Skepticism #1101 - Google and CIA

Found this article on eetimes today.To cut the long story short the fact is that CIA has an investment arm called In-Q-Tel whose mission is to deliver cutting edge technologies in market to the CIA. Something fishy here. You'll be amazed at the kind of companies those guys have funded. Go check that list out at their website.

Google:
One can see Keyhole's name in the CIA elite club. Again there is this big debate about the pictures of military bases avaible through google earth.

And now the most interesting part - Keyhole was recently bought over by google. Find the details here. There is also a big fight about the google cookies, find it here.



Do you think Sergey Brin is a cross dresser ?

Conversation #1101

Disclaimer: If you are another teeny weeny self proclaimed feminist bitch, read at your own risk. Now that you are past the warning sign post you cant accuse me of being a MCP or something like that.

So here goes an interesting piece of conversation -

Venue: Apache - FC Road
Participants: Yours truely, Pandey, Kesari, Pnaik and a "Offshored to Japs" friend of "some aquaintance". [ Yeah whats this guy doing here, I wanted to ask the same ]. { I hate excess baggage, but this was a surprise item }. Anyways lets call him Mr_Know_it_all.

Menu: French fries, Chicken Sandwitches, Beer
Music: Pearl Jam, Metallica, Linkin Park, System of a down, etcetera
Mood: Drunk

Mr_Know_it_all: I have bose speakers, I have blah...i bought it in Singapore for blah $.
I have Bose headphones, I plug them to my blah....[ ass ]
--- SNIP ---

Mood: Bored

Me: I read somewhere that Japanese females these days dont want to get married.
Mr_Know_it_all: Yeah its a big issue out there.
Me: I guess its because japanese men have small dicks
Mr_Know_it_all: [ Acting smart ] How do you know?
Me: Ohh I saw it in porns
Mr_Know_it_all: But japanese chicks are tight down there
Me: Ohh ok, I didnt know that
Mr_Know_it_all: And russian chicks are so amazing in bed
Me: Russian chicks? huuum, thats weird.
Mr_Know_it_all: No russians are good man, you should get married to one. I can tell you a website. blah blah blah.
Me: Huh, you talking about brides.ru? what are you? A pimp or something
Pandey: Exactly.

Geek Thing #1102

When people ask me stupid questions like why did I buy Maruti [ Esteem ].
An Eakta Kapoor style explanation could be:

I wanted to buy a car which had "ma" at the start and "ti" to end it and a "r" somewhere. That left me with two options -
Maserati & Maruti.
Since I couldnt afford the former one, I went with the later.

Geek Thing #1101

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Found - ~(1%2B-sqrt(5))*(2**-1) on Slashdot commenting about Vim 6.4 release.
Image from John Dierdorf's home page.