Wallpaper Woman Wields Wiimote

Recognise the picture? That’s Jessica Alba. She’s featured on your wallpaper at some point or the other—if you’re a reasonably  red-blooded male, that is. If you aren’t—or if you’re female—you’ll need a line of an introduction: Ms Alba is an actress. She starred in Fantastic Four, Dark

Nov 2007

Lessons In Life After Linda?

We mentioned last month that Sir Paul McCartney doesn’t use ATMs or e-mail. But that doesn’t seem to stop people from listening to and playing his songs, and even imitating him. Now the mail-free Macca has signed a deal with NowPlayIt.com, a downloadable video training service

Nov 2007

$0: Human; P2P: Divine

When will the Internet community get mature? As in, when will they say “cease and desist!” to activities like the sharing of files (much in the manner of how young boys collect stamps) and actually use their proof-of-adult credit cards? UK rock band Radiohead decided to find out. It was a fusion of many things: good music (we presume), the desire to get going with Internet culture (they spell the album name three ways on the cover, including “IN RAIN_BOWS”),

Nov 2007

No News Is Good News!

Awise man once said: “Boredom indicates a temporary disconnect with the universe.” And well, since we’re trying to disconnect you with the universe anyway on this page, why not do it the direct way and bore you outright by telling about yet another leaked Internet video? Warning: Some of the “information” below is made up. Reader discretion is advised,

Wrong Foot Forward

Britney Spears—whom we vowed never to mention, but whom we’re mentioning because she’s in the news for the wrong reason—is in the news because she forgot her words. Now that’s as ghastly as it gets,

because she lip-syncs anyway. The recently-bald

The Times They Aren’t A-Changin’

Letters are so 1980. And why go about with your pockets stuffed with cash when you have ATMs at every treet corner? Guess what: it’s not only in the unconnected Third World that people still rely on quaint things like letters and paper money. Some Knights of the British Empire do, too. Macca a.k.a. Sir Paul— he cute Beatle, in case you’ve taken a cue from the Bat and