Michael Moore's: Capitalism: A Love Story

I have been hearing about the movie by Mike Moore: "Capitalism: A Love Story"
The reviews are very mixed and very compelling at the same time. I am not an economic expert, but it seems to be an interesting presentation on how the American/world economics is driven by some people.

Let me put it this way: When you put a driver in driver's seat to drive a public vehicle, the driver needs to strictly follow the traffic rules. The consequences are known if he does not.
The question on the same context is as follows: are the drivers who are driving the economic models following the rules of the game?
I found the following interview of Moore with CNN's Wolf Blitzer to be an interesting presentation. He is able to squeeze the juice out of it.



The first part of the interview is here...


To me the second part is what sums it up, which is meaningful only if you watch the first part ;)

Enjoy Podcasts in Ubuntu

Listening to podcast while working is fun.
It reminds me listening to the radio programs while I was doing my homework back in primary school!

I found the feature of podcast in the Rhythmbox music player.
Simply add the podcast RSS into the "new" button and life is easy!

One of my favorite is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/

The 'discovery' by BBC is also very nice one.

I am looking for some more ...

Wanna refer one?

Happy Vijaya Dashami to All!!!

I would like to wish Happy Vijaya Dashami to all!!!

Dashain is one of the major festival for Nepalese people. The description goes beyond  the capacity of words. It used to be the national festival of Nepal  and I suppose it still is. Besides the fact that Nepal has been named as a secular country. Culture and religion are so tied with the people that it does not matter what is written there.

I was searching for some images of goddess Durga, as demanded by the home minister. I found this interesting search result:

Seems like our big brother Google has found a place to advertise...

Well, no doubt, Google Image search is much better than what I could find by using Bing!

However, thanks Bing for reminding me that !!!

Try Firefox 3.5 and Google Chrome Browsers in Ubuntu!

I have been playing with Ubuntu for a while now. One of the integral and important part of the OS is web browser. By default one can find the Firefox in the ubuntu package. However, the bundled browser is little older. While this is understandable in terms of stability, it does not make sense if it had been out there for long time in the market.
So, I tried few things:
1. Try Google Chrome:
If you want to get geek by inserting the code... in the terminal; you can do it.
See more here...
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-chromium-google-chrome-in-ubuntu-using-deb-package.html

However, the easy way is:
download the .dev and double click it!
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
Download from there.

Since it is still in the development mode, it is known as chromium. It is worth testing!
Did you note the version?
;)


2. Try Latest version of the Firefox (I had Firefox 3.0.14 while 3.5.x was fashion).
To install the latest version of FF out of the repo; do the following:

• System> Admin> Synaptic Package Manager (needs sudo privilege)
  
• On the quick search box: type: Firefox (I wanted 3.5 in my case... it could be 4.0 if it is out in there)
• Mark the latest version for your installation.
• Apply change; and Bingo!!!

It is code named Shiretoko. It is not supported by ubuntu dev community yet. But that is not a big deal!
It should be better than feeling old rusty and out of fashion.
Have fun!


PS:
If you want your flash be enabled in Google Chrome:
add...
--enable-plugins.

 

This is a view of the application launcher properties.

Impact of President's Speech on Kids...

There has been talks for and against the President's talk to the school kids. For people like me, who used to be taken out to rally from school to shout politically motivated slogans for or against political leaders and the submerged in such propaganda, this is not a big deal. Not even debatable. The debates on whether president should talk to school kids were taken to interesting level by media.
However, the following video by Sarah is very impressive!



The Speech:


Want your kids be inspired? you should let them listen without any political bias.

9:9, 9/9/9

Wow what a date and time!
It will never come again...

Lets share How was your moment!

People of Walmart: Just for fun

Walmart is kind of world in itself.

And some people have enough time to track the people in there. See some funny looking pictures...


http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/


This one was another kind of poking fun!


Take it as light fun!