February 2009 - Posts - Play Things

February 2009 - Posts

The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Don't take our word for it. It's what you, the readers of this blog, told us after enthusiastically participating in the poll mentioned in the last post . Many of you left comments and dozens of you polled. At the final count, we had exactly 200 votes when we decided to analyze results at around 10:30 AM this morning. We had asked you to choose...

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What is AR Rahman's greatest ever film soundtrack?

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
With all due credit to the Mozart of Madras (Chopin of Chennai?), Slumdog Millionaire is not the maestro's best work by some distance. Over the last 17 years and over 100 film soundtracks Rahman has produced several tracks that will be remembered long after Jai Ho and Oh Saya. From Roja in 1992, which remains one of his best, to Delhi-6 this year...

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Rakhi Sawant plus Delhi 6 equals Funny Friday

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
If you are still considering watchind Delhi-6 on the weekend, you might want to read the review here and perhaps even join in the fiery debate happening in the comments section. While I will reserve my judgement till I, inevitably, see D6, I would like to add to your enjoyment by presenting this ingenious mash-up of a cheesy Rakhi Sawant video and the...

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Lenovo Constant Connect: No dirth of new ways to you get your email fix

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
So you have a shiny new BlackBerry. Which means you have email access all the time. And just in case your handset runs out of battery or your network drops you can always fall back on that Thinkpad with the wifi card. So what more could you ask for? Even more email reliability you say? Auto synching between BlackBerry and laptop? But that already happens...

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Mahatma Ghandi: Experiments with spelling

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
The BBC website's Magazine section is a hidden gem of sorts. Filled with quirky feature stories and blog-type content. Also of running interest is the Magazine online quiz which often has interesting questions of contemporary relevance. Today's question might sound simple enough: You need to name the man in the black and white photo. But the...

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Big (Ambani) brother is watching over Wikipedia

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Blogger and sofware consultant Debashish has an intriguing post at his blog Null Pointer : Recently while adding some information (link to a Hindi Podcast that dwelled on the subject of the first stone pelting student at the “Reliance Fresh” outlet at Ranchi) to the English Wikipedia article Reliance Fresh I came across a user “Ril editor” who would...

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The Amazing Firefox Race

Posted by Krish Raghav at 
The Internet just levelled up. You know how, randomly, you can seem to jump from reading about, say, the Bombing of Dresden in World War II to discovering Vybz Kartel , a popular Jamaican dancehall deejay, just by clicking on random links between Wikipedia pages? Enter Wiki Paths , a firefox addon for Greasemonkey , that takes this common internet phenomenon...

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