Income Per Natural

A recent paper by Michael Clemens and Lant Pritchett analyses if people matter more than places.
It is easy to learn the average income of a resident of El Salvador or Albania. But there is no systematic source of information on the average income of a Salvadoran or Albanian. In this new working paper, research fellow [...]

Asset Bubble Anecdote

Here’s a very interesting anecdote that describes how an “asset bubble”
builds up and what are its consequences.
Read it even if it confuses you a bit…things will be clear as you reach the end….
ANECDOTE
Once there was a little island country. The land of this country was the
tiny island itself. The total money in circulation [...]

China, Olympics, Human Rights, etc…

As expected by everyone, protests started off in Tibet regarding the Chinese occupation. Two posts about Chinese human rights violation and India’s spineless reaction to the atrocities triggered this post.
This ruling congress governement along with lame communists are worst combination that India can get as ruling parties. In the times of dangerous Chinese hawk hovering [...]

Credit card Ratio

In last 10 years, spending on credit and debit cards have quadrupled to $5.2trillion or 11% of global GDP. Impressive, I would say.

How different companies fair with Card/People ratio. I don’t know how India got featured here. May be numbers might have been one reason. With housing market bubble, in US, the credit card defaulters [...]

Personality Quiz

I took a personality quiz and the results are below. I think it is very near to the truth.
This quiz tagged me as an INTP

You Are An INTP

The ThinkerYou are analytical and logical – and on a quest to learn everything you can.
Smart and complex, you always love a new intellectual challenge.
Your biggest pet peeve [...]

Crayon Physics

Annual Game Developers conference is a place where companies show off their new titles. The game below was developed in 5 days. Amazing, how physics is developed so much from the ages of Prince of Persia.Physics gives amazing possibilities not only in gaming world but also in real world. The possibilities are endless.
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Six Letters for Success. Can you believe it?

It is very true.
Only six letters for success and the best part is : it is awfully simple.
It is : Action.
Source.
Great people are those who implement their idea immediately. Action is the key.

Advertising Everywhere

Already we see advertisement everywhere. The only place spared was morning coffee.
Oops!! I am wrong. Check out the vid.

And, Nielson’s pie chart on ad spending by medium. But, a pie chart on which ones were effective would be better. But, that is what whole world is looking for. *sigh*

Mobile Platform Fever 2

With the release of iPhone SDK, mobile application developers are pondering what to do next. The options are to shun iPhone or wait for some other way to enter the iPhone, possibly web.
Think of the plethora of mobile platforms/OSes…(I have excluded the variants)

Palm
Windows
Symbian
Android
Java OS
iPhone
Brew (almost dead)

Apart from this there are million platforms that sit on [...]

Neo-Poetry in Tamil.

 This is the blog of famous writer Jeyamohan.
Here he explains (satirically) how to write neo-poem in Tamil.
“பயிற்சி: ”நான் நேற்று மஞ்சள் பறவை சிறகடித்து நீல வானத்தில் பறந்துகொண்டிருப்பதைப் பார்த்தேன். அதன் சிறகுகள் அழகாக இருந்தன. அவற்றில் இருந்து ஒரு இறகு விழுந்து தரையில் கிடந்தது. எடுக்கப்போகும் முன் காற்றில் பறந்துபோய்விட்டது. எடுத்திருந்தால் ஆனந்தமாக காதுகுடைந்திருக்கலாம். இப்போது என் காதுக்குள் ஒரே நமைச்சல். அடுத்த பறவை எப்போது வரும்?’ இதை புதுக்கவிதையாக [...]