Humans and Environment

Being a regular user of Stumble Upon, I come across a lot of sites discussing about the future of our planet. Sure there is a realization, at least in the west, about the dangers of living the excessive lives that we have started to live. However, most of the sites, I think, are fundamentally wrong. The following cartoon brings out this point, and I do hope we see our actions in this perspective and the environmentalists also understand that it is no charity they are doing:

http://ryanpagelow.com/2007/12/08/2007-12-08/

The Dark Knight

The next batman movie:

http://www.atasteforthetheatrical.com/deathtrap/default.htm

After the amazing way in which Batman Began, I’m already waiting for the next movie in the series, namely, “The Dark Knight”. In this, as indicated towards the end of the previous movie, The Joker comes in to trouble the city of Botham and obviously, Batman would fight and expectedly defeat him. But then, the plot is not exactly the most important thing in superheroes movies. Its the special effects and the magnanimity of it. And I expect “The Dark Knight” to deliver on both accounts.

Just Amazing!

Thanks to stumble for this amazing video I got to see:

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Bastard+Fairies/+videos/2962609

The girl has a point!

In Class

I am blogging from class. Was just wondering if, on the lines of “Another Brick in the Walls” by Pink Floyd, classes are any good. What if we are all learning (due to the teaching methodology) something that is totally wrong? Scares me to sleep!

Are Diamonds Really Forever?

I recently got hold of this case study (http://www.danforthdiamond.com/education/diamonds/4cs/debeers_info.htm). It essentially talks about how a thing of no worth has been artificially made so highly priced that people think that it is a rare commodity. No prizes for guessing the commodity in question. It is diamond and the culprit is De Beers (Ya, the same one which has ads in India saying “hira hai sada ke liya” or “diamonds are forever”!). A perfect example of how people’s thinking has been manipulated by some very smart businessmen.