Song Facts

As a part of the Oral Communication course in this b-school, I had to make a presentation on any topic under the sun. I chose the topic, 'Words of Wisdom in Pop Songs'. The topic was juvenile, and the presentation jittery. But, the concept, according to some, was great. I wanted to show the world that pop songs are not just cacaphony, but also carry a message in them. Even the venerable Thirukkural could've been in the genre 'pop' at that time. However, I did not have much tools with which I could extract the meanings from the songs, much less the context in which they were written; only my interpretation had been in the presentation. I wish I had access to this website - http://www.songfacts.com/ when I was preparing for it.

This site gives insight into trivia and the context which went into writing of these songs.

Did you know that the song "Don't Speak" by 'Gwen Stephanie' (No Doubt) was about the relationship Gwen Stephanie had with bassist Tony Kanal? Or about the circumstances under which the song 'Desert Rose' became the theme song of a Jaguar advertisement? These are trivial trivia, but there are more available at songfacts.com

No Google

Are you tired of google's plain interface? In typical nerd tradition, geeks have come up with boogle, google with quotes, the use of which I don't know.
G00g13 is the hacker version of Google, goes to a sub-directory in google.com itself.
If your left bicep is like a 6th grader and your right bicep is like Arnold Schwarzenegger, (vice versa, if you are left handed) booble is built just for you ;)
If you wan't to ask someone who will find it out for you, try foogle. It is sort of an online-offline search engine. Leave your queries here and check back later. My uncle used to talk about punched cards and mainframes and overnight processing, this must be the 21st century version of it.
Oggle is a snoop cam dealer, in the UK, so it goes to oggle.co.uk
Ogle looks like a 3-D Art and Animation website.

India in G5

Do you know that India is one of the G5 countries? Yeah, in Orkut - the Orkut G5. But mostly, this orkut is dominated (62.5%) by Brazilians who think that every discussion must be in Portugese and the rest of the world should learn Portugese because they are the most beautiful people in the world and the most civilised country in the world and hate USA. Anyone who wants to speak in English in a community that wants English posts for the sake of people who don't know Portugese, that includes the other members of the G5 - India, Pakistan, Estonia and Iran, must be an American. These guys must be the Orkut Universe's equivalent of the Hindi fanatics. You have a problem with that you American Capitalist Imperialist Pig? You wanted to be an American, but you hate it when you are assumed to be an American? What an irony!

Many a times, these Brazilians have invaded many of my favourite communities, like 'Phoebe Music Club', 'Friends Fan Club' and Nietzsche to name a few and trashed it with Brazilian so much that most of the English speaking people have left it and have formed other moderated communities - Nietzsche (Moderated, English Only).

Another invasion is of the fundamentalists in many of my interest communities like Hinduism, Indian History, India. Here, a handful of idiots have descended upon the peaceful community and their recent discussions are always to 'take away the reproductive rights of Muslims', 'Take away the Muslim gals', 'Aryan Invasion Myth', etc etc and accuse anyone who disagrees with them as Pakistani and anti-Hindu, pseudo-secularist, communist... Ah, the Orkut world equivalent of the Sangh Parivar! Another of their favourite past-times is to answer Pakistani trolls leading to many amusing comments from the idiots and fill up the scrapbooks of those who don't agree with them.

There are too many communities in Orkut and members try to be part of all, to not miss the 'action', so there are communities like 'Help, I am member of too many communities', 'Orkut Anonymous', etc. If your friendship request is rejected by the main main Orkut, you join a community aptly named 'Orkut didn't want me as a friend' By the way, there are 15 people named Orkut.

There are a set of people called 'Girl collectors', and 'Orkut whores' whose main aim in life is to become the friend of as many girls as possible (the 1st case) or become friends of as many orkut users as possible (2nd case). It doesn't matter they don't know you and they are living in some god forsaken land, like Mexico or Argentina or Latvia.