Today’s news had an article on how a Chinese mother had caged and shackled her mentally ill son in a homemade cage for 11 years. In 2001, the son, Wu, beat to death a 13-year-old boy in his village (Ruichang, Jiangxi Province), while reportedly suffering an episode of ‘psychosis’. He was released home a year later…
Education and self-respect seem unconnected, as any educated IPL fan in India can prove to you without much effort, perhaps even without uttering a word. While some people (read farmers) are busy committing suicide due to a severe drought where they live, water that could somehow have been diverted to those areas is being used…
Here’s another product review. I recently bought the a horn for my bicycle. The Hornit. Hornit [the company], interestingly, is founded by a lawyer (yeah, cool huh?!) who felt the need for a loud horn while riding to and from work. He tested his first prototype back in ’07, and it was only in 2011…
Can You Handle This? Dangers of Bad Design When making products, or even installing one, more often than not, haste does make waste. Some calmness and a little imagination goes a long way in avoiding the following… Above, is the inside of a rear door of a…
In continuation with my interest in the importance of brevity in communication (to a greater extent in written communication, and to some extent for verbal), this post is made up of some interesting quotes on brevity that I came across. The quotes are in blue. Now after you’ve read each quote, I urge you spend…
Au-shitz.! With all the ‘do good deeds’ and ‘do unto thy neighbour…’ that has literally been beaten into our souls while we were growing up, I often wondered why some corrupt politicians and other people in power seemed to go from crime to crime without losing any sleep over it, and they just seemed to…