Tuesday, October 31, 2006

A familiar face on NYT

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Monday, October 30, 2006

Song of the Day, October 30, 2006

http://humor.beecy.net/songs/assuming-song/
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Sunday, October 29, 2006

Interesting videos

Clinton thrashes Fox News

(Fox News of course happens to be the Replubicans' mouthpiece)

ATP Tsunami Relief Initiative (Don't miss the later half!)
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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Life ... and prime numbers!

I was reading a book and found this amazing quote ...

"Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken away all the patterns ... prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them! "

from 'the curious incident of the dog in the night time' -- mark haddon
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Where are we headed ???

Abu Salem is contesting elections in UP ... and, the icing on the cake, there is no law to stop that !!!!
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Monday, October 23, 2006

Song of the Day, Oct 23, 2006

There is a new Tamil music band who call themselves Encore. They have released their first album Thee and have posted samples .. they are really good.

Song: Thai Polave(listen to sample)
Singer: Chinmayee
Artist: Encore

Their album features big names like bass guitarist Keith Peters and percussionist Sivamani.
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Friday, October 20, 2006

Two and a half years old ... and he plays the tabla !!!

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Thursday, October 19, 2006

Interesting article

I think Pappu, in particular, might enjoy this article.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20041227/deb
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Very interesting article

Mostly, things we know but well put together thoughts! Read it for sure.

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~azuma/hitch4.html
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Song of the Day, Oct 17, 2006

Sting on the lute ...

Song: Fields of Gold (listen)
Artist: Sting & Edin Karamamzov
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Monday, October 16, 2006

Song of the Day, Oct 16, 2006

This is a malaysian tamil rap band ... this song is a remix of an old Ilayaraja song ...

Song: Madai Thiranthu - remix (listen)


The original is

Song: Madai Thiranthu (listen)
Singer: SPB
Movie: Nizhalgal
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posted by 1-D aka Ashwin at 11:26 PM 0 comments

Incredible, but a bad video ...

... for those who have not had their brains traumatized already ...

... presenting Rajkumar ... (see video)
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Saturday, October 14, 2006

Incredible Video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8618212204787678285&pr=goog-sl
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Song of the Day, Oct 11, 2006

Song: Crimson Tide - Deep Blue Sea (listen)
Artist: Nightwish

A very nice instrumental piece inspired by the soundtrack for Crimson Tide.
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Reading your Thoughts

What does it take to play a game? Just imagination.
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Song of the Day, Oct 10, 2006

... more western vocals (in languages that we do not know) ... this time Andrea Bocelli ...

Song: Con Te Partiro - Time to Say Goodbye (listen)(lyrics with translation)
Singer: Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman
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Monday, October 09, 2006

Song of the Day, Oct 09, 2006

Schubert is a genius -- he can construct brilliance out of very simple orchestrations!

Song: Ave Maria (listen)(lyrics)(english translation)
Singer: Lara Fabian
Composer: Franz Schubert
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Sunday, October 08, 2006

Song of the Day, Oct 8, 2006

A couple of very well known songs ... Both these are set in the ragam Sindhu Bhairavi.

Song: Valaiyosai (listen)
Singer: SPB, Lata
Movie: Sathya
Composer: Ilayaraja


Song: Enna Satham (listen)
Singer: SPB
Movie: Punnagai Mannan
Composer: Ilayaraja
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Saturday, October 07, 2006

LP reception pics

Here are my pics -- 1d upload yours too...

(Sorry for the jumbled order and my shaky hands!)
















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Friday, October 06, 2006

Song of the Day, Oct 6, 2006

1D liked this song so much that he gave me the privilege to post it here :)

Finite Simple Group (of order two)

Helps a little if you listen with the lyrics at:

Lyrics

Enjoy! (and if you're a true geek you'll keep humming it all the time!)
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Sunday, October 01, 2006

Song of the Day, Oct 2, 2006

A very good song which came in a TV serial.

Song: Intha Veenaikku Theiryadhu (listen)
from K Balachander's TV serial "Rayil Sneham"
Raagam: Sahana

This song is said to be representative of the Sahana raagam ..
aarohanam - S R2 G3 M1 P M1 D2 N2 S
avarohanam - S N2 S D2 N2 D2 P M1 G3 M1 R2 G3 R2 S
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Song of the Day, Oct 1, 2006

Song: Pal Pal (listen)
Singer: Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal
Movie: Lage Raho Munnabhai
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