"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would payfor a message sent to nobody in particular?"
- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
Among the mostly crappy commercials on television, every once in a while there is an ad that comes along and makes you chuckle. Virgin Mobile’s (India) new advertisements such as these ones do manage to strike a chord with those amused by deviant teen humor 
Their tag phrase, ‘Think zara hatke‘, however, seems to have been directly inspired by Apple’s long-standing Think Different slogan.
I have not ventured into the World of Warcraft (fearing I’ll end up spending much more time on it than I should), but those of you who do play the game might be familiar with the Draenei (I had to resort to Wikipedia).
Apparently, the Draenei have a dancing style heavily influenced by the moves in Daler Mehndi’s Tunak Tunak Tun music video. If you don’t know who (or what) that is, consider yourself lucky and get the **** out of here. Just kidding, here’s a link to the actual video (why should we be the only ones to suffer? :P). Enough digression, getting back to the point of this blog post - YouTube user AmandaJ3162 has submitted a video of the World of Warcraft Burning Crusade Draenei dancing to the song. Great job with the synchronization!
A very special event took form this past week, in celebration of Valentine’s Day. Some guy grabbed credit for making the first ever lolcats proposal (propozlol?).
Oh, and she said yes, lolcats style. =^-^=
(picture from icanhascheezburger.com)
I found this little gem online. Did you know Sonia Gandhi’s maiden name was Sonia Antonia Maino? I didn’t.
“Sonia Antonia Maino (Gandhi)” rearranges to become “Oh god! I am in an Asian nation!”
Brilliant.
Anu Garg’s Internet Anagram Server (which coincidentally works out to ‘I, Rearrangement Servant’) is a fun tool when you’re in the mood to play around with letters.
Sweet Child o’ Mine, as made famous by Guns N’ Roses - in an Indian classical version. Will this be featured on, um, Sitar Hero? 
To the uninitiated, the video is a Channel V network ad.
A talk by investor and prankster Yossi Vardi on TED that uses a series of slides to demonstrate how blogging can be a dangerous profession - especially for men. F*ing Hilarious. I can’t imagine how he could go through with the entire presentation with a straight face.
Click here to watch the (6 minute) video online (or download to desktop).
..Indian ishtyle!
(hat tip: aditya)
Care for a swig of style?
A TV writer/producer named Kevin G. Boyd has had an inspiration: ultra-premium drinking water selling for a very, ahem, splashy price — around $38 per 750-milliliter bottle. The water comes from the highly regarded English Mountain Spring source in Tennessee and goes through a nine-step purification process. And then it’s packaged in glazed bottles hand-decorated with sparkly Swarovsky crystals.
Well, at least in this case and unlike conventional bottled water, most people would know that they are buying into pure hype.
(via Daily Dish)
I found this image online, and had to wonder for a second before assuming it to be photoshopped in a satirical vein.
(via reddit)
“This guy keeps pushing me and pushing me, I can’t take it anymore!”
Check this video out, it’s hilarious.
(clicking image takes you to the video site)
