Quote of the Moment
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. - Oscar Wilde
It’s been used in the trailers for Slumdog Millionaire, Children of Men and the Planet Earth series. One thing is for sure it’s this song that helped those trailers really stick with you for a long time and I still love watching those trailers over and over even after having watched those movies.
The Madonna of today just seems so crazy and I personally think she looks a bit manly these days. Rain is certainly my favourite song from her collection. Besides being such a beautiful song it also reminds me of the time when Madonna looked more innocent and seductively gorgeous
Selective culling of a few members of the political fraternity
An interesting little passage I stumbled across while surfing. I couldn’t really figure out whether its a piece of modern fiction or something from an older text. If anyone reading this knows the source of this text please leave me a comment.
Nasrudin was caught in the act and sentenced to die. Hauled up before the king, he was asked by the Royal Presence: "Is there any reason at all why I shouldn’t have your head off right now?" To which he replied: "Oh, King, live forever! Know that I, the mullah Nasrudin, am the greatest teacher in your kingdom, and it would surely be a waste to kill such a great teacher. So skilled am I that I could even teach your favorite horse to sing, given a year to work on it." The king was amused, and said: "Very well then, you move into the stable immediately, and if the horse isn’t singing a year from now, we’ll think of something interesting to do with you."
As he was returning to his cell to pick up his spare rags, his cellmate remonstrated with him: "Now that was really stupid. You know you can’t teach that horse to sing, no matter how long you try." Nasrudin’s response: "Not at all. I have a year now that I didn’t have before. And a lot of things can happen in a year. The king might die. The horse might die. I might die.
"And, who knows? Maybe the horse will sing."
Well ain’t they the cutest elves you have ever seen. Thank God for cosplay
Stumbled across this awesome piece of artwork on the internet. When I first saw the picture I only noticed the monster beneath the surface of the water. I failed to notice the little girl fishing at all. Perhaps that was the original intention of the artist. Still there is so much depth to the image. I for one love trying to glean all the bits of information from fantastical images like these. Its an image open to different interpretations by different people.
Is the monster a manifestation of evil. Will his next move be to pull the innocent looking girl down below. The presence of a human skeleton at the bottom of the lake still clad in armor might indicate this.
On the other hand is he just a blissfully innocent creature like the girl herself and the bait dangling before him has just piqued his curiosity. His face too doesn’t indicate that he has any hostile intentions. Maybe he pulled down the humans without the notion of doing harm like the way a human child may play with a doll or an action figure.
There are other tiny details in the picture like the eyewear that little girl has donned. They look like a something you usually see in a sci-fi universe set in the future. They are perhaps meant to enhance her vision beyond normal capabilities. Perhaps it is her intention to seek out the monster. Also the body of the monster seems to be a part of the vegetation that is above the surface of the water.
Picture found on www.geektown.co.uk through Stumbleupon
This is just one of the many gems I come across in my daily life. This particular auto workshop is itself in need of some major oiling it appears. Snapped at Koregaon Park, Pune when I used to go for a morning walk there.
Though I personally find the use of excessive flash on web sites gratuitous, for an entertainment product like a movie or a game it usually makes sense. The Diablo 3 site By Blizzard is a truly awesome implementation of flash loveliness. The (not sure what they are exactly) ribbons of light moving ever so subtly in the background along with an incredibly rendered faceless armored guy really manage to lend the main sites page an extraordinary quality. Click the image to go to the game’s site.
