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Ramalinga Raju website sinks without trace. Almost.

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Very early after the Satyam imborglio broke out yesterday a mysterious website appeared within hours that proclaimed support for Ramalinga Raju. The site then, equally mysteriously, dissapeared by the end of the day. www.ramalingaraju.com now no longer works and and points to an error page. But for a few hours this morning the file system of the site...

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Indie-pendence Day

Posted by Krish Raghav at 
It's strange to think of a list of nominees as exciting and wonderful, since a lot of these award lists, dominated as they are by big names and bigger budgets, are more vindications of personal opinion than excitement in some form. But gaming has it's own little niche of magic here. The Independent Games Festival. (The IGF is an annual celebration...

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Beatles music for free... NOT

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Being a part of the minority, of 11 people or so, who don't particularly like the Beatles, I was not particularly saddened by this piece of news on NRK's website. NRK, in their own words, is the BBC of Norway. I assume Beatlemaniacs hit by the economic downturn will be most saddened: Yesterday we wrote that NRK is podcasting all 212 episodes...

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Mammooty's blog starts in style

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Among other things 2008 will be the year movie stars and other important people began to take to blogs with great fervour. The latest to join the bandwagon is Malayalam superstar Mammooty. (If you are a Delhi Metro commuter, he is the guy on the South Indian Bank hoardings at Tilak Nagar station on the blue line.) His blog is just one post old . But...

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