What is Mahnamahna? - A Puppet Show

February 17th, 2009 After we went through a schedule check for Ben-10, that rompted us to do some findings in the world of DBZ as well. We all love Drabonball Z right? But Cartoon Network never had a clear list of shows according to the schedule, not that one knows for definite unless its searched for.

February 26th, 2009 Creativity makes you confused sometimes. The one I am going to show you now is quite debatable.

January 20th, 2008 Last Sunday I went to IIT Alumni picnic in Ibiza resort in Kolkata. Check the slideshow (thanks to Siddharth Roy Chowdhury @ SAIL).

April 4th, 2009 It is simple, really. The technique described here is so simple that you won't be able to believe your ears.

November 18th, 2005 Helsinki's sewerage problem with toilet-disposed cellphones gave me an idea. Why not design disposable, bio-degradable cellphones? Imagine the great use cases: You are very angry with your significant other / fiance or your boss.

February 7th, 2008 Top 10 credos of a Klingon programmer covering (Klingon) Software Development Life Cycle: Specifications are for the weak and timid! You cannot really appreciate ‘User Friendly’ until you’ve read it in the original Klingon. A TRUE Klingon Warrior does not comment his code! Behold, the keyboard of Kalis! The greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived! Indentation? - I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull! Debugging? Klingons do not debug.

February 17th, 2009 Hello folks. After the grueling technical discussions in our blog, your continuous curiosity about Ben-10 and Dragonball Z have prompted us to do some findings in the world of cartoons as well.

August 18th, 2005 "Well I am at the tip of the door of a saucer that’s taking me round giving me a chance to take a plunge in to the turbulent sky around. I am sure that plunge will land me at the doorsteps of your company, where I would like to make a mark in that stellar of software professionals who took a jump thinking the way I did." - A Job Applicant This ought to be included in Ripley's Believe it or not show.

August 17th, 2006 Finally a clean-room implementation of Google's Page Rank Algorithm in Java, reverse-engineered from their numerous commentary on Page Rank (or is it Pigeon Rank?). public static int getPageRank(url) { // start off with a random low PR int pageRank = rand.getInt(0, 3); if ( isHostedOn('google.com', url) ) { pageRank++; } else if ( isHostedOn('microsoft.com', url) ) { pageRank--; } // Support valid pages if (isValidPage(url) ) { pageRank += 1; } tag_value['b'] = 1; tag_value['h2'] = 2; tag_value['h1'] = 3; tag_value['strong'] = -1; // W3C sux! pageRank = calculateTagsPR(tag_value, pagerank); // Sergey said good news sites have // lots of nested tables tablesOnPage = getTagCount('table'); if (tablesOnPage >= 50) { pageRank += 2; } if (pageRank >= 5) { pageRank = 4; // helps selling AdWords } if (linksFrom('mattcutts.com', url) >= 4) { // I link to "clean" sites only // ? Matt, Feb 2006 pagerank += 2; } pagerank += countBacklinks(url) / 10000; blacklist1 = getList('c:\chinese-government-censored.txt'); blacklist2 = getList('c:\larry-page-hatelist.txt'); if ( inArray(blacklist1, url) || inArray(blacklist2, url) ) { pageRank = 0; } d = dashesInUrl(url); pageRank = (d >= 3) ? pageRank -1 : pageRank + 1; if (inString(url, "how to build a bomb")) { // added on request.

December 7th, 2007 How crappy is your Java code? Often we find others code crappier than ours, especially if we are given to maintain their code. Crappy code authors are almost always happy with their code quality.

January 9th, 2007 The Rational Response Squad is giving away 1001 DVDs of The God Who Wasn't There, the hit documentary that the LA Times calls "provocative -- to put it mildly." There's only one catch: You have to commit what some non-liberal Christians consider as eternal sin, blaspheming the "Holy Spirit". So let's begin with some Bible thumping: In Luke 12:10, Jesus says: "And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven." In Mark 3:29, he is quoted again: "But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin." And again in Matthew 12:31: "And so I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven." Now that you know all you have to do is to record a short message stating at least "I deny the Holy Spirit." somewhere in the message, and upload it to YouTube.

February 20th, 2009 Standing at the edge of the lake, a man saw a woman flailing about in the deep water.  Unable to swim, the man screamed for help.  A trout fisherman ran up.  The man said, "My wife is drowning and I can't swim.  Please save her.  I'll give you a hundred dollars."  The fisherman dove into the water.  In ten powerful strokes he reached the woman, put his arm around her, and swam back to shore.  Depositing her at the feet of the man, the fisherman said, "Okay, where's my hundred dollars?"  The man said, "Look, when I saw her going down for the third time, I thought it was my wife.  But this is my MIL."  The fisherman reached into his pocket and said, "Just my luck.  How much do I owe you?" Well we won't go that far but we can certainly give you 10 ways to annoy the hell out of her through 10 funny and interesting iPhone apps. Oh you can share it with your mother in law too.

May 11th, 2005 An attempt to demonstrate how such brain-dead schemes gets approved in a corporate setting looking to maximize shareholder values.