Digging for Meaning

99% of auto expo will appeal to your vanity, 1% of it will appeal to your intelligence. If you have patience only for ground breaking original stuff.. straight go to a certain corner in Hall no. 2 (besides the TVS extravaganza). There you will find this unassuming duo with afro hairdo and a patented technology that they are eager to sell to automobile majors. I am not much on an engineer, (because I am (with a degree) but not really (because I don't work as one)) so I am not in a position to validate what they were saying. But what they said sounds very very interesting. They have made a working bike with no valves, no chains, no cam shaft... as a matter of fact, their engine has only 32 moving parts. Yes. An engine with only 32 moving parts.  Apart from that, the engine can make use of various kinds of fuels (hydrocarbons) apart from petrol. I still have to get to know their offering better, but this sounds exciting. Imagine the service, economy and efficiency im...

sheer awesomeness that is youtube.. a while back i was searching for bryan adam's song ' here i am' on youtube. the video is that of the song alright, but the music that gets played is something else altogether. this is something that is happening regularly, with big music labels stripping their audio content from youtube. * well the awesomeness is in what youtube has done in this situation. the audio that gets played instead is of, presumably, other artists who want to market their music but don't have big labels to back them. youtube puts a label which indicates where the content is sourced from. the link takes to the artist's youtube page. well, in this case the track is pritty shitty. but i see a brilliant opportunity here for youtube to make money on something that was a cause of headache to them earlier.. wonderful strategy by them. smart buggers.. and it helps the small guys as well, the small guy gets to ride on some established reputation and gets sampled. ...