When in doubt, I google.
It’s helped me most. Humoured me at other times. Though, never wasted my time. Always been of some help. Either it’s de-stressed me the only way it can or
added more gravitas to where I stand.
When I logged on to googlism.com, it was something else. This is what Google.com thinks of me: zahid is 43, a grassroots leader who shoots from the hip with passion
and conviction, a progressive department engaged in providing auditing and
consulting services within the organization, the coordinator of moulvibazar, a
messenger with a variety of intergalactic assistants and tools, a member of
parliament, a content young man… it goes on. I only agree with the last one,
though.
There are many such entities on the Internet that are funny, wacky and interactive.
If one is a celebration of man at his best, the others are a study on life. I am talking about websites that will
tickle your senses in more ways than one.
Just one
statutory warning. What’s cool to me maybe uncool to you.
http://www.aldaily.com
‘Robert Ludlum died in
2001, but has published five thrillers
since. Literary fingernails grow even as the writer’s corpse rots in its
coffin.’ That’s how stories begin in this part of cyberspace. It’s the arts and letters daily, a website that has links to
the finest in the worldwide web, a reservoir of all things important and all
things cool (19 newspapers, 84 magazines, 70 columnists and 36 book reviews at
last count). Once you get hooked to it, you will not associate the Internet
without it. From analysing such things as why parents are more likely to give
an uncommon name to a girl than a boy considering Gwyneth Paltrow’s little
Apple to forgetting about the Disney version and talking about the real
Pinocchio who was an aggressive rebel, an anarchist rather like Huck Finn,
aldaily brings us the best off the web.
If you
are looking for vignettes on life, here are some gleaned from the site:
Human life is priceless.
Well, not exactly. It’s actually worth $6.1 million per unit. Let’s stop kidding
ourselves: we all have a price. John Le Carré’s prose is now
cartoonishly slack with its flowery clichés. He never met an adverb or
adjective he didn’t like. A woman may sleep with one
man without being a trollop, but let a man cover one little war and he is
forever a war correspondent.Are the French arrogant? It
seems so, yet they consume more tranquillizers per head than any other
nation
If you
still haven’t made aldaily your home page, you never will.
http://www.edge.org
Burda is
stirring the pot, bringing people together, searching for new ideas, making
things happen. When he meets talented people he brings them into his network,
combines them into his mix. This is his discipline. This is his power. In
addition to new people, he attracts new ideas, brings fruitful chaos to a world
of certainty, shakes things up, and makes a mess out of the old order, the old
way of thinking. Hubert Burda is Germany’s agent of change.
That’s
how profiles are written at this discussion website. It’s edgy. It’s in-your-face.
It’s biting. Aristotle could walk straight into a modern seminar on ethics,
theology, political or moral philosophy, and contribute. But let him walk into
a modern science class and he’d be a lost soul. Not because of the jargon, but
because science advances, cumulatively. That’s another edgy piece.
Edge
Foundation Inc. was set up in 1988 as an outgrowth of The Reality Club. Its
informal membership today includes some of the most interesting minds in the
world. No wonder, it’s lauded as ‘brilliant’ by The Sunday Times, ‘terrific’ by
The Guardian, ‘lively’ by The Independent and ‘awesome’ by Wired.
The
mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and discussion of
intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work
for the intellectual and social achievement of society.
This is
not small potatoes.
https://newsmax.com/liners.shtml
If
you’ve loved stand-up comics, you’d love this. It’s the ultimate and the most
up-to-date archive of The Tonight Show one-liners. From Jay Leno to Kilburn to
Letterman to Conan. From November 5, 1998 up to the present.
Sample
these and you will get more than just a good idea and a few laughs as well.
what’s going on in San Francisco – or, as it’s also known, same sex and the
city.
news for New Yorkers. The life expectancy is increasing for the average New
Yorker. That means most of you will make it back to your hotel rooms.
New Yorkers living longer? Because they’ve learned to keep their mouths shut.
been reported that whenever he travels on his private jet Michael Jackson
orders Kentucky Fried Chicken for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Not only that
but he also requests that the dark meat be bleached white.
Woods took three days off from golf to train with the Army. Three days. That
ties a record for service that George Bush set in the 60’s.
Spanish troops have been leaving Iraq. Some of the Spanish troops have been
injured while leaving Iraq. They were run over by French troops leaving faster.
According to a new study, men who drive Porsches are the most likely to have
extramarital affairs. Do you know who has the least affairs? Guys who ride the bus.
There’s nothing happening there.
news – Crime is down in New York City. The bad news is that it’s our number one
industry.
Tonight was the finale of American Idol. I didn’t watch. Don’t tell me who won
– I’m the winner.
far, opinion is split on the president’s plan. Republicans say the outlook is
Sunni or, as Democrats say, we’re in deep Shiite.
TO BE CONTD...