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Ghosts in Space

The ghost-like nebula, IRAS 05437+2502, includes a small star-forming region filled with dark dust that was first noted in images taken by the IRAS satellite in infrared light in 1983. This recently released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows many new details, but has not uncovered a clear cause of the bright sharp arc. Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, R. Sahai (JPL)

Space.com

Sahi Bola: Man is Vile Indeed

What Dr. BR Ambedkar told the constituent assembly when India's constitution was finalized:

“If things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.”

Bhaisahab says:


Sourced from Patrick French's article in Outlook.

Waiting for Godot

Why They Don't Make 'em like Richards No More

In a West Indies vs Australia match, Aussie bowler Greg Thomas beat the bat of Sir Viv Richards a couple of times.

Greg Thomas: "You seem to have trouble locating the ball. Let me help you - it's red and looks like this." (Holds up the ball)

Richards (After hitting the ball for six on the next delivery) : "You know what it looks like maan - now go and fetch it!"

Fetch!

Bhaisahab ke photos: Under My Umbrella

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UNDER MY UMBRELLA
Versova beach, Monsoon 2009

How To Do A Love Song

Pete Yorn's Lose You. A four and a half minute masterclass on how to write, compose, render and visually represent a love song.



Or watch @ YouTube

WWW Crazies Vol 1: Nut Aboard

Who doesn't like glancing at the 'Comments' section on web pages? Often, on torrent sites, comments by other users can save your computer's ass by warning you about dubious torrents. In news and information sites (Cricinfo, YouTube), comments help quickly gauge public opinion, and posters also add more information about the video/news, apart from carrying on lively debates.

Yet sometimes, one finds a comment so bizarre and ludicrous, it could only have been posted by a lunatic. Some of them are so uniquely unintelligible, they deserve recognition. This brand new label is Bhaisahab's effort to preserve instances of internet lunacy as encountered on the 'Comments' section of websites he visits.

The loony who gets the honour of being the first to be thus felicitated is the ironically named 'professorfuntime.' On the 'Comments' section on Pirate Bay for the Roger Corman film 'The Raven' (soon to be reviewed here), the sour professor had this entirely unrelated comment to make:

"^ Fuck off loser! Crawl back under the rock from whence you slithered. Don't you find yourself thinking what the fuck am I doing writing shit like this. "

For the life of me, I couldn't figure out who the prof was admonishing. If you can, pray do enlighten me.

Click here to read the comment in context

Bhaisahab ki poetry: 30 minutes on a borrowed laptop

So this Monday, Bhaisahab found himself in Mumbai's NCPA, to catch his good friends perform their unique and pioneering art.

Arriving as early as possible, as is his wont, he killed time thus:

@ncpa
silent hall
empty seats
fingers twitch
one hour to go

cap
a boat inverted
a head tonsoured
no vacancy for lice
cotton keeps scalp cool

jug
leaning to the right
reading classical texts
of -isms and -ologies
silver shines bright

row Q
some are driven
others drive
but all arrive
to sit in row Q

Zamyatin on Happiness

In 1921, Yevgeny Zamyatin published a novel in Russian called We. Set in the distant future, the book describes a dystopian One State in which everything is reduced to mathematically precise equations. (Predictably, Soviet authorities banned the book)

For instance, here's how the narrator, D-503, describes happiness:

"...bliss and envy -
they are the numerator and denominator
of the fraction known as happiness."

Bhaisahab says



Read more about We and Zamyatin.