic actually not being Titanic but apparently a sister look alike ship called The Olympic. As per the theory, Titanic sinking was the biggest insurance fraud in history. Anyways, not [...]

Is Arun Sarin the right Choice??

Who’s in the race to become the CEO of Yahoo after Jerry Yang. The one name which they are considering to fit into their working frame now is Arun Sarin.Yeah “Vodafone’s Arun Sarin”; who stood down as Vodafone chief executive in July.
However Mr Sarin is understood to be among a small number of potential candidates, [...]