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Commented on Y2K ten years later
As the fine article points out, indeed, IT Industry old timers in India still remember Y2K as a time of great learning and opportunity...nothing short of a killing. Here are a couple of old Y2K print ads from India....
Commented on Scans of Google Books with fingers in them
In the Google copy of 'Travels in Kashmir And The Panjab, from German of Baron Charles Hugel. Published 1945',you can find a 'O yea!', hand scribbled next to the lines describing the Hindu festival of Holi, right next to the...
Commented on Led Zeppelin vs. Indian religious sitcom
(link fix) Here's a collage image based on every single mad bad crazy arrow fired in this epic battle...
Commented on Jugaad: India's duct-tape ingenuity
Here are some photographs of real Jugaad having water pump engines. Took these earlier this year at some place near Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, India. And yes 'Jugaad' was the word used to define Atal Bihari Vajpayee's coalition government....
Commented on A Farewell and Edhi
Best of luck for the project!...
Commented on Mont Blanc's $23,000 pen to commemorate Gandhi's birth
The matter goes toCourt....
Commented on Indian farmer's daughter is most bad-ass woman in the world
The girl and the family had to leave her house and move to another town. '[...]reports suggest that terrorists "have spread the word of taking revenge on the family, not only because the 18-year-old killed their commander Abu Osama, but...
Commented on Mont Blanc's $23,000 pen to commemorate Gandhi's birth
In 1948, only months after his death, Brand Gandhi was good for selling incense sticks....
Commented on Indian farmer's daughter is most bad-ass woman in the world
Women in that region have been fighting for a long time now. Some of the villages have VDCs (Village Defense Committees) whose members are given arms training and given a 303 rifle to protect their villages: http://www.sawf.org/newedit/edit02212005/kashmir.asp http://health.rediff.com/news/2006/aug/23jk.htm I am...
Commented on American woman marries auto-rickshaw driver
Indian Media covers these stories quite regularly and it does happen all the time: http://www.hindustantimes.com/News/columnsothers/Mr-Kumar-and-his-Japanese-wife/Article1-453292.aspx But these stories are almost never about Indian women who get hitched by foreign guys....
Commented on Iqbal Hussain's Women
Still more interesting, in the first painting, the women (holding a wine glass) seems to be sporting a Bindi, that too in crimson, on her forehead. Something that one would normally associate with a married Hindu women. Mother-daughter duo may...
Commented on The Planet of Storms - 1962 Russian science fiction movie
Reminds me of this artwork by Wally Wood: http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/newworld2.jpg at http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3ac.html...
Commented on Devices for storing your baby
@27, Abhik, I have also seen them in Mumbai. I found it strange....
Commented on Led Zeppelin vs. Indian religious sitcom
Thanks Cory for putting up the video and thanks everyone for the comments! And yes I agree it wasn't actually a 'sitcom'...(I couldn't think of a better word...I kept remembering that people used to pray in front of their TV...
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Commented on Mario recreation on India's Got Talent
Obviously inspired by Japanese but with a Bollywood touch Luigi dancing, princess going Maaariooo....
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Commented on Blackened lung cigarette lighters
part of Anti-smoking campaign by NGO called Courage India http://adsoftheworld.com/node/35583...
Commented on Blackened lung cigarette lighters
That's definitely India!!...
Commented on Indian matchbox art
Swedish Match company started the Western India Match Company (WIMCO) in 1923 and till now WIMCO remains one of the biggest matchbox manufactures in India. Interestingly, Matt's great collection missed WIMCO's Homelites - it is probably the most recognizable matchbox...
Commented on Chitra Ganesh's digital collages and drawings
The image is that of Zeenat Aman from the film Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978). This was a dream sequence....

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wackyvorlon commented on Y2K ten years later
I remember having to tell people over and over again that Y2K was never going to be an issue. Some systems had bugs, chiefly because they'd been designed by stupid people. But utter worldwide collapse? Such a fantasy existed only in the minds of those who did not understand what was going on....
JimEJim commented on Y2K ten years later
There's a big difference between acknowledging that a bug existed and the OMGWTFBBQ! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! hysteria that some people experienced. I had relatives gravitating towards the latter despite my attempts to educate them, so I'm a little bitter at times about the subject. So, let's be clear: this could have been more annoying, and some of you did good work to avoid those annoyances, but it wasn't going to be the end of the world or nearly as big a deal as some would like to claim. Pat yourselves on the back, sure, but with all due...
aeon commented on Y2K ten years later
I was working over the Y2K New Year's Eve. It was actually very quiet for us, the only event of note was that some of the children we admitted became centenarian toddlers as the Hospital Information System had their ID stickers printed with their age as x+100 rather than x. A couple of months before was more interesting. The hospital engineering department decided to test the Y2K compliance of the back-up generator systems. Unfortunately they chose to do the test on a normal working day (duh!) when there were about 15 Operating Theatres running at full capacity. The engineers cut...
MonkeyBoy commented on Y2K ten years later
A fair number of IT departments had been complaining for years about their ancient opaque software. Many that started well in advance were able to convince upper management that the software would be too hard to fix for Y2K and it would be cheaper to have it rewritten. While such costs were attributed to Y2K, they were really the result of IT getting management to pay for a software upgrade that had been begging for for years....
memoi2001 commented on Y2K ten years later
Their would have been problems if it wasn't fixed, no doubt. But the thing that sticks with me is a french TV show (e=m6) in 95 claiming that every single computer on the planet would just shut off and never start again, planes would fall out of the sky, nuclear power plants would sudenly explode.. Over hyping the possible bad effects is what got me into a 3 hour conversation with my mother on why it would be safe to not unplug the TV, microwave, computer, heating etc.. on news years eve. The bug was real, the media turned in...

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