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Garfield is the current go-to media for parody and remix.
via kottke.org by jason@kottke.org on June 16, 2008
Garfield is the current go-to media for parody and remix. Nothing Garfield, Garfield Minus Garfield, Garkov (Garfield with random dialogue), Garfield as a real cat, Lasagna Cat, Garfield Randomizer, Silent Garfield, what if Conan the Barbarian was Garfield's owner?, The Death of Garfield, Garfield Loses His Lunch, Garfield Variations. (link)
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Why the Indian media doesn’t take on Ambanis
via churumuri by churumuri on June 16, 2008
Anand Giridharadas has a lengthy profile of Mukesh Ambani, the bossman of Reliance Industries, in Sunday’s New York Times.As usual, there are a couple of paragraphs on the Ambanis’ messy relationship with the media.“Critics say Reliance has been especially effective at managing the press. [Two] former Reliance executives, who requested anonymity for fear of angering Ambani, say the company...
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Dhristee’s Rural BPO Pilot in Bihar
via ThinkChange India by Santhosh on June 16, 2008
We have highlighted here at TC-I in previous occasions the potential for Rural BPO as a job creation engine, and also mentioned various organizations venturing into the space. One of the more interesting players is Dhristee, the company whose primary business is frachising rural information kiosks. Recently the company ventured into the Rural BPO space, setting up pilot unit in the rural...
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This is the story of a brand (Part 2)
via Cleartrip Blog by Hrush on June 16, 2008
In Part 1 of this series, we talked about the initial logo options made available to us and the direction we had decided to explore.Here's what the designers came back with for round 2:We couldn't find anything we liked in these logos--the colours were flat, the symbols were tacky and tired, the typefaces were boring. There was more wrong with every one of these logos than there was right...
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Weight discrimination OK'd for Indian air hostesses
via FP Passport - blogging on global news, politics, economics, and ideas by Alex Ely on June 06, 2008
In what is perhaps the most egregious case of job discrimination the world has ever seen, an Indian high court ruled today that Air India, the state-owned airline, could deny employment to would-be female flight attendants if they were overweight.The Times reports:In the highly competitive industry of civil aviation, the company has to focus on the personality of its employees," the ruling said....
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Putting Laws into Practice: The Case of Rainwater Harvesting
via ThinkChange India by prernasri on June 06, 2008
... who is a practicing rainwater harvester:Everyone thinks, why spend money on this when he is anyway getting his daily supply of water. But people do not realize that nothing is permanent.Neither do buildings have the incentive to abide by these regulations, as there seem to be no stipulations regarding enforcement or penalization. How, then, is this system supposed to work? What type of...
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It's Time to Open India to Big Retail Chains
via HarvardBusiness.org by B V Krishnamurthy on June 06, 2008
One of the most common weaknesses of individuals, organizations, and nations is procrastination. We tend to put off taking critical decisions till it is too late to justify the decision or to derive any benefits thereof. When the price of crude was reaching a boiling point, the government dithered, wavered, and did nothing to stop the colossal loss of $50 billion that the state-owned oil...
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Nandan Nilekani: The 6 things that changed India
via churumuri by churumuri on June 06, 2008
Nandan Nilekani, the co-chairman of Infosys Technologies and Thomas L. Friedman’s muse for The World is Flat, is working on his own book titled Imagining India; his attempt, as he puts it, to address a gap in understanding India.Delivering the global leader lecture at Johns Hopkins University’s school of advanced international studies last week, Nilekani spoke of the six things that changed...
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Entertainment industry accuses campus laser-printers of downloading Indiana Jones
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on June 04, 2008
Researchers at the University of Washington have discovered serious flaws in the way that the copyright cartel's enforcers detect and complain about copyright infringement. The methods used by these enforcers are so sloppy that they sent a DMCA takedown notice to three campus laser-printers, alleging that the inanimate objects were downloading Iron Man and Indiana Jones.And yet these...
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Steve Ballmer Gives Newspapers 10 More Years
via Epicenter by Betsy Schiffman on June 05, 2008
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the Washington Post that newspapers and magazines will cease to exist in 10 years' time."What is your outlook for the future of media?In the next 10 years, the whole world of media, communications and advertising are going to be turned upside down -- my opinion.Here are the premises I have. Number one, there will be no media consumption left in 10 years that...
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